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    "title": "Karte von Süd-Afrika zur übersicht der neuesten entdeckungen von Livingstone, Moffat, Galton, Anderson",
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        "Livingstone, David, 1813-1873",
        "Moffat, Robert, 1795-1883",
        "Galton, Francis, 1822-1911",
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        "Shows exploration routes in southern, central, and eastern Africa and geologic features in the Cape area.",
        "Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.",
        "Tafel 7 from: Petermann's Geographische Mitteilungen, Jahrgang 1858.",
        "Prime meridians: Greenwich and Paris.",
        "Includes \"Profil von Livingstone's Reisewege quer durch Afrika, von Loanda nach Quilimane.\"",
        "Insets: Physikalische skizze von Süd-Afrika. (Botanische, zoologische, ethnographische Grenzen &.&.) -- Vergleichende übersicht der neuesten vorstellungen über die geographie des inneren Süd-Afrika's (H. Kiepert, Nov. 1855; J. McQueen, März 1857; D. Livingstone, Nov. 1857)."
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