7211 x 6061 px | 61,1 x 51,3 cm | 24 x 20,2 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
1827
Ubicazione:
Nigeria & Cameroon
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Afrique - Golfe du Guinée - No. 36. Artist/engraver/cartographer: Philippe Marie Guillaume Vandermaelen. Lithography by Henri Ode. Provenance: "Atlas Universel de Geographie Physique, Politique, Statistique et Mineralogique", dresse par Ph. Vandermaelen - Premiere partie - Europe. Bruxelles. [This landmark atlas is remarkable as the first atlas to have been produced using the then new printing process of lithography. It is also the first atlas to show the whole world in maps using a large uniform scale; in total the 380 conically projected sheets of maps are designed to be joined into a three dimensional terrestrial globe with a diameter of approximately 7.75 metres (25 feet).]. Type: Antique folio-sized lithographic atlas map, hand coloured in outline, on conical projection. This map was published within the first atlas ever to be printed using lithography, and also the first to be printed on a uniform scale. Southern Nigeria, western Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and northern Gabon as far south as São Tomé and Principé
