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Nigritie, ou le pays des Negres en Afrique, avec tous ses royaumes, bayes, rivieres et ports de mer, suivant les meilleurs relations de ceux qui ont ete sur les lieux, et nouvellement mise au jour. [graphic] / par Pierre Vander AA.
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Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1733
Title
Nigritie, ou le pays des Negres en Afrique, avec tous ses royaumes, bayes, rivieres et ports de mer, suivant les meilleurs relations de ceux qui ont ete sur les lieux, et nouvellement mise au jour. [graphic] / par Pierre Vander AA.
Title
Nigritie, or the countries of the blacks in Africa.
Publisher
A Leide: Marchand Libraire
Publisher
NETHERLANDS. Leyden. 1729
Date
[1729?]
Physical Description
1 print: engraving; image 27 x 36 cm. (10.5 x 14.5 in)
Description
Physical and political map of the Western coast of Central Africa. A marginal illustration in the lower left-hand corner features African kings and hunters, as well as various indigenous animals, including two elephants and a lion. It also shows a few Europeans trading with African merchants. In the background, several figures bathe in an idyllic landscape.
Is part of
Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1733. Galerie agreable du monde. Le tout mis en ordre & executé à Leide, par Pierre vander Aa [1729?].
Notes
Folded map in Pieter van der Aa's La galerie agreable du monde, où l'on voit et un grand nombre de cartes tres-exactes et de belles tailles-douces, les principaux empires, roiaumes, republiques, provinces, villes, bourgs et forteresses . . . (Le tout mis en ordre & executé à Leide, par Pierre vander Aa [1729?]), n.p.
In the absence of pagination, 31 has been written next to the plate.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Subject
Kings -- Africa, West.
Hunting -- Africa, West.
Geographic subject
Africa, West -- Maps -- 18th century.
Genre
Engravings -- 1720-1730.
Maps -- 1720-1730.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | *U Gen Gal v 60-62 1729.F 31
Accession number
1729.F
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