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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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Book/Printed MaterialAngola (including Cabinda) "Authorities": p. [92]-94.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 8 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
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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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Book/Printed MaterialReisen in Süd-Afrika in den Jahren 1849 bis 1857 László Magyar (1814-64) was a Hungarian explorer who lived for 17 years in Angola and made important contributions to the study of the geography and ethnography of equatorial Africa. He was trained as a naval officer and served in the naval forces of Austria and Argentina. In 1846, he undertook his first expedition in Africa, a voyage up the Congo River. Magyar subsequently married…- Contributor: Hunfalvy, János - Magyar, László
- Date: 1859-01-01
- Resource: - 494 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialModern geography. A description of the empires, kingdoms, states, and colonies; with the oceans, seas, and isles; in all parts of the world: including the most recent discoveries, and political alterations: Digested … "Catalogue of maps, and of books of voyages and travels": v. 2, p. 792-802. Vols. 1 and 2 have supplements containing corrections and additions 1817.- Contributor: Nicolle De La Croix - Pond, John - Pinkerton, John
- Date: 1811-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe formation of the Portuguese colonial empire. "Authorities": p. [30]-31.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 48 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialSan Thomé and Principe. "Authorities": p. [40]-41.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 58 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialPartition of Africa. "Appendix" (p. 54-79): Anglo-German agreement, 1890.--Anglo-French declarations, 1890.--Anglo-Italian protocols, 1891.--Anglo-Portuguese treaty, 1891.--Anglo-French convention, 1898.--Anglo-French declaration, 1899.--Anglo-French convention, 1904.--Anglo=French declaration, 1904. "Authorities": p. 80-82.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 98 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialMozambique. "Appendix" (p. [95]-101): Extracts from treaties and awards relating to Mozambique. "Authorities": p. [107]-109.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 3 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialDictionary and grammar of the Kongo language, as spoken at San Salvador, the ancient capital of the old Kongo empire, West Africa. William Holman Bentley (1855-1905) was born in Sudbury, United Kingdom, where his father was a Baptist minister. After working for a time as a bank clerk, he was accepted by the Baptist Missionary Society for its new Congo mission and, in April 1879, he sailed for the Congo with three other missionaries. In January 1881, Bentley and H.E. Crudgington became the first Europeans to…- Contributor: Bentley, W. Holman (William Holman)
- Date: 1886-01-01
- Resource: - 22 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialA general collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world; many of which are now first translated into English. Digested on a new plan A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World is a 17-volume compilation of travel narratives assembled by the Scottish historian and poet John Pinkerton (1758-1826), first published in Great Britain in 1808-14. A contemporary and acquaintance of the historian Edward Gibbon and the novelist Sir Walter Scott, Pinkerton wrote books on Scottish history and…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Pinkerton, John
- Date: 1808
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Book/Printed MaterialSouth-West Africa. Appendix (p. [110]-111): Extracts from treaties, etc., relating to Southwest Africa. "Authorities": p. [112]-114.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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Book/Printed MaterialTwo trips to gorilla land and the cataracts of the Congo. Includes bibliographical references.- Contributor: Burton, Richard Francis
- Date: 1876-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialPortuguese Guinea. "Authorities": p. [38]-39.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 54 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialSiam. "Treaties and agreements concluded by Siam [list only]": p. 18-19. Issued also as v. 12 [no. 7] in a collection published under title: Peace handbooks. Bibliography: p 20-21.- Contributor: Crosby, Josiah
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 44 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialMongolia. "Authorities": p. 24.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 52 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialMagyar László délafrikai utazásai 1849-57. években. A Magy. No more published. Bibliography: p. xiii-xvi. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed; td12 2008-11-24- Contributor: Hunfalvy, János - Magyar, László
- Date: 1859-01-01
- Resource: - 518 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialFrench equatorial Africa. Appendix (p. [63]-69): Extracts from treaties, etc. relating to French Africa. "Authorities": p. [70]-71.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 88 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialBelgian Congo. "Appendix" (p. [119]-129) contains extracts from treaties and declarations relating to the Belgian Congo. "Authorities": p. [130]-135.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 154 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialFrance and the Levant. "Authorities": p. 26. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed; td12 2013-7-16- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 48 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialCape Verde Islands. "Authorities": [1] p. at end.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 58 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialSpanish Guinea. "Appendix" (p. 47-53): Extracts from treaties between Spain and Portugal, October 1, 1777, March 24, 1778; convention between France and Spain, June 27, 1900. "Authorities": p. 57-60.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 74 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialNyasaland. "Appendix (p. [84]): Notification of the British protectorate over Nyasaland, London, May 14, 1891." "Authorities" p. [88]-90.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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