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Title: Afrique publicee sous les auspices de Monseigneur le Duc d'Orleans Primier Prince du Sang
Subject: Africa
Description: Similar features to Clouet's map (see NOR 0088). Large wall map of two double-folding sheets. Inset of Azores; Prime meridian through Ferro Island., Paris. Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782
Identifier: islandora:25782

Title: Africa. Ex magna orbis terre discriptione Gerardis Mercatoris desumpta
Subject: Africa
Description: Atlas first published in 1569. Map issued in several editions and in many languages. Includes Latin text on back of map. The cartouche is circular, surrounded by decorative scrolls and two satyrs., Duisburg. Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
Identifier: islandora:25241

Title: Map of Africa Showing its most Recent Discoveries
Subject: Africa
Description: "First appeared in Mitchell's New General Atlas in 1867". Map shows expedition routes of Stanley and Livingstone. Inset: Island of St. Helena (place where Napoleon was buried). Top right: 120; Prime meridian through Washington., Philadelphia. Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868
Identifier: islandora:25314

Title: Totius Africae Accuratissima Tabula, Authore Frederico de Wit, Amstelodami
Subject: Africa
Description: Watermark, Amsterdam. Wit, Frederik de
Identifier: islandora:25499

Title: Plan of the Operations of the British & Ottoman Forces in Egypt ... March - Sept.,1801 ... French finally expelled
Subject: Africa - Egypt
Description: Enlarged scale inset of north coast (east at top)., London. Arrowsmith, Aaron, 1750-1823
Identifier: islandora:25768

Title: The Western Coast of Africa from Cape Blanco to Cape Virga, Exhibiting Senigambia Proper
Subject: Western Africa
Description: Note: "This map is copied from an original drawn by Mons. d'Anville at the expense of the French East India Company and published at Paris in 1751. But since the Peace of 1762 that Map has been supressed. The Country through which the R. Senegal runs has been improved & corrected from a large & curious survey of the river found in the fort of Senegal"; Prime meridian through Ferro Island., London. Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794
Identifier: islandora:25574

Title: Africa
Subject: Africa
Description: Continental map. Includes legend on sheet., Gotha. [Justus Perthes]
Identifier: islandora:25710

Title: C.G.R. Caledon surveys, sheet1, 1896
Subject: Railroads--South Africa--Caledon, Railroads--South Africa--Somerset West, ,
Description: Map showing the proposed extension of the railway from Somerset West, through the Hottentots Holland Mountains and the Houw Hoek Mountains, to Caledon, with rivers, outspans, roads, boundaries, place names and the coastline from Mostert's Bay, through Gordon's Bay to Kogel Bay. Some colour. Scale 1/2 inch to 1 mile.
Identifier: islandora:25176

Title: Africae Descriptio Nova Impensis
Subject: Africa
Description: Similar to Chetwind's map (see NOR 0039). The ocean is decorated with ships, flying fish and sea monsters. Elephants, lions, ostriches, and giraffes are illustrated on the mainland. "The River Niger is erroneously mapped and there are many ficticious lakes in Central Africa.", London. Seile, Henry, d. ca. 1661
Identifier: islandora:25407

Title: Africa with all its States, Kingdoms, Republics, Regions, Islands, etc, Improved and Inlarged from d'Anville's Map; to which have been Added A Particular Chart of the Gold Coast, wherein are Distinguished all the European Forts and Factories
Subject: Africa
Description: This two-sheet map was first issued by Boulton under J.B.B. d'Anville's name in 1772 and reissued in 1787, (see map 0091). Insets include, Azores; A Particular Chart of the Gold Coast; A summary description relative to the trade and natural produce, manner and customs of the African continent and islands. Sheets numbered 26 an 27; Prime meridian through Ferro Island., London. Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794
Identifier: islandora:25778

Title: Chart of the Lines of the Magnetic Variation in the Seas around Africa
Subject: Africa
Description: London. Rennell, James, 1742-1830
Identifier: islandora:25569

Title: Totius Africae Accuratissima Tabula
Subject: Africa
Description: The cartouche which is identical to De Ram's map (see NOR 0050), includes people in varied costume, Moors, Africans, children and an elephant. The title appears on the masonry, with two lions; Prime meridian through Ferro Island., Amsterdam. Danckerts, Justus, 1635-1701 or Danckerts, Cornelis, 1664-1717 or Danckerts, Theodore
Identifier: islandora:25345

Title: [Burton & Speke, 1858--Speke, 1859--Speke & Grant, 1863--Baker, 1864]
Subject: Central Africa
Description: Facsimile of Speke sketches.
Identifier: islandora:25590

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