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(AFRICA.) BARBOT, JOHN. A New Correct Mapp of Calbar River * Part of Congo, Alias Dongo Kingdom. Two hand-colored maps of the West African Coast. 9-5/8 x 15 and 10 x 13-1/2 inches (image size), bother with good margins; the second with a chip to the lower right corner not affecting the image; matted. London, 1744
Two very handsome 18th century maps, describing the slave coast of Africa. Maps like this were used by slave traders to identify the safe places along the coast: "drawn very exactly on the Spot in the Year 1699 by several Pilots Jointly." Filled with soundings, showing the locations of shoals and oriented by a compass rose. These accompanied "A Description of the Coasts of North and South Guinea and of Ethiopic Inferior…" by John Barbot in Vol. V. (London 1744).
