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Collection name:
Maps of Africa
Record:
Title:
L'Afrique dressee sur les relations le plus recentes, et assujettie aux observations astronomique par ... Geog. du Roy, de Sa M. Polon, Due de Lorraine et de Bar et Associe de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et B. Lettres de Nancy, avec privilege.
Title in Translation:
Africa drawn according to recent reports.
Publication Place:
Paris
Publisher:
Robert de Vaugondy, Gilles, 1688-1766; Robert de Vaugondy, Didier, 1723-1786
Publication Date:
1756
Cartographer:
Robert de Vaugondy, Gilles, 1688-1766; Robert de Vaugondy, Didier, 1723-1786
Engraver:
Haye, G. de la.
Height:
46 cm.
Width:
59 cm.
Scale:
Scale in traveling leagues
Color:
Colored
Descriptive Notes:
Cartouche illustrates a native woman reclining between two palms. Interior of southern Africa is fairly blank other than tribal names; Prime meridian through Ferro Island.
Provenance:
Dr. Oscar I. Norwich
General Area:
Africa
Geographic Focus:
Africa
Period:
18th c.
Norwich Number:
94
Call Number:
NOR 0094
References:
Norwich (2nd ed.), ckey = 3871463
Page:
map 0094, p. 111
Program:
Jacobson Africana Program

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