The collection of old Music Music Cards. Although the majority; Reprise l & rsquo; Central Africa and in particular the territory of the DRC, a good part of these cards cover the whole Africa; 1885. The evolution of the reproduction of the Africa may thus follow, from the first cards so -called ptol & éacute; through those of the 17i and 18i the second one from 19i & Egrave. From this moment, the Systick Exploration of the Intrior of the Africa Encu; Africa Encirci; An intense Cartographic Production, in the service of future colonizers.

a ptol & eacute; by Bernard Sylvanus (Venice, 1511) is the oldest in the Mrac collection. Certain cards of the work of the work of Waldseem & uuml; Follow remarkable examples of Dutch cards, French and English of the 17i, if not produced by cartographers of the Bres, like Hondius, Janssonius, Guillaume and Joan Blaeu, Visscher, Wit, Sanson, Duval, Jaillot and speed. A wall map of the Africa, & eacute; Antwerp in 1644, and only known exemplary, constitutes the jewel of the collection. & Nbsp;

d & eagra; gions was questioned, which appears clearly on the cards of Delisle, anville and other examples of German and Dutch origin. Some wall cards of this riode; From the conf & eacute of Brussels in 1876, the cartography of Central Africa assumed a political character and especially the conf & éacute; rence of Berlin in 1884-1885 acc & àcute; The collection includes a whipped uplest, Sentative of published cards This poque in Belgium, England, France, Germany and Portugal. A good part of these modern cards, of the topographic, administrative or matte type, concern particularly concern the old Belgian Congo, to the & rsquo; The unwanted in 1960.