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Title
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L'Afrique dressée selon les derniers relations et suivant les nouvelles decouvertes dont les points principaux sont placez sur les observations de Messieurs de l'Academie Royal des Sciences
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Subject
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Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
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Description
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Restored and hinged between acid-free boards., Scale on map: "10 degrez de l'Equat[o]r qui font 200 grande Lieues de France a 20 au degrez"., From Nicholas de Fer's L'Atlas Curieux ou le Monde. The map, which features a strange interpretation of the continent of Africa, includes several mythical features including a second island of St. Helena. The map also includes a description of the circumnavigation of the Cape of Good Hope by Diaz in 1486. See Betz: The mapping of Africa: a cartobibliography of printed maps of the African continent to 1700 (’t Goy-Houten: Hes & de Graaf, c2007): 170.3;Tooley: Collectors' guide to maps of the African continent and southern Africa (London: Carta Press, 1969): 45 and http://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/20992/LAfrique_Dressee_Selon_les_dernieres_Relat_1717/De%20Fer.html (accessed 30 September 2009).
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Identifier
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islandora:19735
