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Title: A Chart of the Coast of Africa from Cape Virde to Cape to Cape Bona Esperance
Subject: Africa - Oceans
Description: "The coastal placenames are numerous and based on Portuguese discoveries and exploration." The sea contains a compass rose with rhumb lines., London. R. Mount & T. Page (Firm)
Identifier: islandora:25373

Title: Carte de la coste orientale d'Afrique depuis le Cap de Bonne Esperance jusqu'au Cap del Gada :
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Mozambique -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Coasts -- Mozambique -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Coasts -- South Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: See also hand coloured version at BMSC 69.a.1 (569a), Relief shown pictorially. Text in French. Note on map: "Nota: Lieux dont la Lat[itude], et la Long[itude] ont etés déterminées par des Obfero Astronom. Lat[itude] obf. par d'habiles Navigateurs.", Appears in Prévost's Histoire générale des voyages. 1746-1789., Norwich’s maps of Africa : an illustrated and annotated carto-bibliography (Norwich, Vt. : Terra Nova Press, 1997), Map 306, page 347.
Identifier: islandora:19753

Title: Le Cap de Bonne Esperance Suivant les Nouvelles Observations de Messrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences
Subject: Africa - Cape of Good Hope
Description: Cartouche is "on a stone pediment surmounted by a lion and lioness, with a view of Table Bay in the background and the Governor's garden and homestead." Map includes a note describing the Cape of Good Hope and a legend explaining the contents of the mainland., Leiden. Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1773
Identifier: islandora:25275

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