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Bansa oste de Stadt Salvador. Hoost-stadt van het Rijk Congo. = Bansa ou S. Salvador. Capitale de Congo. [graphic] / A Leide, Chez Pierre vander Aa.
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Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1733
Title
Bansa oste de Stadt Salvador. Hoost-stadt van het Rijk Congo. = Bansa ou S. Salvador. Capitale de Congo. [graphic] / A Leide, Chez Pierre vander Aa.
Title
Bansa or the city of Salvador. Capital of Congo = Bansa or S. Salvador. Capital of Congo.
Publisher
A Leide: [s.n]
Publisher
NETHERLANDS. Leyden. 1729
Date
[1729?]
Physical Description
1 print: engraving; image 25 x 35 cm. (9.75 x 14 in)
Description
View of the city of Banza, or San Salvador, with the River Lelunda. According to the key, A represents the king's palace. The figures denoted by the letter B (lower right, on the river's edge) are slaves who collect water to supply to the city. The structures marked C are churches, and D is a citadel. E is a spring from which slaves collect fresh water.
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 illustration 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, 50 has been written next to the plate.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Subject
Slavery -- Congo -- History -- 18th century.
Geographic subject
San Salvador (Congo) -- Pictorial works.
Angola -- Pictorial works.
Genre
Engravings -- 1720-1730.
Book illustrations -- 1720-1730.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | *U Gen Gal v 60-62 1729.F n.p. (50)
Accession number
1729.F
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