North West Africa Senegal early exploration overland routes c1862 Meyer old map
North West Africa Senegal early exploration overland routes c1862 Meyer old map North West Africa Senegal early exploration overland routes c1862 Meyer old map
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Nord-West-Afrika

(Northwest coast Africa / Guinea / Senegal / Sierra Leone- Gold- Slave- Ivory)

Issued Hildburghausen, Germany c. 1862 by Meyer.

Uncommon small-format mid-19th century color-lithographed map. Overprinted in red to correspond to key bottom left corner. Distance scale given in 6 diff. Colonial mileages.

Key at bottom left identifies 16 different specific exploration expedition routes dating from 1805-60.

Sheet is gently uniformly age toned but otherwsie clean and well preserved, just trivial edge spotting or toning.

Original fold line as issued.

Sheet measures c. 11 1/2" x 9 1/4"

Engraved area measures c. 10 1/2" x 8".

[R12997]

Espenhorst, Bibliographie der Handatlanten , 3.5.1 (p. 192)

Tooleys Dictionary of Mapmakers , v. 3, p. 245