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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: Le pays des Hottentots aux environs du Cap de Bonne Esperance
Subject: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Map depicts the coast from St Helena Bay to Mossel Bay and the corresponding area inland., Relief shown pictorially., Text is in French and Dutch., "J. v. Schley direx.", "Lieues Marines de France et d'Angleterre de 20 au Degré." "Lieues d'Allemagne de 15 au Degré.", UCT Libraries hold 2 copies. One copy (566a) is hand coloured; one copy (566b) is uncoloured.
Identifier: islandora:19709

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: Plan du fort et de la ville du Cap de Bonne Esperance :
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Statement of scale: Echelle de trois cent toises; Schaal van 300 halve-roeden., Text in French and Dutch., Restored and hinged between acid-free boards., See also BMSC 6821.g.1 (573) for German version and BMSC 6821.g.1 (423) for French version., Indexed for points of interest including the Grand Parade, Church Square, Slave Lodge, Groote Kerk, VOC Hospital and other buildings, Fiscal’s house and Company Gardens.
Identifier: islandora:19930

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: Views of Cape Town and vicinity
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Pictorial works.
Description: Three sketches: View from the road to Stellenbosch; View from the waste behind Dr Lieschings villa; View of the mountains, on entering Table Bay., The views include numbered and labelled topographical features including Devil's Hill [Peak], Lion's Head, Lion's Rump, Cape Town, Table Bay, Table Mountain, "Van Kamp's Bay" (Camp's Bay) and the mountains in the Stellenbosch region., Printed sketches extracted from Christian Ignatius Latrobe, A journal of a visit to South Africa, in 1815, and 1816. With some account of the missionary settlements of the United Brethren, near the Cape of Good Hope (London : L.B. Seeley, 1818)., Restored and hinged between acid-free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19749

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: [Map of land allotted at the Cape of Good Hope giving the numbers of the plots and also the names of the owners]
Subject: Farm ownership -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History., Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Shows Table Mountain and the surrounding mountains in relief as well as the demarcation, size and ownership of farms on the south eastern side of the mountains and along the Liesbeeck River., Text in Dutch., Poor quality photographic copy of reproduction in the Leupe Collection, Western Cape Provincial Archives and Record Services. See WCARS M1/16., For a rather more detailed version of this area, see BMS.6821.c.1 (405).
Identifier: islandora:19724

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

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: Bird's eye view of Muizenberg
Subject: Muizenberg (South Africa) -- Maps., Muizenberg (South Africa) -- Pictorial works.
Description: Lithographic copy of a watercolour pictorial view of Muizenberg showing houses, roads, bridges, mountain and beach with beach huts and swimmers. Below the painting is a plan showing plots in the Muizenberg (Lakeside) Estate area between the Main Road and "Muizenberg Lake"., Label attached to plan: "The Colonial Investment Corporation, Ltd., Chief Offices: Equitable Chambers, St. George's Street, P O. Box 654, Cape Town."
Identifier: islandora:19902

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