Nigritarum regio

Description

Title: Nigritarum regio
Creator: Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673
Published / Created: [1662?]
Publication Place: Amstelaedami
Publisher: Joannes Blaeu excud
Description: BEIN 1973 Folio 10: Sheet measures 51.6 x 61.2 cm. Bookplate of José M. Rodriguez. No. 59 of 63 maps bound together.
Relief shown pictorially.
Map includes decorative title and scale statement cartouches with native figures and local fauna. Map interior displays three elephants.
Covers west Africa from Tropic of Cancer southward.
Ferro meridian.
Bar scale given in milliaria Germanica communia.
Place names in Latin and Portuguese.
Extent: 1 map : 36 x 55 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Scale: Scale [ca. 1:12,000,000]
Coordinates: (W 17⁰30ʹ00ʺ--E 17⁰30ʹ00ʺ/N 24⁰00ʹ00ʺ--S 15⁰00ʹ00ʺ).
Language: Latin
Portuguese

Genre: Maps
Early works to 1800
Material: hand col. ;
Subject (Geographic): Africa, West
Subjects: Africa, West > Maps > Early works to 1800
Rodriguez, José M. > Bookplate

Access: Public
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