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Title: Africa, drawn and engraved from the best maps and charts
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Map shows a Dutch fort at the Cape of Good Hope. Map also indicates Grain Coast, Ivory Coast, Gold Coast and Slave Coast sequentially along the west coast of Africa., Scale given in British statute miles., Prime meridien through London., Restored and hinged between acid-free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19696

Title: Africae accurata tabula
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Madagascar -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Map of Africa, also showing southern Europe, the Arabian Peninsula, Madagascar and islands in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The title in a decorative cartouche at the top right depicts two African men and two angels. Dedication to Gerardo Schaep is in an additional decorative cartouche at the lower left. The map features small vignettes of animals inland (including lions, elephants, ostriches and some seemingly mythical creatures) and ships and marine life in the oceans., Prime meridien through Tenerif., Restored and placed between acid-free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19646

Title: Africa
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Map of Africa and the Middle East. The title is given in a large cartouche at lower left showing human figures, lions, elephant, rhinoceros and vegetation with a view of Cape Town in the background., "Noribergæ in Officina Homanniana" is printed bottom left below the border., This is the Homann family's second map of Africa, based on the work of Guillaume De L'Isle, issued under the name of Homann Heirs under the direction of Johannis Matthias Hase., Parts of the map have been hand-coloured., Restored and placed between acid-free boards., Homann Erben (Firm)
Identifier: islandora:19645

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: 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:19716

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:19649

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:19550

Title: Aethiopia inferior vel exterior :
Subject: Africa, Southern -- Maps -- Early works to 1800 -- Facsimiles.
Description: Map shows illustrations of wild animals and ships and two men holding up an animal skin on which the map title is printed., "Reproductie van de kaart van Zuid-Afrika uit het 'Toonneel des aerdriicx' van Guilj. en Joh. Blaeu (Amsterdam, 1635), uitgegeven door A. A. Balkema, Amsterdam/Kaapstad, 1946."
Identifier: islandora:19575

Title: Africa
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: "This is the earliest, readily available, printed map to show the entire continent of Africa. It is famous for the medieval depiction of the Cyclopses, called the Monoculi on the map, and the parrots and elephant in Southern Africa. Crowns and scepters identify various African kingdoms throughout the continent of Africa …"--The mapping of Africa : a cartobibliography of printed maps of the African continent to 1700 / Richard L. Betz. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & de Graaf, c2007, p. 83-84. On verso: A woodcut containing the words "Des gantzen Landts Africe/ ein gemeine beschreibung" and showing "a phoenix rising from the sun at the top and a group of men at the bottom" (Betz: p. 93). Below this text is printed "xxv"., Cartographic authority, Richard L. Betz, has identified 15 variants of Münster's map of Africa. This copy closely resembles variant number 15 (though with some minor differences). See The mapping of Africa : a cartobibliography of printed maps of the African continent to 1700 / Richard L. Betz. 't Goy-Houten : Hes & de Graaf, c2007, p. 93., German title and text, Latin place names., Published in the German text edition of Münster's Cosmographia [1578]., Restored and placed between acid-free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19697

Title: Africa
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Printed above map: "Engraved for Walkers Geography &c". Published by John Walker in his Atlas to Walker's geography and gazetteer, 1799., Relief shown by shading and spot heights., Restored and hinged between acid free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19738

Title: L'Afrique dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royal des Sciences, et quelques autres, & sur les memoires les plus recens
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Map of the continent of Africa including surrounding islands. The title is set in a decorative cartouche at the top right of map., Dedication across top of map: Africa accuraté in Imperia, Regna, status & populos divisa, ad usum serenissimi Bourgundiæ Ducis., Scale in French, German and Spanish leagues., Hand coloured., Restored and placed between acid-free boards., Cóvens et Mortier.
Identifier: islandora:19651

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