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Title: Medjez-el-Bab
Subject: Medjez-el-Bab (Tunisia)--Maps,
Description: Map of the region surrounding Medjez-el-Bab in northern 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, batteries, cemetries, irrigation canals, trigonometric points, telegraphs, posts. Colour. Relief in hill shading and form lines and contours. Scale 1 : 50.000.
Identifier: islandora:19092

Title: Map of Cape Town (central)
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Bulletin ; no. 141, Map shows principal streets and places of interest including the Company Gardens, the Public Library (National Library of South Africa), St George's Cathedral, the opera house, Tivoli Music Hall, the Old Supreme Court Buildings (Slave Lodge), University of Cape Town, Cartwright's Corner (the halting place for all trams), Monument Station, The Alhambra, Wolfram's Bioscope, the Railway Institute, the Boer War Memorial, the Art Gallery, the War Memorial, the offices of the Deutsche Ost Afrika Linie, the Michaelis School of Art, public conveniences and the position of several statues., Map shows quarter, half and three-quarters of a mile radius lines from the city centre., Inset: Cape Peninsula. Scale 1: 354 816. 1 in. to 5.6 miles., Advertisements on verso of map.
Identifier: islandora:19915

Title: Fort Lallemand
Subject: Fort Lallemand (Algeria)--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing Fort Lallemand, in the Ouargla Department of Algeria, and international, intercolonial or mandate, provincial and district boundaries, with metalled roads normal routes, narrow paths, tramways, main roads, secondary roads, regularly maintained, paths, main, secondary, trails, places by number of inhabitants, small settlements, state forests, olive tree forests, swamp, non-perennial rivers/watercourses, wells: source, reinforced towers, churches, chapels, mosques, ruins, mines, lighthouses, reinforced towers, mines. Relief shown by form lines, hachures, height in metres. Colour. Special edition IX. Scale 1: 500 000.
Identifier: islandora:19174

Title: Meknes
Subject: Meknès (Morocco)--Maps, ,
Description: Map with hypsometric tints shows the area around Meknès, northern Morocco. tints, using the Southern Zone Layer System for altitudes, with boundaries, roads, springs, wells, fortified places and other place names. Relief shown by form lines, heights in metres. Colour. Scale about 1 inch to 10 miles.
Identifier: islandora:19151

Title: Port-Étienne
Subject: Nouadhibou (Mauritania)--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing Port - Etienne, the second largest city in Mauritania with towns of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th importance, native villages, international, international undemarcated, intercolonial or mandate, provincial and district boundaries, rivers with falls, nonperennial rivers, canals, lakes, salt lakes, low ground liable to temporary flood, marsh, ground liable to flooding, oasis, sandy desert, contours, formlines, railways, railways under construction, metalled roads 1st class, all weather motor roads, seasonal roads, other tracks paths or explores routes, telegraph and telephone lines, telegraph and telephone lines along roads and tracks, post offices and post offices with telegraphs or telephones, wireless telegraph stations, minarets, mosques, fortified houses, lighthouses, ruins, waterpoints: wells and pools, mines and quarries, trig points, heights in metres, depths in metres. Relief shown by form lines and hachures. Colour. 2nd edition. Scale 1: 1,000,000.
Identifier: islandora:19211

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

Title: South Africa : rainfall in May from the averages of observations
Subject: Rain and rainfall--South Africa--Maps, Rain and rainfall--South Africa--Measurement--Maps,
Description: Map of South Africa showing the mean annual rainfall for the month of May, rainfall stations, railways, roads, rivers, and plateaus. Relief shown by hachures. Some colour. Scale: 1 in. to 100 English miles. Projection not given.
Identifier: islandora:30044

Title: Cape of Good Hope. Rietfontein and surrounding country
Subject: Rietfontein Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Northern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Topographical map indicating Rietfontein and other towns and villages, roads, farms, kraals, rivers, springs, pans, vleis, wells, dams, drifts, mountains, dunes and other terrain in the area surrounding Rietfontein., Relief shown by shading, form lines and spot heights., Projection not given., Map folds into an outer cover., "Cape of Good Hope reconnaissance series."--Cover., Mounted on cloth.
Identifier: islandora:24913

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: Northern Portion of Sketch Map of Ngamiland (Including Western portion of Caprivi Strip) and Ghanzi
Subject: Surveying, Ngamiland, Botswana (District)--Description and travel--Maps, Ghanzi, Botswana (District)--Description and travel--Maps, , , ,
Description: Map showing routes of the northern portion of Ngamiland and Ghanzi, with areas perrenially flooded, areas flooded in normal flood seasons, beaten and unbeaten wagon tracks, other tracks, rivers and dried up rivers, pans, native names of districts or veldts, rough contours, forests, bushes or shrubs, reed or papyrus beds in swamps, distances by road, and other notes. Scale 1:500,000 or 1 inch = 7.9 miles.
Identifier: islandora:29987

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: Carte por l'expédition de l'Amiral Hannon (Hanno ca 500 B.C.)
Subject: Northwestern Africa
Description: Orientation: West at top; Tom. XII pag 51.
Identifier: islandora:25635

Title: Map of the District of Matatiela, sheet no. 1
Subject: Matatiele (South Africa)--Description and travel--Maps, Surveying--South Africa, Land use--South Africa--Matatiele (Eastern Cape),
Description: Map of the District of Matatiela showing Ongeluks Nek, with surrounding areas, commonages, names of places, roads, rivers, district boundaries, and location reserves. Scale 1 English mile to 1 inch.
Identifier: islandora:30008

Title: The Commonage, Van Wyk's Vley. Plan B
Subject: Land capability for agriculture--South Africa--Vanwyksvlei--Maps, Irrigation--South Africa--Vanwyksvlei--Maps,
Description: A map of Van Wyk's Vley showing the main dam and irrigable lands, the Hartebeeste River, two smaller dams, roads and the farms. No scale given.
Identifier: islandora:25120

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: North Africa or Barbary III : Tunis and part of Tripoli
Subject: Northern Africa
Description: London. Baldwin & Cradock
Identifier: islandora:25709

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: Plan of the Operations of the British & Ottoman Forces in Egypt ... March - Sept.,1801 ... French finally expelled
Subject: Africa - Egypt
Description: Enlarged scale inset of north coast (east at top)., London. Arrowsmith, Aaron, 1750-1823
Identifier: islandora:25768

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: Transvaal and Orange Free State. Boshof
Subject: Boshof Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Free State (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Topographical map indicating Boshof, Bloemfontein, Bultfontein, Brandfort and other towns, roads, railways, stations, mountains, salt pans, rivers, spruits and other watering places in the area of Boshof., Relief shown by form lines., Projection not given., Easternmost longitude co-ordinate estimated., Includes index to adjoining sheets., Copies 287, 288 and 290 mounted on cloth. Copy 289 torn slightly.
Identifier: islandora:24887

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