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Title: Le Cape de Bonne Esperance comme il a ete ci-devant
Subject: Africa - Cape of Good Hope
Description: Similar to Valentijn' s map (see NOR 0215). The mountains are numbered and named in the border. 1. Le chateau. 2. Le Petit-Fort. 3. Montagne du lion. 4. Montagne de la Table. 5. Montagne du Vent. 6. Endroit ou tous les Bataeux Viennent., Leiden. Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1733
Identifier: islandora:25282

Title: Map of the Queenstown and Indwe District, to accompany Mr. R.T. Hall's report
Subject: Queenstown (South Africa)- -Maps, Railroads--South Africa--Eastern Cape --Maps,
Description: A map showing elevations, rivers, mountain ranges, roads, railway infrastructure, towns. Relief shown by shading. Scale 1 inch to 5 miles
Identifier: islandora:25158

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: Sketch of road from Ceres Road Sta. to Touws R. via Ceres Village
Subject: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: The map, which traces the road from Ceres Road Station to Touws River via Ceres village, gives details of mountains and mountain ranges, bridges, tolls, mills and vleis. The map also shows sections of the railway line from Cape Town to Touws River Station and indicates the onward line to Beaufort West., Relief shown by hachures., Bar scale in miles.
Identifier: islandora:19594

Title: Engraving of Cape
Subject: Africa - Cape of Good Hope
Identifier: islandora:25218

Title: Burghersdorp
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Burgersdorp Region (Eastern Cape, South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: 1st ed., Map showing towns including Burghersdorp, Albert, Steynsburg, Venterstad, Sterkstroom, Molteno and Maraisburg, with roads, rivers, hills, railways, telegraph lines, farm names, farm boundaries and fences, divisional boundaries, homesteads, cultivated land and trees., "Route taken by Gorringe's Flying Column with ambulance wagon, etc, and heaviest gun 15 pounder." "Other roads." "Bridletracks available for mounted squadrons and pack mules." "Tracks or roads over which guns, etc were taken on the march.", Relief shown by hachures., "G.F.N. Henderson [,] Colonel. Director of Military Inteligence"., "This map is not to be considered as absolutely accurate"., Map folds into an outer cover., Projection not given., The maps are mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24818

Title: Graaff Reinet
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Graaff-Reinet Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This map forms part of the Imperial map of the Cape Colony., The map shows roads, rivers, hills, pans, railways, homesteads, farm names, farm boundaries and divisional boundaries in the Graaff Reinet 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., Co-ordinates not given., Printed in black only., Map folds into an outer cover., The map is mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24827

Title: Map to accompany report on authorized extension of railway system
Subject: Railroads--South Africa--Cape of Good Hope--Maps, ,
Description: A map of northern and eastern parts of the Cape Colony showing an authorised and alternative railway extension from Cradock to Colesberg, joining the authorised and alternative extension from Beaufort West to Hope Town, with towns and other place names, district boundaries, mountains and rivers. Relief shown by hachures. Some colour. No scale given.
Identifier: islandora:25116

Title: Map of Table Mountain
Subject: Cape Peninsula (South Africa) -- Maps., Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: The Mountain Club of South Africa is responsible for the preparation of the map. Lithographed by Van der Sandt de Villiers Printing Company, Ltd., Topographical map of the Table Mountain area including the coastline from Sea Point to Kommetje's Bay [Kommetjie]. The map shows detailed features of Table Mountain including the Central Table, Back Table, Orange Kloof, Victorskloof or Kronen Dal and Modder Gat. It also indicates the location of the major water sources on the mountain including the Woodhead Reservoir, the Hely Hutchinson Reservoir and the Wynberg Reservoirs, as well as the Molteno Dam and the Newlands Reservoir at the foot of the mountain on its north and east flanks. It also shows the Wynberg Disa Stream, the Palmiet River, Camp's Bay Tram station and the route of the Camp's Bay tramline. Other peaks and ridges depicted are the Twelve Apostles, Little Lion's Head, Klaasen Kop and Constantia Nek. The key indicates (a) the Catchment area, Cape Town Waterworks, (b) the Catchment area, Wynberg Waterworks and (c) the Reserve (fenced). Also shown are heights of peaks in English feet., This sheet map was originally issued as a folded map glued into a cover. Both front and back covers of copy 717 are intact but only the back cover of copy 17 is still appended.
Identifier: islandora:19593

