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Collection name:
Maps of Africa
Record:
Title:
Totius Africa Nova Repraesentatio qua practer diversos in ea Status et Regiones, etiam Origo Nili et veris RRPP Missionariorum Relationibus ostenditur ...
Title in Translation:
The whole of Africa divided into states and regions ...
Publication Place:
Nuremberg
Publisher:
Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724
Publication Date:
1715
Cartographer:
Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724
Height:
47 cm.
Width:
56 cm.
Scale:
No scale given
Color:
Colored
Descriptive Notes:
Cartouche provides an elaborate scene depicting natives on the Nile bank. Nearby are monkeys, a sheep and a tortoise. Cherubs floating above complete the picture. Even though the map includes a note declaring the accuracy for the source of the Nile, it proves to be inaccurate; Prime meridian through Tenerif.
Provenance:
Dr. Oscar I. Norwich
General Area:
Africa
Geographic Focus:
Africa
Period:
18th c.
Norwich Number:
72
Call Number:
NOR 0072
References:
Norwich (2nd ed.), ckey = 3871463
Page:
map 0072, p. 87
Program:
Jacobson Africana Program

Totius Africa Nova Repraesentatio qua practer diversos in ea Status et Regiones, etiam Ori…