Antique map-SEA CHART-SENEGAL-DAKAR-GOREE-MADELEINE-Depot de la Marine-1824

Engraving on hand laid paper. on paper.

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 99.6 x 67.3 cm. The image size is ca. 89.9 x 60.5 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 39.2 x 26.5 inch. The image size is ca. 35.4 x 23.8 inch.

Antique map, titled: ”Plan de la presqu”ile du Cap Verd et de la Rade de Goree […].” – A coastal chart of the area immediately surrounding Dakar in Senegal, Africa. This includes the islands Madeleine, Goree and Ngor. With detailed depth soundings in the bay and near the harbour, and with geographical details inland. Published by the Depot de la Marine, dated 1824. The text by Besancon.Artists and Engravers: Made by ‘M. Ambroise Tardieu’ after ‘Givry’. Depot des Cartes et Plans de la Marine (1720 – present), often called the Depot de Marine, was a French hydrographic mapping organization founded in 1720. Much like the U.S. Coast Survey, the British Admiralty, and the Spanish Deposito Hydrografico, the Depot was initiated as a storehouse and distribution center of existing nautical and marine charts. Eventually the Depot initiated its on mapping activities in an attempt to improve and expand upon existing material. Some of the well known hydrograhers / cartographers in the development of Depot were Jacques Nicholas Bellin and Riobert Bonne.

Condition: Very good, given age. Original middle fold, as issued. Some offsetting where the map was folded on itself. Very faintly browned around the image from previous matting. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: ANTIQUE MAP-SEA CHART-SENEGAL-DAKAR-GOREE-MADELEINE-DEPOT DE LA MARINE

(PCO) GK-203