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

Title
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
Date Published
1764
Contributor
bookseller John Bowles
bookseller Carington Bowles
former owner Joseph J Williams (Joseph John)
Publisher
London
Printed for John Bowles in Cornhil, and Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard
Subject
18th century
Africa
Angola
Colonies
Early works to 1800
Forts
Maps
Gold Coast
Type
Map
Language
English
Short Title
A New and Correct Map of the Coast of Africa
Temporal Coverage
18th century
Abstract
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).
lccn
G8735 1764 .N49 FLAT STORAGE
Provenance
John J. Burns Library at Boston College
Item sets
Historical Maps