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| Number: | 3562 |
| Continent: | Africa |
| Region: | West |
| Place Names: | Liberia, Ivory Coast, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, |
| Year of Origin: | 1729 |
| Title: | Carte Particuliere de la Partie Princpale de La Guinee situee entre Issini et Ardra |
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| Language: | French |
| Publish Origin: | Paris |
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| Cartographer: |
Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D'Anville |
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| Other Contributors: |
Chavelier des Marchais |
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| Notes: | [Source Rudermann] in 1725 and subsequent years the Chevalier des Marchais was sent by the French Government to visit the West Coast of Africa and the South American settlement of Cayenne (Guiana), and report on the trading prospects of both regions. Includes a section of French text describing the region. D?Anville disapproved of merely copying features from other maps, preferring instead to return to the texts upon which those maps were based to make his own depictions. This led him to embrace blank spaces for unknown areas and to reject names which were not supported by other sources. He also amassed a large personal map library and created a network of sources that included Jesuits in China and savants in Brazil.In 1773, d'Anville was named premier geographe de roi. In 1780, he ceded his considerable library to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to be used for as a reference library for diplomats. |
| Last updated: Jan 14, 2020 |