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    "title": "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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    "year": 1746,
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    "language": "Italian",
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        "Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772"
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        "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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