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Africa, or Greater Libya

This map of Africa by Nicolas Sanson, royal geographer to Kings Louis XIII and XIV, and commonly known as the father of French cartography, was published by Sanson’s own house in 1679 in Paris. The map was based, according to Sanson, on a composite of information drawn from other maps as well as “upon the observations of Samuel Blomart.” It also may have drawn on the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper’s work of 1668, Naukeurige Beschrijvingen der Afrikaensche gewesten (Description of Africa). The continent is presented as “Greater Libya” and the map concentrates on the Saharan region of north Africa and the surrounding land of west Africa, stretching from Guinea and the black coast to Nubia in the east. Africa, West; Sahara

Date
1679
Mapmaker / publisher
Sanson, Nicolas (1600-1667)
Place
Africa
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
1,576 × 1,024 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago, and a faithful scan of a flat work adds no new copyright.

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