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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- PROPAGANDA / WORLD WAR II / ROMMEL’S AFRIKAKORPS: Rommel Persigue a los Ingleses en el Africa del Norte. [Rommel Pursues the English in North Africa].
- 700.00€
- A fantastic large-format propaganda broadside, or ‘wall newspaper’, made to celebrate the exploits of German General Erwin Rommel, the ‘Desert Fox’, and his Afrikakorps, printed in Fascist Spain in July 1942, before the pivotal showdown at El Alamein had been decided.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- RARE PROOF – SPAIN – CEUTA. Septa.
- 1,500.00€
- An extraordinary woodcut view of the Iberian enclave of Ceuta, on the north coast of Morocco, apparently a proof for Braun & Hogenberg’s famous copper engraved view of the city.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- RED SEA / ITALIAN COLONIAL VENTURES – ERITREA / ETHIOPIA / DJIBOUTI / SUDAN / YEMEN / SAUDI ARABIA: Carta del Mar Rosso e del Sudan orientale pubblicata per cura della Sezione Cartografia della Società Africana d’Italia.
- 350.00€
- A fine map of the Red Sea depicting Italy’s first major operation to establish an overseas colony, in Eritrea, commissioned by the Società Africana d’Italia, an influential lobbying-research organization, and originally published in an issue of their rare journal.
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- Africa, Books, Maps and Prints, Réunion
- RÉUNION: Neue Charte von der Insel Bourbon od Reunion nach der Zeichnung von Bory de St. Vincent
- 140.00€
- Copper engraving, 21.5 x 16 cm (8,5 x 6.3 inches) (in a good condition).
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- Sahel – Africa – CARTOGRAPHIC PLAYING CARD: ‘Upper Guinea’ from The Court Game of Geography.
- 120.00€
- A very rare cartographic playing card featuring a map of Africa.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- SEYCHELLES: A Chart of the Mahé and Amirantes Islands with their Shoals by Monsr. le Vicomte Grenier 1776.
- 850.00€
- A scarce British edition of a sea chart that represents the first broadly accurate general mapping of the Seychelles and Amirantes Islands, based on the cartography of the Chevalier Grenier, conducted during his important expedition of scientific and commercial discovery.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- SIERRA LEONE / MANUMISSION OF SLAVES: Map of Part of the Western Coast of Africa extending from the Isles de Loss to Sherboro Island. Particularly Exhibiting the Discoveries lately made to the N.E. of Sierra Leone by Surgeon O’Beirne and Major Ling. Compi
- 550.00€
- James Wyld the Younger’s important map of Sierra Leone, featuring the tracks of British expeditions into the interior, a stellar example featuring unusually magnificent original hand colour.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- SOUTH AFRICA – Eastern Cape / XHOSA WARS: [Untitled Manuscript Sketch Map of the ‘Eastern Frontier’ of the Cape Colony / Grahamstown-Great Fish River Area].
- 750.00€
- An original manuscript sketch map of the Grahamstown-Great Fish River region of South Africa, the strategically critical ‘Eastern Frontier’ of the Cape Colony, made immediately in the wake of the Sixth European-Xhosa War (1834-6).
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Maps and Prints
- SOUTH AFRICA – CAPE TOWN FORTIFICATIONS – THE PRINCE OF WALES BLOCKHOUSE – ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT PLANS
- 3,200.00€
- A set of original, exquisitely executed manuscript plans of the blockhouse of the Prince of Wales Battery, one of the key components of the elaborate new defensive system that the British constructed around Cape Town (South Africa) during their first occupation of the colony from 1795 to 1803; drafted by Captain (later Major-General) George Bridges, the commanding Royal Engineer…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- SOUTH AFRICA : قاپ [Cape]
- 120.00€
- A map from Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvi Küçük Atlas - Umûmî Küçük Atlas (General Small Atlas) Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches).
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- SOUTH AFRICA / AUSTRALIANA: “Track of H.M.S. Tamer round the Cape of Good Hope” [manuscript title, pasted over original printed title: Track of the Ship Hannah John Lamb R. N. Commander Round the Cape of Good Hope in June & July 1822.]
- 950.00€
- A unique example of a very rare chart of South Africa, with a curious Australian connection! Commander John Lamb’s chart showing the 1822 route of his ship ‘Hannah’, fighting the Agulhas Current rounding the Cape of Good Hope; but this example with a manuscript pastedown title regarding the route of the ‘H.M.S. Tamar’, plus manuscript traces of its route,…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- SOUTH AFRICA / GOLD MINING / ENGINEERS’ ‘MASTER PLAN’: Kinross Mines Ltd. – Underground Plan – 1:2,500.
- 2,500.00€
- A colossal ‘master plan’ of the Kinross Gold Mine in Transvaal (measuring 1.9 x 1.7 metres!), made by engineers around 1970 to showcase every detail of the immense subterranean world of one of South Africa’s largest and most productive gold operations; the mine since became world famous for the 1986 Kinross Mining Disaster, which highlighted the Apartheid regime’s horrific record…
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