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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: Africa
Subject: Africa -- Maps.
Description: Includes colour-coded legend indicating British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and other possessions., Relief shown by hachures., Text on top right of map: "Stieler's Schul-Atlas No. XVIII.", Restored and hinged between acid free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19742

Title: German East Africa. Mpápua
Subject: Mpwapwa Region (Tanzania) -- Maps., German East Africa -- Maps.
Description: Map showing towns, villages, international boundaries, railways, roads, tracks, telegraph lines, post and telegraph offices, heights in metres above sea level, mission stations, ruins, and "Mbuga" ("Low Country, often swampy in rainy season") in the Mpápua area., Relief shown by form lines and spot heights., Projection not given., Grid reference: GDE., Index no.: D5.
Identifier: islandora:24788

Title: German East Africa. Kalula
Subject: German East Africa -- Maps.
Description: 2nd ed. (Railway rev.)., Map showing towns, villages, international boundaries, railways, roads, tracks, telegraph lines, post and telegraph offices, heights in metres above sea level, mission stations, ruins, and "Mbuga" ("Low Country, often swampy in rainy season") in the Kalula area., Relief shown by form lines and spot heights., Projection not given., Map does not have additional reference grid., Index no.: D3.
Identifier: islandora:24775

Title: Africa, political divisions
Subject: Africa -- Boundaries -- Maps.
Description: Map of Africa showing political boundaries, treaty boundaries (with dates), undefined boundaries and telegraph cables., "Supplement to The African Review, 1st February, 1896"., African Review (London, England)
Identifier: islandora:19663

Title: Sources of mine native labour
Subject: Labour--Southern Africa--History--Maps, Contract labor--Southern Africa--Maps, Miners--Southern Africa--Recruitment, ,
Description: Map of Southern Africa showing native mine workers' recruiting stations of the Native Recruiting Corporation (N.R.C.) and the Witwatersrand Native Labour Association (W.N.L.A.), international boundaries, native transport routes, names of places, and rivers. Illustrated. Scale: 1.5 in. to 100 Statute Miles.
Identifier: islandora:29948

Title: Central and South Africa
Subject: Africa, Southern -- Maps., Africa, Central -- Maps.
Description: Politically colour-coded map of central Africa and South Africa showing Cameroon, Fernando Po, Spanish Guinea, French Equatorial Africa, Belgian Congo, Uganda, German East Africa, Portuguese East Africa, Nyasaland Protectorate, Northern Rhodesia, Angola, South West Africa, Bechuanaland Protectorate and British Bechuanaland, Transvaal, Orange Free State, Basutoland, Swaziland and the Cape of Good Hope. The map indicates railways (open, under construction and projected), telegraph cables and steamer routes., Bar scale on map in English miles., Map folds into a cover., Insets: East London - street plan. Scale [ca. 1:40 234]; Port Elizabeth - street plan. Scale [ca. 1:40 234]; Table Bay and Table Mountain with topographical detail indicated by contour lines. Scale [ca. 1:40 234]; Cape Town - street plan. Scale [ca. 1:40 234]; Lourenco Marques, Delagoa Bay - showing an outline street plan and soundings in the English River. Scale [ca. 1:40 234]; Durban - street plan. Scale [ca. 1:40 234]; Part of England and Wales on same scale as large map; Coastal area of German East Africa and southern Kenya, showing Mombasa, Shimba, Usambara, Ukhuere, Udoe and Bagamoyo and the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba. Scale [ca. 1:2 145 792].
Identifier: islandora:19770

Title: Pascaerte van't westelycke deel van Oost Indien, van Cabo de Bona Esperanca tot C. Comorin
Subject: Indian Ocean -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: The map shows the eastern portion of the African continent from Egypt in the north to the Cape of Good Hope in the south, the Indian Ocean and its islands including Madagascar, Yemen and Arabia, Persia and the western coast of India. The cartouche shows a map and a woman standing on either side of the text scroll with two children carrying parasols perched atop the scroll, another child talking to the woman and a further child sitting on the scale statement box. There are two engravings of sailing ships in the Indian Ocean., Depths are indicated by soundings and ocean shallows are marked with dotted shading., The bar scales on the map are given in Dutch, Spanish, English and French miles., Oriented with north to the left., This map has been damaged in the cartouche and scale areas. The cartouche is partially hand-coloured. Some text is missing.
Identifier: islandora:19569

Title: A map of Zaara, Negroe-Land, Guinea etc.
Subject: Africa, North -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Africa, West -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: With one inset: "The Isles of C. Verd. [Cape Verde Islands]"., Map shows countries in West Africa and North Africa, including off-shore islands, rivers and mountains. Countries indicated are Guinea, Nigeria, Gold Coast, Côte d’Ivoire, and the Sahara Desert., Moll, Herman, d. 1732. Atlas manuale, or, A new sett of maps of all the parts of the earth, as well Asia, Africa and America, as Europe. London : Printed for A. and J. Churchil[l] and T. Childe, 1709. v. 32, p. 33
Identifier: islandora:19715

Title: Africa XVIII
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Hand coloured, undated photographic reproduction of Sebastian Munster's woodcut by Arthur Elliot, Cape Town., Relief shown pictorially., Original published in: Cosmographiae uniuersalis ... / autore Sebast. Munstero ... (Basiliae : Apud Heinrichum Petri, 1544).
Identifier: islandora:19658

