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Title: Carte du Canal de Mosambique, contenant l'Isle de Madagascar avec les côtes d'Afrique, depuis le cap de Bonne Espérance jusqu à Melinde
Subject: Africa, Southern -- Maps. -- Early works to 1800., Western Cape (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Madagascar -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Mozambique -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Coasts -- Africa, Southern -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: The map shows the coast of southern Africa from northern Mozambique to St Helena Bay on the west coast. Madagascar is also shown., Relief indicated pictorially., Paris or Ferro meridian., Scale in Portuguese and French marine leagues and Dutch miles., Inset: Cape of Good Hope from St Helens Baay [St Helena Bay] to Hanglip, showing coast and interior., Restored and placed between acid-free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19700

Title: Cap Bojador
Subject: Western Sahara--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing Atlantic coast of Spanish Sahara and its boundaries with Algeria and Morocco demarcated in pink. Places shown: Tiris and the Canary Islands. Shows water sources and some relief in form lines. Colour. Scale 1:1000.000.
Identifier: islandora:19144

Title: Plan militaire de la péninsule du Cap
Subject: Cape Peninsula (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Map of Cape Town and the Cape Peninsula showing military installations including the Castle, Fort Knokke, Craig's tower and battery, and other batteries including Roggebay [Roggebaai], Amsterdam and Chavonne. The map also shows topography of the peninsula including Table Mountain, as well as the layout of the city with several detailed keys to the many features included., "I have added a military map of the said peninsula, the outline of which was taken, I believe, some years ago by a French engineer, was afterwards filled up by different officers in the Dutch service, and was examined, corrected, and verified with great care and accuracy, by Captain (now Lieutenant-Colonel) Bridges of the British engineers ..."--Travels into the interior of Southern Africa / by John Barrow. London : T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1806. 2nd ed. Vol. II, p. 223., Appears in Nouveau voyage dans la partie méridionale de l'Afrique / par John Barrow. Paris : Dentu, 1806., Bar scales given in "Roods hollandaises" and "Yards ou verges anglaises".
Identifier: islandora:19684

Title: Carte de l'Afrique méridionale au pays entre la ligne Cap de Bonne Espérance et l'Isle de Madagascar
Subject: Slaves -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History., Farm ownership -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History., Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Africa, Southern -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: The details regarding Elizabeth, Nicolas Visscher's widow, are drawn from Gallica, Bibliothèque Nationale de France: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b7759505j.notice. See also: Atlas nouveau … by Guillaume de L'Isle (Amsterdam: Covens & Mortier, 1730); R.V. Tooley, Collectors’ guide to maps of the African continent and Southern Africa (London: Carta Press, 1969), p. 120; Norwich's maps of Africa : an illustrated and annotated carto-bibliography (Norwich, Vt. : Terra Nova Press, 1997), map 180 (note)., The inset of the Cape of Good Hope is of particular importance. It indicates the presence of slaves on Robben Island ("daar de Slaven in de Ketting loopen"). It also gives "extensive detailed and fairly accurate topographical information ... together with the names of owners of farms and plots of that period. Amongst these are de Beer, Swart Pieter, Martin de Smit, Roelof Pasman, Gerrit Kloeton, and the French Huguenot settlement. These place names add considerably to the knowledge of the history of the ... Cape of Good Hope"--Norwich's Maps of Africa, p. 203., Three insets: "Élévation du Port et Mont Table au Cap de Bonne Espérance" (5 x 11 cm); "Plan du Port et Mont Table au Cap de Bonne Espérance" (10 x 11 cm); "[Cabo de Bona Esperanca]" (13 x 23 cm)., Text primarily in French. The inset of the Cape is also in Dutch with some Portuguese notations., Restored and hinged between acid-free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19819

Title: Le Cap de Bonne Esperance Suivant les Nouvelles Observations de Messrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences
Subject: Africa - Cape of Good Hope
Description: Cartouche is "on a stone pediment surmounted by a lion and lioness, with a view of Table Bay in the background and the Governor's garden and homestead." Map includes a note describing the Cape of Good Hope and a legend explaining the contents of the mainland., Leiden. Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1773
Identifier: islandora:25275

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