Maps and Power in Modern African History: Before the 19th Century

Before the 19th Century

Alvares, Francisco. The Prester John of the Indies : a true relation of the lands of the Prester John, being the narrative of the Portuguese embassy to Ethiopia in 1520. Volume I-II. E-book. Written by Father Francisco Alvares ; the translation of Lord Stanley of Alderley (1881) revised and edited with additional material by G.F. Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford. [London] : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2017 re-issue, 2010 reprint, originally published in 1961]
--See also: 1961 print edition and 1975 reprint

Barbosa, Duarte. The book of Duarte Barbosa; an account of the countries bordering on the Indian Ocean and their inhabitants, written by Duarte Barbosa and completed about the year 1518 A.D. 2 vols. Translated from the Portuguese text ... and edited and annotated by Mansel Longworth Dames. New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1989.

Barbosa, Duarte.A description of the coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the beginning of the sixteenth century. E-book. Edited by Henry E.J. Stanley. Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, [2010] [Originally published in 1866.]

Barbot, Jean. Barbot on Guinea : the writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa, 1678-1712. 2 vols. Edited by P.E.H.Hair ...[et al.]. London: Hakluyt Society, 1992.
--See also: E-book of Volume 1 -and- Volume 2

Ibn Batuta. Ibn Battuta in Black Africa. Translated from the Arabic and edited by Said Hamdun and Noel King. London: Collings, 1975.
--See also: Hathi Trust online e-text

Ibn Batuta. Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325-1354. Translated and selected by H. A. R. Gibb, with an introduction and notes. New York: A. M. Kelley, 1969.
--See also: 1992 Indian edition -and- 2011 reprint

Casson, Lionel. The Periplus maris Erythraei : text with introduction, translation, and commentary. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1989.
--See also: E-book

Cohen, William B. The French encounter with Africans : white response to Blacks, 1530-1880. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1980.
--See also: 2003 reprint edition

Dias and his successors . Edited by Eric Axelson ...[et al.]. Cape Town: Saayman and Weber, c1988.

Du Quesne, Abraham. Journal du voyage de Duquesne aux Indes Orientales. English. A new voyage to the East Indies in the years 1610 and 1691 [Microform]; ...to which is added, a new description of the Canary Islands, Cape Verd, Senegal, and Gambia, etc... London: Printed for Daniel Dring ..., 1696.
--See also: E-text

Elkiss, T.H. The quest for an African Eldorado : Sofala, southern Zambezia, and the Portuguese, 1500-1865. Waltham, Mass.: Crossroads Press, c1981.

Fall, Yoro K. L'Afrique à la naissance de la cartographie moderne : les cartes majorquines, XIVe-XVe siècles. Paris: Editions Karthala, 1982.

French, Howard W. Born in Blackness : Africa, Africans, and the making of the modern world, 1471 to the Second World War. New York, N.Y. : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2021]

Froger, François. A relation of a voyage made in the years 1695, 1696, 1697 on the coasts of Africa, streights of Magellan, Brasil, Cayenna, and the Antilles [electronic resource] : by a squadron of French men of war, under the command of M. de Gennes. London : Printed for M. Gillyflower ; W. Freeman, M. Wotton..; J. Walthoe ...; and R. Parker ..., 1698.

Hair, P.E.H. Africa encountered : European contacts and evidence, 1450-1700. Hampshire; Brookfield, VT: Variorum, 1997.

Hanno. The Carthaginian voyage to West Africa in 500 B.C.. Introduced and edited by H.R. Palmer. Bathurst: J.M. Lawani, Government Printer, 1931.

Howard, Cecil. West African explorers. Selections chosen and edited by C. Howard, with an introduction by J.H. Plumb. London; New York: Oxford University Press, [1951]

Isert, Paul Erdmann. Letters on West Africa and the slave trade : Paul Erdmann Isert's Journey to Guinea and the Caribbean Islands in Columbia (1788). Translated from the German and edited by Selena Axelrod Winsnes. Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, c1992.

Jobson, Richard. The golden trade; or, A discovery of the river Gambra : and the golden trade of the Aethiopians: now reprinted for the first time by Charles G. Kingsley. Teignmouth, Devonshire: E. E. Speight and R.H. Walpole, [1904]
--See also: 1999 reprint edition

La Roncière, Charles de. La découverte de l'Afrique au moyen âge, cartographes et explorateurs. 3 vols. in 1. [Caire : Sociéte royale de géographie d'Égypte, 1924-27]
--See also: Offsite, circulating copy

Leo, Africanus. The cosmography and geography of Africa by Johannes Leo Africanus (Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad Al-Wazzan). Translated [from the Italian] and edited by Anthony Ossa-Richardson and Richard J. Oosterhoff. London : Penguin Books, 2023.

Leo, Africanus. The history and description of Africa and of the notable things therein contained. Written by al-Hassan ibn Mohammed al-Wezaz, al-Fasi, a Moor, baptized as Giovanni Leone, but better known as Leo Africanus ; done into English in the year 1600 by John Pory, and now edited, with an introd. and notes, by Robert Brown. 3 volumes. New York : B. Franklin, [1896, reprint 1975]
--See also: E-book

Northrup, David. Africa's discovery of Europe, 1450-1850. 3rd ed. E-book. Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2014.
--See also: 2014 edition in print ; 2002 edition in print ; and 2009 edition in print

Park, Mungo. Travels, in the interior districts of Africa : performed under the direction and patronage of the African Association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797. New York: Evert Duyckinck, 1813. (Readex 1975 microopaques)
--See also: E-book of 2000 edition, edited by Kate Ferguson Martsters

Villault, Nicolas. A relation of the coasts of Africk called Guinée [Microform]: with a description of the country, manners, and customs of the inhabitants ... in the years 1666 and 1667. Translated from the French into English. London: Printed for John Starkey, 1670.

The voyages of Cadamosto and other documents on Western Africa in the second half of the fifteenth century. E-book. Edited by G.R. Crone. Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016.
--See also: 1937 print edition -and- 2010 reprint edition

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