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Rigobert Bonne: Partie Occidentale De L'Ancien Continent   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Rigobert Bonne  (1727–1794)  wikidata:Q721492
 
Alternative names
epiphane
Description French cartographer
Date of birth/death 6 October 1727 Edit this at Wikidata 1795
Location of birth/death Raucourt (Ardennes) Paris
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Pontault-Combault Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q721492
Title
Partie Occidentale De L'Ancien Continent
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English: A fine example of Rigobert Bonne and G. Raynal’s 1780 map of Western Africa. This area corresponds to modern day Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, and Algeria. Includes the Canary Islands, Madeira Island, and Cape Verde Islands. Offers minimal inland detail reflecting the paucity of knowledge about the interior of the continent at the time. The exception is the Senegal and Gambia river valleys extending inland from Cape Verde, which at the time were just being mapped by explorers and missionaries. Arrows and hachures shows some o f the ocean currents and winds that made this region so difficult to davigate in the early days of African exploration. Drawn by R. Bonne for G. Raynal’s Atlas de Toutes les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre, Dressé pour l'Histoire Philosophique et Politique des Établissemens et du Commerce des Européens dans les Deux Indes .
Date 1780 (undated)
Dimensions height: 13 in (33 cm); width: 9 in (22.8 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,13U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,9U218593
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Geographicus link: AncienContinent-bonne-1780
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Raynal, G., Atlas de Toutes les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre, Dressé pour l'Histoire Philosophique et Politique des Établissemens et du Commerce des Européens dans les Deux Indes, 1780.

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