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Title: Tourist map of Vereeniging
Subject: Vereeniging (South Africa)--Description and travel--Maps, Vereeniging (South Africa)--Pictorial works, City planning--South Africa--Vereeniging,
Description: Tourist map of Vereeniging showing streets, roads and railways, parks, golf courses, exits to other cities and towns, and descriptions. Includes illustrations. Coloured. Scale not given.
Identifier: islandora:30027

Title: A new chart of the southern coast of Africa, from the Cape of Good Hope to Dalagoa [sic] Bay, including the Bank of Cape Agulhas, its soundings, currents, within and without &c.
Subject: Shipwrecks -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History -- 18th century., Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Cape Agulhas (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Cape Town (South Africa) -- Pictorial works.
Description: Map shows detailed soundings and other hydrographic information along the Cape coast. Map includes an engraving of "A view of the Cape of Good Hope" showing elevations of Table Mountain ("The Table"), "Devils Burg", "the Sugar Loaf" and "Lyon's Rump". Also depicted are houses and other buildings on the slopes of the mountain and a small rowing boat heading for harbour., "Drawn chiefly from the Papers of Mr Gerard De Ruyter., Captain of the Port at the Cape of Good Hope; with the track of the Worcester, Capt. Hall in 1786.", Extract from note on map: "On Thursday the 17th of July 1755, about a quarter before one in the morning, the Doddington outward bound East Indiaman struck on a rock about 3 leagues from the Main of Africa ... Judging they were on the Madagascar shore, and the passage open, they bore away to the Northward. The time they were lost they saw the breakers and in less than a quarter of an hour went all to pieces ...", This copy of the map is defective and the sections north of 28 degrees 5 minutes and east of 32 degrees are missing. Only the final line of the cartouche is visible. Only the lower portions of the two inset maps ("A Plan of Saldhanha Bay geometrically surveyed in 1752", and, "A Plan of Dalagoa Bay called by the Portuguese Bahia de Lorenzo Marques, and by the French Baye du St. Espirit" remain., Restored and placed between acid-free boards., Robert Laurie and James Whittle.
Identifier: islandora:19655

Title: Vûe et description des forts que les hollandois, anglois et danois ont sur la côte de Guinée
Subject: Ghana -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Fortification -- Ghana -- Pictorial works.
Description: Depictions of forts belonging to Holland, England and Denmark along the coast of West Africa (present-day Ghana). The views border two central panels of text (in French) describing the history of the fortifications., Appears in Atlas historique, ou Nouvelle introduction a l'histoire, à la chronologie & à la géographie ancienne & moderne / Henri Abraham Chatelain. Amsterdam, 1705-1720. Tome VI, no. 14, p. 58., Views: No. 1. Le château S. George d'Elmina ; No. 2. Le fort de Conradsbourg sur la montagne de St. Iago ; No. 3. Le principal château des anglois à Cabacors ; No. 4. Le fort de Nassau à Moure ; No. 5. Le fort des anglois à Annamabon ; No. 6. Le fort d'Amsterdam et Cormantin ; No. 7. Le fort de la Patience à Apam ; No. 8. Le fort des anglois à Simpa ; No. 9. Le fort de Christiansbourg à Acra ; No. 10. Le fort de Crevecœur à Acra ; No. 11. Le fort des anglois à Acra ; No. [12]. Autre vue du château d'Elmina.
Identifier: islandora:19675

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

Title: To the right honourable Charles, Earl of Peterborow and Monmouth, etc this map of Africa according to ye newest and most exact obervations is most humbly dedicated
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Cape Town (South Africa) -- Pictorial works.
Description: Shows portion of Brazil, the island of Trinidada [Trinidad], Cape Virde [Verde] Islands, and the islands of Matheo, Fernando Po, Princes, St Thome, Annaboa, Ascension and St Helena in the Atlantic Ocean. and what is named on the map as the Ethiopia Sea. To the north, the map includes the southernmost portion of Europe, part of Asia, Arabia and the Strait of Babelmandel. In the Indian Ocean, the Comoro Islands, Madagascar, the Mozambique Channel, Mauritius, St Brandon, Diego Rois, the Maldives and other islands are indicated as well as the paths of the trade winds to the East. Ceylon and the Coromandel coast and Malabar in India are also depicted., Relief shown pictorially., "Printed for H. Moll over against Devereux Court without Temple Bar, D. Midwinter at the 3 Crowns in St. Pauls Church yard and Tho. Bowles print and mapseller next to the Chapter house in St. Pauls Church yard, by Philip Overton Map and Printseller near St Dunstans Church Fleet Street.", Prime meridians: London and Ferro., Includes views of "Cape Coast Castle on ye gold coast of Guinea," "James Fort on the island of St Helena", a plan of the "Fort of Good Hope" and "A prospect of the Cape of Good Hope" showing the watering place, the slaughter house, the wall [sea wall], the Lodging House [possibly the old Slave Lodge], the Company's Garden, the hospital, the entertaining house and stall for cattle. Also indicated are Charles Mount or Crown Hill, Windy Hill, the Castle of Good Hope, the Fort of Good Hope, Table Mountain, Sugar Loaf, and James Mount or Lyons Rump.
Identifier: islandora:19759

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