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Title: Transvaal and Orange Free State. Vrede
Subject: Vrede Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Free State (South Africa) -- Maps., Transvaal (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Topographical map indicating Vrede, Frankfort, Cornelia, Lindley and other towns and villages, roads, railways, stations, rivers, spruits, drifts and mountains in the area of Vrede., Relief shown by form lines and spot heights., Projection not given., Easternmost longitude co-ordinate estimated., Includes index to adjoining sheets., Copy 894 is torn slightly and stained in the upper right corner.
Identifier: islandora:24883

Title: Östlicher Planiglob
Subject: Eastern Hemisphere--Maps,
Description: Map of Eastern hemisphere showing Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia ("Neu-Holland"); lines of latitude and longitude; north and south poles. Area boundaries hand-coloured.
Identifier: islandora:30087

Title: Map of mean annual temperature of Southern Rhodesia
Subject: Temperature measurement--Maps, Zimbabwe--Maps, ,
Description: Map of mean annual temperature of Southern Rhodesia, showing the distribution of mean surface temperatures , with shaded areas representing temperatures below 60 degrees Fahrenheit, dotted areas represent temperatures between 60 to 65 degrees Fahrenheit. Also shows broken and solid lines with mean temperatures, districts, cities and towns, international boundaries, and rivers. Includes a pamphlet. Some colour. Scale 1 Inch to 60 Miles.
Identifier: islandora:30026

Title: Transkei
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Transkei (South Africa) -- Maps., Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: 1st ed., This map forms part of the Imperial map of the Cape Colony., The map shows main roads, branch roads, farm roads, rivers, hills, pans, railways, telegraph lines, farm names, farm boundaries, divisional boundaries, outspans and homesteads in the Transkei region., Relief shown by hachures., "South Africa having never been properly surveyed, this map must necessarily contain many inaccuracies.", Projection not given., Printed in black, red, brown and blue., The maps are printed on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24861

Title: Dakar
Subject: Senegal--Maps., Dakar Region (Senegal)--Maps.,
Description: Map of Senegal showing cities, towns, villages, roads, railways, rivers, wetlands, woods, and other features in the region of Dakar., Relief shown by contours., Projection not given.
Identifier: islandora:19561

Title: Map of Cape Town central and neighbouring suburbs
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Map shows tramways, railways, principal buildings, bathing places (including the "New Swimming Baths" at Woodstock), the foreshore area and harbour area, marking Victoria Dock, Alfred Dock and the position of the New Basin. Map gives the distances from Adderley Street to various suburbs and other centres as well as available means of transport. There is additional tourist information on the verso of the map., South African Railways and Harbours.
Identifier: islandora:19894

Title: England to Cape of Good Hope
Subject: Africa - Oceans
Description: East India emblem.
Identifier: islandora:25276

Title: Souk el Khemis
Subject: Souk el Khemis (Tunisia)--Maps,
Description: Map of the region surrounding Souk el Khemis, now an abandoned World War II airfield in the Jendouba Governorate in the northwest of Tunisia, and state, administrative, district and town 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, 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, redoubts or redouts, batteries, cemetries, irrigation canals, trigonometric points, telegraphs, posts. Colour. Relief in hill shading and form lines and contours. Scale 1 : 50.000.
Identifier: islandora:19096

Title: C.G.R. flying survey : Graaff Reinet Middelburg Road, 1896
Subject: Railroads--South Africa--Graaff-Reinet--Maps, Railroads--South Africa--Middelburg (Eastern Cape)--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing proposed railway line from Graaff Reinet, past Middelburg, to meet with the existing railway at Middelburg Road station, with farms, roads and rivers. Some colour. Scale about 3/8 inch to 1 mile.
Identifier: islandora:25134

Title: Africae descriptio
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Scale bar at bottom right is in German miles., The map is crisply engraved and decorated with title set in strapwork cartouche at bottom left. Map depicts a sea monster south of Madagascar, and a sea battle off the coast of C. Negro., Latitude and longitude coordinates are given on all four sides of the map. Details drawn from Richard L. Betz, The mapping of Africa : a cartobibliography of printed maps of the African continent to 1700. 't Goy-Houten : Hes & de Graaf, c2007, p. 211-213., Probably extracted from the Atlas minor (Gerhard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius) Amsterodami: Iudoci Hondij. Arnhemi, 1607., Restored and hinged between acid-free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19732

