Africæ nova descriptio.
Scale ca. 1:40,000,000. Facsimile. Relief shown pictorially. Includes col. illus. and 9 city views. AACR2
- Date
- 1960
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
- Place
- Africa
- Scale
- 1:40,000,000
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 4,284 × 3,176 pixels
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Reason: a US government work.
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