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Title
Africæ: nova descriptio
Additional title: Map of Africa.ca. 1600
Names
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638 (Cartographer)
Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1660 - 1669 (Approximate)
Place: Amstelodami?
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division
Shelf locator: Sc Map P-51
Topics
Africa
Benin
Liberia
Senegal
Ghana
Mali
Sierra Leone
Gambia
Bissau (Guinea-Bissau)
Togo
Eastern Nigeria (Nigeria)
Gabon
Cameroon
Côte d'Ivoire
Genres
Maps
Notes
Content: Relief shown pictorially. Includes color illustrations and 9 city views.
Content: COLLECTION HISTORY: This digital compilation was developed in support of the NYPL website, "The African American Migration Experience," a sweeping 500-year historical narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans. (Source: NYPL Digital Gallery)
Citation/reference: RELATED RESOURCES: NYPL. "In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience."(2005) ‹http://www.inmotionaame.org› (Source: NYPL Digital Gallery)
Content: Scale [ca. 1:40,000,000] (W 35⁰--E 90⁰/N 30⁰--S 30⁰).
Physical Description
Engravings
Extent: 1 map : col. ; 27 x 36 cm
Type of Resource
Cartographic
Languages
Latin
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b13430177
NYPL Digital Gallery Description: 31486
NYPL Exhibition ID: TL 20.01.SCH112
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): fe759f10-0031-0130-8e5c-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
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Item timeline of events

  • 1571: Creator Born
  • 1638: Creator Died
  • 1660: Created (Approximate)
  • 2025: Digitized
  • 2025: Found by you!
  • 2026

MLA Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "Africæ: nova descriptio" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1660 - 1669. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-3c7f-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Chicago/Turabian Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "Africæ: nova descriptio" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-3c7f-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

APA Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. (1660 - 1669). Africæ: nova descriptio Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-3c7f-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Wikipedia Citation

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Africæ: nova descriptio