Africa Gallery

Map of the world, 1720

(Original Caption) 18th century map of the world. Published in Paris in 1720, this French map shows the known world, including the new lands that had been discovered in the preceding centuries by Europeans exploring across the Atlantic and far to the East around Africa. It divides the Earth into a western and eastern hemisphere, and uses colour to mark different areas of land. The map is by Guillaume de l'Isle (1675-1726), the leading French cartographer of the eighteenth century. He was appointed Premier Geographe du Roi to King Louis XV in 1718. This edition of his world map includes the western and northern coastlines of Australia, mapped by the Dutch. Australia's eastern coastline would not be mapped until 1770

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Map of Spain at the Beginning of the Spanish Civil War, 1936

Map of Spain showing the situation at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, July 1936. The heaviest fighting in July took place in the places underlined on the map: Madrid, Barcelona, Oviedo, Saragossa, Seville, Malaga, Cadiz and La Linea. General Franco's Army of Africa was located in Spanish Morocco, whilst Franco's stronghold in Northern Spain was around the city of Burgos

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World map by Mathieu Albert Lotter, Augsburg, 1778

World map from 1778. Original hand-colored copper engraving by Matthieu Albert Lotter (1741 - 1810, Augsburg) with route of James Cook's First Circumnavigation (1770), through Tahiti, around the two main island of New Zealand and down the eastern coast of Australia

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