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    Book/Printed Material
    Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. "Appendix" (p. [165]-170) contains treaties relating to the Sudan. "Authorities": p. [171]-174.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 190 pages

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    The Egyptian Sudan, Its History and Monuments.
    The Egyptian Sudan, its history and monuments     The Egyptian Sudan, Its History and Monuments is an illustrated, two-volume guide to the history and archaeology of Sudan. It was published at the height of early 20th century imperial interest in...
    • Contributor: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir - Garstin, William, Sir
    • Date: 1907-01-01
  • Book/Printed Material
    Sahărâ und Sûdân : Ergebnisse sechsjähriger reisen in Afrika Sahǎrâ und Sûdân (Sahara and Sudan) is a detailed account of the six-year journey across the Sahara undertaken in 1869-75 by German explorer Gustav Nachtigal (1834-85). The son of a Lutheran pastor...
    • Contributor: Nachtigal, Gustav
    • Date: 1879
  • Book/Printed Material
    The Ladder of Ascent in Obtaining the Procurements of the Sudan: Ahmad Baba Answers a Moroccan's ... Timbuktu (present-day Tombouctou in Mali), founded around 1100 as a commercial center for trade across the Sahara Desert, was also an important seat of Islamic learning from the 14th century onward. The...
    • Contributor: Tumbukti, Ahmad Baba Ibn Ahmad Ibn Umar Ibn Muhammad Aqit
    • Date: 1615-01-01
    • Resource: - 16 pages

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  • Book/Printed Material
    Cairo to Kisumu; Cairo to Kisumu: Egypt-Sudan-Kenya Colony was the fifth in a series of books known as Carpenter's World Travels, written by Frank G. Carpenter (1855-1924) in the 1920s and published by the Garden...
    • Contributor: Carpenter, Frank G. (Frank George)
    • Date: 1923
  • Map
    The Eastern Basin of the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Persian Gulf.
    Il Bacino orientale del mediterraneo il mar rosso ed il golfo persico     This undated Italian map of the Middle East was published by the firm G.B. Paravia of Turin, Italy. It is a political map marking the boundaries of states and empires at the...
    • Contributor: Salussolia - Paravia (Firm)
    • Date: 1890-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Book/Printed Material
    Soudan and Afghanistan. The vote of credit. William Ewart Gladstone (1809-98) was four times Liberal prime minister of Great Britain (1868-74, 1880-85, 1886, 1892-94). One of the major political figures of the Victorian era, he served in the Colonial...
    • Contributor: Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart) - Liberal Central Association, London
    • Date: 1885-01-01
    • Resource: - 16 pages

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  • Map
    Map of Uganda Protectorate. This map of Uganda during the period of British colonial rule was published in 1935 by the Department of Surveys of the Uganda Protectorate. Shown are international, intercolonial, provincial, district, and county...
    • Contributor: Mathews, D. O. - Uganda. Survey Department - Watts, B. T.
    • Date: 1935-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Map
    Northeast Africa and Arabia Drawn to the Scale of 1:12,500,000.
    Nordost-Afrika und Arabien im Maassstabe 1:12,500,000     This map of North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula is from the sixth edition (1875) of Stieler's Hand-Atlas über alle Theile der Erde (Stieler's portable atlas of all parts of the Earth),...
    • Contributor: Hanemann, Fritz - Kuhn, Ernst - Petermann, A. (August Heinrich) - Stieler, Adolf - Kramer, A.
    • Date: 1875-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Map
    Carta dimostrativa della Colonia Eritrea e delle regioni adiacenti alla scala di 1:250,000 "Italy, a relative latecomer to the scramble by the European powers for African colonies, took control of coastal areas of present-day Eritrea in 1885. The Treaty of Wichale (Uccialli) of 1889, concluded...
    • Contributor: Istituto Geografico Militare (Italy)
    • Date: 1896-01-01

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  • Map
    A New Map of Arabia, Including Egypt, Abyssinia, the Red Sea, from the Latest Authorities.
    A New Map of Arabia, Including Egypt, Abyssinia, the Red Sea &c., &c., from the Latest Authorities     John Cary (circa 1754-1835) was a leading London engraver, map-, chart- and print-seller, and globe maker, active between 1787 and 1834. This map of 1804 shows the Arabian Peninsula and neighboring parts...
    • Contributor: Cary, John
    • Date: 1804-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Map
    Kriegskarte von Agypten, Palastina und Arabien Covers eastern parts of Egypt, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea. Shows railroads, caravan routes, telegraph lines, roadblocks, ruins and a few Arabic topography terms given in German. Relief shown by shading and...
    • Contributor: Freytag, Gustav - Freytag Und Berndt
    • Date: 1900-01-01
  • Book/Printed Material
    Moslem Egypt and Christian Abyssinia; or, Military service under the khedive, in his provinces and beyond ... William McEntyre Dye (1831-99) was a graduate of the United States Military Academy, a former colonel in the United States Army, and a veteran of the American Civil War. In late 1873,...
    • Contributor: Dye, William McEntyre
    • Date: 1880-01-01
    • Resource: - 525 pages
  • Book/Printed Material
    Central Africa: Naked Truths of Naked People. Charles Chaillé-Long (1842--1917) was an American from the state of Maryland who enlisted as a private in the Union Army in the Civil War, fought in the Battle of Gettysburg, and rose...
    • Contributor: Chaillé-Long, C. (Charles)
    • Date: 1877-01-01
    • Resource: - 398 pages

