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A New and Accurate Map of Africa. Drawn from the best & most approved Modern Maps and Charts and regulated by Astronomical Observations by Eman Bowen |
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DescriptionA New and Accurate Map of Africa. Drawn from the best & most approved Modern Maps and Charts and regulated by Astronomical Observations by Eman Bowen CTASC.jpg |
Map of the continent of Africa from the atlas A complete system of geography, published in 1760. Countries, kingdoms, deserts, islands, and bodies of water are labelled. The Mediterranean Sea, Arabia, and some of Persia can be seen. A cartouche showing people, animals and trees can be seen in the lower left. |
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Subject InfoField | Atlases
Oceans Africa Algeria Mediterranean Region Mediterranean Sea Morocco Canary Islands Sahara Egypt Red Sea Nubia Benin Ethiopia Congo Hottentot Monomotapa Empire Madagascar Saudi Arabia Cyprus Tripoli (Libya) 1760 |
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Source | York University Libraries, Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections, Historical map collection, HMC0018. http://digital.library.yorku.ca/islandora/object/yul:1153583 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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creator QS:P170,Q330967 |
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Credit line | Material digitized as part of an Academic Innovation Fund (AIF), awarded in 2018. For more information see: http://avptl.info.yorku.ca/academic-innovation-fund/ . | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Map location | Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Map type | cartographic | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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William Innys [et al.] |
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institution QS:P195,Q61467363 |
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HMC0018 |
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Dimensions | 1 map : colour ; 33 x 41 cm, on sheet 39 x 46 cm. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Includes ornamental cartouche. Prime meridian is London. Page 45 of A complete system of geography. Being a description of all the countries, islands, cities, chief towns, harbours, lakes, and rivers, mountains, mines, &c. of the known world ... In two volumes. The whole illustrated with seventy maps, by Emanuel Bowen, Geographer to His Majesty, being all new-drawn and ingraved according to the latest discoveries and surveys; making, of themselves, a complete atlas, for the sse of gentlemen, merchants, mariners, and others, who delight in history and geography ... Vol. 1. London: Printed for William Innys, Richard Ware, Aaron Ward, J. and P. Knapton, John Clarke, T. Longman and T. Shewell, Thomas Osborne, Henry Whitridge ... M.DCC.XLVII.Reflief shown pictorially. |
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