The Rediscovery of Africa 1400-1900: Antique Maps & Rare Images

This exhibition highlights the Stanford University Libraries' holdings of antique African maps including the Oscar I. Norwich collection, described as one the finest private collections of African maps in the world. Taken as a group, the maps in the Stanford's collection reveal the extraordinary changes in European conceptions of Africa over five centuries.

In addition to the fine antiquarian maps, the exhibition will feature rare books in Stanford's collections, including the famous atlas by Abraham Ortelius and John Ogilby's Africa, both published in the seventeenth century.