Selected African Holdings

Selected African Holdings

Smithsonian Libraries

Items selected from the online resources at Smithsonian Libraries with African origination.


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SIL: Smithsonian Libraries · 1757 French

Carte generale du Senegal, dated 1756, is unnumbered plate. Woodcut title vignette (type ornament), head- and tail-pieces, initials. Includes index. Errata: p. [7], first paging group. Signatures: pi⁴ A-Z⁴ 2A⁴(-2A4) …



SIL: Smithsonian Libraries · 1735 Latin

"Jo. Veslingii Mindani, equitis, et in Patavino Gymnasio anatomiae, & pharmaciae professoris primarii, Paraeneses ad rem herbariam publicis plantarum ostensionibus praemissae", "Joannis Veslingii Mindani, equitis, et in Patavino Gymnasio anatomiae …





SIL: Smithsonian Libraries · 1725

Entwurff einer historischen Architectur Les ruines du grand aqueduc de Carthage . The ruins of the aqueduct of Carthage. Engravings from the first comparative history of world architecture. Long ago, …


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries · 1554

Les obseruations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables : trouuées en Grece, Asie, Judée, Egypte, Arabie ... en trois livres. Le Portrait de la Genette. If you travel to Africa …


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries · 1533 Latin

Printer's device below title. Initials. Signatures: -, a-i, k-o⁶, p⁸. Leaves 1-68 [superscript a] contain decas I-III of "De orbe novo"; . 68 [superscript b]-75, decasIV, here printed under the …