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Title: A New and Correct Map of the Coast of Africa from Cape Blanco, to the Coast of Angola. Exhibiting all the European Forts & Settlements
Subject: Western Africa
Description: Inset: Map of Gold Coast on a larger scale., London. Hinton
Identifier: islandora:25664

Title: A new and most exact map of Africa described by N.I. Vischer and don into English; Enlarged and Corrected according to J. Blaeu and Others, With the Habits of ye people, and ye manner of ye Cheife sitties ye like never before
Subject: Africa
Description: Similar to Blaeu's map (see NOR 0030). The sea is decorated with more ships than usual for "maps of this period and the sea monsters are fewer and smaller.", London. Overton, John, 1640-1708?
Identifier: islandora:25448

Title: A Map of Upper Egypt ... Desaix ... Expedition of Bonaparte ... Citizen Denon
Subject: Africa - Egypt
Description: Pl LXII., London. Longman et al.
Identifier: islandora:25680

Title: Herbillon
Subject: Herbillon (Algeria)--Maps,
Description: Map showing Herbillon, a coastal town in Skikda Province, north-eastern Algeria, and state, department, district and town boundaries, national highways, department roads, irregularly maintained carriage roads, paths, logging roads and mule tracks, remains of Roman roads, railways, bridges, ferries, fords, forests, marshes, dunes and sand, vines, water sources dry in summer, churches, chapels and holy places, houses, wells and fountains, water and wind mills, irrigation canals, fixed and rotating lighthouses, port lights, redoubts, batteries, cemetries, trigonometric points, telegraphs, posts. Colour. Relief in hill shading and form lines and contours. Scale 1 : 50.000.
Identifier: islandora:19202

Title: Nieuwe Pascaert van Oost Indien Verthoonende hen van C. de Bona Esperanca tot aan het Landt van Eso. Geleyt op Wassende Graeden en van Veel Fouten Verbetert
Subject: Africa - Oceans
Description: Two cartouches are shown on this map. The cartouche at the top is similar to Otten's map (see NOR 0252). The second cartouche provides the name and address of the author and is surrounded by dolphins and European traders. Two compass roses radiate rhumb lines., Amsterdam. Keulen, Johannes van
Identifier: islandora:25440

Title: Africa
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Printed above map: "Engraved for Walkers Geography &c". Published by John Walker in his Atlas to Walker's geography and gazetteer, 1799., Relief shown by shading and spot heights., Restored and hinged between acid free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19738

Title: Numidia et Africa
Subject: Northern Africa
Identifier: islandora:25670

Title: Africa
Subject: Africa
Description: Another map that resembles the shape of Orlelius. The outline of the oval-shaped cartouche is scrollwork with floral ornamentation. The sea is stippled and contains three ships and two sea monsters., Siena. Arnoldi, Arnoldo de, d. 1602
Identifier: islandora:25236

Title: Sakoa
Subject: Sakoa (Madagascar)--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing Sakoa, a region of southwestern Madagascar, with unpaved roads, roads for carts/wagons, mule driver paths, footpaths, geodetic points, rated points, masonry houses, earthen houses, churches, tombs, large villages, villages, rice paddies, marsh, bush, high bush, baobabs, coconut palms, wet or covered sands, dry sands, mountain names, extractions, rocky escarpments, rocks/boulders, wells. Relief shown by formlines and hachures. Colour. Scale 1 : 100.000.
Identifier: islandora:19050

Title: [North Africa]
Subject: Northern Africa
Description: Map shaped irregular. Volume edited by Michael Servetus or Villanovanus., Lyons. Trechsel, Melchior, fl. 1529-1549; Trechsel, Gaspard, fl. 1529-1549
Identifier: islandora:25267

Title: Mauretania et Numidia
Subject: Northwestern Africa
Description: Tab. XXXII.
Identifier: islandora:25660

