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Carte de la coste de Guinée tres juste au faite au grand point depuis la Pointe de Galines jusques au Cap de Lopes

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Title Carte de la coste de Guinée tres juste au faite au grand point depuis la Pointe de Galines jusques au Cap de Lopes

Creator Nadreau, Captain, fl. 1715

Date 1715

Place Central Africa, Ghana, West Africa

Language French

Subjects Coasts, Manuscript maps, Nautical charts, Slave trade, Trading posts

Description Sheet 5 of 115 (i.e. 117; includes sheets 71A and 106A) numbered leaves in the Cartes Marines Manuscript Map Collection, detailing French colonial interests worldwide, ca. 1640-ca. 1726.
Depths shown with soundings.
Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, yellow, red, blue); mounted on cloth. Shot from 4x5 transparency.

Summary Shows the western and central coast of Africa from Pointe de Galines (later named Robertsport, Liberia) east and south through Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Guinea, to Gabon as far as Cape Lopez (later the site of Port-Gentil). Names over twenty trading posts and forts along the Gold Coast important in the slave trade; pictorially displayed as fortress towers bearing European flags. Includes four inset maps, the first of which continues the main map at the same scale, and runs westward from Assinie to Pointe de Galines. The other insets are drawn at larger scales. The second shows trading posts in Nigeria's Calabar region. The last two detail the Gold Coast between Lampy & Komenda, and between Komenda and Assinie.

Extent 1 ms. map : hand col. ; on sheet 564 x 748 mm

Format Manuscript maps, Manuscripts, Maps, Nautical charts

Archival Collection Title Cartes Marines Manuscript Map Collection, Edward E. Ayer Collection, Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection

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Call Number Ayer MS map 30 sheet 5

BibID 991630798805867

Projects Tag Edward E. Ayer Digital Collection

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 6483px × 4896px 90.84 MB

Filename 991630798805867_ayer_ms_map_30_sheet_5.tif

Unique Identifier NL11KLVL

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