Coste Occidentale d'Afrique: Bellin 1738

Title: Coste Occidentale d'Afrique Author: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin Date: 1738 Medium: Copperplate engraving Condition: Good - light age toning, folds, trimmed left margin Inches: 9 3/4 x 11 1/2 [Paper] Centimeters: 24.77 x 29.21 [Paper] Product ID: 102168 Coste Occidentale d'Afrique, Depuis le Détroit de Gibraltar Jusq XIe. Dégré de Latitude Septentrionale. Tirée de la Carte de l'Océan Occidental. Publiée Par Ordre de Mgr. le Comte de Maurepas en 1738. "West Coast of Africa, From the Strait of Gibraltar Until the 11th Degree of Northern Latitude. From the Map of the Western Ocean Published By Order of Mgr. the Count of Maurepas in 1738."   Map of the western coast of Africa, including present-day Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal, the Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau by French hydrographer and geographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), who produced a prodigious body of work over a nearly fifty-year career. Legend in bottom right corner acknowledges variances in l