Nigeria: Dutch Map of the Bight of Benin by Jan Luyken (1649-1712), 1684. Pascaert vande Bocht van Benin. Copper engraving, uncolored as published. This decorative sea chart shows Benin in West Africa. Amsterdam, C. Vogt, 1684.

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