Historical Maps of Africa

• Africa 1808 (918K)

  "Africa" from Brookes, R., The General Gazetteer; or Compendious Geographical Dictionary. Eighth Edition. Dublin, 1808.

• Africa 1829 - Map Legend and Coast of Brazil (741K)
  From "Carte Generale De L'Afrique" by Eustache Herisson 1829

• Africa 1829 - North and East Africa (903K)

  From "Carte Generale De L'Afrique" by Eustache Herisson 1829

• Africa 1829 - Cote d'Ajan [Somalia] and Northern Indian Ocean Area (839K)

  From "Carte Generale De L'Afrique" by Eustache Herisson 1829

• Africa 1829 - North and West Africa (968K)

  From "Carte Generale De L'Afrique" by Eustache Herisson 1829

• Africa 1829 - Southern Africa (774K)

  From "Carte Generale De L'Afrique" by Eustache Herisson 1829

• Africa 1829 - Madagascar and Adjacent Indian Ocean (452K)

  From "Carte Generale De L'Afrique" by Eustache Herisson 1829

• Africa 1885 (347K)

  From the Scottish Geographical Magazine. Published by the Scottish Geographical Society and edited by Hugh A. Webster and Arthur Silva White. Volume I, 1885.

• Africa 1890 (1.2MB)

  "Africa" from Americanized Encyclopaedia Britannica Vol. 1, Chicago 1892.

• Africa Religions and Missions 1913 (323K)

  "Africa Religions and Missions" from Literary and Historical Atlas of Africa and Australasia, by J.G.Bartholomew 1913.

• Africa West Coast 1832 (682K)

  "West Coast of Africa to illustrate Capt. Belcher's Observations" from The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Volume 2, 1832 to accompany "Extracts from Observations on various Points of the West Coast of Africa surveyed by His Majesty's Ship Aetna in 1830-32, By Captain Belcher, R.N."

• Bathurst [Banjul] Gambia 1941 (581K)

  Surveyed in 1910-11 and partly Revised in 1918 by W.F. Crook, Engineer Reproduction Plant , U.S. Army 1941.

• Bophuthatswana 1977 (259K)

  U.S. Central Intelligence Agency

• Bechuanaland 1887 (181K)

  "Sketch Map of British Bechuanaland, May 1887" from the Scottish Geographical Magazine. Published by the Scottish Geographical Society and edited by Arthur Silva White. Volume III, 1887.

• Central Africa 1895 (1MB)

  "Afrique Centrale" from Annales de Geographie Tome IV, Paris 1895.

• Gold Coast Colony 1896 (315K)

  From the Scottish Geographical Magazine. Published by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and edited by James Geikie and W.A. Taylor. Volume XII, 1896.

• Hausaland 1896 (674K)

  "Map of Hausaland showing Captain Lugard's and Rev. Robinson's routes" from the Scottish Geographical Magazine. Published by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and edited by James Geikie and W. A. Taylor. Volume XII, 1896.

• Madagascar 1895 (1.1MB)

  "Madagascar" from Annales de Geographie Tome IV, Paris 1895.

• Morocco 1830 (1.39MB)

  "Marocco from Observations In 1830" with inset map of "City of Marocco (Marraksh Blad Kibira)" [Marrakech] from the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Volume 1, 1832 to accompany "Geographical Notice of the Empire of Marocco. By Lieutenant Washington, R.N."

• Namibia [Homelands] 1978 (564K)

  U.S. Central Intelligence Agency

• Sierra Leone 1913 (516K)"Sketch Map of Sierra Leone" from Great Britain Parliament House of Commons Sessional Papers, Colonial Reports - Annual. No. 797, 1913.

• South Africa 1885 (531K)

  "Sketch Map of South Africa showing British Possessions July 1885" from the Scottish Geographical Magazine. Published by the Scottish Geographical Society and edited by Hugh A. Webster and Arthur Silva White. Volume I, 1885.

• South Africa: Black Homelands 1986 (225K)

  U.S. Central Intelligence Agency

• Timbuktu 1855 (161K)

  "Plan von Timbuktu" [Tombouctou, Mali] From Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes' Geographischer Anstalt uber Wichtige Neue Erforschungen auf dem Gesammtgebiete der Geographie von Dr. A. Petermann. Volume 1, 1855.

• Togo Land 1885 (126K)

  "Togo Land, the German Protectorate on the Slave Coast" from the Scottish Geographical Magazine. Published by the Scottish Geographical Society and edited by Hugh A. Webster and Arthur Silva White. Volume I, 1885.

• Transkei 1978 (266K)

  U.S. Central Intelligence Agency