Search results

Title: |Xam man taken at De Beers mines, Kimberley
Subject: San (African people)--Africa, Southern, San (African people)--Africa, Southern--Pictorial works, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Men--Africa, Southern, Hunting and gathering societies--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: This image was included in Alfred Martin Duggan Cronin's The Bantu tribes of South Africa : reproductions of photographic studies, the outcome of his major ethnographic research study of the San of Southern African.
Identifier: islandora:26410

Title: [De l'Afrique]
Subject: Africa
Description: Overall size 31.5 x 55 cm. 2 panels of text; Some MS place-names.
Identifier: islandora:25554

Title: Partie Meridionale D'Afrique ou se trouvent La Basse Guinee, La Cafrerie, Le Monomotapa, Le Monoemugi, Le Zanguebar et L'Isle de Madagascar
Subject: Southern Africa
Description: Legend states the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope by Bartholomew Diaz in 1486. Cartouche includes a galleon and a whale., Paris. Fer, Nicolas de, 1646-1720
Identifier: islandora:25302

Title: Carte Reduite de L'ocean Meridional
Subject: Africa - Southern oceans
Description: Numerous rhumb lines extend over the southwest coast of Africa and South America. Prime meridian through Paris, Tenerife, Cap Lezard, London and Ferro Island., Paris. Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772
Identifier: islandora:25745

Title: L'Afrique dressee sur les observations de Ms. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, et quelques autres, et sur les memoires les plus recens
Subject: Africa
Description: Issued a revised edition in 1722. L'Isle was the first to give the correct longitude, 42 degrees, to the Mediterranean and the first to discard Lakes Zaire and Zaflan; Prime meridian through Ferro Island., Paris. L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726
Identifier: islandora:25423

Title: Carte de la Barbarie, le la Nigritie et de la Guinee
Subject: Western Africa
Description: Interior contains large amount of geographical information; Prime meridian through Ferro Island., Paris. L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726
Identifier: islandora:25421

Title: Conophytum taylorianum (Dinter & Schwantes) N.E.Br. subsp. ernianum (Loesch & Tischer) de Boer ex S.A.Hammer
Subject: Namibia, Aizoaceae--Namibia--Pictorial works, Botany--Namibia--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Conophytum taylorianum (Dinter & Schwantes) N.E.Br. subsp. ernianum (Loesch & Tischer) de Boer ex S.A.Hammer. Drawn from a collection made by A. Tischer. [Species endemic to Namibia].
Identifier: islandora:23334

Title: De Mond Nature Reserve
Subject: Vegetation monitoring--Western Cape (South Africa), Plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Botanists--Western Cape (South Africa), ,
Description: District: Bredasdorp, Location: De Mond Nature Reserve., Ecology: Unknown.
Identifier: islandora:4352

Title: Site report and 2 photographs of a rock painting shelter site: Folies Berge, De Vallei, Ceres.
Subject: South Africa--Antiquities, Rock paintings--South Africa, , ,
Description: Handwritten site report, including aerial photographic information and photographs of the paintings found in a rock overhang in De Vallei, Ceres, Western Cape, South Africa. The paintings are of 7 dancing Venusus (girls) in a group with an elephant, a human, vertical lines, in red, antelopes, 3 eland, small men, and indistinct lines and smudges
Identifier: islandora:21972

Title: Carte du Royaume de Congo, du Monomotapa et de la Cafrerie, Dressee sur les Memoires les plus exacts et les observations les plus Nouvelles
Subject: Southern Africa
Description: Based on L'Isles maps. Includes note describing the Congo, Monomotapa and Kaffraria. Contains references to gold, in the form of 'Mines d'Or.' Top right: Tom. VI, No. 15, Pag: 59., Amsterdam. Gueudeville, Nicolas, ca. 1654-ca. 1721
Identifier: islandora:25359

Title: Carte Particulière de la Côte Occidentale de l'Afrique depuis le Cap Blanco jusqu'au Cap de Verga et du Cours des Rivières de Sénéga et de Gambie ... dressé pour la Compagnie des Indes ... MDCCLI
Subject: Western Africa
Description: Watermark (sheet 2)., Paris. Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782
Identifier: islandora:25733

Title: Carte Particuliere de la Mer Rouge & c. Levee Par Ordre Expres des Roys de Portugal, sous qui on en a Fait la Decouverte
Subject: Africa - Oceans
Description: The sea contains two compass roses with rhumb lines. Inset: Island of Zocatora, island and fort of Mombasa., Amsterdam. Mortier, Pierre
Identifier: islandora:25765

Title: L'Afrique Dressee sur les Observations de Ms. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et quelques autres sur les Memoires les plus recens
Subject: Africa
Description: Retains the geographical features of L'Isle's map of 1700 (see NOR 0059). Title across top: Africa Accurate in Imperia, Regna, Status and Populos Divisa, ad Usum Serenissimi Bourgundiae Ducis. Dedicated to the Duke to Burgundy; Prime meridian through Ferro Island., Amsterdam. Covens, Jean; Mortier, Corneille
Identifier: islandora:25384

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: |Xam man taken at De Beers mines, Kimberley
Subject: San (African people)--Africa, Southern, San (African people)--Africa, Southern--Pictorial works, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Men--Africa, Southern, Hunting and gathering societies--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: This image was included in Alfred Martin Duggan Cronin's The Bantu tribes of South Africa : reproductions of photographic studies, the outcome of his major ethnographic research study of the San of Southern African.
Identifier: islandora:26889

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: Site report on rock paintings at De Hoop en Uitkomst, Ceres.
Subject: South Africa--Antiquities, Rock paintings--South Africa, , ,
Description: Handwritten and typed site report on rock paintings at De Hoop en Uitkomst, Ceres, Western Cape, South Africa. The site in south of the farm house in the mountains.
Identifier: islandora:21770

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: Image from rock painting site. Site of De Tronk II, Piketberg, South Africa.
Subject: Rock paintings--South Africa--Western Cape., , ,
Description: Rock painting of human figures in a line in faded red.
Identifier: islandora:21490

Share