File:Geography 009 - Map of Africa - 1626.jpg

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English: Full title: Africae, described, the manners of their habits and buildinge : newly done into English / by I. S. and published at the charges of G. Humble ano 1626.

Short title: Africa 1626

Cartographer: John Speed 1552?-1629

Relief shown pictorially; Includes illustrations of ships, sea monsters, birds, animals and historical notes.; Ten ancillary figures of African people in their traditional costumes shown along left and right borders of the map.; Longitude coordinates estimated and derived from modern map of the area. Coordinates converted to Greenwich meridian.

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