Carte de la coste de Guinée tres juste au faite au grand point depuis la Pointe de Galines jusques au Cap de Lopes / par le Sr. Nadreau, capitaine en second de retour de ladte. coste de Guinée et Jndes d'Espagne sur le vasseau du Roy, le Faucon. [ca. 1715]

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Carte de la coste de Guinée tres juste au faite au grand point depuis la Pointe de Galines jusques au Cap de Lopes / par le Sr. Nadreau, capitaine en second de retour de ladte. coste de Guinée et Jndes d'Espagne sur le vasseau du Roy, le Faucon. [ca. 1715]

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Shows the western and central coast of Africa from Pointe de Galines (later named Robertsport, Liberia) east and south through Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Guinea, to Gabon as far as Cape Lopez (later the site of Port-Gentil). Names over twenty trading posts and forts along the Gold Coast important in the slave trade; pictorially displayed as fortress towers bearing European flags. Includes four inset maps, the first of which continues the main map at the same scale, and runs westward from Assinie to Pointe de Galines. The other insets are drawn at larger scales. The second shows trading posts in Nigeria's Calabar region. The last two detail the Gold Coast between Lampy & Komenda, and between Komenda and Assinie.

1 ms. map : hand col. ; on sheet 564 x 748 mm., folded to 564 x 375 mm.

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