Subject: Western Africa
Period: 1792 (dated)
Publication:
Color: Hand Color
Size:
22.6 x 19.5 inches
57.4 x 49.5 cm
Great 18th century map of northwestern Africa from Barbary, Nigeria and Guinea to below the equator. There is a mass of geographic detail and notations in the interior with information on the rivers and lakes. Numerous tent encampments are depicted throughout the Sahara Desert. This map first appeared in Delisle's Atlas de Geographie (1700-1712) and was here re-issued by Jan Elwe with his imprint at bottom.
References: Norwich #317.
Condition: A
Lovely old color. Minor soil in blank margins.