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Title: Carte de L'Afrique Meridionale ou Pays Entre la ligne & le cap de Bonne Esperance et L'Isle de Madagascar
Subject: Southern Africa
Description: Duplicate map. Originally issued by the Visscher family in 1710. Hendrik de Leth, married into the Visscher family took over the business and imprinted this map with his name. Two insets are shown, Cape Peninsula and Plan and elevation of Table Bay., Amsterdam. Elwe, Jan Barend
Identifier: islandora:25354

Title: Carte Particuliere des Costes de L'Afrique qui Comprend le Pays de Cafres & c. Levee par Ordre Expres des Roys de Portugal sous qui on en a Fait la Decouverte
Subject: Africa - Oceans
Description: Indicates many rivers and settlements discovered by the Portuguese. The sea contains a sixteen-point compass rose with rhumb lines. Inset: Island of Inhancato and the fortress of Sofala., Amsterdam. Mortier, Pierre
Identifier: islandora:25736

Title: Pays des Cafres
Subject: Southern Africa
Description: Includes mountain ranges and tribal kingdoms; Top right: 178., Paris. Robert de Vaugondy, Didier, 1723-1786
Identifier: islandora:25414

Title: Egypte nommé dans le pays Missir
Subject: Africa - Egypt
Description: P. 218. 1.; Watermark., Paris. Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782
Identifier: islandora:25730

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: 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: Carte des royaumes de Congo, Angola et Benguela avec les pays voisins tiré de l'Anglois
Subject: Silver mines and mining -- Botswana., Africa, Central -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Angola -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Benguela Province (Angola) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Scale in French sea leagues., From: Histoire Generale Des Voyages, ou, Nouvelle Collection de Toutes Les Relations de Voyages par mer et par terre; Abbé Prévost, and John Green [Paris: Didot, 1747-1780]., Printed beneath map frame: "Tome IV in 4o. No. 15" (lower left) and "Tome 3 in 8o. Page 368"(lower right)., Relief shown pictorially., Inland map depicts kingdoms of Central Africa with rivers & mountain ranges and two areas of silver mines in the Botswana region (Royaume d'Abutua ou Toroa and Royaume de Chicova)., Restored and hinged between acid-free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19743

Title: Carte de L'Afrique Meridionale ou Pays Entre la ligne & le cap de Bonne Esperance et L'Isle de Madagascar
Subject: Southern Africa
Description: Originally issued by the Visscher family in 1710. Hendrik de Leth, married into the Visscher family took over the business and imprinted this map with his name. Also issued by Jan Barend Elwe (see NOR 0180a). Two insets are shown, Cape Peninsula and Plan and elevation of Table Bay., Amsterdam. Leth, Hendrick de
Identifier: islandora:25353

Title: La description d'Affricque selon les divers pais, animaux et monstres horribles
Subject: Africa
Description: Top of map: Universelle, livre VI Le Sixiesme Livre de la Cosmographie, recueilly par Sebastian Munstere des bons autheurs tant anciens que moderuer, & assemble., Basel. Munster, Sebastian, 1489-1552
Identifier: islandora:25406

Title: Carte des Royaumes de Congo, Angola, et Benguela Avec des Pays Voisins Tiré de l'Anglois
Subject: Western Africa
Description: Tome V in 4* No. 15; Tome 3 in 8* page 238.
Identifier: islandora:25567

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