William Marshall Craig. (more…)

A highly imaginary impression of a ship hove down in a bay, from the book of letters from an English officer in 1806 called ‘Gleanings in Africa’. (more…)

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For Motorists, Cyclists, Travellers etc. Linen backed. An extremely scarce map with advertisements for motors and motorcycles of the period. (more…)

Aquatint (more…)

This fine Ptolemaic map is from the wood blocks of Laurent Fries(c.1490 - c.1532), the famous physician, astrologer and geographer. The map covers the central part of northern Africa, present-day Tunisia and Libya. The map is typical Ptolemaic - drawn on a revised conical projection - set in a trapezoidal frame. (more…)

Major General Henry Strachan Elton (1841-1934) seems to have seen service mainly in Burma and India. Exhibited at the Army Office Art Society, London. c 1880. Watercolour painted after earlier works by Captain Cornwallis Harris. (more…)

Engraving was done by John Arrowsmith and published in ‘Memoranda of a Trading Trip into the Orange River (Sovereignty) Free State, and the Country of the Transvaal Boers, 1851-52.’ by John Sanderson Esq. (more…)

The family business  in Amsterdam was founded by Joachim Ottens (1663-1719) but the active period of map publishing was concentrated in the years between 1720 and 1750 when the brothers, Reiner(1698-1750) and Joshua (1704-1765), produced enormous collections of maps, some as large as 15 volumes. (more…)

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A cloth souvenir “Map of the Transvaal” with 2 oval insets showing ‘President Stephen John Paul Kruger’ and “the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain’ ref: Pete Oostehuize ‘Boer War Memorabilia” (more…)

Jakob van der Schley, or van Schley, draughtsman and engraver, 1715-1779. He was a student of Bernard Picart (1673-1733), whose style he imitated. Van der Schley engraved mostly portraits as well as most of the plates in Prévost’s Histoire générale des voyages (The Hague: P. de Hondt, 1747-1780). (more…)

Map of Buildings in the Financial Commercial and Industrial Centre. (more…)

Watercolour painted after earlier works by Captain Cornwallis Harris (more…)

Original stone lithograph from Thomas Bowler from SA sketches Album 1854 (more…)

The lower Olifantbecken (South African Republic.) with particular reference to the native population drawn by Dr. H. Raddatz. Lithograph. (more…)

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Frédéric Cuvier (1773- 1838) was a French zoologist and the head keeper of the menagerie at the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris from 1804 to 1838. He named the red panda (Ailurus fulgens) in 1825. The chair of comparative physiology was created for him at the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle in 1837. He was elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society in 1835.He is mentioned in Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (Chapter VII) as having worked on animal behaviour and instinct, especially the distinction between habit and instinct. He is also mentioned in Moby-Dick (Chapter 32) as having written on the topic of whales. The animals were drawn from life mainly at the zoo Jardin des Plantes in Paris. (more…)

The main map, on the right, covers from the Cape of Good Hope, North as far as Zanzibar and modern day Kenya, focusing on the gold rich kingdom of Monomotapa. (more…)

Jan Barend Elwe was a publisher and seller of maps in Amsterdam in the period between 1777 and 1815. He is best known for his pocket atlases of the Netherlands (1786) and of Germany (1791). Originally issued by the Visscher family in 1710. Two insets are shown, Cape Peninsula and plan and elevation of Table Bay. (more…)