Africa: ' Africæ described, the manners of their Habits, and buildings: newly done into English by I.S. Are to be sold by Basset in Fleet Street, and by Chriswell in St Pauls Churchyard'. John Speed, London, 1676

This is the earliest English language map of Africa. This map forms part of the first general atlas of the world produced in England.

This famous map is from John Speed’s Prospect of the World, the first general atlas produced in Great Britain, prepared in 1626 and first published in 1627 by Humble and then in subsequent editions to 1676. This map is from the edition of 1676.

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