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Comprehensive British map of Suriname

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Comprehensive British map of Suriname

Faden, William / Heneman, Johan Christoph van

Title Leupe: ""A new map of the Colony of Surinam in Guiana, South America, describing all the Rivers and Districts as far as the same have been discovered, likewise the cultivation of the lands and plantations." Met karton voorstellende: "plan of the town of Paramaribo, the capital of Surinam."

This is the reprint of J.C. Heneman’s comprehensive map of Suriname from 1784. It was printed a quarter of a century after the orginal and contains updates showing the extension of settlements and plantations. The ground plan of Paramaribo at the left sheet also derives from Van Heneman.

North is up.

Scale-bar 1 : 777.

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