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Title: Totius Africa Nova Repraesentatio qua practer diversos in ea Status et Regiones, etiam Origo Nili et veris RRPP Missionariorum Relationibus ostenditur
Subject: Africa
Description: Cartouche provides an elaborate scene depicting natives on the Nile bank. Nearby are monkeys, a sheep and a tortoise. Cherubs floating above complete the picture. Even though the map includes a note declaring the accuracy for the source of the Nile, it proves to be inaccurate; Prime meridian through Tenerif., Nuremberg. Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724
Identifier: islandora:25303

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: Carte de l'Afrique méridionale au pays entre la ligne Cap de Bonne Espérance et l'Isle de Madagascar
Subject: Slaves -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History., Farm ownership -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History., Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Africa, Southern -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: The details regarding Elizabeth, Nicolas Visscher's widow, are drawn from Gallica, Bibliothèque Nationale de France: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b7759505j.notice. See also: Atlas nouveau … by Guillaume de L'Isle (Amsterdam: Covens & Mortier, 1730); R.V. Tooley, Collectors’ guide to maps of the African continent and Southern Africa (London: Carta Press, 1969), p. 120; Norwich's maps of Africa : an illustrated and annotated carto-bibliography (Norwich, Vt. : Terra Nova Press, 1997), map 180 (note)., The inset of the Cape of Good Hope is of particular importance. It indicates the presence of slaves on Robben Island ("daar de Slaven in de Ketting loopen"). It also gives "extensive detailed and fairly accurate topographical information ... together with the names of owners of farms and plots of that period. Amongst these are de Beer, Swart Pieter, Martin de Smit, Roelof Pasman, Gerrit Kloeton, and the French Huguenot settlement. These place names add considerably to the knowledge of the history of the ... Cape of Good Hope"--Norwich's Maps of Africa, p. 203., Three insets: "Élévation du Port et Mont Table au Cap de Bonne Espérance" (5 x 11 cm); "Plan du Port et Mont Table au Cap de Bonne Espérance" (10 x 11 cm); "[Cabo de Bona Esperanca]" (13 x 23 cm)., Text primarily in French. The inset of the Cape is also in Dutch with some Portuguese notations., Restored and hinged between acid-free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19819

Title: Carta geografica de Africa del Capo de bon Esperanze sino al Regno et Imperio Monamotapo e Ria de la Goa. Scoperto dell' Citadino e Commandante
Subject: Africa - Cape of Good Hope
Description: Across the bottom reads, Landtogt gedaan door de Zuid-Kust van Africa in den Jaare 1781 tot 1793 door Louis Almaro Pisani Burger Commandant en Ingezeetenen der Colonie Zwellendam; Inset of Port Natal., Unknown. Pisani, Almoro Alvise, 1754-1808
Identifier: islandora:25324

Title: Africae Vera Forma, et Situs
Subject: Africa
Description: The seas contain sea monsters and sailing ships. Natives are seen on and around the map., Antwerp. Jode, Cornelis de, 1568-1600
Identifier: islandora:25239

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

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: Plan du Cap de Bonne-Esperance et de ses Environs
Subject: Africa - Cape of Good Hope
Description: Near the coastline, soundings in French fathoms. Top right: 8., Paris. Haye, G. de la
Identifier: islandora:25300

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: Lacs, Fleuves, Rivieres et Principales Montagnes de L'Afrique
Subject: Africa
Description: Duplicate map. Includes French text in margins. An accurate outline of the continent with minimum geographical detail. Similar features to d'Anville's map of 1727 (see NOR 0091). Top right corner: No. 14. Top left corner: Introduction; Prime meridian through Ferro Island, Paris. Clouet, Jean Baptiste Louis, 1730-
Identifier: islandora:25350

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: Africa Vetus, Nicolai Sanson Christianis Galliar Regis Geographi Recognita Emendata et Multis in locis Mutata, Conatibus Geographicis Gulielmi Sanson N. Filii
Subject: Africa
Description: The continent is misshaped, containing numerous coastal inlets. "All the inhabitants of southern Africa are labeled 'Anthropophagi Aethiopes' or cannibals.", Paris. Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
Identifier: islandora:25351

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: Africa Mauro Percussa Oceano, Niloque admota tepenti ... Cum Privilegio Ordinum Hollandia et Westfrisia
Subject: Africa
Description: Typical features of eighteenth century Dutch maps of Africa; Prime meridian through Tenerif., Amsterdam. Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651 or 2-1726; Valk, Leonard, 1675-1755
Identifier: islandora:25385

Title: Barbariae et Biledulgerid Nova Descriptio
Subject: Northern Africa
Description: French text, p. 115; Watermark., Antwerp. Plantin
Identifier: islandora:25489

Title: Algérie et Tunisie
Subject: Mixed economy--Algéria--History--Maps, Mixed economy--Tunisia--History--Maps, Africa, North--Description and travel--Maps, ,
Description: Economic map of Algeria and Tunisia showing industries, minerals, animal breeds, plant products, roads and railways, names of places, rivers, ports, and pans. Includes an inset showing electrical equipment such as hydropower plants, thermal power plants, high voltage lines, and dams, with forests, names of places, rivers, and pans. Coloured. Scale 10 km to 4 Inches.
Identifier: islandora:29999

Title: Carte generale de la Coste de Guinee depuis la Riviere de Sierra Leona jusqu'au Cap de Lopes Gonsalvo : pour servir aux Vaisseaux du Roy / dressee au Depost des Cartes et Plans de la Marine
Subject: Western Africa
Description: Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially; depths by soundings. Includes 6 coastal views; Prime meridians: Cap Lezard and Paris. "No. 54.", Paris?. Depot des cartes et plans de la marine
Identifier: islandora:25762

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: Plan de la Forteresse et Bourg, de l'Isle de Ste. Helene
Subject: Africa - St. Helene
Description: Top right: Tome 3. No. 124., Unknown. Anonymous
Identifier: islandora:25430

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

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