Map of West Africa (c 1718) Poster

Title Carte de la Barbarie, de la Nigritie, et de la Guinée Contributor Names L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726. Inselin, C. Created / Published A Paris : chez l'auteur fur le Quai de l'Horloge a l'Aigle d'Or, 1707 [i.e. 1718?] Subject Headings - Africa, North--Maps--Early works to 1800 - Africa, West--Maps--Early works to 1800 - Africa, North - Africa, West Notes - Relief shown pictorially. - "Avec privilege, Aout 1707." - "The words 'premier geographe du Roi' added in the title ... [indicate] that [a map] could not have been issued before 1718 when [De l'Isle] was appointed to that office"--Tooley, R.V. Guide to maps of Africa, p. 68. - Prime meridian: Ferro. - Similar to Norwich, O.I. Maps of Africa, 317