A New & Accurate Map of the Southern Parts of Africa, containing Lower Guinea, Monoemugi, Zanguebar, the Empire of Monomotapa, Country of the Cafres and the Island of Madagascar

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  • Emanuel Bowen; A New & Accurate Map of the Southern Parts of Africa, containing Lower Guinea, Monoemugi, Zanguebar, the Empire of Monomotapa, Country of the Cafres and the Island of Madagascar


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Emanuel Bowen
A New & Accurate Map of the Southern Parts of Africa, containing Lower Guinea, Monoemugi, Zanguebar, the Empire of Monomotapa, Country of the Cafres and the Island of Madagascar

London, 1747

first edition

Depicts Southern Africa with reliefs shown pictorially. Includes geographic and ethnographic notes and an ornamental cartouche depicting lions, fruit, a farmstead with labourers and a bay.

37 by 45cm excluding frame

Literature

Oscar I Norwich. (1983) Maps of Africa, Johannesburg and Cape Town: Donker. Illustrated on page 235, Map 170.



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