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Source Description
Although drawn and engraved in 1746 by Bellin, one of the most prolific mid-18th-century French cartographers, this map of the Cape Verde islands was published in the 1780 edition of Jean-Francois de la Harpe's "Abrege de l 'histoire generale des voyages". The map depicts the Cape Verde Islands, a small group of volcanic islands located in the tropical waters of the Atlantic, about 15º north of the Equator and 385 miles west of the African country of Senegal. These islands were discovered and settled by the Portuguese in the 1450s and 1460s. During the subsequent centuries, the French and British tried to gain control, but the islands remained under Portuguese domination until 1975 when they gained independence.
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Document identity
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x633f8726
label
Carte des Isles du Cap Verd
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obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
x633f8726
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Carte des Isles du Cap Verd
description
Although drawn and engraved in 1746 by Bellin, one of the most prolific mid-18th-century French cartographers, this map of the Cape Verde islands was published in the 1780 edition of Jean-Francois de la Harpe's "Abrege de l 'histoire generale des voyages". The map depicts the Cape Verde Islands, a small group of volcanic islands located in the tropical waters of the Atlantic, about 15º north of the Equator and 385 miles west of the African country of Senegal. These islands were discovered and settled by the Portuguese in the 1450s and 1460s. During the subsequent centuries, the French and British tried to gain control, but the islands remained under Portuguese domination until 1975 when they gained independence.
date
["1746"]
year
1746
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
French
identifierLocal
05_04_000148
creators
Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Cape Verde--Maps--Early works to 1800
subjectsGeographic
Africa
Cape Verde
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
Cape Verde
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
Paris
publisher
[s.n.]
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
41688024w
schema:latitude
16
schema:longitude
-24
extent
1 map : col. ; 29 x 22 cm.
notes
Relief shown pictorially.
"Tome 1er in 8?. Page 296."
"Tome II in 4?.n?.g."
Exhibited in “Faces and Places,” at the Boston Public Library, Boston, MA, October 2003 - September 2004. MB (BRL)
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no
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x633f8726
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map
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1
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0
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photo
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