Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782 Compagnie des Indes Jefferys, Thomas, d. 1771, creator Kitchin, Thomas, d. 1784 Robert Laurie and James Whittle Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794
Published / Created:
1789 January 1
Call Number:
1982 Folio 10
Image Count:
1
Description:
Also appeared in Kitchin's General atlas describing the whole universe. London : Printed for Robert Sayer, [1780]., Has illustrated cartouche and includes text., No. 36 of 43 maps bound together in composite atlas., Norwich, O.I. Norwich's maps of Africa., Prime meridians: Ferro and London., Relief shown pictorially; depths by soundings., Scale [ca. 1:1,850,000]., and This map is copied from an original drawn by Monsr. D'Anville at the expense of the French East India Company, & published at Paris. The country thorough [sic] which the R. Senegal runs has been improved & corrected from a large & curious survey of that river found in the Fort of Senegal.
Africa distinguished into its principall parts viz. Barbary, Biledulgerid, Egypt, Zaara or the Desart, the Country of the Negroes, Guinea, Nubia, Abissinea, Zanguebar, Congo, Monomotapa, Caffrares, the Islands of the Canaries, Cape Verd, St. Thomas, Madagascar or St. Lawrence in which are observed the empires, monarchies, kingdomes, states and peoples, which at present inhabite Africa
Description:
Ferro meridian., No. 56 of 69 maps bound together in composite atlas., Relief shown pictorially., Scale [ca 1:34 000 000]., and To the most serene and most sacred majesty of Charles II, by the grace of God, king of Great Brittain, France, and Ireland, this map of Africa is humbly dedicated and presented by your majesties loyal subject and servant, William Berry.
Publisher:
Sold by William Berry at the sign of the globe between Charing Cross and White-Hall
[Atlas factice of 96 maps by Blaeu, Visscher, Jansson, Hondius and others]
Image Count:
1
Description:
Imperfect: torn along fold, with some loss of text; portions of decorative border cut or torn and repaired, with missing sections replicated in ms.; tears repaired. Sheet measures 44 x 56.3 cm. No. 4 of 92 maps bound together.