Afrique.

R. Bonne / G. Raynal

Published 1780, Paris

Size: 9” X 13”

A beautiful map of Africa by Rigobert Bonne that was published in Abbe Raynal's Atlas de toutes les parties connues du globe terrestre, dressé pour l’Histoire Philosophique et Politique des Établissements et du Commerce des Européens dans les Deux Indes. 
Bonne’s map of Africa is interesting because it depicts the limited extent of the European cartographic knowledge of the interior of the African continent in the 19th Century.  The does however show towns, rivers, some topographical features, ocean currents, ports and political boundaries.