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Afrika : Meist nach Berghaus von H. Hübbe. 1828. Berichtight nach Lander u. nach Douville 1834

Description:

Map of Africa showing Portuguese, Spanish, French, British, Dutch and Danish colonial interests.

Shows portions of the eastern coastlines of North America and Brazil, and islands in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans including the Canary Islands, St. Helena, Madagascar, Mauritius and the Seychelles.

Relief shown by shading.

Prime meridian: Island de Fer.

Coordinates approximate and based on Greenwich meridian.

2 inset maps: Die Südspitze von Afrika [showing the routes taken by travellers Lichtenstein and Campbell] -- Die Capstadt und Umgegend.

Key in lower left.

Index in lower right.

"Neue Ausgabe No LI. Stieler's Hand-Atlas (No. 40.)".

3 bar scales on map, given in "Geogr. Meil.," "See Meilen," and "Engl. See M."

Resource Link:

https://purl.stanford.edu/vz103rb3855

Identifier:

https://purl.stanford.edu/vz103rb3855

Language:

ger

Publisher:

Stieler, Adolf, 1775-1836

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Resource Type:

Digital maps

Subject:

Travel

Temporal Coverage:

19th century

Date Issued:

1834

Spatial Coverage:

Africa, Good Hope, Cape of (South Africa : Cape), Cape Peninsula (South Africa), and South Africa

Rights:

Image courtesy University of Cape Town Libraries, Special Collections: Maps scanned under the William and Yvonne Jacobson Digital Africana Program at UCT. If you have questions, please contact David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu.

Rights Holder:

Property rights reside with the repository. Copyright (c) Stanford University. All Rights Reserved.

License:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

JPEG

Georeferenced:

false