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- 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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- 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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- 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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- SOUTH AFRICA / PHOTOGRAPHY / SIEGE OF MAFEKING / BADEN-POWELL, FOUNDER OF THE BOY SCOUTS: Collection of 37 Glass Photographic Slides of the Siege of Mafeking (1899 – 1900).
- 2,800.00€
- A fascinating and lovely artefact from the Siege of Mafeking (1899 - 1900), the highest profile event of the Second Anglo-Boer War and one of the greatest global media spectacles of the fin de siècle era, being a set of 37 diapositive glass photographic slides made from contemporary photos apparently by Frank Whiteley, the Mayor of Mafeking and one…
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- 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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- 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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- Australia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020, New Zealand
- SOUTH AMERICA: يكى جنوبى امريقا [New South America]
- 550.00€
- A very rare, large format, separately issued map of South America, that is perhaps the last great map of the continent to be printed in Ottoman Turkish script, with attractive colours and adorned with the flags of major African states and colonies, published in Istanbul for the Kitabhane-yi Sudi bookshop Colour off-set print (Good, some light staining, wear and…
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- Australia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020, South Pole
- South Pole, Australia and South America
- 180.00€
- Chromolithograph. 8,5 x 13,5 cm (3.3 x 5.3 inches). Slightly stained, overall in a good condition
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- SOVIET ECONOMIC ATLAS: Атлас СССР для средней школы: курс экономической географии [Atlas of SSSR for Gymnasiums: Course for Economical History].
- 320.00€
- A detailed economic atlas for gymnasiums in the Soviet Union, made at the height of the Cold War, showcases the country as a progressive unity, far ahead of the capitalistic countries.
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- SPAIN – BALEARIC ISLANDS / FINE POLISH PRINTING: Krótkie ale fundamentalne opisanie Balearyjskich i Pythyuzyjskich Wysp Majorca, Minorca, Ivica i Formentera z dowodnieyszych i nowszych relacyi zebrane i do drukowania z niemieckiego.
- 2,800.00€
- Extremely rare – a lovely gem that represents the first detailed description of the Balearic Islands in Polish, issued in the wake of the Fall of Minorca (1756), by the Jesuit Press of Warsaw, including a fine sheet of maps engraved by Bartłomiej Strachowski.
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