Description
Original copper engraved map, taken from John Ogilby's book Africa, (mostly derived from Cavendish), -being an accurate description of the regions of ?gypt, Barbary, Libya ... with all the adjacent islands ... Collected and translated from the most authentick authors and augmented with later observations, etc-. The map portrays the island as square in outline. Locations on the northwest side of the island are keyed to numbers and named in Dutch (bottom left) and English (top right). Napoleone di Buonaparte; (1769 -1821) was imprisoned and then exiled to the island of Saint Helena, after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.
Technical Data
Author | Ogilby, John. (Antique Map.) |
Reference Number | 7583 |