Walter Blackie’s Map of Africa Author(s)_Spencer Pryse trimmed to neatline

trimmed to neatline

Coronelli re-edited the map in Venice shortly after the brief Venetian occupation of Athens of 1687-88 during the Morean War

The Grant of the Manor of Old Court

A sea chart of Foça

Walter Blackie’s Map of Africa Author(s)_Spencer Pryse trimmed to neatlineThis map of Africa was drawn and engraved by Edward Weller, and includes insets of Mauritius, Runion and Natal, Some of the most recent geographical information about the interior of the continent appears on the map, though much remains tentative or speculative. Mount Keenia had been sighted by a German missionary in 1849; Lake Taganyika (Tanganyika), sighted by Burton and Speke in 1858, is named, though here it seems to be an extension of Lake Maravi