Nigritarum regio
- Creator:
- Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673, creator
- Published/Created:
- Amstelaedami
Joannes Blaeu excud
[1662?] - Physical Description:
- 1 map
b&w, color illustration
36 x 55 cm. on sheet 51.6 x 61.2 cm. - Notes:
- Bar scale given in milliaria Germanica communia.
No. 59 of 69 maps bound together in composite atlas.
Covers west Africa from Tropic of Cancer southward.
Ferro meridian.
Map includes decorative title and scale statement cartouches with native figures and local fauna. Map interior displays three elephants.
Place names in Latin and Portuguese.
Relief shown pictorially.
Scale [ca. 1:12 000 000]. - Topics:
- Africa, West --Maps --Early works to 1800
- Language:
- Latin
- Genre:
- Atlases
Engravings
Hand coloring
Maps
Maps in books - Format:
- Map
- Content Type:
- Maps, Atlases & Globes
- Rights:
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Access Restrictions:
- Public
- Call Number:
- 1973 Folio 10
- Orbis Record:
- 8480703
- Yale Collection:
- Beinecke Library
- Digital Collection:
- General Collection, BRBL, Yale University
- oid pointer:
- 1211263
- Extent of digitization:
- Complete work digitized.
- OID:
- 2046696
- PID:
- digcoll:3550705
