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Title: Carte generale de la Coste de Guinee depuis la Riviere de Sierra Leona jusqu'au Cap de Lopes Gonsalvo : pour servir aux Vaisseaux du Roy / dressee au Depost des Cartes et Plans de la Marine
Subject: Western Africa
Description: Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially; depths by soundings. Includes 6 coastal views; Prime meridians: Cap Lezard and Paris. "No. 54.", Paris?. Depot des cartes et plans de la marine
Identifier: islandora:25762

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: Il disegno della geografia moderna de tutta la parte dell'Africa
Subject: Africa
Description: Rare separate map printed on eight copperplates. The sea is stippled with many ships and sea monsters., Venice. Gastaldi, Giacomo, ca. 1500-ca. 1565
Identifier: islandora:25358

Title: Partie de l'Afrique en deca de l'Equateur
Subject: Northern Africa
Description: Prime meridian through Tenerife., Paris. Desnon, L.C.
Identifier: islandora:25335

Title: Principales routes et pistes de l'Afrique Français
Subject: Railroads--Africa, West--Maps, Africa, West--Boundaries--Maps, ,
Description: The map shows international and intercolonial boundaries, northern boundaries of the southern territories, railway lines, capital cities of the colonies and protectorates, automobile roads, hotels, camping sites, camel routes, post offices, wireless stations, fuel depots, towns and outposts of the Sahara companies. Two insets. Colour. Scale 1:2 500 000. [Coordinates estimated]
Identifier: islandora:19349

Title: Egypte divisée en ses Douze Cassilifs ou Gouvernemens ...Tirée de Sanut
Subject: Africa - Egypt
Identifier: islandora:25547

Title: Carte reduite de l'ocean oriental ou mer des indes ... par ordre de M. de Machault
Subject: Africa - Indian Ocean
Description: The large cartouche is illustrated with trees, foliage, an elephant and a crocodile. Numerous rhumb lines radiate over the mainland; Prime meridian through Ferro Island and Tenerife., Paris. Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772
Identifier: islandora:25761

Title: Charte de L'Afrique
Subject: Africa
Description: Depicts an accurate outline of the continent. The cartouche includes a native surrounded by foliage. Nearby are a monkey, a crocodile and two elephant's tusks., Augsberg. Walch, Jean (fl. Late 18th c.)
Identifier: islandora:25326

Title: Karte des Deutsch-Portugiesischen Grenzgebiets in Südwestafrika
Subject: Angola -- Maps., Namibia -- Maps., Mines and mineral resources -- Namibia., Mines and mineral resources -- Angola.
Description: Map of the German-Portuguese border areas in South West Africa [Namibia] showing the large mining concession companies operating in the Kaokoland area in the Kunene region (Northern Namibia) and the Companhia de Mossamedes in Portuguese West Africa [Angola]. Also shown are farms in private hands, farms held by the Companhia de Mossamedes, military posts, telegraph stations and sites of mineral deposits., Relief shown by shading, hachures and spot heights., Appears in: Mitteilungen aus den Deutschen Schutzgebieten. Band XXV, 1912, 9., "Lithog. u. Druck v. Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen) Berlin."
Identifier: islandora:19543

Title: Pays des Cafres
Subject: Southern Africa
Description: Includes mountain ranges and tribal kingdoms; Top right: 178., Paris. Robert de Vaugondy, Didier, 1723-1786
Identifier: islandora:25414

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: Plan de la Forteresse et Bourg, de l'Isle de Ste. Helene
Subject: Africa - St. Helene
Description: Top right: Tome 3. No. 124., Unknown. Anonymous
Identifier: islandora:25430

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

Title: Carte physique et politique de l'Afrique / par A.H. Brue
Subject: Africa
Description: Hand colored. Shows all of Africa, Madagascar, the Arabian peninsula, bulge of Brazil. Regional outlines and some rivers hand colored; Prime meridian: Paris., Paris. J. Goujon et J. Andriveau
Identifier: islandora:25772

Title: Karte von Hoch Sudan, dem westlichen Nordrande von Hoch-Afrika, dem grössten Theile von Nord Guinea, und den Wassersystemen des Senegal, Gambia, Rio-Grande u. obern Niger
Subject: Africa, West--Maps, Sudan--Maps, , ,
Description: Map of Sudan, the north western edge of Saharan Africa , the greater part of northern Guinea , and the water systems of Senegal, Gambia, Rio Grande and upper Niger. The map indicates expedition routes taken by explores including Alexander Gordon Laing, James Watt and Matthew Winterbottom, Mungo Park, Ralph Durand, and Gaspard-Theodore Mollien. Scale approximately 1:5 000 000.
Identifier: islandora:30094

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