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Somali coast, circa 1688

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Title: Coast of Zanguebar and Aien
Creator: Morden, Robert
Place of Publication: England
Date: 1688
Published in Modern’s  Atlas Terestris.
More information: http://imagesearchnew.library.illinois.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/africanmaps/id/1066/rec/9
Described as  Rare early English map of the East African Coastline, perhaps the earliest obtainable English map of the region”  The above version seems to have been colored after removal from the atlas


Filed under: 1800 < before, Maps, X: Other locations

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