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Title: Madagascar (Sud)
Subject: Madagascar--Administrative and political divisions--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing south Madagascar and provincial boundaries, with railways, roads, trails, tracks, telegraph and telephone lines, provinces, districts and localities, mountain ranges, peaks, valleys, capes, islands, historical ruins, rivers, watercourses, marshes, wetlands, plains prone to flooding, astronomical geodetic points, and water sources.Colour. Relief shown by form lines and hill shading. Provisional edition. Scale 1 : 2,000,000.
Identifier: islandora:19333

Title: Calabar and Bonny Rivers. From an Original Survey by Capt. William Newton, Late of the Port of Bristol, communicated by Mr Pocock
Subject: Western Africa
Description: Guide to the west coast estuaries." Numerous soundings, bars and breakers are stated. The interior indicates places such as, Rough Corner, Yam Town and an English burial-place. Title across the top: Western Coast of Africa. Illustrative Chart 1., London. Cadell & Davies
Identifier: islandora:25290

Title: Aldabra
Subject: Aldabra Islands (Seychelles)--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing Aldabra, the world's second largest coral atoll situated in the Aldabra Group of islands in the Indian Ocean that form part of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles, with place names, heights in metres, scale of nautical miles, coral reefs, roads, altitudes in metres, lighthouses. Relief shown by height in metres. Colour. First edition. Scale 1 : 2,000 000.
Identifier: islandora:19336

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: Porto-Farina
Subject: Ghár al Milḥ (Tunisia)--Maps,
Description: Map of Porto-Farina and surrounding region in north-eastern Tunisia including Lac de Porto-Farina, Domaine d'Utique and Galaat el Andless, showing state, administrative, district and town boundaries, with magnetic declination, long distance roads, communication routes, local highways, irregularly maintained dirt roads, logging roads and mule tracks, remains of Roman roads, stone bridges, suspended bridges with supports, footbridges, ferries, fords navigable by vehicle or foot, forests, marshes, dunes, vines, water sources dry in summer, churches, chapels or holy places, houses, wells and fountains, water and wind mills, fixed and rotating lighthouses, port lights, redoubts, batteries, cemetries, irrigation canals, trigonometric points, telegraphs, posts. Colour. Relief in hill shading and form lines and contours. Scale 1 : 50.000.
Identifier: islandora:19114

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 part of northern Africa showing the routes of the expedition under Messrs Richardson, Barth, Overweg & Vogel in the years 1850 and 1853
Subject: Libya -- Maps., Libya -- Discovery and exploration -- Maps.
Description: Map of Libya, showing the Mediterranean coastline and the Gulf of Sidra, the Regency of Tripoli, Pashalic of Fezzan, Ghat and the Soudah or Black Mountains. The map also indicates the following routes: the route of Dr Barth and Dr Overweg in the Gharian Mountains, 2-24 February 1850; part of the route of Messrs Richardson, Barth and Overweg from Tripoli to Lake Tsad [Chad], 22 March to 2 August 1850; Dr Vogel's route, June to November 1853., Relief shown by hachures and spot heights., "Lith. by A. Petermann ..."., Includes an illustration of "Artemia oudneyi (Fezzan worm)."
Identifier: islandora:19666

Title: German East Africa. Daressalam
Subject: Dar es Salaam (Tanzania : Region) -- Maps., German East Africa -- Maps.
Description: Map showing towns, villages, international boundaries, railways, roads, tracks, telegraph lines, post and telegraph offices, heights in metres above sea level, mission stations, ruins, and "Mbuga" ("Low Country, often swampy in rainy season") in the Dar es Salaam area., Relief shown by form lines and spot heights., Projection not given., Grid reference: GDF., Index no.: D6.
Identifier: islandora:24768

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: Dar es Salaam
Subject: Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)--Maps, ,
Description: Map of Dar es Salaam and surrounding areas in East Africa, including Pemba, Zanzibar and Mafia Island, and international, provincial and district boundaries, with railways, roads, paths or tracks, rivers, marshes, telegraphs, submarine cables, telegraph or telephone offices, post offices, wireless telegraph stations, towns, trigonometric stations, missions, wells. Colour. Relief shown by contours and sea contours. Scale 1 : 1,000,000.
Identifier: islandora:19312

Title: Aegyptus et Cyrenaica
Subject: Africa - Egypt
Description: MS note in left margin Tab. XXX
Identifier: islandora:25532

Title: El Goléa
Subject: El Goléa (Algeria)--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing El Goléa, an oasis town and commune and capital of El Ménia District in Ghardaia province of Algeria, and military territory boundaries, neighbouring/adjoining boundaries, with automobile tracks, main and secondary roads, permanent water points, temporary water points, wells filled, depth in metres of wells, white blooms gypsum rocks, salt water marshes, dunes with height in metres, sand, island or board mountains, reinforced towers, mosques, post and telegraph offices, geodetic points, astronomical points, altitude with height in metres, relative side of escarpment, dune, cavity, master and regular curves. Relief shown by form lines, hachures and shading, height in metres. Colour. Scale 1: 500 000.
Identifier: islandora:19177

