Niger River (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. "The Niger: River of Sorrow, River of Hope;" "The New Toronto;" "Ice Bird Ends Her Lonely Odyssey;" "Will Coal be Tomorrow's Black Gold?;" "The Treasure of Porto Santo;" "Brooklyn's Hasidic Jews".

Disbound. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Edition. Pages 485-474. Last page loose. Light wear. This is an original book review from the 19th century. ; Octavo (standard book size).

Publisher's original card wrap covers [softback] with map to the front cover and archive photographs to the rear. 8vo. 9'' x 6½''. ISBN 9771433350. Contains printed pages of Arabic text with monochrome photographs to the centre. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 9771433350 NORTH AFRICA [Sahara].

Very good. Wide margins and a bold strike; few filled wormholes with some reinstatement of image. Centerfold reinforced. Size 13.75 x 19.5 Inches. This is Jodocus Hondius' 1606 map of the Guinea coast of Africa, stretching from the mouth of the Senegal River to Cape Lopez, from modern Senegal to Benin. It shows this coast at a time when its trade was largely controlled by the Portuguese, with whom the Dutch were at war; this map thus presented to a Dutch audience what would have been considered a rich prize to be taken. A Superb Engraving The engraving of this map displays the high standard of Hondius' work. Mountains and water areas feature bold hachure. The lettering is sharp and legible, not only in its fine Italics but also the elaborate calligraphy, most notably the riotous flourishes announcing 'Zegzey' north of the kingdom of Benin. A native sailing canoe is contrasted agasint a European galleon, firing cannon. Strapwork designs set off the title cartouche, the scales, and the inset map of São Tome. The Portuguese Foothold in Africa The notations here are in Portuguese. The inland notation of 'Corisseno de Aliphante grande' (District of large elephants) appears to derive from a 1602 map by the Portuguese Jesuit Luis Teixeira, and it is likely that Hondius' other details hail from the same source. The Portuguese established trading factories along this coast to export ivory (hence 'de Aliphante grande' ), gold, and increasingly, enslaved Africans. Among the installations marked along the coast is the infamous Castel de la Mina, a transshipment entrepôt for Africans captured and enslaved throughout the Slave Coast of Benin. São Tome The importance of this island off the coast of Benin is emphasized by the inclusion of the detailed inset map. The Portuguese settlers established sugar plantations there, and imported enslaved Africans from the mainland to operate them due to Sickle cell trait (SCT) making them more resistant to malaria. Some trace the Portuguese efforts to establish viable sugar plantaios on São Tome as the origins of chattel slavery. By the middle of the 16th century São Tome had become Africa's primary exporter of sugar. The inset map marks the island's primary settlement, but also sugar mills and plantations. Publication History and Census This map was engraved for inclusion in Jodocus Hondius' 1606 Atlas, among the maps he produced to supplement those he acquired from Mercator. It would remain in the Hondius atlases until about 1639, at which time it was supplanted by a more modern map engraved by Jansson. The verso text of the present example conforms typographically to the 1630 Latin edition of Henry Hondius' Atlas, editio decima . In its various editions, this map is well represented in institutional collections. Two of this specific edition are listed in the University of Bern and the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek Klassik. References: Rumsey 10501.463. Norwich, O., Maps of Africa, #316.