Africa: a group of African people standing on a kraal hut. Albumen print.

Africa: a group of African warriors. Albumen print.

David Livingstone (?) and his followers on a boat, attacked by hippopotamus. Lithograph.

Two young Kikuyu men, carrying sticks. Photograph, ca.1900.

David Livingstone arriving at Lake Ngami in 1849. Lithograph.

Lake Ngami: Africans and European explorers on its bank. Wood engraving by J.W. Whymper after A. Rider.

Community-based AIDS prevention and care in Africa : building on local initiatives.

David Livingtone's followers, Susi and Chuma, pictured with his former possessions. Photograph, ca. 1873.

David Livingstone, suffering from fever, carried above water on the shoulders of one of his men. Wood engraving after J.B. Zwecker.

Henry Morton Stanley and David Livingstone on Lake Tanganyika. Lithograph.

An African dentist performing an operation on a patient that he is restraining with a wooden stick. Wood engraving by MD.

1 folded sheet (5 pages) : colour illustrations ; 30 cm

Welcome package : complementary training modules in research administration and management / Afrique One.

xiv, 345 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps, ports. ; 24 cm

Band-aid for a broken leg : being a doctor with no borders (and other ways to stay single) / Damien Brown.

4 unnumbered pages, 34, 436 leaves, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, plans (woodcuts) ; folio (33 cm)

Primo volume, & seconda editione delle Nauigationi et viaggi : in molti luoghi corretta, et ampliata, nella quale si contengono la descrittione dell'Africa, & del paese del Prete Ianni, con varij viaggi, dalla città di Lisbona, & dal mar Rosso à Calicut, & insin'all'isole Molucche, doue nascono le spetierie, et la nauigatione attorno il mondo : aggiuntoui di nuouo la relatione dell'isola Giapan, nuouamente scoperta nella parte di settentrione, alcuni capitoli appartenenti alla geographia estratti dell'historia del S. Giouan di Barros portoghese, tre tauole di geographia in disegno, secondo le carte da nauigare de Portoghesi, & fra terra secondo gli scrittori che si contengono in questo volume, un'indice molto copioso, delle cose di geographia, costumi, spetierie, & altre cose notabili, che in esso si contengono.

David Livingstone, holding a gun, attacked by a lion; Africans and a missionary in the foreground. Etching.

Contribution à la géographie médicale des maladies Africaines / par J. Brault.

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Africa

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Images referencing Africa

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Welcome package : complementary training modules in research administration and management / Afrique One.

Band-aid for a broken leg : being a doctor with no borders (and other ways to stay single) / Damien Brown.

David Livingstone, holding a gun, attacked by a lion; Africans and a missionary in the foreground. Etching.

Contribution à la géographie médicale des maladies Africaines / par J. Brault.

Africa

Images from the collections

Images referencing Africa

Works from the collections

Welcome package : complementary training modules in research administration and management / Afrique One.

Band-aid for a broken leg : being a doctor with no borders (and other ways to stay single) / Damien Brown.

David Livingstone, holding a gun, attacked by a lion; Africans and a missionary in the foreground. Etching.

Contribution à la géographie médicale des maladies Africaines / par J. Brault.

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