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Title: Africae descriptio
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Scale bar at bottom right is in German miles., The map is crisply engraved and decorated with title set in strapwork cartouche at bottom left. Map depicts a sea monster south of Madagascar, and a sea battle off the coast of C. Negro., Latitude and longitude coordinates are given on all four sides of the map. Details drawn from Richard L. Betz, The mapping of Africa : a cartobibliography of printed maps of the African continent to 1700. 't Goy-Houten : Hes & de Graaf, c2007, p. 211-213., Probably extracted from the Atlas minor (Gerhard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius) Amsterodami: Iudoci Hondij. Arnhemi, 1607., Restored and hinged between acid-free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19732

Title: Pascaerte van't westelycke deel van Oost Indien, van Cabo de Bona Esperanca tot C. Comorin
Subject: Indian Ocean -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: The map shows the eastern portion of the African continent from Egypt in the north to the Cape of Good Hope in the south, the Indian Ocean and its islands including Madagascar, Yemen and Arabia, Persia and the western coast of India. The cartouche shows a map and a woman standing on either side of the text scroll with two children carrying parasols perched atop the scroll, another child talking to the woman and a further child sitting on the scale statement box. There are two engravings of sailing ships in the Indian Ocean., Depths are indicated by soundings and ocean shallows are marked with dotted shading., The bar scales on the map are given in Dutch, Spanish, English and French miles., Oriented with north to the left., This map has been damaged in the cartouche and scale areas. The cartouche is partially hand-coloured. Some text is missing.
Identifier: islandora:19569

Title: A map of Zaara, Negroe-Land, Guinea etc.
Subject: Africa, North -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Africa, West -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: With one inset: "The Isles of C. Verd. [Cape Verde Islands]"., Map shows countries in West Africa and North Africa, including off-shore islands, rivers and mountains. Countries indicated are Guinea, Nigeria, Gold Coast, Côte d’Ivoire, and the Sahara Desert., Moll, Herman, d. 1732. Atlas manuale, or, A new sett of maps of all the parts of the earth, as well Asia, Africa and America, as Europe. London : Printed for A. and J. Churchil[l] and T. Childe, 1709. v. 32, p. 33
Identifier: islandora:19715

Title: Africa XVIII
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Hand coloured, undated photographic reproduction of Sebastian Munster's woodcut by Arthur Elliot, Cape Town., Relief shown pictorially., Original published in: Cosmographiae uniuersalis ... / autore Sebast. Munstero ... (Basiliae : Apud Heinrichum Petri, 1544).
Identifier: islandora:19658

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: Mappa geographica exhibens religionem Catholicam alicubi per Africam sparsam
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Map depicts the spread of the Roman Catholic Church across the continent of Africa and depicts the sites of dioceses and archbishoprics as well as mission stations. The map boasts an elaborate cartouche and a large illustration featuring the crucifixion with clergy and African converts at the foot of the cross.
Identifier: islandora:19661

Title: A new map of Africk
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Map shows Africa and islands in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The mythical second island of St Helena is included., Dedicated to His Highness, William, Duke of Gloucester., "Scale of English miles according to vulgar computation [and] according to the Norwoods computation"., Restored and placed between acid-free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19648

Title: Africa
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Note: "Advertisement. The inland parts of Africa being but very little known and the names of the regions and countries which fill that vast tract of land being for the greatest part placed by conjecture it may be judged how absurd are the divisions traced in some maps and why they were not followed in this.", There are 6 bar scales: English miles, French land leagues, British and French sea leagues, Arabic miles to English miles, Great miles of Arabia to a degree, Giam (Arabian sea measure) to English miles, and the travelling hours of the caravans to English miles., There are two insets and six gazetteers. The largest inset is located in the bottom left corner: "A particular chart of the Gold Coast where in are distinguish'd all the forts and factories belonging to the several European powers from D'Anville with many additions; by S. Boulton." This inset has its own scale in British and French sea leagues 20 to a degree. In the top left corner is an inset "Azores or Western islands belonging to Africa"., The six gazetteers contain geographical, political and local information. They are headed: "The principal outward parts of Africa: Northern Parts", "Southern and Western parts", "Western islands", "Southern parts", "South East islands and parts" and "Eastern parts". The "Southern Parts" inset gives information on Caffreria (Kaffraria), "Eastern Caffreria or the country of the Hottentots" including notes on the roles of men and women. This inset also includes a detailed account of the Cape Government's revenues and profits., Over the oceans wind direction is indicated by arrows., The map is torn along the fold lines into 4 pieces. There is some damage around the edges and some text is missing from the "Eastern parts" gazetteer.
Identifier: islandora:19757

