North Africa or Barbary I Morocco.
This is a scarce and beautiful 1836 Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge or S.D.U.K. map of Morocco on the Barbary Coast of northern Africa. It covers from the Strait of Gibraltar south as far as Cape Noun Wad-i-Noun or Wad-i-Aksa River east as far as the border of Algeria. Throughout the map identifies various cities, rivers, lakes, ports, mountains and an assortment of additional topographical details. Elevation is rendered by hachure. A large inset in the top left quadrant features a plan of the city of Morocco. Throughout the map includes several annotations regarding the topography and geographical features.
Long a hotbed 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. Frances tenuous conquest of Tunisia and Algeria in 1830 finally ended the threat of the Barbary Corsairs. Although strategically important to the French as it was located on two oceans and was bordered by the French Colony of Algeria, Morocco maintained its independence until 1912, when it eventually became a French Colony.
This map was originally published by Baldwin and Cradock and copyrighted in 1836, but was issued in Volume two of Chapman and Hall's 1844 edition of Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. It was engraved by John Walker of J. and C. Walker.
Rumsey 0890.112. Phillips (Atlases) 794.