Pour l'intelligence du mémoire sur les riviéres de l'interieur de l'Afrique / DelaHaye sculp.

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Map showing the rivers of northern Africa as far south as the sources of the Nile. Among other rivers, the Niger River ("Nigir Fl.") is depicted as occupying a closed basin with no outlet to the ocean; the Senegal River is shown as "Daradus Fl."; and the Nile is depicted as beginning in the "Montagn...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Michigan State University. Libraries. Map Library
Académie royale des inscriptions et belles lettres (France) (Publisher)
Other Authors: Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782 (Cartographer)
Haye, G. de la (Engraver)
Language:French
Latin
Language and/or Writing System:
In French. Ancillary map in Latin.
Published: [East Lansing, Michigan] : [Michigan State University Map Library], [2010-2016]
Subjects:
North African literature > Maps > Early works to 1800.
Africa > Maps > Early works to 1800.
Rivers > Africa, North > Maps > Early works to 1800.
Rivers > Africa > Maps > Early works to 1800.
Digital maps.
Early maps.
Genre:
Early works to 1800.
Maps
Digital maps.
Early maps.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - all users (Michigan State University Libraries)
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 map) : color.
Variant Title:
Pour l'intelligence du mémoire sur les rivières de l'interieur de l'Afrique.
Carte pour l'intelligence du mémoire sur les rivières de l'interieur de l'Afrique.
Tabula ad Ptolemaicam descriptionem exacta.
Cartographic Data:Scale approximately 1:15,000,000
(W 17°47ʹ00ʺ--E 43°43ʹ00ʺ/N 37°31ʹ00ʺ--N 5°00ʹ00ʺ).
Format: Electronic Map
Description
Summary:
Map showing the rivers of northern Africa as far south as the sources of the Nile. Among other rivers, the Niger River ("Nigir Fl.") is depicted as occupying a closed basin with no outlet to the ocean; the Senegal River is shown as "Daradus Fl."; and the Nile is depicted as beginning in the "Montagnes de la Lune" (Mountains of the Moon). Includes a separate map depicting rivers of the region in Roman times.
Note:Relief shown pictorially.
Includes ancillary map "Tabula ad Ptolemaicam descriptionem exacta."
Likely detached from: Mémoires de littérature tiréz des registres de l'Académie royale des inscriptions et belles lettres : depuis l'année MDCCLII, jusques & compris l'année MDCCLIV : Tome vingt-sixiéme. (Also known as: Histoire de l'Académie royale des inscriptions et belles lettres.) Following page 64, accompanying d'Anville's article "Mémoire concernant les rivières de l'intérieur de l'Afrique, sur les notions tirées des anciens & des modernes."
Date given as 1754 in Notice des ouvrages de M. d'Anville.
"Mém. de l'Acad. des Belles-Lettres, T. XXVI, page 64."
Call Number:G8221.C3 1754 A5 Map Online
References:
Notice des ouvrages de M. d'Anville, Catalogue des cartes, 77 (page 60)
Original Version:
Original version: [Paris] : [l'Imprimiere Royale], [1759]