Title: Graham's Town and the outposts with their bearings and distances
Subject: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps., Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: South Eastern Cape districts showing Somerset [East], Uitenhage, Albany (Grahamstown, Salem, Bathurst, Post Retief), Victoria (Fort Beaufort, Fort Peddie), King William's Town, and the Great Fish River. Wyld's map features towns, forts and posts with distances between them as well as rivers and mountains.
Identifier: islandora:19526

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:19833

Title: Geological map of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, sheet I
Subject: Geology--South Africa--Maps, Geology, Stratigraphic--Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)--Maps, Basins (Geology)--South Africa--Maps,
Description: Geological map of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope with notes and lines marked A to F, showing superficial deposits, Ecca and Dwyka Series of the Karoo System, Wittenberg, Bokkeveld and Table Mountain Series of the Cape System, French Hoek beds, Malmesbury Series, dolerite and diabase, and qartz-porphyry granite, railways, roads, rivers, mountains, and pans. Coloured. Scale: 1 in. to 5 English miles. Projection not given.
Identifier: islandora:29939

Title: City of Cape Town and environs
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape Town Metropolitan Area (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Text in English and Afrikaans., This coloured version of the 1937 map shows the central business district and the peri-urban and suburban areas of Cape Town including Gardens, Oranjezicht, Vredehoek, Tamboers Kloof, Woodstock, Salt River, Brooklyn, Good Hope model village, Milnerton, Paarden Eiland, Maitland, certificate of registered title for Montagu Gardens, Sanddrift, Tiger Oats Township, Kensington, Windermere, Factreton, Epping plantation, Uitvlugt, Gatesville, Belgravia, Sanatorium Township, Pinelands and the Garden Cities site, Ndabeni, Hazendal, the proposed Bokmakirie Township, Goodwood, Langa, Welcome, Observatory, Mowbray, Rosebank, Rondebosch, Groote Schuur Estate, Kirstenbosch, Newlands, Claremont, Kenilworth, Constantia, Wynberg, Plumstead, Diep River, Heathfield, Retreat, Lotus River, Schaap Kraal, Tokai, Silvermine, Ronde Vlei, Zeekoe Vlei, Grassy Park, Strandfontein Coast Forest Reserve, Montagu's Gift, Ilfracombe Estate, Dreyersdal, Lakeside, Muizenberg, St James, Kalk Bay, Clovelly, Fish Hoek, Glencairn, Red Hill, Simonstown, Simon's Bay, Kommetjie, Sweet Water, Witsands, Noordhoek, Scarborough, Hout Bay, Chapman's Peak, Kronendal, Oude Kraal, Bakoven, Camps Bay, Clifton, Sea Point, Fresnaye, Green Point, Mouille Point and Table Bay harbour., The map also shows municipalities, streets, buildings, erven with property numbers, "native locations", Table Mountain, the Twelve Apostles and other mountains, rivers and dams, salt pans, forested areas, sports and recreation grounds, Kenilworth Race Course, golf courses, aerodromes (including the air mail aerodrome site), hospitals and sanatoria including Groote Schuur, Valkenberg, Rentzkie's Farm Isolation hospital, Oude Molen Mental Hospital, the Alexandra Institution and the Chronic Sick home, churches, railway lines, railway stations, power stations, the zoo, the University of Cape Town, lighthouses, cemeteries and burial grounds., Relief shown pictorially., Dimensions of the printed sheets: 89 x 113 cm. or smaller., The library does not hold a full printed set of the 1937 edition of this map and this coloured digital set is incomplete. These digital copies of sheets 2, 3 and 4 of the series have been made available through the generosity of the Environmental Resource Management Department of the Cape Town City Council.
Identifier: islandora:19888

