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Identifier
20086411
Description
Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin for, "The Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World" by Montgomery Martin. Published in London, 1851, by The London Printing and Publishing Company. A map of West Africa illustrated with vignette engravings of Christiansborg (known as Osu Castle today), Bakel, Cape Coast Castle, and Sierra Leone. Map presents Senegal, Gambia, Togo, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Benin, and Ghana with their landforms respectively. Cartographer delineated each region with original hand colored outline. Map is uncolored with simply decorated border around map. Scale and title located at top center. Publisher information along bottom margin. An example of the preferred Montgomery Martin edition without the centrefold. Single-page, single-sided, horizontal map. 26 cm. x 37 cm. [Gift of Dr. Jack Franke]
Archival Date
1850
Collection Name
Maps of Africa
Collection Number
Acc. 2019-233
Language
English
Original Format
Maps
File Format
JPG
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License
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Subjects
Maps; Africa; Vignettes; Illustrations; Borders (Ornamental)