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Title: L'Afrique selon les nouvelles observations de Messieurs de l'Academie de Sciences etc
Subject: Africa
Description: Reissued in 1729. Cartouche includes a nude woman sitting on a rectangle of masonry located in a rural scene with elephants, a lion and a snake. Legend states, "I would rather show this part of Africa as unknown and unihabited than rely on my imagination." Title across top, Africa in praecipuas ipsius partes distributa ..., Leiden. Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1733
Identifier: islandora:25471

Title: La Basse Ethiopie en Afrique avec les Royaumes qui en dependent, ses Bayes et Rivieres, suivant les Memoires les plus recens des Voyageurs, nouvellement mise en lumiere par
Subject: Southern Africa
Description: Natives, river gods, sailing vessels, sailors and an elephant are illustrated on the cartouche., Leiden. Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1733
Identifier: islandora:25298

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: 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: Carte Physique rt Politique de L'Algérie Septentrionale Dressée par L. Dussieux, 1847, D'après les Cartes du dépot de la guerre du Capitaine Carette et de Dufour
Subject: Northern Africa
Description: Insets: Carte de l'Algérie extraite, Territoire d'Alger.
Identifier: islandora:25624

Title: Partie de L'Afrique audela de L'Equateur, Comprenant Le Congo, La Cafreie & c
Subject: Southern Africa
Description: Map surrounded by a decorative frame with information on the Congo, Monomotapa, Zanibar, Cape of Good Hope and the islands., Paris. Desnos, L. C.
Identifier: islandora:25305

Title: Carte Generale de L'Afrique Contenant les Principaux Etats qui y sont Contenue Dressee sur les Nouvelles Observations
Subject: Africa
Description: Twenty-nine coats of arms, representing the major cities of Europe, surround the cartouche; Prime meridian through Ferro Island and Paris., Paris. Crepy, Jean, 1660-ca. 1730
Identifier: islandora:25470

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: 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: 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 du Canal de Mosambique, contenant l'Isle de Madagascar avec les côtes d'Afrique, depuis le cap de Bonne Espérance jusqu à Melinde
Subject: Africa, Southern -- Maps. -- Early works to 1800., Western Cape (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Madagascar -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Mozambique -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Coasts -- Africa, Southern -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: The map shows the coast of southern Africa from northern Mozambique to St Helena Bay on the west coast. Madagascar is also shown., Relief indicated pictorially., Paris or Ferro meridian., Scale in Portuguese and French marine leagues and Dutch miles., Inset: Cape of Good Hope from St Helens Baay [St Helena Bay] to Hanglip, showing coast and interior., Restored and placed between acid-free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19700

Title: L'Africa divisa nelle sue Parti secondo le piu moderne, relationi colle scoperte dell'origine e corso del Nilo
Subject: Africa
Description: First issued in Coronelli's atlas, Atlante Veneto. Double-sheet map includes a cartouche surrounded by various animals such as, an ostrich, crocodile, leopard, lion, camel, and an elephant. On the mainland a large piece of drapery with information about the Nile is encircled by two angels and Father Nile. Dedicated to Eccelenza del signor Gran Contestabile Colonna; Prime meridian through Ferro Island., Venice. Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718
Identifier: islandora:25431

Title: L'Afrique Divisee en ses Empires, Royaumes et Etats Dressees Sur Les Dernieres Observations
Subject: Africa
Description: Identical to Jaillot's map (see NOR 0046), except for the scale; Prime meridian through Ferro Island. This map was also published by Covens and Mortiers, William Berry and R. and J. Ottens., Amsterdam. Elwe, Jan Barend
Identifier: islandora:25371

Title: Le Kef
Subject: El Kef (Tunisia)--Maps,
Description: Map of the region surrounding Le Kef in El Kef Governorate, northwestern Tunisia near the border of Algeria, showing state, administrative, district and communal boundaries, with magnetic declination, long distance roads, communication routes, local highways, irregularly maintained dirt roads, logging roads and mule tracks, remains of Roman roads, stone bridges, suspended bridges with supports, footbridges, ferries, fords navigable by vehicle or foot, rivers, forests, marshes, dunes, vines, water sources dry in summer, churches, chapels or holy places, houses, wells and fountains, water and wind mills, fixed and rotating lighthouses, port lights, cannons, cemetries, irrigation canals, trigonometric points, telegraphs, posts. Colour. relief shown by form lines, contours and shading. Scale 1 : 50.000.
Identifier: islandora:19075

Title: L'Afrique divisee suivant l'estendue de ses principales parties, ou sont distinque's les uns des autres, les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes, Estats et Peuples qui partagent aujourd'hui L'Afrique sur les relations les plus nouvelles
Subject: Africa
Description: A lion, elephant, leopard, camel and crocodile surround the scales which are in Italian, French and Spanish. Title across top: L'Afrique distinguee en ses principales parties scavoir la Barbarie, le Biledulgerid, L'Egypte, le Saara ou le Desert, le Pays des Negres, la Guinee, la Nubie, l'Abissinie, le Zanguebar; le Conge, le Monomotapa, les Cafres, les Isles de Canaries, du Cap Verd, de St. Thomas, l'Isle Dauphine autrement Madagascar ..., Amsterdam. Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651 or 2-1726.
Identifier: islandora:25367

Title: Carte de l'Isle Madagascar dite autrement Madecase et de S. Laurens et aujord'hui L'Isle Dauphine avecque les costes de Cofala et du Mozambique en Afrique
Subject: Africa - Madagascar
Description: Illustrates "sea routes from the west coast of Africa to Mozambique and from Fort Dauphin on the southeast coast of Madagascar to the north, south, and to the east, to India, Surate and Malacca.", Paris. Duval, P. (Pierre), 1619-1682
Identifier: islandora:25327

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

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

Title: Carte de l'Egypte sous les Pharaons
Subject: Africa - Egypt
Identifier: islandora:25492

Title: Orange River irrigation schemes : plan to illustrate the reports of inspection made by A. S. le Roex and H. C. Litchfield of the Public Works Department, October, 1896
Subject: Irrigation--South Africa--Northern Cape--Maps, Orange River--Maps,
Description: A map showing Government lands, farms and irrigable lands along the Orange River from the border with German territory, along the border with Bechuanaland and the Division of Hay above the river, Kenhardt, Prieska and Hope Town below the river, with other rivers. Some colour. Scale 1 2/8 inch to 10 miles.
Identifier: islandora:25101

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