GHANA SLAVE GOLD COAST ELMINA MOORE 1750 BELLIN/VAN SCHLEY ANTIQUE ENGRAVED MAP

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GHANA SLAVE GOLD COAST ELMINA MOORE 1750 BELLIN/VAN SCHLEY ANTIQUE ENGRAVED MAP:
$19.50

Vue de Côte depuis Mina, jusqu\'au Maure, tirée de Barbot et de Smith. --- Gezigt van de Kust, van Del-Mina tot Moure, uit Barbot en Smith.

Elmina Castle was erected by Portuguese in 1482 as São Jorge da Mina (St. George of the Mine) Castle, also known simply as Mina or Feitoria da Mina) in present-day Elmina, Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast). It was the first trading post built on the Gulf of Guinea, so is the oldest European building in existence below the Sahara. First established as a trade settlement, the castle later became one of the most important stops on the route of the Atlantic slave trade. The Dutch seized the fort from the Portuguese in 1637, and took over all the Portuguese Gold Coast in 1642. The slave trade continued under the Dutch until 1814; in 1872 the Dutch Gold Coast, including the fort, became a possession of the British Empire.

Date: 1750 ( undated )

Source: PREVOST D’EXILES, Antoine François. Histoire générale des Voyages, ou Nouvelle Collection de toutes les Relations de Voyages par Mer et par Terre, Qui ont été publiées […] Avec les mœurs des habitans, leur Religion, leur Usages, Arts, Sciences, Commerce, Manufactures &c. pour former un système complet d’Histoire et de Géographie moderne […]. La Haye, Pierre de Hondt, 1747-1780.

Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 33,1 x 24,6

Condition: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains. Uncolored as issued. Margin to the top missed. Wide lower and right lateral margins. Wide left lateral margin. Small foxing and browning. Plate folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images.

Mapmaker: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772) was one of the most important cartographers of the 18th century. With a career spanning some 50 years, Bellin is best understood as geographe de cabinet and transitional mapmaker spanning the gap between 18th and early 19th century cartographic styles. His long career as Hydrographer and Ingénieur Hydrographe at the French Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine resulted in hundreds of high quality nautical charts of practically everywhere in the world. A true child of the Enlightenment Era, Bellin\'s work focuses on function and accuracy tending in the process to be less decorative than the earlier 17th and 18th century cartographic work. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Bellin was always careful to cite his references and his scholarly corpus consists of over 1400 articles on geography prepared for Diderot\'s Encyclopedie. Bellin, despite his extraordinary success, may not have enjoyed his work, which is described as \"long, unpleasant, and hard.\" In addition to numerous maps and charts published during his lifetime, many of Bellin\'s maps were updated (or not) and published posthumously. He was succeeded as Ingénieur Hydrographe by his student, also a prolific and influential cartographer, Rigobert Bonne.

Engraver: Jakob van der Schley (*1715 - †1779) was a dutch engraver and painter. He has engraved the maps and views of the maps of the Dutch edition of Prevost\'s Histoire General des Voyage.

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