Maps
| The Library houses a collection of antique engraved maps and nautical charts relating to Africa, southern Africa and South Africa. Dating from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, they provide a fascinating insight into the cartography of the African continent and into travel, exploration and the growth of geographic knowledge in this period. |
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| Pieter Goos. Pas-kaarte van de zuyd-west-kust van Africa, c.1666 | Ottens, Joachim, 1663-1719
Nieuwe naauwkeurige land-en zee kaart…
c. 1695 |
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| Sebastian Münster. Africa XXV Nova Tabula, 1540 | Vincenzo Maria Coronelli. L'Africa divisa nella sue parti secondo..., 1691 |
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