Title: Totius Africae accuratissima tabula
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: The large cartouche in the bottom left corner shows two North African Arab men and one woman with a child on the left; two African men and two children on the right, one riding an elephant; two lions above the title and seven ships in the sea. There are small vignettes of animals (including lions, elephants and ostriches) in the interior. See R.V. Tooley, Collectors' guide to maps of the African continent and Southern Africa (London: Carta Press, 1969): 123., Restored and hinged between acid-free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19652

Title: L'Africa divisa ne suoi principali stati di nuova projezione
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Map of Africa divided into regions, with Arabia and part of Asia. Decorative cartouche., Text in Italian., Cartouche, map outlines and several countries are hand coloured., Restored and hinged between acid-free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19694

Title: An accurate map of Africa drawn from the Sieur Robert with improvements
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Map extracted from Richard Brookes, The general gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary ... (London: Printed for J. Newbery, 1766). Information derived from http://www.biblioserver.com/newberry/index.php?m=search (accessed: 5 December 2007)., "Engraved (by the Kings authority) for the Geographical Dictionary.", Restored and hinged between acid free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19731

Title: I.S. Lauretij sive Madagascar
Subject: Madagascar -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Title above map: "Description de l'Isle de Madagascar"., Title on verso: "Description du royaume Mosambique"., Relief shown pictorially. Map oriented with north to the left., Restored and hinged between acid-free boards, Detached from a French edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum..., by Petrus Bertius, p. 644 (map) and 643 (text)., Place names in Latin and Portuguese. Alternative title and text on verso in French.
Identifier: islandora:19754

Title: Africa according to the best authorities
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: This was the first folio-sized map of Africa to be engraved and printed in the United States of America. There are several geographical inaccuracies and fictitious tribal names., Relief shown pictorially., Appears in: Carey's general atlas. Philadelphia : Mathew Carey, 1804., Prime meridien through London.
Identifier: islandora:19698

Title: Africa
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Map of Africa and the Middle East. The title is given in a large cartouche at lower left showing human figures, lions, elephant, rhinoceros and vegetation with a view of Cape Town in the background., "Noribergæ in Officina Homanniana" is printed bottom left below the border., This is the Homann family's second map of Africa, based on the work of Guillaume De L'Isle, issued under the name of Homann Heirs under the direction of Johannis Matthias Hase., Parts of the map have been hand-coloured., Restored and placed between acid-free boards., Homann Erben (Firm)
Identifier: islandora:19653

Title: Africa
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: The four sheets comprising the map are: Africa, plate I: The Northwest part examined and revised by Mr Bolton; Africa, plate II: The Southwest part [mis-labeled; plate II depicts the South East of Africa including the islands of Madagascar, Bourbon and Isle de France [Mauritius] and should be labeled The Southeast part]; Africa, plate III: The Southwest part (including the island of St Helena); and Africa, plate IV: The Northeast part (including the cartouche). This detailed map of Africa includes copious notes on the terrain and the people occupying the various areas depicted., Relief shown pictorially., Inset: Asores.
Identifier: islandora:19549

Title: [A map of Africa] :
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Europe -- Colonies -- Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: The map shows the continent of Africa with its kingdoms demarcated by coloured borders. It includes a "Table of the European possessions in Africa" in the lower left corner detailing British, Portuguese, Dutch, French, Spanish, Danish and Genoese holdings. The map depicts Madera [Madeira], the Canaries, Cape Verd [Verde], Fernand [Fernando] Po, Annobon or Good Year Island, Ascension Island, St Helena and George Island (a small rock) in the Atlantic Ocean. To the north, the map shows the Mediterranean coastline of the continent, the Red Sea, a portion of Arabia, the Strait of Babelmandel and the island of Socotra. It also shows the Indian Ocean islands of Amirante, Alphons, Demba [Pemba], Zanguebar [Zanzibar], Monfira, Komoro [the Comoros], Madagascar, Bourbon, Ile de France [Mauritius], Amsterdam, St Paul, Ile de Juan de Lisboa, New Island and the Banks of Nazareth., Relief shown pictorially., Most of the cartouche is missing from the top right hand corner of the map which was identified using visual comparison with the same map at Digmap, http://digmap1.ist.utl.pt:8080/records/Kbr/html/kbr_1_1472755.html.
Identifier: islandora:19555

