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Description

Beautiful example of Brue's four-sheet "Encyprotype" map of Africa.

The map follows the late-18th and early-19th century tradition of leaving the interior of Africa largely blank, though Brue cannot help himself completely and includes some long notional mountain ranges through the unknown interior.

The map features inset maps of Reunion and Mauritius ("Ile Bourbon" and "Ile de France"), which, at the time, were jewels in the French colonial crown.

Senegal is one of the few large colonial holdings in Africa on this map, which during the 1810s was subject of active French colonial endeavors. Just as this map was being made, a French frigate carrying 400 passengers to colony ran aground off Mauritania in what would become known as the Raft of the Medusa incident.

The map is rare on the market, this being the first time we have had it.