Maps by date, Antique
| 1800s | 1700s | 1600s |
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1800s
1899
Stanford's Map of the South African Republic (Transvaal)
Published by Edward Stanford
Size: 30 x 40; reduces to 5 x 7.5
Scale: 1: 16 miles
Keywords: South Africa
Drawer # 22, folder # 2
1892
Nouvelle Carte du Haut-Lualalaba ed du Haut-Sankuru
Map by A.J. Wauters
Published by Institut National de Geographique, Bruxelles
Size: 11.5 x 16
Scale: 1: 4000000
Notes: bad condition; Itineraries of P. Marinel, Stair and Bia
Drawer # 1, folder # 4
1888
Le Kassai et La Louloua de Kwamouth a Louebo
Map by Captaine Thys
Published by Bruxelles: Institut National de Geographique
Size: 10 x 140
Scale: 1: 5 kilometers
Notes: long map of the Louloua river
Drawer # 1, folder # 2
1887
An Old Map of Africa
Map by Geo. Ferneyhough
Published by The Direct Photo Engraving Co. Limited
Size: 10 x 12
Notes: bad shape, largely fanciful
Keywords: Africa/Antique
Drawer # 1, folder # 4
1800
Algeemeene Raart, Van de Colonie de Kaap de Goede Hoop
Published by Barros
Size: 18.5 x 28
Scale: 1: 27 miles
Notes: Donated in the name of AFRICARTA/AFRITERRA Foundation
Drawer # 32, folder # 1
1700s
1794
Afrique
Published by Desnos
Size: 13 x 20.5
Scale: 1: 200
Notes: Donated in the name of AFRICARTA/AFRITERRA Foundation
Keywords: Africa
Drawer # 32, folder # 1
1757
Vue de la Ville de Gize, Ci-Devant Mepmphis, avec les trois Pyramides,
et la Perspective du Mokkias, par debors a la pointe de l'Isle de
Kodda
Map by M. Tulcher Sculp
Published by Norden
Size: 11 x 34
Notes: not a map - engraving; Donated in the name of AFRICARTA/AFRITERRA
Foundation
Keywords: Egypt
Drawer # 32, folder # 1
1700
Guinea
Published by Petrum Schenk and Gerardum Valk
Size: 20.5 x 27
Notes: Donated in the name of AFRICARTA/AFRITERRA Foundation
Keywords: Guinea
Drawer # 32, folder # 1
1600s
1695
Genehoa
Published by Van Kuelen
Size: 21 x 24
Scale: 1: 6 miles
Notes: Donated in the name of AFRICARTA/AFRITERRA Foundation
Keywords: Gambia
Drawer # 32, folder # 1
1694
Aethiopia Superior vel Interior; vulgo Abissinorum sive Presbiteriioannis
Imperium
Published by Blaeu/DeWitt
Size: 21 x 26
Scale: 1: 42
Notes: Donated in the name of AFRICARTA/AFRITERRA Foundation
Keywords: Ethiopia
Drawer # 32, folder # 1
1690
L'Africa
Published by Cornelli
Size: 19 x 28
Notes: 2 sheets in plastic; Donated in the name of AFRICARTA/AFRITERRA
Foundation
Keywords: Southern Africa
Drawer # 32, folder # 1
1640
Guinea
Published by Blaeu
Size: 20 x 23
Notes: information in German (?); Donated in the name of AFRICARTA/AFRITERRA
Foundation
Keywords: Guinea
Drawer # 32, folder # 1
1606
Guineae Nove Descriptio
Published by Hondius/Mercator
Size: 17.5 x 22
Notes: inset of I. S. Thomae and information on the Isle; Donated
in the name of AFRICARTA/AFRITERRA Foundation
Keywords: Guinea
Drawer # 32, folder # 1