Subject: Western Africa
Period: 1743 (dated)
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Color: Hand Color
Size:
22.1 x 18.2 inches
56.1 x 46.2 cm
This remarkable map is one of the most detailed maps of West Africa produced during the mid-eighteenth century. Information is confined only to those regions that were well known and it is particularly well delineated along the Niger River and the coast where there are extensive notations. The map is embellished with a large vignette of a native village with the distance scales engraved onto elephant tusks representing this important trade commodity of the region. A key at the bottom of the map identifies the various peoples and types of habitats.
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Condition: B+
Full contemporary color on a watermarked sheet. There are some faint dampstains confined to the bottom blank margin and a sliver of the title above the map that has been trimmed away by the binder.