"Carte de la Coste Occidentale d'Afrique, Depuis le XIIe. Degre de Latitude Septentrionale ... Tiree de la Carte Francoise de l'Ocean Occidental...", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
Subject: Western Africa
Period: 1758 (circa)
Publication: La Harpe's Histoire Generale des Voyages
Handsome map depicting Africa's west coast locating many harbors and capes. The map covers the Grain, Ivory, Gold, and Slave coasts and extends south to Angola. Embellished with a colorful compass rose and decorative title cartouche featuring leaf and scroll motifs.
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Condition: A
A crisp impression with faint offsetting at left and light foxing confined to the blank margins.