West & North Africa, ca. 1730 (Raster Image)

Description:

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte de la Barbarie, le la Nigritie et de la Guinee, par Guill[au]me Del'Isle, de l'Academie Royale des Sciences. It was published by Chez Jean Covens et Corneille Mortier, Geographes ca. 1730. Scale [ca.1:9,250,000]. Covers West and North Africa. Map in French.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Africa Sinusoidal projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, roads and routes, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes notes.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Creator:

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726., and Covens et Mortier.

Publisher:

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library

Provider:

Harvard

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Raster data

Subject:

Maps, Human settlements, Cities and towns, Villages, Landforms, Bodies of water, Transportation, and imageryBaseMapsEarthCover

Temporal Coverage:

1730

Date Issued:

2012-02

Spatial Coverage:

Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Republic of the, Cote d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, The, Gibraltar, Ghana, Greece, Guinea-Bissau, Italy, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mediterranean Sea, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Portugal, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain, Sudan, Togo, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Africa, West, and Africa, North

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

GeoTIFF