Maps, Artifacts, Prints
Maskew Miller’s 100 Mile Road Map from Cape Town –
Showing the Southern Cape coast from St. Helena Bay to Cape Agulus. Key showing: Hard roads suitable for Motor Traffic, Roads under construction and Railways. With an inset showing the main roads of the Peninsula. Linen backed folding map with some wear to the creases but generally very good condition. Size: 87 x 76cm Second…
The Pilchard Seiners – Watercolour – Rheam, Henry M.
This Quaker artist was a member of the Newlyn Group in Cornwall. Favouring watercolour he is known for his distinctively pre-Raphaelite style. Exhibited at the Royal Academy and elected to the R.B.A. and R.I. in 1892 and 1899. In original frame with label to the verso from James Lanham, St. Ives, artists’s supplies and the…
Johannesburg Cityscape at Night – Larry Scully (1922 – 2002)
South African artist and art educator. He was the first in South Africa to receive a Masters in Fine Art. Going on to teach at Polly Street and WITS before becoming Professor of Fine Art at Stellenbosch University. This work is from arguably his most successful time as a painter, 1969. Esme Burman writes: “ he…
De Cust van Barbaria, Gualata, Arguyn, en Gene: heo, van Capo S. Vincente tot Capo Verde. – Goos, Pieter
Copperplate engraving, hand coloured. This sea chart by Pieter Goos, De Cust van Barbara, Gualata, Arguyn, en Gene, represents a detailed portion of the northwest coast of Africa, focusing on the Saharan and Mauritanian littoral. It covers the coastline from roughly Cape Bojador (Barbary Coast) southward through Gualata (Walata), Arguin, and Gene (Senegal region)an area…
Pas-Kaarte van de Zuyd-west-kust van Africa, van Cabo Negro tot beoosten Cabo de Bona Esperanca – Goos, Pieter
Copperplate engraving with original hand colour. Language: Dutch. This sea chart, drawn and published by the prominent Amsterdam cartographer Pieter Goos, presents the southern segment of the west coast of Africa, extending from Cabo Negro (modern-day Angola-Namibia border) southward to Cabo de Bona Esperanca (Cape of Good Hope). The Pas-Kaarte van de Zinder-west-kust van Africa…
British America. Containing the Discoveries in the Arctic Seas up to 1856 –
Lithographed map. Sheet size: 61 x 44cm. Double sheet with central fold. good. Tide marks to the lower edge. Publisher: A & C Black Date Published: circa 1856 Publication Place: London
North America –
Lithographed map. Sheet size: 61 x 44cm. Double sheet with central fold. good. Publisher: A & C Black Date Published: circa 1856 Publication Place: London
Germany –
Lithographed map. Sheet size: 61 x 44cm. Double sheet with central fold. very good Publisher: A & C Black Date Published: circa 1856 Publication Place: London
England and Wales –
Lithographed map. Two sheets, 61 x 44cm each. Total map size 61 x 88cm very good. Splitting at he central fold Publisher: A & C Black Date Published: circa 1856 Publication Place: London
Sweden & Norway –
Lithographed map. Sheet size: 33 x 44cm very good. Tide mark to lower right Publisher: A & C Black Date Published: circa 1856 Publication Place: London
Italy, South Part –
Lithographed map. Sheet size: 33 x 44cm very good Publisher: A & C Black Date Published: circa 1856 Publication Place: London
Turkey in Europe –
Lithographed map. Sheet size: 33 x 44cm very good Publisher: A & C Black Date Published: circa 1856 Publication Place: London
Greece –
Lithographed map. Sheet size: 33 x 44cm very good Publisher: A & C Black Date Published: circa 1856 Publication Place: London
Turkey in Asia –
Lithographed map. Sheet size: 33 x 44cm fair. Foxed Publisher: A & C Black Date Published: circa 1856 Publication Place: London
Ireland –
Lithographed map. Sheet size: 61 x 44cm. Double sheet with central fold. Showing railways, coach and carriage roads, cross roads and steamer routes. very good Publisher: A & C Black Date Published: circa 1856 Publication Place: London
Central Chile and Chili, La Plata or the Argentine Republic & Bolivia –
Lithographed map. Sheet size: 61 x 44cm. Double sheet with central fold. very good Publisher: A & C Black Date Published: circa 1856 Publication Place: London
North & South Wales –
Lithographed map. Sheet size: 61 x 44cm. Double sheet with central fold. Showing railways, coach and carriage roads, cross roads and steamer routes. very good Publisher: A & C Black Date Published: circa 1856 Publication Place: London
France in Departments –
Lithographed map. Sheet size: 61 x 44cm. Double sheet with central fold. very good Publisher: A & C Black Date Published: circa 1856 Publication Place: London
Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia &c. (east sheet) –
Lithographed map. Sheet size: 61 x 44cm. Double sheet with central fold. very good Publisher: A & C Black Date Published: circa 1856 Publication Place: London
Canada (west sheet) –
Lithographed map. Sheet size: 61 x 44cm. Double sheet with central fold. very good Publisher: A & C Black Date Published: circa 1856 Publication Place: London
Germany, Holland, Belgium, with parts of France & Switzerland – Hughes, W
Lithographed map. Sheet size: 61 x 44cm. Double sheet with central fold. Showing the roads, canals and railways. very good Publisher: A & C Black Date Published: circa 1856 Publication Place: London
Switzerland –
Lithographed map. Sheet size: 33 x 44cm good. Publisher: A & C Black Date Published: circa 1856 Publication Place: London
Mexico, California & Texas –
Lithographed map. Sheet size: 33 x 44cm very good. Publisher: A & C Black Date Published: circa 1856 Publication Place: London
Austrian Dominions –
Lithographed map. Sheet size: 33 x 44cm good. Publisher: A & C Black Date Published: circa 1856 Publication Place: London
Denmark –
Lithographed map. Sheet size: 33 x 44cm very good. Publisher: A & C Black Date Published: circa 1856 Publication Place: London
Britstown – Folding Map –
Linen backed folding map. Scale of 3.94 miles to 1 inch. Showing roads, rivers, hills, pans, railways, telegraph line, farm boundries and fences, homesteads, cultivated lands and trees in the key. Some abrasions to the rhight side, wear and fading to the wraps. 62 x 49.5cm. Compiled at the time of the Anglo Boer War….
Douglas Sheet South H 34. Cape of Good Hope- Folding Map – Robinson, Capt. S.M.
Highly detailed linen backed folding map of Douglas and surrounds in the Cape of Good Hope. 8 insets and various other notes and references. Geographical – General Staff. Very good condition 12cm repaired tear to the botom edge. 62 x 65cm Publisher: War Office Date Published: 1913 Publication Place: Cape Town
Cape & Malmesbury Districts – Folding Map – Casgrain, Capt.
Linen backed folding map produced during the Anglo-Boer War. Interesting topographical detail including farm boundaries. 60 x 49cm Publisher: Intelligence Dept. Date Published: 1901 Publication Place: Cape Town
Eastern Frontier of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope… – Arrowsmith, John
This is the first edition of Arrowsmith’s fine map of the Eastern Frontier – it was followed by editions in 1848 and 1851. The impetus for these maps was doubtless the outbreak of two major periods of hostility: the Seventh Frontier War (War of the Axe 1846-1848) and the Eighth Frontier war (1850-1853). This, Arrowsmith’s…
France in Provinces –
Lithographed map. Sheet size: 33 x 44cm good. Publisher: A & C Black Date Published: circa 1856 Publication Place: London