MAKE A MEME
View Large Image
| View Original: | 1771_Bonne_Map_of_the_Guinea_Coast_of_West_Africa_and_the_Cape_Verde_Islands_-_Geographicus_-_Guinea-bonne-1771.jpg (2933x4000) | |||
| Download: | Original | Medium | Small | Thumb |
| Courtesy of: | commons.wikimedia.org | More Like This | ||
| Keywords: 1771 Bonne Map of the Guinea Coast of West Africa and the Cape Verde Islands - Geographicus - Guinea-bonne-1771.jpg A beautiful example of Rigobert Bonne's c 1770 decorative map of western Africa Covers from the Cape Verde Islands eastward to the coasts of Africa and the western mouth of the Niger River Includes the modern day nations of Mauritania Senegal Gambia Guinea-Bissau Guinea Sierra Leone Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire A decorative title cartouche appears in the lower left hand quadrant Drawn by R Bonne in 1770 for issue as plate no A 30 in Jean Lattre's 1776 issue of the Atlas Moderne 1771 dated Size in 13 17 object history credit line accession number Guinea-bonne-1771 Lattre Jean <i>Atlas Moderne ou Collection de Cartes sur Toutes les Parties du Globe Terrestre</i> c 1775 Geographicus-source PD-old-100 | ||||
