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Nigritarum regio
Author
Title
Nigritarum regio.
Published
Amstelaedami : Joannes Blaeu excud, [1662?]
Physical Description
1 map : hand col. ; 36 x 55 cm.
Cartographic Detail
Scale [ca. 1:12,000,000] (W 17⁰30ʹ00ʺ--E 17⁰30ʹ00ʺ/N 24⁰00ʹ00ʺ--S 15⁰00ʹ00ʺ).
Local Notes
BEIN 1973 Folio 10: Sheet measures 51.6 x 61.2 cm. Bookplate of José M. Rodriguez. No. 59 of 63 maps bound together.
Notes
Relief shown pictorially.
Map includes decorative title and scale statement cartouches with native figures and local fauna. Map interior displays three elephants.
Ferro meridian.
Bar scale given in milliaria Germanica communia.
Covers west Africa from Tropic of Cancer southward.
Place names in Latin and Portuguese.
Format
Maps & GIS
Language
Latin; Portuguese
Added to Catalog
December 15, 2008
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Maps.
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