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Map of the mouth of the Senegal River

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Map of the mouth of the Senegal River

Vingboons, Johannes / Bastiaensen, Joost

Map of the mouth of the Senegal River.

Caerte vande River, van Senega. / met al haer kreecken en droochten, nae 't leven afgeteijckent door Joost / Bastiaensen, Schipper op de Leeuwin, voor de West Indise Compagnie.

The chart was drawn in 1627 by Joost Bastiaensen and copied between 1665 and 1668, probably in the studio of Johannes Vingboons.

The scale is incorrect. The scale calculated is around 1:250.000 while the indicated scale is 1:1:250.000.

The map is taken from the Blaeu-Van der Hem Atlas.

Please contact Österreichische Nationalbibliothek for reuse and copyrights.

Sources and literature

Krogt, Peter van der, The Atlas Blaeu - Van der Hem: of the Austrian National Library (2005)