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D’Anville / Bolton / Bowen: Africa

Follow the archive record for the multi-sheet map discussed with the Lamlem, Falasjam and coastal place-name inquiry. Inspect the record and full image together.

Map · 1774 catalog lead

The record

Follow the archive record for the multi-sheet map discussed with the Lamlem, Falasjam and coastal place-name inquiry. Inspect the record and full image together.

Yale University Library · catalog 15512964

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What to examine

BHITB labels its exhibit 1774; its reproduced image filename identifies 1766. The precise edition of that reproduction remains unresolved in the book.

D’Anville, Bolton and Bowen Africa map with A, B and C annotations for the study close-ups — D’Anville / Bolton / Bowen map reproduction via BHITB. Yale catalog lead below. BHITB’s 1774 exhibit and 1766 image filename require edition comparison.

Close-up of the Lamlem annotation on the historical Africa map — Detail A: Lamlem annotation. Read its attribution and past-tense wording in the map’s own context.

Close-up of the Falasjam label near the Abyssinian highlands — Detail B: Falasjam. A separate label from the Lamlem annotation.

Close-up of West African coastal labels including Slave Coast, Dahomy and Wida — Detail C: coastal wording and location. Compare these place-names with the map’s full geography.

Edition comparison: 1774 and 1794

The David Rumsey collection independently catalogs a 1774 composite Africa map, plates I–IV, list number 13171.011. Its record identifies a four-sheet composition with pictorial relief and assigns it to the fourth edition of Postlethwayt’s trade dictionary. This is a comparison record; it does not establish the precise edition of the reproduced image above.

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A separate Library of Congress record dates its Boulton map to 1794 and traces its model to d’Anville’s 1749 map. Do not merge that later record with the 1774 catalog entry.

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Separate the wording visible in the document from the interpretation you draw from it.
Keep unresolved readings and conflicting dates in your notes so the comparison can be revisited.

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Research trail

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Exhibit assembled October 20, 2026. Catalog leads and unresolved edition details are identified above; this page does not supply a new transcription of the linked work.