Title: Kalk Bay
Subject: Kalk Bay (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape Peninsula (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Maps of the Kalk Bay area with sheets for Clovelly, Kalk Bay itself and St James. The maps show streets, roads, the railway line, railway stations, buildings (domestic and business), churches, schools, playing fields, the wash house, rivers, the shore line, Woolley's Pool, Kalk Bay harbour, Dalebrook Pool, Danger Beach, Aquarium Gully and the Kalk Bay pavilion, bathing pool and swimming pool., Relief shown pictorially., The maps are stapled together between 2 covers., 01. Clovelly, EC 95 / surveyed by E. Cuthbert, May 1951 ; drawn by K. Powell, Aug. 1952 -- 02. Clovelly, ED 95 / surveyed by E. Cuthbert, May 1951 ; drawn by M. Ebdon, Aug. 1952 -- 03. Kalk Bay, ED 94 / surveyed by R. Taylor, Dec. 1950 ; drawn by J. Pelczyński, July, 1952 -- 04. Kalk Bay, ED 93 / surveyed by E. Cuthbert, Nov. 1950 ; drawn by K. Powell, March 1952 -- 05. Kalk Bay, EE 95 / surveyed by W. Black, Jan. 1951 ; drawn by A. Spencer-Hicken, July, 1952 -- 06. Kalk Bay, EE 94 / surveyed by R. Taylor, Nov. 1950 ; drawn by A. Spencer-Hicken, June, 1952 -- 07. Kalk Bay, EE 93 / surveyed by E. Cuthbert, Feb. 1951 ; drawn by E. Wagstaffe, J. Pelczyński, Sept. 1952 -- 08. Kalk Bay, EE92 / surveyed by G. Hodgson, Nov. 1950 ; drawn by E. Wagstaffe, July 1952 -- 09. St James, EF 90 / surveyed by F. Bayley, Jan. 1951 ; drawn by A. Spencer-Hicken, Nov., 1951 -- 10. Kalk Bay, EF 92 / surveyed by G. Hodgson, Oct. 1950 ; drawn by K. Powell, June 1952 -- 11. St James, EF 91 / surveyed by E. Hansen, Sept. 1950 ; drawn by M. Ebdon, July 1952 -- 12. St James, EG 91 / surveyed by E. Hansen, P. Wood-Pottle ; drawn by M. Ebdon, Feb. 1951.
Identifier: islandora:19843

Title: Southern Africa
Subject: Southern Africa
Description: An American edition was issued by Inskeep and Bradford in 1815 (see NOR 0186a)., London. Cadell and Davies, Strand, and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme
Identifier: islandora:25739

Title: Lake Abaya
Subject: Lake Abaya (Ethiopia)--Maps, ,
Description: United States Army Air Forces aeronautical chart map showing Lake Abaya in Ethiopia, and parts of Kenya and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and state and international boundaries, with landplane facilities, seaplane facilities, lighting facilities, civil airways, air navigation hazards, air defence zones or vital defence areas, radio fan markers, radio marker beacons, non-directional radiobeacons, radio ranges, airport control towers, radio direction finder stations, radiobeacons, radio communication stations, radio broadcasting stations, streams, rivers, lakes and coastlines, rapids and falls, canals, chartered rocks, springs, wells and water holes, tidal flats, glaciers, swamps and marshes, reefs and shoals, all open water areas, mud flats, cities, villages and towns, highways and roads, road markers, power transmission lines, telephone and telegraph lines, dams, highest elevation on chart, spot elevations (in feet), mines and quarries, mountain passes, lookout towers, forts, pipelines, oil fields, race tracks, railroads, railroad sidings, abandoned railroads, railroad overpasses, railroad underpasses, bridges, tunnels, hachures (elevation in feet) sand areas, sand dune areas, sand ridges, unusual land features, washes, contours, approximate contours, depression contours, lava flows, bluffs, cliffs and escarpments. Relief shown by hachures, contour lines with approximate height in feet, tinted shading. Colour. First edition. Lambert Conformal conic projection. Scale 1 : 1,000,000.
Identifier: islandora:19142

