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Title: North Africa & Mediterranean Sea Region, 1775 (Raster Image)

• Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
• Santini, Paolo, ca. 1729-1793.
• Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782.
• Robert de Vaugondy, Didier, 1723-1786.

Dates

• Issued: 2012-02
• Coverage: 1775

Publishers

• Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library

Summary

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte de la Barbarie : contenant les royaumes de Maroc, de Fez, d'Alger, de Tunis et de Tripoli, avec les deserts limitrophes de l'interieur de l'Afrique, dressee sur les cartes des Ssrs. d'Anville et Robert de Vaugondy ; par P. Santini, 1775. It was published by P. Santini in 1775. Scale [ca. 1:4,900,000]. Covers North Africa and a portion of the Mediterranean coast of Europe. Map in French.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Europe Lambert Conformal Conic coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, roads and routes, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes notes.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Subjects

• Transportation
• Algeria
• Gibraltar
• Italy
• Libya
• Mediterranean Sea
• Morocco
• Portugal
• Spain
• Tunisia
• Africa, North
• Maps
• Human settlements
• Cities and towns
• Villages
• Landforms
• Bodies of water
• imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
• Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

• Bounding Box: BBOX (-22.586189, 25.520758, 44.466128, 16.313599)
• Geometry: BBOX (-22.586189, 25.520758, 44.466128, 16.313599)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

• Access rights: Public

Citation

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Santini, Paolo, ca. 1729-1793., Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782., Robert de Vaugondy, Didier, 1723-1786. North Africa & Mediterranean Sea Region, 1775 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g8220-1775-c3

Format

GeoTIFF