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Original antique map of the Calabar River Mouth, Calabar City in Nigeria, West Africa – a significant slave port of the 17th & 18th centuries. Detailed coastal map of Guinea coast of Western Africa, is based upon the 1699 voyage of James Barbot & John Grazilhier to New Calabar, Bandi, and Doni Rivers. Barbot and Grazilhier each gave famous accounts of their experiences in the slave trade in the second half of the 17th Century.
Made by an anonymous engraver after Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Medium: Engraving / etching on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 40.5 x 26.2 cm (15.94 x 10.31 inch). Image size: 36.5 x 20.5 cm. (14.37 x 8.07 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Original folds as published. Paper slightly browned. Ligt foxing. A few creases. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
WEST AFRICA-GUINEA-CALABAR RIVER-NIGERIA-SLAVE PORT | RB-A9-09
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Published in 1750 in Prevosts 15 volumes of Histoire Generale des Voyages written by Prevost & other authors between 1746-1790.
Biography artist: Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), was a French hydrographer and geographer. He is considered the greatest 18 th. c. French hydrographer and for 50 years he was associated with the ‘Depot des cartes et Plans’ (Depot de la Marine) as the First hydrographer of the French Royal Navy. His maps were constantly updated with the latest information and their execution magnificent. Bellin’s major works are the ‘Neptune Francois …’, the ‘Petit Atlas Maritime …’ and the ‘Hydrographie Francoise …’ As a member of a French intellectual group called the ‘Philosophes’ and he contributed 994 articles to the ‘Encyclopedie’ by Diderot/d’Alembert. He also contributed to the ‘Histoire Generale des Voyages’ by Prevost.
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