Title: Carte de l'Afrique méridionale au pays entre la ligne Cap de Bonne Espérance et l'Isle de Madagascar
Subject: Slaves -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History., Farm ownership -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History., Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Africa, Southern -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: The details regarding Elizabeth, Nicolas Visscher's widow, are drawn from Gallica, Bibliothèque Nationale de France: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b7759505j.notice. See also: Atlas nouveau … by Guillaume de L'Isle (Amsterdam: Covens & Mortier, 1730); R.V. Tooley, Collectors’ guide to maps of the African continent and Southern Africa (London: Carta Press, 1969), p. 120; Norwich's maps of Africa : an illustrated and annotated carto-bibliography (Norwich, Vt. : Terra Nova Press, 1997), map 180 (note)., The inset of the Cape of Good Hope is of particular importance. It indicates the presence of slaves on Robben Island ("daar de Slaven in de Ketting loopen"). It also gives "extensive detailed and fairly accurate topographical information ... together with the names of owners of farms and plots of that period. Amongst these are de Beer, Swart Pieter, Martin de Smit, Roelof Pasman, Gerrit Kloeton, and the French Huguenot settlement. These place names add considerably to the knowledge of the history of the ... Cape of Good Hope"--Norwich's Maps of Africa, p. 203., Three insets: "Élévation du Port et Mont Table au Cap de Bonne Espérance" (5 x 11 cm); "Plan du Port et Mont Table au Cap de Bonne Espérance" (10 x 11 cm); "[Cabo de Bona Esperanca]" (13 x 23 cm)., Text primarily in French. The inset of the Cape is also in Dutch with some Portuguese notations., Restored and hinged between acid-free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19819

Title: City of Cape Town and environs
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape Town Metropolitan Area (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Text in English and Afrikaans., This coloured version of the 1937 map shows the central business district and the peri-urban and suburban areas of Cape Town including Gardens, Oranjezicht, Vredehoek, Tamboers Kloof, Woodstock, Salt River, Brooklyn, Good Hope model village, Milnerton, Paarden Eiland, Maitland, certificate of registered title for Montagu Gardens, Sanddrift, Tiger Oats Township, Kensington, Windermere, Factreton, Epping plantation, Uitvlugt, Gatesville, Belgravia, Sanatorium Township, Pinelands and the Garden Cities site, Ndabeni, Hazendal, the proposed Bokmakirie Township, Goodwood, Langa, Welcome, Observatory, Mowbray, Rosebank, Rondebosch, Groote Schuur Estate, Kirstenbosch, Newlands, Claremont, Kenilworth, Constantia, Wynberg, Plumstead, Diep River, Heathfield, Retreat, Lotus River, Schaap Kraal, Tokai, Silvermine, Ronde Vlei, Zeekoe Vlei, Grassy Park, Strandfontein Coast Forest Reserve, Montagu's Gift, Ilfracombe Estate, Dreyersdal, Lakeside, Muizenberg, St James, Kalk Bay, Clovelly, Fish Hoek, Glencairn, Red Hill, Simonstown, Simon's Bay, Kommetjie, Sweet Water, Witsands, Noordhoek, Scarborough, Hout Bay, Chapman's Peak, Kronendal, Oude Kraal, Bakoven, Camps Bay, Clifton, Sea Point, Fresnaye, Green Point, Mouille Point and Table Bay harbour., The map also shows municipalities, streets, buildings, erven with property numbers, "native locations", Table Mountain, the Twelve Apostles and other mountains, rivers and dams, salt pans, forested areas, sports and recreation grounds, Kenilworth Race Course, golf courses, aerodromes (including the air mail aerodrome site), hospitals and sanatoria including Groote Schuur, Valkenberg, Rentzkie's Farm Isolation hospital, Oude Molen Mental Hospital, the Alexandra Institution and the Chronic Sick home, churches, railway lines, railway stations, power stations, the zoo, the University of Cape Town, lighthouses, cemeteries and burial grounds., Relief shown pictorially., Dimensions of the printed sheets: 89 x 113 cm. or smaller., The library does not hold a full printed set of the 1937 edition of this map and this coloured digital set is incomplete. These digital copies of sheets 2, 3 and 4 of the series have been made available through the generosity of the Environmental Resource Management Department of the Cape Town City Council.
Identifier: islandora:19890