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    Voyage en Éthiopie, au Soudan oriental et dans la Nigritie. Ouvrage accompagné d'un atlas de planches. Atlas catalogued separately: Trémaux, Pierre. Voyages au Soudan oriental et dans l'Afrique septentriionale. [1852-58], with call number: L963,T789v, in: afri,rb. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site....
    • Contributor: Trémaux, P. (Pierre)
    • Date: 1862-01-01
  • Book/Printed Material
    Timbuctoo the mysterious, Translation of Tombouctou la mystérieuse.
    • Contributor: White, Diana - Dubois, Félix
    • Date: 1896-01-01
    • Resource: - 403 pages

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  • Map
    Arabian Gulf or Red Sea.
    Golfe Arabique ou Mer Rouge     This map, "Golfe Arabique ou Mer Rouge" (Arabian Gulf or Red Sea), by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville was published in Paris in 1765. It is a very large copperplate engraved map of...
    • Contributor: Anville, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon D
    • Date: 1765-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Map
    Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda. This map of Murchison Falls National Park, the largest national park in Uganda, was issued in 1956 by the Lands and Surveys Department of the Uganda Protectorate. Shown are the park boundaries,...
    • Contributor: Trustees of the Uganda National Parks - Uganda. Department of Lands and Surveys
    • Date: 1956-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Map
    Arabia. This mid-19th-century British map shows the Arabian Peninsula and neighboring parts of Africa, including Egypt, the Sudan, and Abyssinia. The traditional Greek and Roman division of Arabia into the three parts of...
  • Book/Printed Material
    Uganda and Its Peoples; Notes on the Protectorate of Uganda, Especially the Anthropology and Ethnology of ... Uganda and Its Peoples is a detailed survey of the native peoples of the Uganda Protectorate, as understood by early 20th-century ethnography and anthropology. The book is organized in nine chapters, each...
    • Contributor: Cunningham, J. F. (James Frederick) - Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir
    • Date: 1905-01-01
    • Resource: - 416 pages

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  • Book/Printed Material
    Uganda in Transformation: 1876--1926. Herbert Gresford Jones (1870--1958) was an Anglican cleric and missionary to Uganda. He studied at Cambridge University and was ordained in 1895. After serving as a vicar at churches in England and...
    • Contributor: Jones, Herbert Gresford
    • Date: 1926-01-01
    • Resource: - 282 pages

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  • Map
    Arabia: With the Adjacent Countries of Egypt and Nubia.
    Arabia : with the adjacent countries of Egypt & Nubia     William Home Lizars (1788-1859) was a Scottish engraver and painter and the son of the engraver Daniel Lizars. This map appears identical to the one engraved by Daniel, which appeared in The...
    • Contributor: Lizars, Daniel - Lizars, W.H. (William Home)
    • Date: 1831-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Map
    Newest Map of Arabia.
    Neueste Karte Von Arabien     This color map in German appeared as plate 80 in Grosser Hand-Atlas über alle Theile der Erde (Large portable atlas of all parts of the world), published by the Bibliographic Institute of...
    • Contributor: Meyer, Joseph - Radefeld, Carl Christian Franz
    • Date: 1845-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Map
    Map of Lango District, Eastern Province. This map of the Lango District in the Eastern Province of Uganda was issued in 1945 by the Department of Surveys of the Uganda Protectorate. Shown are district, provincial, and county boundaries;...
    • Contributor: Macfie, William Campbell - Uganda. Survey Department
    • Date: 1945-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Map
    Middle East Countries : Syria, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Jordan, Saudi-Arabia "This map of the Middle East, originally published in August 1950 and revised in February 1955, was issued by the Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, Air Photographic and Charting Service, Military Air...
    • Contributor: Aeronautical Chart and Information Center (U.S.)
    • Date: 1955
  • Map
    Map of Arabia, the Persian Gulf, and the Red Sea; Including Egypt, Nubia, and Abyssinia.
    Carte de l'Arabie, du Golfe Persique, et de la Mer Rouge, avec l'Egypte, la Nubie et l'Abissinie     This map of the Arabian Peninsula and surrounding areas was most likely created by the French cartographer and hydrologist Rigobert Bonne (1727-94). It is probably a proof copy of the map of...
    • Contributor: Bonne, Rigobert
    • Date: 1780-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Book/Printed Material
    The Lango: A Nilotic Tribe of Uganda. This 1923 study of the Lango people of north-central Uganda narrates the origins and history of the group, which had a form of government based on minor clan chiefs, rather than a...
    • Contributor: Driberg, Jack Herbert - Coryndon, Robert Thorne, Sir
    • Date: 1923-01-01
    • Resource: - 500 pages

