negroland guinea european settlements explaining di moll herman (1 risultati)

Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 8 x 10 3/4 inches. Fascinating map of West Africa spanning from modern-day Senegal to Cameroon. Evidence of European colonization and slave trade is abundant on this map, with English, Dutch, and Danish territories marked, resources such as gold mines labeled, and "slave coast" marked in southern Guinea. The term "Negroland" was only used briefly to refer to this area during the Age of Exploration, further exemplifying the European gaze through which this map was created. Includes "P. of Zaara" (Sahara Desert), "P. of Ethiopia" (now Cameroon/Equatorial Guinea area), villages, rivers, lakes, bogs, salt mines, and relief depicted pictorially. In good condition, one small chip to top margin fold line. Herman Moll (c. 1654-1732) was born in Germany and settled in London in the 1670's where he worked as an engraver for Moses Pitt. By the turn of the century, Moll became the foremost map publisher in England, where he produced Atlases and maps. As an engraver, cartographer, mapseller and globemaker he appealed to the public with his unusual views and vignettes. As the demand for his work was sustained, he issued many revised editions of his work.