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Image: 1771 Bonne Map of the Guinea Coast of West Africa and the Cape Verde Islands - Geographicus - Guinea-bonne-1771

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Description: 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 .
Title: 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.
Credit: This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, a specialist dealer in rare maps and other cartography of the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, as part of a cooperation project.
Author: Rigobert Bonne
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