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Collection name:
Maps of Africa
Record:
Title:
Carte D'Afrique Dressee pour l'usage du Roy ...
Title in Translation:
Map of Africa for the King ...
Publication Place:
Amsterdam
Publisher:
Covens, Jean; Mortier, Corneille
Publication Date:
1722
Cartographer:
L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726
Engraver:
Kondet, J.
Height:
48 cm.
Width:
62 cm.
Scale:
No scale given
Color:
Colored
Descriptive Notes:
"... one of the series of revised maps that L'Isle's first issued in 1722". Title across top: Africa Accurate in Imperia, Regna Status e Populus Divisa ad Usum Lodovici XV Galliarum Regis; Prime meridian through Ferro Island and Paris. Dedicated to Louis XV.
Provenance:
Dr. Oscar I. Norwich
General Area:
Africa
Geographic Focus:
Africa
Period:
18th c.
Norwich Number:
78
Call Number:
NOR 0078
References:
Norwich (2nd ed.), ckey = 3871463
Page:
map 0078, p. 93
Program:
Jacobson Africana Program

Carte D'Afrique Dressee pour l'usage du Roy ...