April 12, 2024
1834 SDUK Map of North Africa or Barbary II Algeria
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Fine, original, steel-engraved map of North Africa or Barbary II Algier, by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. A map of Algeria on the Barbary Coast of northern Africa. It covers from the Mediterranean Sea south to the Sahara Desert and the Melgig Salt Marsh and from the Desert of Angadd east as far as the border of Tunisia. Throughout, the map identifies various cities, rivers, lakes, early roads, mountains and an assortment of additional topographical details. Elevation is rendered by hachure. The western part of Algeria is covered in an inset in the bottom left quadrant. Throughout the map includes several annotations regarding the topography and geographical features. Long a base of piracy and a center for the slave trade, the Barbary coast, including the Maghreb, was being conquered by France as this map was drawn. France's tenuous conquest of Tunisia and Algeria in 1830 finally ended the threat of the Barbary Corsairs. The SDUK began its map publishing project under the leadership of Captain Francis Beaufort R.N. in 1829, and published the maps in parts, haltingly, over the next 15 years, completing the series in 1844, finally permitting the publication of a whole atlas. Many of the maps were actually drawn by Beaufort, who at the time was the Hydrographer to the Royal Navy, and all were closely supervised by
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