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- Africa, Maps and Prints
SOUTH AFRICA – Eastern Cape / XHOSA WARS: [Untitled Manuscript Sketch Map of the ‘Eastern Frontier’ of the Cape Colony / Grahamstown-Great Fish River Area].
- 750.00€
- An original manuscript sketch map of the Grahamstown-Great Fish River region of South Africa, the strategically critical ‘Eastern Frontier’ of the Cape Colony, made immediately in the wake of the Sixth European-Xhosa War (1834-6).
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Maps and Prints
SOUTH AFRICA – EIGHTH EUROPEAN-XHOSA WAR (1850-3): “1851 / The Outspan. in Kaffarland”.
- 3,500.00€
- An amazing survivor, being an original manuscript caricature drafted during the Eighth European-Xhosa War (1850-3), one of the century-long series of brutal conflicts between Dutch, and more recently British, forces and the formidable Xhosa nation for control over the Eastern Cape Frontier, South Africa’s ‘Wild, Wild East’; involving a very clever use of imagery and dialogue, the caricature shows two…
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Maps and Prints
SOUTH AFRICA – CAPE TOWN FORTIFICATIONS – THE PRINCE OF WALES BLOCKHOUSE – ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT PLANS
- 3,200.00€
- A set of original, exquisitely executed manuscript plans of the blockhouse of the Prince of Wales Battery, one of the key components of the elaborate new defensive system that the British constructed around Cape Town (South Africa) during their first occupation of the colony from 1795 to 1803; drafted by Captain (later Major-General) George Bridges, the commanding Royal Engineer…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
SOUTH AFRICA : قاپ [Cape]
- 120.00€
- A map from Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvi Küçük Atlas - Umûmî Küçük Atlas (General Small Atlas) Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches).
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
SOUTH AFRICA / AUSTRALIANA: “Track of H.M.S. Tamer round the Cape of Good Hope” [manuscript title, pasted over original printed title: Track of the Ship Hannah John Lamb R. N. Commander Round the Cape of Good Hope in June & July 1822.]
- 950.00€
- A unique example of a very rare chart of South Africa, with a curious Australian connection! Commander John Lamb’s chart showing the 1822 route of his ship ‘Hannah’, fighting the Agulhas Current rounding the Cape of Good Hope; but this example with a manuscript pastedown title regarding the route of the ‘H.M.S. Tamar’, plus manuscript traces of its route,…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
SOUTH AFRICA / GOLD MINING / ENGINEERS’ ‘MASTER PLAN’: Kinross Mines Ltd. – Underground Plan – 1:2,500.
- 2,500.00€
- A colossal ‘master plan’ of the Kinross Gold Mine in Transvaal (measuring 1.9 x 1.7 metres!), made by engineers around 1970 to showcase every detail of the immense subterranean world of one of South Africa’s largest and most productive gold operations; the mine since became world famous for the 1986 Kinross Mining Disaster, which highlighted the Apartheid regime’s horrific record…
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
SOUTH AFRICA / LESOTHO / EARLY ORANGE FREE STATE IMPRINT / ‘INTELLECTUAL PROPAGANDA’: Correspondence between the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and the President of the Orange Free State, with Annexes thereto relative to the Basuto War and Convention e
- 1,200.00€
- An extremely rare early Bloemfontein imprint featuring seminal primary sources concerning the end of the Orange Free State-Basotho Wars which secured the Anglo-Afrikaner balance of power in the region, as well as the security of what would become Lesotho, commissioned by the Volksraad of the Orange Free State as a work of ‘intellectual propaganda’ advancing its national claims.
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- Africa, Madagscar, Maps and Prints
SOUTH AFRICA & MADAGASCAR: افريقاى جنوبى و شرفى
- 200.00€
- Lithograph with original colour: 18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 inches) (soft fold, slightly age-toned and stained).
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
SOUTH AFRICA: POTCHEFSTROOM (North West Province). Map of Potchefstroom shewing Fifteen Mile Radius.
- 850.00€
- An Exceptionally rare - seemingly unrecorded – and impressively large ‘Sunprint’ or cyanotype map on cotton cloth, depicting Major Robert Lyle McClintock’s advanced topographical survey of the environs of Potchefstroom, South Africa, executed in the period following the Second Anglo-Boer War, made in Potchefstroom after the original survey composed in Pretoria.
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SUDAN – KHARTOUM-OMDURMAN: Egyptian Sudan. The Nile from Metemma to Khartum. Compiled in the Intelligence Division, War Office. July 1898.
- 750.00€
- A rare and important work predicated upon the latest reconnaissance that was the most advanced map of the Khartoum-Omdurman region of Sudan to date, made by the British War Office as a vital strategic aide in the immediate run up to the Battle of Omdurman (September 2, 1898), the decisive showdown of the Mahdist War, the 18-year-long contest for…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
SUDAN / EGYPT – MAHDIST WAR – PAIR OF MAPS:
- 1,200.00€
- A pair of fine, separately issued maps that represent the first broadly accurate general mapping of Southern Egypt and Northern Sudan; important masterpieces of frontier military cartography printed during the Siege of Khartoum, and which served as the definitive maps used by Anglo-Egyptian forces for the remainder of the Mahdist War (1881-99), the epic contest for control of Sudan;…
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- Africa, Africa, Archives and Documents, Books, Maps and Prints
SUDAN / RAILWAYS: [Sudan Governor-General Sir Charles Gordon’s Original Manuscript Report submitted to the Egyptian Public Works Minister Ali Pasha Mubarak prosing a scheme to save the embattled Egypt-Khartoum Railway project, illustrated with an original Mss. Map].
- 8,200.00€
- Charles George GORDON, aka “Gordon of Khartoum” (1833 - 1884). Manuscript, [Khartoum, Autumn 1879]. An original manuscript of extraordinary quality and interest, being a report written by the legendary British soldier-adventurer Sir Charles George Gordon, aka “Gordon of Khartoum”, in his capacity as Governor-General of Sudan, in the service of the Egyptian Khedive, articulating his well-conceived plan to…
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![SOUTH AFRICA / AUSTRALIANA: “Track of H.M.S. Tamer round the Cape of Good Hope” [manuscript title, pasted over original printed title: Track of the Ship Hannah John Lamb R. N. Commander Round the Cape of Good Hope in June & July 1822.]](https://pahor.at/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/65423-265x331.jpg)
![SUDAN / RAILWAYS: [Sudan Governor-General Sir Charles Gordon’s Original Manuscript Report submitted to the Egyptian Public Works Minister Ali Pasha Mubarak prosing a scheme to save the embattled Egypt-Khartoum Railway project, illustrated with an original Mss. Map].](https://pahor.at/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/su0-265x331.jpg)