Title: Medjez-el-Bab
Subject: Medjez-el-Bab (Tunisia)--Maps,
Description: Map of the region surrounding Medjez-el-Bab in northern Tunisia, and state, administrative, district and town boundaries, with magnetic declination, long distance roads, communication routes, local highways, irregularly maintained dirt roads, logging roads and mule tracks, remains of Roman roads, stone bridges, suspended bridges with supports, footbridges, ferries, fords navigable by vehicle or foot, forests, marshes, dunes, vines, water sources dry in summer, churches, chapels or holy places, houses, wells and fountains, water and wind mills, fixed and rotating lighthouses, port lights, redoubts, batteries, cemetries, irrigation canals, trigonometric points, telegraphs, posts. Colour. Relief in hill shading and form lines and contours. Scale 1 : 50.000.
Identifier: islandora:19092

Title: Fort Lallemand
Subject: Fort Lallemand (Algeria)--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing Fort Lallemand, in the Ouargla Department of Algeria, and international, intercolonial or mandate, provincial and district boundaries, with metalled roads normal routes, narrow paths, tramways, main roads, secondary roads, regularly maintained, paths, main, secondary, trails, places by number of inhabitants, small settlements, state forests, olive tree forests, swamp, non-perennial rivers/watercourses, wells: source, reinforced towers, churches, chapels, mosques, ruins, mines, lighthouses, reinforced towers, mines. Relief shown by form lines, hachures, height in metres. Colour. Special edition IX. Scale 1: 500 000.
Identifier: islandora:19174

Title: Meknes
Subject: Meknès (Morocco)--Maps, ,
Description: Map with hypsometric tints shows the area around Meknès, northern Morocco. tints, using the Southern Zone Layer System for altitudes, with boundaries, roads, springs, wells, fortified places and other place names. Relief shown by form lines, heights in metres. Colour. Scale about 1 inch to 10 miles.
Identifier: islandora:19151

Title: Port-Étienne
Subject: Nouadhibou (Mauritania)--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing Port - Etienne, the second largest city in Mauritania with towns of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th importance, native villages, international, international undemarcated, intercolonial or mandate, provincial and district boundaries, rivers with falls, nonperennial rivers, canals, lakes, salt lakes, low ground liable to temporary flood, marsh, ground liable to flooding, oasis, sandy desert, contours, formlines, railways, railways under construction, metalled roads 1st class, all weather motor roads, seasonal roads, other tracks paths or explores routes, telegraph and telephone lines, telegraph and telephone lines along roads and tracks, post offices and post offices with telegraphs or telephones, wireless telegraph stations, minarets, mosques, fortified houses, lighthouses, ruins, waterpoints: wells and pools, mines and quarries, trig points, heights in metres, depths in metres. Relief shown by form lines and hachures. Colour. 2nd edition. Scale 1: 1,000,000.
Identifier: islandora:19211

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

Title: L'Afrique dressée selon les derniers relations et suivant les nouvelles decouvertes dont les points principaux sont placez sur les observations de Messieurs de l'Academie Royal des Sciences
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Restored and hinged between acid-free boards., Scale on map: "10 degrez de l'Equat[o]r qui font 200 grande Lieues de France a 20 au degrez"., From Nicholas de Fer's L'Atlas Curieux ou le Monde. The map, which features a strange interpretation of the continent of Africa, includes several mythical features including a second island of St. Helena. The map also includes a description of the circumnavigation of the Cape of Good Hope by Diaz in 1486. See Betz: The mapping of Africa: a cartobibliography of printed maps of the African continent to 1700 (’t Goy-Houten: Hes & de Graaf, c2007): 170.3;Tooley: Collectors' guide to maps of the African continent and southern Africa (London: Carta Press, 1969): 45 and http://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/20992/LAfrique_Dressee_Selon_les_dernieres_Relat_1717/De%20Fer.html (accessed 30 September 2009).
Identifier: islandora:19735

Title: Northern Portion of Sketch Map of Ngamiland (Including Western portion of Caprivi Strip) and Ghanzi
Subject: Surveying, Ngamiland, Botswana (District)--Description and travel--Maps, Ghanzi, Botswana (District)--Description and travel--Maps, , , ,
Description: Map showing routes of the northern portion of Ngamiland and Ghanzi, with areas perrenially flooded, areas flooded in normal flood seasons, beaten and unbeaten wagon tracks, other tracks, rivers and dried up rivers, pans, native names of districts or veldts, rough contours, forests, bushes or shrubs, reed or papyrus beds in swamps, distances by road, and other notes. Scale 1:500,000 or 1 inch = 7.9 miles.
Identifier: islandora:29987

Title: Southern Africa
Subject: Southern Africa--Discovery and exploration--Maps, Southern Africa--Description and travel--Maps, Southern Africa--Kingdoms--Maps, ,
Description: An early map of southern Africa without boundaries, showing kingdoms, names of kings, with images of ships, descriptions of Hottentot women, South East islands and Southern and Eastern Parts, and rivers. Some colours. No scale given.
Identifier: islandora:29932

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