1840 Large Antique Map WESTERN COAST OF AFRICA Isles de Loss Sherboro Island

Seller: Antique Paper Company, ASHFORD, Kent, United KingdomAntique Paper Company

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1840 MAP OF PART OF THE WESTERN COAST OF AFRICA EXTENDING FROM THE ISLES DE LOSS TO SHERBORO ISLAND Particularly exhibiting the discoveries lately made to the N.E. of Sierra Leone by Surgeon OBeirne and Major Laing. Overall size approx 66.5cm x 96.5cm.Rare separately issued map of a part of West Africa, showing Sierra Leone and the Southwestern Part of Guinea, published in London by James Wyld.Wylds map presents one of the most detailed treatments of the country of Sierra Leon to appear on a printed map in the 19th Century. The map shows in fine detail, the rivers, towns, and roads in the region.Of note, the map shows the routes of the explorations in the region by Wall Winterbottom (1794), Surgeon OBeirne (1821), Major Laing (1822) and Jack Le Bore (1822). It also includes a table identified as the Returns of the Trade Population c. of Sierra Leone 1817 to 1825 abstracted from Returns laid before Parliament (Paper No. 520) July 1825, c., providing an excellent annual report of British Trade with Sierra Leone, including categories defined as Liberated Africans and Nova Scotians disbanded Black Soldiery c. A highly informative map.

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1840 Large Antique Map WESTERN COAST OF AFRICA Isles de Loss Sherboro Island
Author
WYLD, James

Antique Paper Company

ASHFORD, Kent, United Kingdom

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We are dealers in original antique maps, prints, atlases, plate books, periodicals, postal history, ephemera & rare stamp collections. We have a comprehensive stock of very affordable antique prints and maps from £7 up to many thousands of £'s . We never sell modern reproductions. We are happy to provide valuations for insurance or probate. We also specialise in the Large Panoramic Prints from the Illustrated London News & The Graphic and always have a very comprehensive stock of prints and maps of the county of Kent. We are always interested in buying all of the above and especially entire collections, original archives, libraries, periodicals (especially runs of the Illustrated London News, The Graphic, Sporting and Dramatic News, Harpers Illustrated, individual better maps and prints. We are especially interested in purchasing original archives of documents, correspondences & letters from estates, solicitors, libraries and similar sources. We are happy to travel throughout the UK, Europe and the rest of the World in order to appraise and buy items.

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ANTIQUE PAPER COMPANY LIMITED

Office 2, TWEED HOUSE, PARK LANE
SWANLEY, United Kingdom BR8 8DT