"Nouvelle Carte de l'Afrique avec des Remarques et des Tables pour Trouver sans Peine les Differents Peuples de Cette Partie du Monde...", Chatelain, Henry Abraham

This map is based on Delisle's landmark map of Africa (1700), which was the first to present a non-Ptolemaic version of the source of the Nile and to correct several other rivers, and place the Mediterranean Sea on the correct longitude. Chatelain's map shows Lake Dambia, in Abyssinia, as the source of the Nile. The tables at either side list the major nations with a key to their geographic location on the map. The map was the cooperative work of Chatelain and Nicolas Gueudeville, a cartographer and printer.

References: Norwich #73.

Condition: A

A crisp impression on a bright sheet with a small "K" watermark, issued folding with tiny holes at fold intersections, a couple of minor spots of foxing, and soiling and chipping along the edges of the sheet.