Harvard Map Collection - Selected African Holdings

Harvard Map Collection - Selected African Holdings

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Selected items with African Origination


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Harvard University · 1630 Latin

Relief shown pictorially. Includes inset: Penõn de Velez. Latin text on verso: "Marocci et Fessae regna". Verso pages numbered 350 and 351, sign. 7 V. Also available online.


Harvard University · 1595 Latin

Covers Morocco and portions of Spain, West Sahara and Algeria. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Prime meridian: Ferro. Inset of West Africa: Congi Regni Christiani, in Africa, nova descriptio …


Harvard University French

Relief shown by hachures. Bears blind stamped publisher's mark : "carte encyprotipe du fonds de l'auteur." "Atlas universel pl. 32". Dissected and mounted on linen. Also available online.


Harvard University Latin

Relief shown pictorially. Appears in: Nieuwen atlas, Ofte Vverelt-beschrijvinge, vertonende de voornaemste Rijcken ende landen des gheheelen Aerdt-bodems. Vermeerdert met veele schoone lant-kaerten nieuwelijks uyt-ghegeven / door Johannes Janssonius. Amstelodami …


Harvard University Latin

Relief shown pictorially. Place names in Latin, on verso descriptive text in Dutch: :Barbarien, Tunis ende Aegypten". Appears in Nieuwen atlas ofte werelt-beschrijvinghe. Amstelodami : apud Ioannem Ianssonium, 1647. v. …


Harvard University French

Relief shown pictorially. "Tome III et IV" in top left margin. Appears in: Histoire philosophique et politique des etablissemens et du commerce des Europeens dans les deux Indes / G.T.F. …


Harvard University Latin

Shows political divisions. Covers also a portion of Libya. Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with North to the right. Includes a note in a decorative cartouche: "A Monsieur Monsieur Doviat Sgr. …


Harvard University English

Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Includes insets: "Map showing the routes from England and India to South Africa", "Environs of Cape Town", "Lorenço Marquez [and vicinity]", 'South Africa" …


Harvard University German

Relief shown by hachures. Insets: Plan von Cairo (1:27,000), Sues Kanal (1:1.000,000) Also available online.


Harvard University Dutch

Cartouche hand-colored. Shows rhumb lines, sand bars and reefs. Oriented with north to the left. Latin text on verso (pages numbered 179-180).