Title: Witbank-Middelburg coalfield
Subject: Coal mines and mining--South Africa--Mpumalanga--Maps, Coal--South Africa--Witbank, Coal--South Africa--Middelburg, ,
Description: Map of Witbank and Middelburg Coalfield showing collieries administered by the Central Mining-Rand Mines Group, with names of places, collieries producers, collieries non-producers, railways, rivers, and roads. Some colours. Scale 1:120,000.
Identifier: islandora:30024

Title: Laingsburg
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Laingsburg Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Western Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This map forms part of the Imperial map of the Cape Colony., The map shows grand trunk roads, trunk roads, branch roads, farm roads, rivers, hills, pans, railways, telegraph lines, homesteads, farm names, farm boundaries and divisional boundaries in the Laingsburg area., Relief shown by hachures., The Imperial map of the Cape Colony was "compiled by the Field Intelligence Division or Department of the British Army in Cape Town during the second Anglo-Boer War. ... [P.H. du P.] Casgrain ... superintended its production ..." (Board, C. "Certainly better than nothing at all" : a re-examination of the Imperial map of South Africa 1899-1902. Proceedings of the 21st International Cartographic Conference, Durban, 2003. Available online: http://icaci.org/files/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2003/Papers/109.pdf (accessed 5 Sept. 2012))., "This map is not to be considered as absolutely accurate"., Projection not given., Printed in black and red., Map folds into an outer cover., The map is mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24838

Title: Guinea
Subject: Western Africa
Description: The cartouche contains an oval-shapped title surrounded by angels. Interior contains small animals and towns. A partial compass rose radiates rhumb lines. Calligraphy appears similar to Blaeu., London. Ogilby, John, 1600-1676
Identifier: islandora:25320

Title: Congo Belge. Katanga. Feuille Sakania
Subject: Sakania (Congo)--Maps, Katanga (Congo)--Maps, ,
Description: Map of Sakania region in Belgian Congo in the far south near the border of Rhodesia, showing colonial and district boundaries, with triangulation points of second and third orders and points determining the plane tables, rivers, rapids and waterfalls, motor routes, old traction routes, cycle paths and routes of indigenous importance, indigenous paths, contours, power lines, railways, important European communities, commercial, agricultural, industrial establishments, mines and quarries, small indigeneous communities, important indigeneous communities, grasslands and soil run offs, marsh, Savanah wood area. Relief is shown in form lines, contours and landform drawings. Colour. Scale 1 : 200.000.
Identifier: islandora:25032

Title: Agades
Subject: Agadez (Niger : Department)--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing Agades In Niger, with international, intercolonial, provincial and district borders. It also shows towns, contours, swamps, rivers with falls, sandy deserts, canals, lakes salt lakes, low ground liable to temporary floods, marsh, oasis, railways, railways under construction, metalled roads, all weather motor roads, seasonal roads, other tracks paths or explorers routes, telegraph and telephone lines along roads and tracks, post offices, wireless telegraph stations, mosques, lighthouses, ruins, water points, wells, mines and quaries trig points, heights in metres and depths in metres. 3rd edition. Relief shown by form lines. Colour. Scale 1 : 1 000 000.
Identifier: islandora:19247

Title: Madagascar
Subject: Protestant Churches--Missions--Madagascar--History, Madagascar--Description and travel--Maps, Protestant churches--Missions--Madagascar--Maps, ,
Description: Map of Madagascar showing protestant mission stations, names of places, Channel of Mozambique, islands, rivers, and an inset map. Some colours. Scale 100 English Miles to 1 Inch.
Identifier: islandora:29993

Title: Africa
Subject: Africa
Description: Similar to Abraham Ortelius map of Africa. Includes a scroll-type cartouche, with a lion's head on the lower border. Sea monsters and sailing vessels occupy the stippled sea., Spain. Solis, Hermando de
Identifier: islandora:25237

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