This handsome map covers the important Bambouk gold mining region lying between the Senegal and Faleme rivers in present-day Mali. The map is filled with detail of numerous long vanished kingdoms, along with major routes leading to the gold mines of Tamba Awra. The map is embellished with a title cartouche and a compass rose capped with fleur-de-lis. Dutch edition engraved by J. van Schley with an alternate Dutch title below the map.

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Condition: B+

Issued folding on a sheet with a fleur-de-lis coat of arms watermark. There is minor offsetting, faint dampstaining, and some short fold separations along the sheet's edges, including two that cross the neatline at top.