'Coste Occidentale d'Afrique…' West Africa & Canary Islands. BELLIN, 1758 map

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'Carte de la Coste Occidentale d'Afrique depuis le Detroit de Gibraltar jusqu'au XIe dégré de latitude septentrionale Tirée de la Carte de l'Océan Occidental Publiée par ordre de Mgr. le Comte de Maurepas en 1738'. Artist/engraver/cartographer: Jacques-Nicholas Bellin. Provenance: Atlas de "l'Histoire Generale des Voyages", by Antoine François Prévost (the Abbé Prévost). Type: Antique 18th century copperplate map. A map of the north-west African coastline from the Strait of Gibraltar to present-day Guinea-Bissau, including the Atlantic coasts of Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal & Gambia, and most of the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Cape Verde Islands.

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Size: 2609px × 3220px
Location: West Africa
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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