A New and Correct Map of the Coast of Africa: From Sta. Cruz Lat. 30 North to the Coast of Angola Lat. 11 S: With Explanatory Notes of All the Forts and Settlements Belonging to the Several European Powers
Item
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Date Published
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1764
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Contributor
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bookseller John Bowles
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bookseller Carington Bowles
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former owner Joseph J Williams (Joseph John)
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Publisher
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London
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Printed for John Bowles in Cornhil, and Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard
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Subject
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18th century
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Africa
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Angola
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Colonies
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Early works to 1800
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Forts
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Maps
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Gold Coast
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Type
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Map
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Language
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English
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Short Title
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A New and Correct Map of the Coast of Africa
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Temporal Coverage
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18th century
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Abstract
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Relief show pictorially., Horizontal bar scale given in English leagues "of which 239 L make a degree at the equator" with equivalents in Portuguese leagues and Dutch miles., At right "Explanation of the coast of Africa &c"; with numbered references 1-34., Inset: A Correct chart of the Gold Coast according to Sr. Danville on a larger scale., Carington Bowles traded at St. Paul's Churchyard from 1764., A reissue of this map, with imprint dated 1771, appears in Carington Bowles's General atlas of thirty-six new and correct maps (1771).
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lccn
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G8735 1764 .N49 FLAT STORAGE
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Provenance
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John J. Burns Library at Boston College