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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

Public domain

Reason: a US government work.

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"Africæ nova descriptio." (1960). Blaeu, Willem Janszoon. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Afric%C3%A6_nova_descriptio._LOC_77694182.jpg

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