GEOGRAPHICAL SECTION, GENERAL STAFF. CAPE COLONY, RECONNAISANCE SERIES. 26 (of 30) maps covering the Cape Colony from Orange River Mouth to Victoria West:

Folding Maps:

Description:

Rietfontein, Orange River Mouth, Stinkfontein, Warmbad, Schuit Drift, Kakamas, Upington, Langeberg, Griquatown, Kimberley, Port Nolloth & O’Okiep, Pella, De Tuin, Kenhardt, Prieska, Strydenburg, Bowesdorp, Brandvlei, Van Wyk’s Vlei, Carnavon, Britstown, Philipstown, Williston, Fraserburg, Loxton & Victoria West. (lacking Little Bushmanland, Hope Town, Kamiesberg & Naauwpoort).

Printed on paper and mounted on linen, coloured in relief, sketches as insets, the maps fold into brown cloth covers – the covers are soiled and several of the maps are browned and with some foxing and tears and the folds.

Scale – 250,000 or 1.014 Inches to 4 miles, Average size 600 x 550 mm.

Details:

  • Publisher: Topographical Section, General Staff, War Office
  • Publisher Place: London
  • Date of Publication: 1907 – 1914
  • Lot No: 323
  • Hammer Price: $303
  • Bids: 8
  • Visits: 82
  • Estimate: $400/500
  • Reserve: $200

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  • Name: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
  • Address: P.O. Box 186, Constantia, (Cape Town), 7848, South Africa
  • Contact Person: Paul Mills
  • Country of Origin: South Africa
  • Email: africana@clarkes.co.za
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    Founded in 1958, Clarkes specialises in Africana and general antiquarian books, prints, maps and ephemera. Africana Catalogues are issued four times a year. All subjects are covered including, African exploration and travel, missionary endeavour, ethnography, Bushmen and rock art, big-game hunting, military history, the Anglo Boer War, Boer War ephemera, Zulu War and the First World War in East Africa and South West Africa, natural history (botany, ornithology, etc.), Mining (particularly diamonds and gold), Natal & Zululand, Namibia, art & architecture, literature & politics. Also Maps, prints and ephemera. We offer an active search service for all antiquarian and secondhand books.