Africa

The authoritative chart of the harbour of Lourenço Marques (today Maputo, Mozambique), shown in the wake of World War II, showcasing what was one of Africa’s busiest and most modern ports, published by the British Admiralty.   Polychrome photolithograph on thick paper, contemporary hand-stamped price revision to title, rolled (Very Good, overall clean and bright, light wear along vertical centrefold),…

  An intriguing, and likely unique, artefact of the early era of Mozambican independence under the rule of the Socialist FRELIMO movement, being a map of the Mozambican capital Maputo (formerly Lourenço Marques), hastily published in the whiteprint method, that interestingly showcases the city with most of its major streets renamed after Socialist / Communist luminaries such Vladimir Lenin, Mao…

This is the first sea chart of the harbour of Massawa predicated upon proper scientific surveys, as well as one of the only detailed early maps of the city of Massawa as remodeled by the new Italian colonial regime.   Zincograph, with some navigation markers heightened in yellow, some contemporary manuscript navigational additions in pencil (Good, but with noticeable wear…

  An historically significant and beautifully rendered original manuscript map of Le Chateau de Reduit, the official residence of the Governor of Île de France (Mauritius), today the home of the President of Mauritius, depicting what was then a fortified working indigo plantation, a masterplan capturing the estate at an early stage in its development during the French colonial era,…

  An extremely rare separately-issued chart of the important port of Essaouira (formerly Mogador), Morocco, issued when the city was being transformed into the country’s greatest port, by Gerard Hulst van Keulen, masterfully engraved and of an uncommonly beautiful design.

MOROCCO (SPANISH / NORTHERN) / RIF WAR:  CUERPO DE ESTADO MAYOR DEL EJÉRCITO.   Madrid: Talleres del Depósito de la Guerra, December 1927.   Colour photolithograph, on 6 untrimmed and un-joined sheets of thick paper, housed in decorative printed paper sleave bearing blindstamp of the ‘Depósito de la Guerra’, rolling into original crimson tube bearing title in silver lettering (Very…

  Colour print, printed from both sides, 43 x 60 cm (17 x 23.6 inches) (soft folds, otherwise in a good condition).  

  An extremely rare and important sea chart depicting the mouth of the Limpopo River, in southern Mozambique; for centuries the Limpopo was one of the great transport corridors into the interior of southern Africa; the chart is based upon groundbreaking scientific surveys by a team of Portuguese naval officers, led by João António Ludovice, conducted in 1893, when the…

  An extremely rare and attractive late 19th century Portuguese sea chart of the mouth of the Rio Tejungo (today known as the Rio Moniga), a key trading port along the north-central coast of Mozambique, the chart being the first edition of the first scientific, trigonometric survey of estuary, conducted in 1898 by Lieutenant João Carlos da Silva Nogueira of…

An exceedingly rare – 1 of only 3 known examples - and historically consequential map; its contents enraged the people of Porto, helping to fuel the Republican Revolt that occurred there on January 31, 1891; the map, which embraces the midriff of Southern Africa, depicts Portugal’s premier colonies of Angola and Mozambique with greatly reduced boundaries, to the benefit of…