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Title: Vue et Description du Cap de Bonne Esperance
Subject: Africa - Cape of Good Hope
Description: Two views of the Cape. Inset: Le fort des Hollandois au Cap du Bonne Esperance. Top right: Tom. VI, No. 17, Pag. 74., Paris. Chatelain, Henri Abraham; Gueudeville, Nicolas, ca. 1654-ca. 1721.
Identifier: islandora:25221

Title: Plan van de geproclameerde Goud Velden te Witwatersrand, Z.A.R
Subject: Africa
Description: Photocopy. "This diagram is of great historical importance, as it is believed to be the first diagram depicting the location of the village of Johannesburg on government ground, and the first diagram showing the location of Mynpachts, mining right leases on Witwatersrand gold fields ... ". Inset: Lyst van Mynpachten Toegestaan., Pretoria. Landmeter Generaal's Kantoor
Identifier: islandora:25467

Title: Carte particuliere des Costes de l'Afrique depuis C. del Gado jusques Rio Mocambo, et les Isles aux Environs. Levee Par Ordre Expres de Roys de Portugal sous qui on en a Fait la Decouverte
Subject: Africa - Oceans
Description: Inset: L'Isle Anjoane ou Anjuanny. Sixteen-point compass rose radiates rhumb lines., Amsterdam. Mortier, Pierre
Identifier: islandora:25370

Title: Cimbebas et Caffariae Littora a Catenbela ad Promontorium Bonae Spei. Pascaert van Cimbebas en Caffrares Streckende van Catembela tot Cabo de Bona Esperanca
Subject: Africa - Oceans
Description: Almost identical to the Renard's map (see NOR 0254). Inset: De Ommelanden van de Caap de Goede Hoop met de Saldanha, Tafel en Falso Baien in Groot Bestek., Amsterdam. Ottens, R. (Reinier), 1698-1750; Ottens, J. (Josua), 1704-1765
Identifier: islandora:25425

Title: Basse Aethiopie qui Comprend les Royaume de Congo, Coste, et Pays des Cafres, Empires du Monomotapa, et Monoemugi
Subject: Southern Africa
Description: "The fictitious states are given fictious boundaries and the interior is marked with large cities such as Vigiti Magna and Monomotapa.", Paris. Mariette, Pierre, 1603-1657
Identifier: islandora:25344

Title: Carte de l'Egypte, de Ia Nubie, de l'Abissinie
Subject: Northern Africa
Description: Companion map (see NOR 0297). Includes Horn of Africa, Arabia and a portion of Persia. Top right: 22., Amsterdam. Covens, Jean; Mortier, Corneille
Identifier: islandora:25386

Title: Carte Reduite de la Cote Meridionale d'Afrique, depuis Ia Baye de Saldagne jusqu'au Cap des Courans
Subject: Africa - Oceans
Description: Inset: Plan de la Baye St. Blaise. Plan de la Baye de Formose ou Mossel-Baye. Plan de la Bay de Lagoa. Top right: 11.
Identifier: islandora:25446

Title: Afrique publicee sous les auspices de Monseigneur le Duc d'Orleans Primier Prince du Sang
Subject: Africa
Description: Similar features to Clouet's map (see NOR 0088). Large wall map of two double-folding sheets. Inset of Azores; Prime meridian through Ferro Island., Paris. Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782
Identifier: islandora:25782

Title: Totius Africae Accuratissima Tabula, Authore Frederico de Wit, Amstelodami
Subject: Africa
Description: Watermark, Amsterdam. Wit, Frederik de
Identifier: islandora:25499

Title: Oost Indien van Cabo de Bona Esperanca tot Ceilon
Subject: Africa - Cape of Good Hope
Description: "The top of the cartouche shows a large open-mouthed animal with its fangs overlapping the top edge." The Indian Ocean contain two compass roses with radiating rhumb lines., Amsterdam. Colom, Arnold
Identifier: islandora:25348

Title: Carte de l'Ile de Madagascar dite aujourd'hui i'Ile Daufine
Subject: Africa - Madagascar
Description: "The margins are illustrated in color with eleven descriptive vignettes of the dress, the events and the life of the inhabitants." French text below map describes the people of Madagascar and the topography. Title across top: Carte de I'Ile de Madagascar contenent sa description et diverses particularitez curieuses de ses habitans tant blanc que negres. Top right: Tom. VI No. 34 Pag. 142., Amsterdam. Chatelain, Henri Abraham
Identifier: islandora:25331

Title: Carte Reduite d'une partie des costes occidentales et meridionales de l'afrique depuis Cabo Frio ou Cap Froid par les 19 degres de latitude merid. jusqu'a la baye S. Blaise pour servir aux vaissaux de la francais ... par ordre de M. Rouille
Subject: Southwestern Africa
Description: Five editions of this chart were printed. Inset: Views of Cape of Good Hope, Cape Agulhas and False Bay headland; Prime meridian through Paris, Ferro Island, Tenerife, Cap Lezard and London. Top right: 90., Paris. Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772
Identifier: islandora:25747

Title: Delineatio Promontorii, Quod Cabo de bona Esperanca vulgo vocatur
Subject: Africa - Cape of Good Hope
Description: The seas contain sea monsters, sailing ships, natives paddling a canoe and two compass roses. Part of folio map with Latin text on bottom. "The map also appears in Indiae Orientalis Pars, IX (Verhoefs voyage to the Moluccas, 1607-1609), by de Bry, published in Frankfurt in 1612, with a Latin edition 1607-1612." Top right: III. Bottom right: GK., Frankfurt. Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Identifier: islandora:25220

Title: L'Afrique Dressee pour l'etude de la Geographie
Subject: Africa
Description: French text within the decorative borders provide detailed description of Africa; Prime meridian through Ferro Island., Paris. Brion de la Tour, Louis; Desnos, L.C.
Identifier: islandora:25321

Title: Cimbebas et Caffariae Littora a Catenbela ad Promontorium Bonae Spei. Pascaerte van Cimbebas en Caffrares Streckende van Catembela tot Cabo de Bona Esperanca
Subject: Africa - Oceans
Description: Similar to Ottens map (see NOR 0255). Surrounding the cartouche is a group of lions, a leopard, goat and a snake. Lower corner, a group led by Neptune. Battling ships and two compass roses with rhumb lines decorate the Atlantic., Amsterdam. Renard, Louis
Identifier: islandora:25695

Title: L'Afrique divisee selon le tendue de tous ses etats assujetti aux observations astronomiques avec des nottes historiques et geographiques touchant les naturels de ce continent
Subject: Africa
Description: Includes the Mediterranean, Turkey, Arabia and the Middle East. "Borders consist of columns of historical and geographical descriptions." Dedication: Dediee et presentee a Messire Bertrand Rene Pallu; Prime meridian through Ferro Island., Lyon. Daudet
Identifier: islandora:25468

Title: Carte Particuliere des Costes de l'Afrique depuis Cabo Ledo jusques au Cap de Bone Esperance. Levee par Ordre Expres des Roys de Portugal sous qui on en a fait la Decouvert
Subject: Africa - Oceans
Description: The compass rose radiate rhumb lines. Inset: map of Saldanha Bay., Amsterdam. Mortier, Pierre
Identifier: islandora:25329

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