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

Description:

The map, which features a strange interpretation of the continent of Africa, includes several mythical features including a second island of St. Helena. Includes a description of the circumnavigation of the Cape of Good Hope by Diaz in 1486. Coordinates approximate and based on Greenwich meridian. Bar scale on map given in "Lieües." Compass rose. From Nicholas de Fer's L'Atlas Curieux ou le Monde. 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). "Avec privil. du Roy." Descriptive text throughout.

Publisher:

Chez l’Auteur dans l’Isle du Palais sur le Quay de l’Orloge a la Sphere Royale

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Date Issued:

1794

Spatial Coverage:

Africa

Rights:

Image courtesy University of Cape Town Libraries, Special Collections: Maps scanned under the William and Yvonne Jacobson Digital Africana Program at UCT. If you have questions, please contact David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu.

Rights Holder:

Property rights reside with the repository. Copyright (c) Stanford University. All Rights Reserved.

License:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

JPEG2000

Georeferenced:

More details at:

https://purl.stanford.edu/bn840vq9604