Title: Principales routes et pistes de L'Afrique Français
Subject: Africa, French-speaking Equatorial--Maps, , ,
Description: Map showing major roads and tracks in eastern French Equatorial Africa, including Chad, the Central African Republic and French Cameroon, and parts of Libya, Niger, and the Western Sudan, with international and colonial boundaries, capital towns, railways, hotels, campsites, telephone and telegraph offices, wireless telegraph posts, petrol depots, chief and advanced posts of the Saharan Company. Some colour. Relief shown by hachures and form lines. Scale 1 : 2.500.000. [Coordinates estimated]
Identifier: islandora:19352

Title: German East Africa. Daressalam
Subject: Dar es Salaam (Tanzania : Region) -- Maps., German East Africa -- Maps.
Description: Map showing towns, villages, international boundaries, railways, roads, tracks, telegraph lines, post and telegraph offices, heights in metres above sea level, mission stations, ruins, and "Mbuga" ("Low Country, often swampy in rainy season") in the Dar es Salaam area., Relief shown by form lines and spot heights., Projection not given., Grid reference: GDF., Index no.: D6.
Identifier: islandora:24768

Title: L'Afrique dressée selon les derniers relations et suivant les nouvelles decouvertes dont les points principaux sont placez sur les observations de Messieurs de l'Academie Royal des Sciences
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Restored and hinged between acid-free boards., Scale on map: "10 degrez de l'Equat[o]r qui font 200 grande Lieues de France a 20 au degrez"., From Nicholas de Fer's L'Atlas Curieux ou le Monde. The map, which features a strange interpretation of the continent of Africa, includes several mythical features including a second island of St. Helena. The map also includes a description of the circumnavigation of the Cape of Good Hope by Diaz in 1486. See Betz: The mapping of Africa: a cartobibliography of printed maps of the African continent to 1700 (’t Goy-Houten: Hes & de Graaf, c2007): 170.3;Tooley: Collectors' guide to maps of the African continent and southern Africa (London: Carta Press, 1969): 45 and http://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/20992/LAfrique_Dressee_Selon_les_dernieres_Relat_1717/De%20Fer.html (accessed 30 September 2009).
Identifier: islandora:19735

Title: Southern Africa
Subject: Southern Africa--Discovery and exploration--Maps, Southern Africa--Description and travel--Maps, Southern Africa--Kingdoms--Maps, ,
Description: An early map of southern Africa without boundaries, showing kingdoms, names of kings, with images of ships, descriptions of Hottentot women, South East islands and Southern and Eastern Parts, and rivers. Some colours. No scale given.
Identifier: islandora:29932

Title: German East Africa. Karḗma
Subject: Karema Region (Tanzania) -- Maps., German East Africa -- Maps.
Description: Map showing towns, villages, international boundaries, railways, roads, tracks, telegraph lines, post and telegraph offices, heights in metres above sea level, mission stations, ruins, and "Mbuga" ("Low Country, often swampy in rainy season") in the Karḗma area., Relief shown by form lines and spot heights., Projection not given., Grid reference: GDA, GDB., Index no.: D.2. & part of D.1.
Identifier: islandora:24777

Title: Africa, with all its states, kingdoms, republics, regions, islands, etc.
Subject: Africa--Description and travel--History--Maps, Africa--History--Maps,
Description: An early map of Africa showing states, kingdoms, republics, regions, islands, and names of kings, with a chart of the Gold Coast, wherein are distinguished all the European forts and factories, and also a summary description relative to the trade and natural produce, manners and customs of the African continent and islands. Some colours. Scale: 2.8 in. to 400 English miles. No projection given.
Identifier: islandora:29951

Title: Garnison-umgebungs-Karte von Massoko
Subject: German East Africa -- Maps.
Description: Environmental map of the area surrounding the German garrison in the Masoko and Kilwa regions of German East Africa. The map shows the permanent military base, towns, mission stations, passable roads, footpaths, banana groves cultivated by the African people, banana groves in the grounds of the leprosy hospital, protected forest areas, the north western shoreline of Lake Nyasa, other lakes and dams, flowing and dry-bed rivers, hills and mountains., Relief shown by contours., "Lithogr. u. druck v. Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen) Berlin." "Stich von M. Hillmann, Terrain von M. Thiel." "Mitteilungen aus den deutschen Schutzgebieten, Band xxvi. 1913." "Karte II."
Identifier: islandora:19512

Title: Tribal map of eastern Africa
Subject: Tribes--Africa, East--Maps, Tribes--Malawi--Maps, Tribes--Tanzania--Maps, Tribes--Zambia--Maps, , ,
Description: Map of east Africa, showing the territories of the tribes of Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland and Tanganyika, with capitals of territories, principal towns, localities or villages, rivers and railways. The map also shows parts of the neighbouring countries of Angola, Belgian Congo and Mozambique. Some colour. Relief shown by form lines and hachures. First edition. Scale 1 : 3.000.000.
Identifier: islandora:19322

Title: Mappa geographica exhibens religionem Catholicam alicubi per Africam sparsam
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Map depicts the spread of the Roman Catholic Church across the continent of Africa and depicts the sites of dioceses and archbishoprics as well as mission stations. The map boasts an elaborate cartouche and a large illustration featuring the crucifixion with clergy and African converts at the foot of the cross.
Identifier: islandora:19661

Title: Plan of the Tati Territory
Subject: Tati District (Botswana)--History--Maps, Africa, Southern--History--Maps, Land use--Botswana--Tati District,
Description: Plan of the Tati Territory, between Shashi River and Ramaquabane River (Bechuanaland Protectorate and Rhodesia) showing districts, native reserve, farms, roads, railways, names of places and rivers. Scale 1600 Cape roods = 1 inch.
Identifier: islandora:29988

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