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  • Map
    Map of the Red Sea from Mocha to Jeddah.
    Carte de la Mer Rouge depuis Moka jusqu'à Gedda     This large and detailed nautical chart of the southern half of the Red Sea, with depth soundings, rhumb lines, and profiles of the coastal hills, dates from 1775. It includes three map...
    • Contributor: Après De Mannevillette, Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis D
    • Date: 1775-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Book/Printed Material
    The Wanderer in Arabia or Western Footsteps in Eastern Tracks.
    The wanderer in Arabia, or, Western footsteps in eastern tracks     The Wanderer in Arabia or Western Footsteps in Eastern Tracks is an illustrated, two-volume work describing two separate journeys, in Egypt and in the Holy Land, undertaken in 1850-51 by George T....
    • Contributor: Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha - Lowth, G. T. (George T.)
    • Date: 1855-01-01
  • Book/Printed Material
    Excellence in the Rhetorical Arts. Al-Khawāṭir al-ḥisān fī al-ma'ānī wa-al-bayān (Excellence in the rhetorical arts) is an introduction for students to the elements of Arabic composition. The work emphasizes the correct choice of words and the importance...
    • Contributor: Miṭ, Jabr
    • Date: 1896-01-01
    • Resource: - 142 pages
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    ...And Now to You, Subscribe!.
    Ed ora a voi, sottoscrivete!     This Italian war bond poster, issued in Milan in 1918, portrays an Italian soldier with crutches, crippled by the loss of his left leg, appealing to the viewer to subscribe to the...
    • Contributor: Bonzagni, Aroldo
    • Date: 1918-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Map
    A Drawing (with a Western Perspective) of the East Indies from the Promontory of Good Hope ...
    Occidentalior Tractus Indiarum Orientalium a Promontorio Bonae Spei ad C. Comorin     This portolan map by the Dutch engraver, publisher, and map seller Frederick de Wit (1629 or 1630-1706) shows the Indian Ocean from the Cape of Good Hope to the west coast of...
    • Contributor: Wit, Frederik De
    • Date: 1675-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Map
    A New Map of Arabia: Divided into Its Several Regions and Districts.
    A New Map of Arabia: Divided into its several regions and districts     This map of Arabia, published in London in 1794, is an English translation of a map by the French cartographer and geographer Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697-1782). Appointed the first geographer to the...
    • Contributor: Anville, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon D - Niebuhr, Carsten
    • Date: 1794-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Book/Printed Material
    East Africa and Uganda, or, Our Last Land. John Cathcart Wason (1848--1921) was a Scottish-born farmer and politician who as a young man immigrated to New Zealand, where he acquired large landholdings and was elected to the national parliament. In...
    • Contributor: Wason, John Cathcart
    • Date: 1905-01-01
    • Resource: - 178 pages

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    Arabia: According To Its Modern Divisions. "Arabia According to Its Modern Divisions" shows the Arabian Peninsula with the three-part division traditionally used in European sources into Arabia Petraea, Arabia Deserta, and Arabia Felix. Deserts, seaports, and the pearl...
    • Contributor: Dunn, Samuel, 1794
    • Date: 1794-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Map
    Arabia. This map of the Arabian Peninsula appeared in the 1856 edition of the world atlas that was first published by James Wyld (1790-1836) in 1824 and in successive editions by his son,...
  • Book/Printed Material
    Travels in Arabia: Comprehending an Account of those Territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans Regard as ... John Lewis Burckhardt (1784-1817) was born Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in Lausanne, Switzerland. His accounts of his travels in the Middle East in the early 19th century are among the earliest modern European...
    • Contributor: Ouseley, William, Sir - Hall, S. R. - Burckhardt, John Lewis
    • Date: 1819-01-01
  • Map
    Map of the Arabian Coast, Red Sea, and Persian Gulf.
    Carte de la Coste d'Arabie, Mer Rouge, et Golfe de Perse     This map of the coastlines of the Arabian Peninsula and adjacent regions is by the French hydrographer and cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-72). Bellin was attached to the French Marine Office for more...
    • Contributor: Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas - La Harpe, Jean-François De
    • Date: 1745-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Map
    "The Daily Telegraph" War Map of Egypt and the Near East (Number 6). This general map of the Middle East was published in London 1918. It shows Anatolia, Egypt, and the Arabian Desert. Despite the title, it is not focused on the region as a...
    • Contributor: The Daily Telegraph - Gross, Alexander
    • Date: 1918-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Book/Printed Material
    Arabische Pflanzennamen aus Aegypten, Algerien und Jemen, Arabische Pflanzennamen aus Aegypten, Algerien und Jemen (Arabic plant names from Egypt, Algeria, and Yemen) is a book on botanical names of plants native to these three countries. It is comprised almost...
    • Contributor: Schweinfurth, Georg August
    • Date: 1912-01-01
    • Resource: - 258 pages