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Title: Vue et Description du Cap de Bonne Esperance
Subject: Africa - Cape of Good Hope
Description: Two views of the Cape. Inset: Le fort des Hollandois au Cap du Bonne Esperance. Top right: Tom. VI, No. 17, Pag. 74., Paris. Chatelain, Henri Abraham; Gueudeville, Nicolas, ca. 1654-ca. 1721.
Identifier: islandora:25221

Title: Plan von Kairo nebst umgebung mit der gegend des alten Memphis und den pyramiden gruppen von Gizeh und Sakkarah. Plate 1
Subject: Cairo (Egypt)--Description and travel--Maps, Pyramids--Egypt--Ṣaqqārah--Maps,
Description: Plan of Cairo, Egypt, and the surrounding areas showing the Nile river, farmlands, main roads, vegetation, and burial sites including the ruins of ancient Memphis and the pyramids of Saqqara. Scale approximately 1:45 000.
Identifier: islandora:30095

Title: Carta de Moçambique
Subject: Mozambique--Administrative and political divisions--Maps, Mozambique--Maps, ,
Description: Map of Mozambique showing political and administrative boundaries, towns, rivers, cities, railway lines and telegraph links. Scale 1:3 000 000.
Identifier: islandora:30061

Title: Carte particuliere des Costes de l'Afrique depuis C. del Gado jusques Rio Mocambo, et les Isles aux Environs. Levee Par Ordre Expres de Roys de Portugal sous qui on en a Fait la Decouverte
Subject: Africa - Oceans
Description: Inset: L'Isle Anjoane ou Anjuanny. Sixteen-point compass rose radiates rhumb lines., Amsterdam. Mortier, Pierre
Identifier: islandora:25370

Title: Basse Aethiopie qui Comprend les Royaume de Congo, Coste, et Pays des Cafres, Empires du Monomotapa, et Monoemugi
Subject: Southern Africa
Description: "The fictitious states are given fictious boundaries and the interior is marked with large cities such as Vigiti Magna and Monomotapa.", Paris. Mariette, Pierre, 1603-1657
Identifier: islandora:25344

Title: Carte de l'Egypte, de Ia Nubie, de l'Abissinie
Subject: Northern Africa
Description: Companion map (see NOR 0297). Includes Horn of Africa, Arabia and a portion of Persia. Top right: 22., Amsterdam. Covens, Jean; Mortier, Corneille
Identifier: islandora:25386

Title: Das Massai-Reservat südlich des Kilimandscharo :
Subject: Maasai (African people) -- Maps., National parks and reserves -- Kenya -- Maps., Kenya -- Maps.
Description: Topographical map of the Masai Reserve in Kenya, south of Mount Kilimanjaro, showing the route taken by Major Georg von Prittwitz und Gaffron in 1906 (and his campsites en route)., Appears in Mitteilungen aus den deutschen Schutzgebieten. Bd. XXIII. 1910.
Identifier: islandora:19766

Title: Principales routes et pistes de L'Afrique Français
Subject: Africa, French-speaking Equatorial--Maps, , ,
Description: Map showing major roads and tracks in eastern French Equatorial Africa, including Chad, the Central African Republic and French Cameroon, and parts of Libya, Niger, and the Western Sudan, with international and colonial boundaries, capital towns, railways, hotels, campsites, telephone and telegraph offices, wireless telegraph posts, petrol depots, chief and advanced posts of the Saharan Company. Some colour. Relief shown by hachures and form lines. Scale 1 : 2.500.000. [Coordinates estimated]
Identifier: islandora:19352

Title: Carte Reduite de la Cote Meridionale d'Afrique, depuis Ia Baye de Saldagne jusqu'au Cap des Courans
Subject: Africa - Oceans
Description: Inset: Plan de la Baye St. Blaise. Plan de la Baye de Formose ou Mossel-Baye. Plan de la Bay de Lagoa. Top right: 11.
Identifier: islandora:25446

Title: Provincia de Angola
Subject: Western Africa
Description: Verso: Portuguese text and statistics
Identifier: islandora:25593

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: 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: Carte por l'expédition de l'Amiral Hannon (Hanno ca 500 B.C.)
Subject: Northwestern Africa
Description: Orientation: West at top; Tom. XII pag 51.
Identifier: islandora:25635

Title: Carte de l'Afrique a l'Epoque de l'origine des Empires
Subject: Northern Africa
Identifier: islandora:25540

Title: Carte de l'Ile de Madagascar dite aujourd'hui i'Ile Daufine
Subject: Africa - Madagascar
Description: "The margins are illustrated in color with eleven descriptive vignettes of the dress, the events and the life of the inhabitants." French text below map describes the people of Madagascar and the topography. Title across top: Carte de I'Ile de Madagascar contenent sa description et diverses particularitez curieuses de ses habitans tant blanc que negres. Top right: Tom. VI No. 34 Pag. 142., Amsterdam. Chatelain, Henri Abraham
Identifier: islandora:25331

Title: Carte Reduite d'une partie des costes occidentales et meridionales de l'afrique depuis Cabo Frio ou Cap Froid par les 19 degres de latitude merid. jusqu'a la baye S. Blaise pour servir aux vaissaux de la francais ... par ordre de M. Rouille
Subject: Southwestern Africa
Description: Five editions of this chart were printed. Inset: Views of Cape of Good Hope, Cape Agulhas and False Bay headland; Prime meridian through Paris, Ferro Island, Tenerife, Cap Lezard and London. Top right: 90., Paris. Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772
Identifier: islandora:25747

Title: Ruanda Urundi. Répartition de la population indigène
Subject: Indigenous peoples--Rwanda--Maps, Indigenous peoples--Burundi--Maps, , ,
Description: Map showing the distribution of the indigenous population of the African territories of Ruanda and Urundi which came under Belgian control after they were seized from Germandy during WWI, andthe border of the colony, district boundaries, territory boundaries, state capitals, district capitals, capitals of territories, places with at least 5oo inhabitants. Relief shown by form lines. Edition 1949. Scale 1 : 500.000.
Identifier: islandora:19293

Title: Principales routes et pistes de L'Afrique Français
Subject: Africa, French-speaking West--Maps, , ,
Description: Map showing major roads and tracks in French West Africa along the coast, including Mali, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Ivory Coast, Gold Coast, Slave Coast and part of Nigeria, with international and colonial boundaries, railways, hotels, camp grounds, telephone and telegraph offices, wireless telegraph posts, petrol depots, chief and advanced posts of the Saharan Company. Some colour. Relief shown by hachures and form lines. Scale 1 : 2.500.000. [Coordinates estimated]
Identifier: islandora:19350

Title: Congo Belge. Carte routiére officielle des territoires du Ruanda - Urundi
Subject: Roads--Rwanda--Maps, Roads--Burundi--Maps, , ,
Description: Map showing the official roads of the African territories of Ruanda and Urundi which came under Belgian control after they were seized from Germany during WWI, and main roads of local interest, secondary roads of local interest, routes for passenger transportation - of local interest, roads of general interest, private roads, railroads, distances in km's, unsurveyed roads, border of the colony, district boundaries, territory boundaries, state capitals, district capitals, capitals of territories, ferries, mines, dispensaries. Relief shown by form lines. Edition 1949. Scale 1 : 500.000.
Identifier: islandora:19295

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