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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: Afrique avec ses principales Divisions et leurs Capitales
Subject: Africa
Description: Prime meridian through Ferro Island and Paris. Top right: 4., Unknown. Anonymous
Identifier: islandora:25409

Title: Cimbebas et Caffariae Littora a Catenbela ad Promontorium Bonae Spei. Pascaert van Cimbebas en Caffrares Streckende van Catembela tot Cabo de Bona Esperanca
Subject: Africa - Oceans
Description: Almost identical to the Renard's map (see NOR 0254). Inset: De Ommelanden van de Caap de Goede Hoop met de Saldanha, Tafel en Falso Baien in Groot Bestek., Amsterdam. Ottens, R. (Reinier), 1698-1750; Ottens, J. (Josua), 1704-1765
Identifier: islandora:25425

Title: Africae Propriae Tabulae in qua Punica regnae ides; Tyrios, et Agenoris urbem Ex conatibus Geographicus Abrahami Ortelii cum provilegio Imperiale Regio, et Belgico ad decennium 1590
Subject: Northern Africa
Description: Inset: Sinus Carthaginensis; Italian text., Antwerp. Vrients, Jan Baptista, 1552-1612
Identifier: islandora:25491

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: 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: 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:19928

Title: Tabula Geograph in qua Europe, Africae, Asia et circu
Subject: Africa
Description: The map includes the Middle East, India, and China. Inset illustrates natives in traditional dress.
Identifier: islandora:25240

Title: Madagascar : carte géologique et miniѐre
Subject: Minerals--Madagascar--Maps, Mines and mineral resources--Madagascar--Maps, Geology--Madagascar--Maps, ,
Description: A geological and mineral map of Madagascar showing rock types and minerals, mining districts, provincial capitals, rivers, and islands. Coloured. Scale 3 500 000
Identifier: islandora:30031

Title: Africa Juxta Navigationes et Observationes Recentissimas Aucta, Correcta et in Sua Regna et Status Divisa in Lucem Edita
Subject: Africa
Description: Cartouche includes natives, pyramids, animals, lighthouses and ships. "Enormous lakes are shown in Central Africa and the information about the southern extremity of the continent is largely fictitious.", Vienna. Seutter, Matthaeus, 1678-1756
Identifier: islandora:25379

Title: Cimbebas et Caffariae Littora a Catenbela ad Promontorium Bonae Spei. Pascaerte van Cimbebas en Caffrares Streckende van Catembela tot Cabo de Bona Esperanca
Subject: Africa - Oceans
Description: Similar to Ottens map (see NOR 0255). Surrounding the cartouche is a group of lions, a leopard, goat and a snake. Lower corner, a group led by Neptune. Battling ships and two compass roses with rhumb lines decorate the Atlantic., Amsterdam. Renard, Louis
Identifier: islandora:25695

Title: Principales routes et pistes de l'Afrique Française
Subject: Africa, French-speaking Equatorial--Maps, Africa, French-speaking West--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing French West Africa including parts of Niger and Chad on the borders of Libya, Sudan and Nigeria, and international, undemarcated, intercolonial, north-south boundaries, with railway tracks, roads, camel routes, camping sites, hotels, post and telephone and telegraph offices, petrol depots, chief and advanced post of la Compagnie Saharienne, landing grounds, towers. Relief is shown in hatchures and spot heights. Colour. Scale 1 : 2.500.00.
Identifier: islandora:19282

Title: Chorographia originis Nili juxta observationem Odoardi Lopez. Fol. 55. Chorographia Originis Nili ... ex Arabum Geographia deprompta. Fol. 53. Vera et Genuina Fontium Nili Topographia facta a P. Petro Pais ... 1618. Fol. 56
Subject: Southern Africa
Description: Includes three maps on one sheet. "Kircher is reputed to be the first to have described the finding of the Nile as recorded by the Jesuit traveller Paez." Title across top: I Conismas II Tom. I Fol. 53. Upper right: Tomus I., Amsterdam. Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680
Identifier: islandora:25701

Title: Totius Africae tabula et descriptio universalis etiam ultra Ptolemaei limites extensa
Subject: Africa
Description: Latin edition of Munster's map (see NOR 0002). Includes three places printed upside down: Quiloa, Mantes and Regnu[m]., Basel. Munster, Sebastian, 1489-1552
Identifier: islandora:25700

Title: Cimbebas et Caffariae Littora a Catenbela ad Promontorium Bonae Spei. Pascaert van Cimbebas en Caffrares Streckende van Catembela tot Cabo de Bona Esperanca
Subject: Africa - Oceans
Description: Duplicate map. Almost identical to the Renard's map (see NOR 0254). Inset: De Ommelanden van de Caap de Goede Hoop met de Saldanha, Tafel en Falso Baien in Groot Bestek., Amsterdam. Ottens, R. (Reinier), 1698-1750; Ottens, J. (Josua), 1704-1765
Identifier: islandora:25426

Title: Fessae et Marocchi Regna Africae Celeberr. describebat Abrah. Ortelius 1595
Subject: Northern Africa
Description: Inset: (12 x 14.5 cm.) Congi Regni Christiani, in Africa, Nova Descriptio Auctore Philippo Pigafetta; Latin text, p. 128; Watermark., Antwerp. (?) Vrients
Identifier: islandora:25482

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