Portolan chart of the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, and the northern coast of Africa.

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Title: Portolan chart of the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, and the northern coast of Africa.
Creator: Comberford, Nicholas, -1673, cartographer.
Published / Created: [1647]
Copyright Date: [1647]
Publication Place: [England] : [Nicholas Comberford]
Description: "Made by Nicholas Comberford dwelling neare to the way end of the school house at the signe of the Platt in Radcliffe, anno 1647."
Contains two and a half compass roses and four listings of indexed names.
Decoration: city views with banners.
Pen-and-ink in black, red, blue, green, yellow and gold.
Portolan chart with seaport names given for all coastlines.
Scale "containeth one hundreth English leagues after twentie to a degree."
Title devised by cataloger.
Extent: 1 map on 4 sheets : manuscript, color, vellum ; sheets 49 x 23 cm or smaller
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Scale: Scale approximately 1:3,421,440
Coordinates: (W 7°--E 40°/N 47°--N 29°)., -007.000000, 029.000000, 040.000000, 047.000000, 3421440, and a
Language: English

Format: cartographic
Genre: Manuscript maps
Portolan charts
Resource Type: Maps, Atlases & Globes
Subject (Geographic): Black Sea--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Mediterranean Sea--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Topic): Nautical charts--Black Sea--Early works to 1800.
Nautical charts--Mediterranean Sea--Early works to 1800.

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