First built by the Portuguese in 1482 on the Gold Coast until the Dutch conquest in 1637.Copper plate engraving by Jakobus van der Schley, hand coloured, from the Dutch edition of “Histoire Géneral des Voyages” This was a monumental eighteenth century general history by Antoine François Prévost d’Exiles, a French author, novelist, theologian, natural historian, and a priest of the Jesuit and Benedictine orders. Published in 1747.
Size 38 x 25 cm. Condition very Good.
