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London (1752) 1774 Africa Performed by the Sr. Danville under the Patronage of the Duke of Orleans. Revised and Improved by Mr. Bolton. E. Bowen Sculp. Original copperplate printed map: On four mapsheets (which can be joined to form one large wallmap): 99.5 x 96 cm.
Map #AFS-021
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This is a wonderfully detailed map of Africa. This level of detail can only be attained via the large format of a four sheet wallmap. This map is directly modeled on the 1749 wallmap by Jean Baptiste d'Anville. It has the look of the D'Anville map, though the text and placenames on this map are mostly in English.. D'Anville was one of France's greatest cartographers. He was the cartographic successor to Guillaume Delise in that he maintained the rigorous standard for accuracy that Delisle had established. D'Anville was probably the last French mapmaker to establish an reputation superior to all his contemporaries, as witnessed by the respect shown by English cartographers in citing D'Anville as the primary source during an era when the two countries were often at war and always hostile to one another. The map is literally filled with geographic information on Africa and its people. The map was issued when the European expansion into Africa had just begun. By this time there were numerous fort and factories (trading posts) on the western, southern and southeastern coasts representing various European nations, but there had been almost no penetration of the interior Like the D'Anville map, the title cartouche, at the upper right, is a simple vine design. We believe this Bolton to be the same Solomon Boulton, who was the mapmaker for Sayer's map of 1787. This map may have appeared along with other continent maps in The Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, published in London by Malachy Postlethwayt in 1752, 1755, 1766, and 1774. The map appears to be unchanged in all editions. The map is finely engraved by Emanuel Bowen (E. Bowen Sculp below title). Tooley, Maps of Africa, p 6.
Fine.
Folds on the maps as usual for insertion into the book.
The folds can be smoothed for assembling the map sections into
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