This great 18th-century map of northwestern Africa spans 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 right.

References: cf. Norwich #317; Shirley (BL Atlases) T.ELW-2a..

Condition: B

A crisp impression with full contemporary color on a bright sheet with two small elephant watermarks. There is dampstaining along the centerfold at top and bottom, resulting in a chip at top that has been archivally repaired, with partial loss of the title.