Maps & Mapping
Aethiopia inferior vel exterior, c. 1640
50cm x 38cm. Willem Blaeu's famous map of Southern Africa which was the standard map of the region in the 17th century; it went into many editions [Loosely translated title: Aethiopia Inferior or ...
R12,000
Carte du Congo et du Pays de Cafres, 1780 [1708]
62cm x 50cm. The first modern map of South Africa produced in 1708 by the famous Guillaume Delisle, who broke with Ptolemaic tradition; uncoloured as issued and in fine condition. This ...
R8,500
Totius Africae Nova Representatio qua praeter diversos, 1753
48.6 x 57.1 cm. Early eighteenth century map of Africa with beautiful cartouche - produced by Johann Homann. The map is in very good condition.
R8,500
Africam Graeci Libyam App: Africae Tabula Nova. Edita Antverpiae 1570, 1579
38cm x 51cm. The map of Africa was printed from one copper plate, engraved by Frans Hogenberg, from 1570 until 1641. This particular example of the map is rare: only 325 copies of the 1570 map ...
R40,000
Occidentalior Tractus Indiarum Orientalium['The western extension of the East Indies', i.e., c. 1740
44.0cm x 53.9 cm. Beautiful, decorative sea chart of the western part of the Indian Ocean and adjacent land. Published by the Ottens brothers in Atlas de la Navigation et du Commerce in 1739 and 1745.
R17,000
ORIGINAL MAP OF THE TRANSVAAL OR SOUTH-AFRICAN REPUBLIC INCLUDING THE GOLD AND DIAMONDFIELDS, 1875
Printed on paper and coloured in outline, 510 x 510 mm, folds into blind stamped green cloth covers titled gilt, stained across the first fold and along the bottom edge, minor tears at some folds.
R20,000
KRIEGSKARTE VON DEUTSCH-SÜDWESTAFRIKA 1904, (1904) 1987
8 sheets, each 305 x 700 mm, coloured, loose in a card folder plus a separate Index of Names which accompanies the maps comprising of 38 pages in printed blue wrappers. Facsimile reprint
R2,500
Africae described, 1676
51.5 x 39.5 cm. Attractively coloured this third state (1676) of John Speed's decorative 1626 map of Africa. This is the first map of Africa prepared by a notable English cartographer. The side ...
R50,000