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Bellin's map of western Africa, engraved for an Italian edition of Prévost's Histoire générale des voyages (1746-1789).

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Document identity
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ht250c27r
label
Costa occidentale dell' Africa dallo Stretto di Gibilterra fino al XI grado di latitudine settentrionale tratta dalla carta dell' Oceano Occidentale
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dtoType
map
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1
Source metadata
id
ht250c27r
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Costa occidentale dell' Africa dallo Stretto di Gibilterra fino al XI grado di latitudine settentrionale tratta dalla carta dell' Oceano Occidentale
description
Bellin's map of western Africa, engraved for an Italian edition of Prévost's Histoire générale des voyages (1746-1789).
date
["[ca. 1746–1789]"]
year
1746
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
Italian
identifierLocal
06_01_014627
creators
Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Africa, West--Maps--Early works to 1800
subjectsGeographic
Africa
West Africa
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
[Place of publication not identified]
publisher
[publisher not identified]
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
41688024w
schema:latitude
14.533
schema:longitude
-2.316
extent
1 map : hand colored ; 23 x 18 cm
notes
Bellin's map of western Africa, engraved for an Italian edition of Prévost's Histoire générale des voyages (1746-1789).
Relief shown pictorially.
Prime meridian: Ferro.
"Pubblicata per ordine del Sigr. Conte di Maurepas nel 1738."
"Pag. 1."
"Tomo I."
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no
dcId
ht250c27r
type
map
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