Title: Map of part of Africa showing the progress of the expedition under Messrs Richardson, Barth, Overweg & Vogel in the years 1850-1853
Subject: Africa, West -- Maps., Africa, North -- Maps., Africa, West -- Discovery and exploration -- Maps., Africa, North -- Discovery and exploration -- Maps.
Description: The map shows Libya, Sudan, a portion of the Sahara desert, Benin, Cameroon and surrounding countries to the coast of the Gulf of Guinea. The map also indicates the following routes: Richardson, Barth, Overweg and Vogel, 1850-1853; Hornemann, 1798; Ritchie and Lyon, 1818-1825; Oudney, Denham and Clapperton, 1822-1825; Clapperton and Lander, 1825 & 1826; Lander 1830 (the same journey was repeated by Allen and Oldfield in 1833); Dickson 1851 and "Native Routes". The map is surrounded by impressions of Africa including "Ghat, the Tuaricks [Tuareg]", "Mursuk, the Tibbus", Lake Tsad [Chad], "Roman ruins at Ghareah", as well as portraits of James Richardson, Adolf Overweg, Heinrich Barth and Eduard Vogel., "Designed & executed by A. Petermann". "The border del[ineated] & lith[ographed] by F Moras".
Identifier: islandora:19667

Title: Africae Pars Australis
Subject: Southern Africa
Description: Identical style to Scherer's earlier map (see NOR 0062). Includes a cartouche with animals, flying fish, sailing vessel and a sea serpent., Munich. Scherer, Heinrich, 1628-1704
Identifier: islandora:25399

Title: Keetmanshoop
Subject: Namibia--Maps., Keetmanshoop Region--Maps.,
Description: Map of German South West Africa showing cities, towns, villages, roads, railways, stations, telegraph lines, rivers, pans, and other features in the region of Keetmanshoop., Relief shown by contours and spot heights., Projection not given.
Identifier: islandora:19642

Title: Port Gueydon
Subject: Port Gueydon (Algeria)--Maps,
Description: Map showing Port Gueydon, a town in Tizi Ouzou Province, Algeria, and state, department, district and town boundaries, national highways, department roads, irregularly maintained carriage roads, paths, logging roads and mule tracks, remains of Roman roads, railways, bridges, ferries, fords, forests, marshes, dunes and sand, vines, water sources dry in summer, churches, chapels and holy places, houses, wells and fountains, water and wind mills, irrigation canals, fixed and rotating lighthouses, port lights, redoubts, batteries, cemetries, trigonometric points, telegraphs, posts. Colour. Relief in hill shading and form lines and contours. Scale 1 : 50.000.
Identifier: islandora:19200

Title: Djebibina
Subject: Djebibina (Tunisia)--Maps,
Description: Map of the region surrounding Djebibina, in Kairouan governorate, northern Tunisia, showing state, administrative, district and communal 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, rivers, 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, cannons, cemetries, irrigation canals, trigonometric points, telegraphs, posts. Colour. relief shown by form lines, contours and shading. Scale 1 : 50.000.
Identifier: islandora:19071

Title: A Plan of Table Bay with the Road of the Cape of Good Hope, from the Dutch Survey, Published by Johannes van Keulen
Subject: Africa - Table Bay
Description: Also published in 1794, by Laurie and Whittle. A compass rose radiates numerous rhumb lines. Inset: South View of the Cape engraved by Abbe de la Caille. Top right: No. 3., London. Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm)
Identifier: islandora:25473

Title: South Eastern Africa -- Map of the River Shire, the Lakes Nyassa & Shirwa, the Lower Courses of the Rivers Zambesi, & Rovuma, Based on the Astronomical Observations & Sketches of Dr Livingstone ... Constructed by John Arrowsmith, 1865
Subject: Eastern Africa
Description: London. Arrowsmith, John, 1790-1873?
Identifier: islandora:25656

Title: A Plan of Table Bay, with the Road of the Cape of Good Hope, from the Dutch Survey, Published by Johannes van Keulen
Subject: Africa - Table Bay
Description: Almost identical map to NOR 0269, slightly larger and cartouche. Also published in 1794, by Laurie and Whittle. A compass rose radiates numerous rhumb lines. Inset: South View of the Cape engraved by Abbe de la Caille. Top right: No. 3., London. Robert Laurie and James Whittle
Identifier: islandora:25750

Title: Stauum Maroccanorum, Regnorum nempe Fessani, Maroccani, Tafiletani et Segelomessani Secundum suas Provincias accurate divisorum typus Generalis Novus
Subject: Africa - Morocco
Description: Surrounding the title of the cartouche are four Moorish figures. Nearby a serpent, a lion and an ostrich are illustrated. Inset: Marocco and Mequinetz; Prime meridian through Tenerife., Nuremberg. Homann, Johann Christoph, 1701-1730
Identifier: islandora:25333

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