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Maps of ‘Africa’

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Coast of Guinea and Bay of Sierra Liona [Guinea, Sierra Leone] – 1732

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COSTE OCCIDENTALE D’AFRIQUE [West Coast of Africa] – 1738

Africa_1738

A General Map of the River Sanaga with Map of Entrance fo the Sanaga and Island of Sanaga or St. Louis [3 maps on one sheet] – 1745

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A new and accurate map of Nubia & Abissinia, :together with all the kingdoms tributary thereto, and bordering upon them. – 1747

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ISLE DE MADAGASCAR AUTEMENT ISLE DE ST. LAURENT; EILAND MADAGASKAR, OF ST. LAURENS. – 1747

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CARTE DE LA BAYE DE MOSAMBIQUE, Dressee sur Divers Manuscrits, Par N.B. Ingre de la Marine [Mozambique] – 1753

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CARTE DES ROYAUMES DE CONGO ANGOLA et BENGUELA Avec les Pays Voisns. from Histoire Generale Des Voyages of A.F. Prevost d’Exiles – 1754

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PLAN DE L’ISLE DE GORE Avec ses Fortificaations; GRONDTEKENING VAN’T EILAND GOEREE, met deszelfs VESTINGWERKEN [Gorée Island] – 1772

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LE CANAL DE MOSAMBIQUE, L’ISLE DE MADAGASCAR, LES ETATS DU MONOMOTAPA, ET LES ROYAUMES VOISINS [Mozambique, Madagascar] – 1780

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Napoleon’s Campaigns in Egypt and Northern Italy. Germany and Italy, 1803 and 1806

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