Africa : divided according to the extent of its principall parts in which are
          distinquished one from the other the empires, monarchies, kingdoms, states, and peoples,
          which at this time inhabite Africa

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Type of resource	cartographic
Form	map; unmediated; sheet
Extent	1 map ; 54 x 89 cm
Publication date	1680
Issuance	monographic
Map data	Scale in English and Italian miles, French, German and Spanish leagues ; W 18°--E 51°/N 37°--S 35°

Creator	Berry, William, active 1669-1708

Note	Based on Jaillot's map, (see NOR 0046). Title across top: Africa distinguished in its principal parts viz. Barbary. Biledulgerid, Egypt, Zaara or The Desert, the Country of the Negros, Guinea, Nubia, Abissinea, Zanguebar; Congo, Monomotapa, Caffrares, the Islands of the Canaries, Cape Verd, St. Thomas, Madagascar or St. Lawrence ... Described by Sanson. Corrected and amended by William Berry. Dedicated to Charles II; Prime meridian through Ferro Island.
Note	Colored
Acquisition	Dr. Oscar I. Norwich
Local note	David Rumsey Map Center copy 1: Norwich no. NOR 0047.
Referenced by	Title Norwich, I., Pam Kolbe, and Jeffrey C Stone. Norwich's Maps of Africa: An Illustrated and Annotated Carto-Bibliography. 2nd ed. / rev. and edited by Jeffrey C. Stone. Norwich, Vt.: Terra Nova Press, 1997, map 0047, p. 58
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/sw869bh7032

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Dr. Oscar I. Norwich collection of maps of Africa and its islands, 1486 - ca. 1865

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