Maps, Artifacts, Prints
Photograph Album – South Africa – Farrar, J
59 Photographs, (12 loose) of landscape views of Cape Town beaches and mountains. Waterfalls and rivers around Knysna, Wilderness, Port St. Johns and others. Most images approximately 20 x 26cm. Photographs mounted on black card with captions by hand. Titles in pencil and stamp of J. Farrar photographer to the verso of the loose images….
Photograph Album – England and South Africa –
Album with approximately 230 captioned photographs.Areas visited are Hawborough, Brighton, Dover Dyke, Leeds, Copley Village, Essex, Bolton Abbey and surrounds. Followed by 21 photographs of Howick, Pietermartizburg and Johannesburg. 2 – 9 photographs per page. Photographs pasted to album card, with hand written captions to most. Front board lookse with pieces of spine missing. Date…
Postcard Album –
Postcard album with approximately 220 cards of a continental and English tour, circa 1908. Most cards unused and loosely tipped into the album. Front board and spine piece are missing from the album. Date Published: circa 1908 Dimensions: 21 x 28 x 11cm
Sommer in Deutschland – Summer in Germany, poster circa 1935 – Plessen, Hans-Wilhelm
Lithograph in colour. In bright original state with no restoration. Tidemark on the lower margin (see photo), pin holes to corners, some short tears to margin and a shallow crease to the upper right. Size 101 x 63.5cm. Publisher: Reichsbahnzentrale für den Deutschen Reisverkehr, Date Published: circa 1935 Publication Place: Berlin Dimensions: 101 x 63.5cm
The Linschoten Maps – Typus orarum maritarum Guineae Manicongo & Angolae ultra promontoriom Bonae Spei usq…and Delineatio Orarum Maritimarum Terra vulgo indigetatae Terra do Natal item Sofalae, Mozambicae & Melinde… – Langren, Arnold Florent van
These two maps first appeared in Jan Huygen van Linschoten’s Itinerario, published in four parts in Amsrterdam 1595-96. An extremely rare set of both maps, East and West. Jan Huygen van Lindschoten, Dutch voyager, (1563 – 1611) entered the service of the Archbishop of Goa, and accompanied him to the Indies. In 1589 he returned…
Carte von der Sudliche Spitze von Africa – Forster, J.R.
This map is the only map of Africa by Dr. Johann(es) Reinoldus Forster, the famous and controversial naturalist who accompanied Capt. James Cook’s Second Voyage and visited the Cape of Good Hope in 1772 and 1775. “Examples of this map are known to exist in only a few institutions: two in the USA and four…