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Title: Afrika in kartographischer Darstellung von Herodot bis heute
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Africa -- Maps.
Description: Africa as depicted in maps from the time of Herodotus ca. 450 BC to 1887. The map features a central map of Africa dated 1887 entitled "Afrika nach Andree & Scobel und Anderen" surrounded by 17 smaller maps: Herodot [Herodotus], ca. 450; Erastosthenes, ca. 200 BC; Pomponius Mela, 41-54 AD; Ptolemäus, 150 AD; Edrisi, 1154 AD; Ibn al Wardi, 1232 AD; Fra Mauro, 1457-1459 AD; Martin Behaim, 1491-1493 AD; Juan de la Cosa, 1493-1500 AD; Diego Ribera, 1529 AD; [Gerardus] Mercator, 1541 AD; Sebastian Münster, 1544 AD; O[lfert] Dapper, 1676 AD; Joh. Bapt. Homann, 1711 AD; [Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon] D'Anville, 1761 AD; C.G. Reichard, 1820 AD (aus A. Stieler's Hand-Atlas 1823); F.V. Stülpnagel, 1850 AD (aus A. Stieler's Hand-Atlas III. Aufl.)., The scale given above is of the principal map of Africa. No scales are indicated for the ancillary maps., The map is torn along fold lines and is in three pieces.
Identifier: islandora:19547

Title: Abissinie
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Small map of Africa from the "Cap de Bonne Esperance" in the South to the "Tropique de Cancer" [Tropic of Cancer] and Egypt in the North. The map shows the "Mer Rouge" [Red Sea], the "Ocean Oriental ou Indien" [Indian Ocean], the "Ocean Meridional Aethiopien" and "Mer de Congo". The map also indicates the "Tropique de Capricorne" [Tropic of Capricorn], the "Equinochalle" [the equator], the "Coste des Cafres", the "Pays des Negres", Nubie, Guinée, Congo, Monomotapa, Zanguebar, Ajan, the "Coste Dabey", the "Ile de Madagascar" and Arabie. The map also indicates lakes, rivers, some mountain ranges and place names., The map is headed "De l'Afrique. Figure XCII. [page] 233". 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 and the tropics. The elaborate title cartouche, which is topped by a gryphon (or griffin), features an aggressive group of leopards, lions, a snake and a crocodile on a rocky outcrop., On verso: text in French giving the names of what Mallet regarded as the newest and most significant discoveries in Africa. Place names are given in Latin.
Identifier: islandora:19713

Title: Africa drawn from the latest and best authorities
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: "Engraved for John Harrison N 115. Newgate Street, Augt 31t 1787.", Reprint. Originally published: [London : John Harrison, 1787].
Identifier: islandora:19660

Title: Guinea propria, nec non Nigritiae vel Terrae Nigrorum maxima pars
Subject: Guinea -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Africa, West -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: The map covers West Africa from modern-day Gabon in the south to Senegal, Niger, Mali, the Sahara and Mauritania in the north. The map also indicates African kingdoms and groups, including Biafra, Benin, Bambara, Pongo, Bituin and others. An illustration in the lower left portion of the map shows houses raised above the ground, villagers cooking or smoking long pipes, two men launching a small canoe on the lake, and examples of West African dress. In the foreground are five children playing on ivory tusks on which are printed the different scales., Title in Latin and French., Projection not given. There are three different scales: in Italian miles, in French leagues and in German miles. North, south, east and west are marked on the top, bottom and sides of the map using the terms Septentrio, Meridies, Oriens and Occidens.
Identifier: islandora:19556

Title: Tabula Africa IIII
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Map of Africa by Ptolemy, extracted from La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino ... ; [edited by] Girolamo Ruscelli, Giuseppe Moleti and printed by Vincenzo Valgrisi (In Venetia: Appresso Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561). Map appears in the Geografia on page 96 with Italian text on verso (page 95)., Restored and hinged between acid-free boards, Information derived from Norwich’s maps of Africa : an illustrated and annotated carto-bibliography (Norwich, Vt. : Terra Nova Press, 1997), Map 292, p. 331, and ILAB website: http://www.ilab.org/db/book2250_5488.html (accessed: 3 December 2007)
Identifier: islandora:19733

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: 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:19548

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: The southern Africa of G. de l'Isle, 1720
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Africa, Southern -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Madagascar -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Text of map in French., Reprint of Carte du Congo et du Pays des Cafres by Guillaume de l'Isle de l'Academie Royale des Sciences (Amsterdam : Chez Jean Covens et Corneille Mortier, Geographes, 1742)., Scale in marine leagues.
Identifier: islandora:19574

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: A new and accurate map of Africa
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Sierra Leone -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Inset: "A correct chart of the rivers Sierra Leone and Sherbro"., Scale for inset[1:570,240]. Scale in leagues [1 cm = 3 leagues]., Restored and hinged between acid-free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19729

Title: Standard map of South Africa of the middle of the seventeenth century
Subject: Africa, Southern -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Map of southern Africa from the Isla et Porto Loanda in Angola in the west to Caput Bonæ Spei in the south and Quixungo in Mozambique in the east, showing the western portion of Madagascar., "A. E. C.", Badly damaged; split along vertical fold.
Identifier: islandora:19678

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: 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: 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: Africa from the latest authorities
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Restored and hinged between acid-free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19736

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:19717

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: Extracted from Universus terrarum orbis scriptorum calamo delineatus; studio et labore Alphonsi Lasor a Varea. Padua, [1713], [page] 21., Restored and hinged between acid free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19737

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