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Title: Congo Belge. Carte des missions Catholiques : Ruanda - Urundi
Subject: Catholic Church--Missions--Rwanda--Maps, Catholic Church--Missions--Burundi--Maps, , ,
Description: Map showing Catholic mission stations in the African territories of Ruanda and Urundi which came under Belgian control after they were seized from Germandy during WWI, and state boundaries, intercolonial or mandate boundaries, residences of the upper ecclesiasticals, state capitals, district capitals, capitals of territories, ecclesiastical districts. Relief shown by form lines. Edition 1949. Scale 1 : 500.000.
Identifier: islandora:19294

Title: L'Afrique dressee sur les relations le plus recentes, et assujettie aux observations astronomique par ... Geog. du Roy, de Sa M. Polon, Due de Lorraine et de Bar et Associe de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et B. Lettres de Nancy, avec privilege
Subject: Africa
Description: Cartouche illustrates a native woman reclining between two palms. Interior of southern Africa is fairly blank other than tribal names; Prime meridian through Ferro Island., Paris. Robert de Vaugondy, Gilles, 1688-1766; Robert de Vaugondy, Didier, 1723-1786
Identifier: islandora:25450

Title: Carte du Canal de Mosambique, contenant L'Isle de Madagascar les Cotes d'Afrique, depuis le Cap de Bonne Esperance jusqu'a Melinde
Subject: Africa - Mozambique Channel
Description: Inset of the Cape coast from St. Helena Bay to False Bay; Prime meridian through Ferro Island and Paris. Top left: Livre I, II, III, IV. Top right: No. 11., Paris. Bonne, Rigobert, 1727-1794
Identifier: islandora:25420

Title: Carte Generale de L'Afrique
Subject: Africa
Description: Prime meridian through Ferro Island and Paris. Top left: No. 150., Paris. Mentelle, E. (Edme), 1730-1815
Identifier: islandora:25372

Title: The southern Africa of G. de l'Isle, 1720
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Africa, Southern -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Madagascar -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Text of map in French., Reprint of Carte du Congo et du Pays des Cafres by Guillaume de l'Isle de l'Academie Royale des Sciences (Amsterdam : Chez Jean Covens et Corneille Mortier, Geographes, 1742)., Scale in marine leagues.
Identifier: islandora:19574

Title: Africa nach Robert Vaugondy, Rennell's und Solzmann's Skizze des nordlichen Theils von Africa
Subject: Africa
Description: Color index identifies countries holding power in Africa, however historically incorrect. Inset: Die Azorischen Inseln; Prime meridian through Ferro Island., Nuremberg. Schneider, Adam Gottlieb, 1745-1815; Weigel, Johann Christoph, d. 1746
Identifier: islandora:25459

Title: A Chart of the Western coast of Africa from the twelfth degree of Latitude North to the eleventh degree South. Drawn from the French Chart of the Western Ocean ... 1738 by order of the Count de Maurepas
Subject: Western Africa
Description: Plate 164, No. 94, Vol. 2, p. 362.
Identifier: islandora:25626

Title: Carte de l'ile de Madagascar contenant sa description & diverses particularitez curieuses de ses habitans tant blancs que negres
Subject: Madagascar -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Madagascar -- Social life and customs$$y18th century.
Description: The map, showing Madagascar oriented with north to the right, is featured at the top of the page. Below the map is text (in French) describing the island of Madagascar and its people. Bordering the page are illustrations depicting life and customs in Madagascar including circumcision, funerals and executions as well as illustrating various modes of attire., Appears in Atlas historique, ou, Nouvelle introduction à l'histoire ... Amsterdam, 1705-1720. Tome VI, no. 34, p. 142.
Identifier: islandora:19693

Title: Le Cape de Bonne Esperance comme il a ete ci-devant
Subject: Africa - Cape of Good Hope
Description: Similar to Valentijn' s map (see NOR 0215). The mountains are numbered and named in the border. 1. Le chateau. 2. Le Petit-Fort. 3. Montagne du lion. 4. Montagne de la Table. 5. Montagne du Vent. 6. Endroit ou tous les Bataeux Viennent., Leiden. Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1733
Identifier: islandora:25282

