Item details: Carte du Golfe de Benin et Partie de la Cote de Guinee
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£ 125.00
BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas
Carte du Golfe de Benin et Partie de la Cote de Guinee
Imprint: Paris, 1764
230 x 300 mm., in early wash colour and good condition.
A detailed map of part of the Gold Coast of Africa now displaying the coast of present day Nigeria in the east to Ghana in the west at the mouth of the River Volta. Lagos itself is identified by 'Cap Lagos'. It is from Jacques Nicolas Bellin's greatest atlas, the 'Petit Atlas Maritime'. Phillips 638 & 3508; Shirley BL M. Bell 5a; Nordenskiold Collection 1 no. 10; Maritime Museum no. 211.
Stock number:8609.