This map was a collaborative effort and shows the Kingdom of Judah in west Africa and Lamlem to the north as "peopled by Jews."
Link: Yale.edu
Creator: Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville (Danville)
Contributor: Emanuel Bowen, Solomon Bolton, Louis Philippe “duc d’Orléans”, and Malachy Postlethwayt
Year: 1774 AD
Title: Africa / performed by the Sr. Danville under the patronage of the Duke of Orleans ; revised and improved by Mr. Bolton ; E. Bowen sculpt.
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Africa, plate Ist., The northwest part / examined and revised by Mr. Bolton — Africa, plate II, The northeast part — Africa, plate IIId., The southwest part — Africa, plate IV, The southeast part.
Appears in Postlethwayt’s Universal dictionary of trade.1
Sources
- Yale University. Africa / performed by the Sr. Danville under the patronage of the Duke of Orleans ; revised and improved by Mr. Bolton ; E. Bowen sculpt. https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/15512964 ↩︎