Title: Mapa General de Marruescos Septentrional (N. Morocco)
Subject: Northern Africa
Identifier: islandora:25578

Title: Lacs, Fleuves, Rivieres et Principales Montagnes de L'Afrique
Subject: Africa
Description: Duplicate map. Includes French text in margins. An accurate outline of the continent with minimum geographical detail. Similar features to d'Anville's map of 1727 (see NOR 0091). Top right corner: No. 14. Top left corner: Introduction; Prime meridian through Ferro Island, Paris. Clouet, Jean Baptiste Louis, 1730-
Identifier: islandora:25350

Title: Atlas Des Ganzen Erdkreises in der Central Projection
Subject: Africa
Description: Extends to include the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Arabia and part of Asia and India., Unknown. Reichard, C. G. (Christian Gottlieb), 1758-1837
Identifier: islandora:25332

Title: Nouvelle carte d'Afrique avec remarques et des tables pour trouver sans peine les differents peuples de cette partie du monde par les renvois alphabetiques suivant les plus nouvelles observations de messieurs de l'Academie des Siences [sic]
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Ethnic groups -- Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Africa -- History.
Description: The map shows the continent of Africa. The map includes 13 printed tables giving a range of information on either side of the map and two blocks containing historical remarks along the lower edge., Relief shown pictorially., From Chatelain and Gueudeville's Atlas historique (Amsterdam : Chez l'Honoré & Châtelain Libraires, 1719)., Scale in French, German, and Spanish leagues., Prime meridian: Ferro., Restored and placed between acid-free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19507

Title: Plan de la Baye Simon, Situe au Cap de Bonne Esperance, suivant les Observations faites en Aout et Septembre 1775, par Mr. Dalrymple
Subject: Africa - Simon's Bay
Description: Apres de Mannevillette "was the first to determine longitude by measuring the distances of the sun and moon." Soundings are in French fathoms. Top right: 8.d., Paris. Apres de Mannevillette, Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis d', 1707-1780
Identifier: islandora:25334

Title: Carte Particuliere des Costes du Cap de Bone Esperance & c. Levee Par Ordre Expres des Roys de Portugal sous qui on en a Fait la Decouverte
Subject: Africa - Oceans
Description: Inset: View of the Cape of Good Hope. Plan of the Cape of Good Hope., Amsterdam. Mortier, Pierre
Identifier: islandora:25746

Title: Carte Particulière de la Côte Occidentale de l'Afrique depuis le Cap Blanco jusqu'au Cap de Verga et du Cours des Rivières de Sénéga et de Gambie ... dressé pour la Compagnie des Indes ... MDCCLI
Subject: Western Africa
Description: Watermark (sheet 2)., Paris. Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782
Identifier: islandora:25732

Title: Carta Geographica del Capo de Buona Speranza
Subject: Africa - Cape of Good Hope
Description: Example of a popular L'Isle map, which others copied. Map "shows the routes from the Cape inland to the kraals of the various tribes, sweet water wells, salt pans, woods, rivers, and many of the early farming settlements." Inset: Spiegazione., Venice. L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726
Identifier: islandora:25398

Title: [De l'Afrique]
Subject: Africa
Description: Overall size 31.5 x 55 cm. 2 panels of text; Some MS place-names.
Identifier: islandora:25554

Title: Partie Meridionale D'Afrique ou se trouvent La Basse Guinee, La Cafrerie, Le Monomotapa, Le Monoemugi, Le Zanguebar et L'Isle de Madagascar
Subject: Southern Africa
Description: Legend states the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope by Bartholomew Diaz in 1486. Cartouche includes a galleon and a whale., Paris. Fer, Nicolas de, 1646-1720
Identifier: islandora:25302

Title: Carte Reduite de L'ocean Meridional
Subject: Africa - Southern oceans
Description: Numerous rhumb lines extend over the southwest coast of Africa and South America. Prime meridian through Paris, Tenerife, Cap Lezard, London and Ferro Island., Paris. Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772
Identifier: islandora:25745

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