Title: Ancienne Ethiopie
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
Description: Small map of Africa from the "Keras Promontoire" and "Mer d'Ethiopie" in the South [Cape of Good Hope area] to Libye [Libya] and Egypte [Egypt] in the North. The map shows the Golfe d'Arabie [marking the Red Sea not the Arabian Gulf], Asie [currently Yemen and Saudi Arabia], "Isle Menuthias" [Madagascar], Ocean Occidental [Atlantic Ocean], "Golfe Hesperique" [Gulf of Guinea], "Ocean Meridional" [Indian Ocean], "Golfe de Barbarie" [Mozambique Channel] and "Mer d'Hippade" [western part of the Indian Ocean]. The map also indicates lakes, rivers, some mountain ranges and place names., The map is headed "De l'Afrique. Figure LXXXV. [page] 219". Extracted from Mallet's "Description de l'Universe" (Paris: Denys Thierry, 1683), of which volume III comprised a "comprehensive history of ancient and modern Africa." See Richard Betz: The mapping of Africa: a cartobibliography of printed maps of the African continent to 1700 (’t Goy-Houten: Hes & de Graaf, c2007): 409-410., The map is bordered by a graticule and indicates the equator. A classical column base forms the title cartouche., On verso: text in French concerning the content of the map including the names of what Mallet regarded as the principal peoples in the interior of Africa; principal towns in Africa South of Egypt; and the principal islands surrounding the continent. The names of peoples, towns and islands are given in Latin.
Identifier: islandora:19712

Title: Africa divided according to the extent of its principall parts in which are distinguished one from the other empires, monarchies, kingdoms, states, and peoples, which at this time inhabite Africa
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Title above map has "described by Sanson, corrected and amended by William Berry.", Ornamental cartouche., For further information on this map see R.V. Tooley, Collectors’ guide to maps of the African continent and Southern Africa (London: Carta Press, 1969), p. 56 ; Norwich's maps of Africa : an illustrated and annotated carto-bibliography (Norwich, Vt. : Terra Nova Press, 1997), map 47., Dedication in cartouche: To the most serene and most sacred Majesty Charles II., Scale in English and Italian miles, French, German and Spanish leagues.
Identifier: islandora:19818

Title: Africa
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: The four sheets comprising the map are: Africa, plate I: The Northwest part examined and revised by Mr Bolton; Africa, plate II: The Southwest part [mis-labeled; plate II depicts the South East of Africa including the islands of Madagascar, Bourbon and Isle de France [Mauritius] and should be labeled The Southeast part]; Africa, plate III: The Southwest part (including the island of St Helena); and Africa, plate IV: The Northeast part (including the cartouche). This detailed map of Africa includes copious notes on the terrain and the people occupying the various areas depicted., Relief shown pictorially., Inset: Asores.
Identifier: islandora:19551

Title: Vûe et description des forts que les hollandois, anglois et danois ont sur la côte de Guinée
Subject: Ghana -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Fortification -- Ghana -- Pictorial works.
Description: Depictions of forts belonging to Holland, England and Denmark along the coast of West Africa (present-day Ghana). The views border two central panels of text (in French) describing the history of the fortifications., Appears in Atlas historique, ou Nouvelle introduction a l'histoire, à la chronologie & à la géographie ancienne & moderne / Henri Abraham Chatelain. Amsterdam, 1705-1720. Tome VI, no. 14, p. 58., Views: No. 1. Le château S. George d'Elmina ; No. 2. Le fort de Conradsbourg sur la montagne de St. Iago ; No. 3. Le principal château des anglois à Cabacors ; No. 4. Le fort de Nassau à Moure ; No. 5. Le fort des anglois à Annamabon ; No. 6. Le fort d'Amsterdam et Cormantin ; No. 7. Le fort de la Patience à Apam ; No. 8. Le fort des anglois à Simpa ; No. 9. Le fort de Christiansbourg à Acra ; No. 10. Le fort de Crevecœur à Acra ; No. 11. Le fort des anglois à Acra ; No. [12]. Autre vue du château d'Elmina.
Identifier: islandora:19675

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