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Carte reduite des costes occidentales d'Afrique. Premiere feuille contenant les costes de Barbarie depuis le Detroit de Gibraltar et les Isles Canaries.
Single sheet. Hand coloured engraving. Scale: [circa 1:2,000,000]. Mercator projection, with borders graduated for latitude and for longitude from the meridians of Paris, London, the Lizard, Teneriffe and Ferro Island. Rhumb lines. The scales are in French and English marine leagues. Soundings are shown on the Atlantic coast between Cap St Vincent and Saphie (Safi). Contains a florid title cartouche.
The 1754 edition of this chart was included in the atlas Hydrographie Francoise issued by the Departement de la Marine.
The 1754 edition of this chart was included in the atlas Hydrographie Francoise issued by the Departement de la Marine.
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Object Details
| ID: | G213:5/1 |
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| Collection: | Charts and maps |
| Type: | Chart |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Bellin, Jacques Nicolas |
| Places: | Eastern Atlantic |
| Date made: | 1753 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Printed area 56 x 87.5cm, on sheet 63.5 x 93.5cm. |
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