Title: Das Capland nebst den Süd-Afrikanischen Freistaaten und dem Gebiet der Hottentotten & Kaffern
Subject: Africa, Southern -- Maps., Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Shows mission stations, forts and travellers' routes (1812 to 1863). Map is annotated with the handwritten signature of Robert F. Bullen., Relief shown by hachures and spot heights., "Stieler's Hand-Atlas No. 72.", Inset map: Die Capstadt und Umgebung. Scale 1:150 000., UCT Libraries hold 3 copies. Two copies (72a and 72b) are complete and have been restored and placed between acid-free boards. On one of the copies (72b) is the handwritten signature of Robert F. Bullen. This copy (72b) has been trimmed to the map border. The third copy (72c) is badly damaged with the lower left section missing., Die Capstadt und Umgebung.
Identifier: islandora:19701

Title: Map of Cape Town central and neighbouring suburbs
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Map shows tramways, railways, principal buildings, bathing places, public conveniences, the cableway, the zoo, the university and vegetation on Table Mountain. The map also gives details of the harbour area marking Victoria Dock, Alfred Dock and the position of the "New Basin (under construction)" as well as other developments on the foreshore. There is additional tourist information on the verso of the map., South African Railways and Harbours.
Identifier: islandora:19893

Title: Insurance plan of Cape Town, Cape Colony, South Africa
Subject: Insurance--South Africa--Cape Town--Maps., Fire risk assessment--South Africa--Cape Town--Maps., Cape Town (South Africa)--Maps., Cape Town (South Africa)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Maps.
Description: The plans record street names, widths and numbers; fire-protection facilities (including the location of salt and fresh water hydrants); materials, shape, height, placement and use of buildings; the location of openings, types of stored materials and areas of high-risk activites on industrial sites., Sheet 1 comprises the key plan indicating 9 areas of central Cape Town surveyed by Goad (scale 1:6,000. 1 in. to 500 feet). This key plan includes notes on the water supply (salt and fresh) in central Cape Town, details of personnel and equipment of the Cape Town Fire Brigade and general comments on the city's climate and buildings. Also included is a sheet comprising an index of streets, buildings and firms. The buildings are colour coded by material type., Title from key plan on sheet 1., The 11 sheets (1 index and 10 maps) are in a hardcover volume, each sheet forming 2 leaves., This volume is one of 18 Cape Town fire-insurance atlases surveyed and drawn by Charles Edward Goad and printed in 1895. The bookplate pasted on the inside of the front cover indicates this copy was intended for the Union Assurance Society.
Identifier: islandora:19824

Title: Insurance plan of Cape Town, Cape Colony, South Africa
Subject: Insurance -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Maps., Fire risk assessment -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Maps., Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape Town (South Africa) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Maps.
Description: The plans record street names, widths and numbers; fire-protection facilities (including the location of salt and fresh water hydrants); materials, shape, height, placement and use of buildings; the location of openings, types of stored materials and areas of high-risk activites on industrial sites., Sheet 1 comprises the key plan indicating 9 areas of central Cape Town surveyed by Goad (scale 1:6,000. 1 in. to 500 feet). This key plan includes notes on the water supply (salt and fresh) in central Cape Town, details of personnel and equipment of the Cape Town Fire Brigade and general comments on the city's climate and buildings. Also included is a sheet comprising an index of streets, buildings and firms. The buildings are colour coded by material type., Title from key plan on sheet 1., The 11 sheets (1 index and 10 maps) are in a hardcover volume, each sheet forming 2 leaves., This volume is one of 18 Cape Town fire-insurance atlases surveyed and drawn by Charles Edward Goad and printed in 1895. The bookplate pasted on the inside of the front cover indicates this copy was intended for the Union Assurance Society.
Identifier: islandora:19891

Title: Union of South Africa, south western sheet
Subject: South Africa--Description and travel--Maps, Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)--Description and travel--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing the south western part of South Africa, with Cape of Good Hope, districts, towns and villages, names of places, provincial boundaries, railways, roads, and rivers. Scale: 15.77 miles = 1 inch. No projection given.
Identifier: islandora:29930

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