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Old map of Africa, West, West Africa.

day Gabon in the south to Niger, Mali, and Mauritania in the north. The map was published in Nuremberg, Germany, by the firm of Homännische Erben, meaning the successors of the Nuremberg engraver and publisher Johann Baptist Homann (1663-1724) and his son, Johann Christoph Homann (1703-30). It is based on an earlier work by the great French mapmaker Jean Baptiste d'Anville (1697-1782). The illustration at the lower left depicts an African village. Items such as dress, houses and other buildings, and economic activities are keyed by letter to an explanatory index, in Latin, at the bottom of the map. Place names and notes on the map are mainly in Latin, but in a few places French and Dutch also are used. The Gold Coast, for example, is identified as Littus Auri (Latin), Cote d'Or (French), and Goud Kust (Dutch). Ancient geographers referred to the whole of Africa as "Aethiopia," a name that, from the 15th century onward, gave way to the term Nigritia to designate the interior of the continent. This map uses both names." World Digital Library.
Created by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D Anville, Homann Erben (Firm), R. De Marchais in 1743.

• Covers West Africa from Gabon in the south to Niger, Mali, and Mauritania in the north.
• Includes indexed ill. depicting the dress, dwellings, and work of native Africans.
• Prime meridian: Ferro.
• Relief shown pictorially.
• Three copies. Copy 1 has land areas colored green and yellow and border colored pink. Copy 2 has land areas colored pink and yellow, border colored yellow, and title/upper margin area colored pink; and "10" annotated in upper right corner. Copy 3 has land areas colored pink and yellow and border colored green; and "9" annotated in upper right corner.

Map Subjects

Africa West

Early Works To 1800

West Africa

Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D Anville

Homann Erben (Firm)

R. De Marchais

1743