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Identifier

20086282

Description

Subtly colored map of southern Africa and Madagascar with a decorative floral border. Scale border accompanies floral border. Scale key located in bottom left corner. Title cartouche located in bottom right corner, surrounded by decorative border including vegetation. Regions delineated with light coloring, some are shaded. Map begins at Kingdom of Benin and spans to the Cape of Good Hope within southernmost tip of mainland. Landforms and waterways depicted throughout region. Locale of various tribes noted. Double-paged, single-sided, horizontal map. 30 cm. x 28 cm. [Gift of Dr. Jack Franke]

Archival Date

1766

Collection Name

Maps of Africa

Collection Number

Acc. 2019-353

Language

French

Original Format

Maps

File Format

JPG

Rights

Rights held by The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections. Any use of content downloaded or printed from this page is limited to non-commercial personal or educational use, including fair use as directed by U.S. copyright laws. For more information or for reproduction requests, please contact UTA Special Collections by emailing spcoref@uta.edu.

Subjects

Maps; Rivers; Mountains; Islands; Cartouches (Graphic); Borders (Ornament areas)

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