File:Cartouche in a Guinée map by Bonne.jpg
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Rigobert Bonne: Carte de la Guinee contenant les Isles du Cap Verd, le Senegal, la Cote de Guinee proprement dite, les Royaumes de Loango, Congo, Angola, et Benguela avec les Pays voisins autant qu'ils sont connus. ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Carte de la Guinee contenant les Isles du Cap Verd, le Senegal, la Cote de Guinee proprement dite, les Royaumes de Loango, Congo, Angola, et Benguela avec les Pays voisins autant qu'ils sont connus. |
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English: 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 . |
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Date | 1771 (dated) | |||||||||||||||||||
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height: 17 in (43.1 cm); width: 13 in (33 cm) dimensions QS:P2048,17U218593 dimensions QS:P2049,13U218593 |
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Geographicus link: Guinea-bonne-1771 |
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Lattre, Jean, Atlas Moderne ou Collection de Cartes sur Toutes les Parties du Globe Terrestre, c. 1775.
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