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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: Carte du canal de Mosambique, contenant l'isle de Mosambique, contenant l'isle de Madagascar avec les côtes d'Afrique : depuis le cap de Bonne Espérance jusqu à Melinde
Subject: Mozambique -- Maps, Madagascar -- Maps, Mozambique -- Maps -- Early works to 1800, Madagascar -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
Description: This map was included in Guillaume Raynal's "Atlas de toutes les parties connues du Globe Terrestre"" published in Geneva in 1780. Relief shown pictorially. ""No. 11"" upper right corner. Upper left corner: ""Liv. I, II, III, IV."
Identifier: islandora:25784

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: 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: Biledulgerid Sarra Terra Nigritarum Giune nova descriptio
Subject: Africa, West -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Africa, North -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Title text on map in Latin: "Biledulgerid Sarra Terra Nigritarum Guine Nova Descriptio Robt Morden". Title at head of page: "Biledulgerid and Zaara". Map shows West and North Africa, including offshore islands, rivers and mountains. Text below map:"Billedulgerid improperly is the Numidia of the Ancients, where Inhabited the Getuli, it signifies a Country plentiful in Dates which is a fruit which much enriches the inhabitants. This part of Africa extends from East to West, almost as far as Barbary. Its principal Parts are Sus or Teffet, Darha, Segelomeffa, Jegorain, Zeb and Mezzab, Techort and Guergula, Biledulgerid, and the Desert of Barca.", Morden, Robert, d. 1703. Geography rectified, or, A description of the world, in all its kingdoms, provinces, countries, islands, cities, towns, seas, rivers, bayes, capes, ports ... 3rd ed., enlarged. London, 1693
Identifier: islandora:19716

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, drawn and engraved from the best maps and charts
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Map shows a Dutch fort at the Cape of Good Hope. Map also indicates Grain Coast, Ivory Coast, Gold Coast and Slave Coast sequentially along the west coast of Africa., Scale given in British statute miles., Prime meridien through London., Restored and hinged between acid-free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19696

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: 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:19758

Title: Affrica mit seinen besondern Ländern,Thieren, und Wunderbarlichen dingen. Cap. j.
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Africa -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800., Africa -- History -- Early works to 1800.
Description: This small and incomplete map of Africa featured on the title page of the chapter describing Africa in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographei oder Beschreibung aller Länder: Das Sechste Buch der Welt Beschreibung durch Sebastianum Münster aus den erfahrenen Cosmographen und Historien -schreibern zusammen gelesen und in eine Ordnung gestellt [Part 1]. (Basel : Sebastianum Henricpetri, 1558?)., Restored and hinged between acid-free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19734

Title: Africae tabula nova
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Decorative cartouche; fish and ships on ocean., Hand-coloured.
Identifier: islandora:19695

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: Africa :
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Scale in Spanish, German and French Miles. 1 inch = ca. 200 German miles., Some areas of the map outlined in colour.
Identifier: islandora:19730

Title: Plan du fort et de la ville du Cap de Bonne Esperance :
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Statement of scale: Echelle de trois cent toises; Schaal van 300 halve-roeden., Text in French and Dutch., Restored and hinged between acid-free boards., See also BMSC 6821.g.1 (573) for German version and BMSC 6821.g.1 (423) for French version., Indexed for points of interest including the Grand Parade, Church Square, Slave Lodge, Groote Kerk, VOC Hospital and other buildings, Fiscal’s house and Company Gardens.
Identifier: islandora:19930

Title: Plan en Caart van 't Vlek aan Caap de Goede Hoop
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Photocopy., Text in Dutch., Original statement of scale: "Schaale van 100 Rhijnlandsche Roeden"., Plan of Cape Town in 1755 showing streets and erven. Features such as the Company's garden, Company's hospital, Groote Kerk and Slave Lodge are marked., Copy in H. W. J. Picard, Gentleman's Walk (Cape Town: Struik, 1968): facing page 38. A description of the plan is given on pages 37-38 and a partial key is printed opposite p. 38., See BA 968.21 PICA.
Identifier: islandora:19927

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:19647

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: Novissima et perfectissima Africae descriptio--[cartographic material]
Subject: Africa--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Description: Map shows Africa, the southern part of Europe, Middle East and Madagascar, as well as the islands surrounding Africa. The elaborate cartouche depicts a woman wearing a headdress of peacock feathers sitting with a child on the banks of a river. Also depicted is a second child astride a lion, using a long thong to lead a large and reluctant bird. The artist, Phillip Tidemann, has added snakes, a crocodile, water birds, fruit, vegetation and severed elephant tusks. A note in the cartouche reads: "Cum privilegio potentissimorum D.D. ordinum Hollandie et Westfrisie"., Relief shown pictorially., Drawn by Phillip Tidemann; engraved by Gilliam van der Gouwen., Projection not given., The lower left corner of the map is missing and has been replaced by a photocopied fragment attached to the map by tissue paper.
Identifier: islandora:19553

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