Maps, Artifacts, Prints
Grenade – Vauquer; De Poilly
Copperplate engraving on watermarked, chain-laid paper. Small mark to top RH corner, pink mark to the top LF edge, light foxing to lower RH corner. Date Published: Circa 1680 Condition: Very Good Dimensions: Sheet size 29.7 x 19.6cm
Encolis, Renoncule double, Renoncule – Vauquer; De Poilly
Copperplate engraving on watermarked, chain-laid paper. Tide marks and light foxing to the margins only. Date Published: Circa 1680 Condition: Very good. Dimensions: Sheet size 35 x 21cm
Grenade, Pauot – Vauquer; De Poilly
Copperplate engraving on watermarked, chain-laid paper. Tide marks and light foxing to the margins only. Date Published: Circa 1680 Condition: Very Good Dimensions: Sheet size 30 x 21cm
Rose, Giroflee double, Renoncule – Vauquer; De Poilly
Copperplate engraving on watermarked, chain-laid paper. Some creasing to the paper and darkening to top-edge. Date Published: Circa 1680 Condition: Very good. Dimensions: Sheet size 31 x 17.5cm
Original Albumen print of the Grand Hotel, Pretoria – Photographer R.C.E. Nissen
One chip and one closed tear to the mount board. Two indentations to the image but the surface is undamaged. Photograph take c. 1895 Condition: Good Dimensions: image size 20.4 x 15cm
Vera et Genvina Fontivm Nili Topographia facta a P. Petro Pais: Societ iesu Anno 1618: die 21. Aprilis in praesentia Imperatoris uid Fol 56. – Athanasius Kircher
A three-map sheet. The map at the top left represents the origins of the Nile as explored by Duarte Lopez. The top right map represents the Montes Lunae as the origin of the Nile from Arab sources. The third map shows the Montes Lunae and the river valley in detail as recorded by the Jesuit…