Collection Items
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Book/Printed MaterialAngola (including Cabinda) "Authorities": p. [92]-94.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 112 pages
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MapInstructions and Travel Diary that Governor Francisco Joze de Lacerda e Almeida Wrote about His Travel to the Center of Africa, Going to the River of Sena, in the Year of 1798.
Instruçoens e Diario de Viagem q' fez ao centro d'África, o Governador q' foi dos Rios de Sena Francisco Joze d'Lacerda e Almeida, no anno de 1798 This manuscript diary by the Brazilian mathematician, geographer, and explorer Francisco José de Lacerda e Almeida (1750-98) describes Almeida's journey into the interior of southern Africa in 1798. Almeida was born in Brazil, studied at the University of Coimbra in Portugal, and rose to the position of royal astronomer. In 1780, he returned to Brazil as part of a commission established to determine the...- Contributor: Almeida, Francisco José De Lacerda E
- Date: 1798-01-01
- Resource: - 92 pages
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MapDescription of Inlet of the Kingdom of Angola.
Descripçam da Barra do Reino de Amgolla This 17th-century manuscript map is an early depiction of the harbor and city of Luanda, on the coast of Angola. Founded by the Portuguese in 1575, Luanda became the administrative center of Portuguese rule in Angola in 1627, one year after this map was made. The port of Luanda was also the center of the Angolan slave trade, controlled by the Portuguese Empire, and...- Contributor: Carvalho, Goncalo Pires
- Date: 1626-01-01
- Resource: - 2 pages
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MapMap of the Bay of Benguela and the Cantonbelle River.
Carte de la rade de Benguela et Riviere de Cantonbelle This map of the Bay of Benguela, on the coast of present-day Angola, is by the French cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-72). Trained as a hydrographer, Bellin was attached to the French Marine Office and specialized in producing maritime maps showing coastlines. In 1764, he published Le Petit Atlas Maritime (Small maritime atlas), a work in five volumes containing 581 maps. Bellin's maps were in...- Contributor: Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas
- Date: 1700-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapThe Description of the Coast of Guinea, Manicongo, and Angola, and so Proceeding Forwards beyond the Cape of Good Hope, with all the Harbors, Islands, Cliffs, Sandbars, and Shallows.
Typus orarum maritimarum Guineae, Manicongo, & Angôlae ultra promontorium Bonae Spei This highly decorative map of the southwestern coast of Africa was published in 1598 in Iohn Hvighen van Linschoten: His Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies Devided into Foure Bookes. The original edition of this most important cartographic work was issued in Amsterdam two years earlier under the title Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert van Jan Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte...- Contributor: Linschoten, Jan Huygen Van - Langren, Arnold Florent Van
- Date: 1596-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page