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Giacomo Gastaldi - Giobattista Ramusio Prima Tavola Famous 'upside down' map of Africa that is > 450 years old. Giobattista Ramusio published this...

Jean Baptiste Clouet Carte d'Afrique divisée en ses principaux Etats… / La Africa dividida segun lo dila de sus principales partes …. Stunnin...

Photograph Album 2 Photo Albums with 95 original photos from Gambia (1917-22) With stunning pictures of Gambia during the colonisation, among the ...

George Orwell HOMAGE TO CATALONIA The scarce first edition lacking the dustwrapper of this title recalling Orwell's experiences in the Spanish Civ...

Barrow (John) A VOYAGE TO COCHINCHINA IN THE YEARS 1792 & 1793: and also of such European Settlements as were visited on the Voyage: with Sketches...

Charles W Traylen ORME’S COLLECTION OF BRITISH FIELD SPORTS Orme (Edward) ORME’S COLLECTION OF BRITISH FIELD SPORTS. Illustrated in twenty beaut...

Richard Oviet TYLER The Planets The Planets. [New York:] Uranian Press, 1958. Large 4to. 20 leaves of sekishu paper, printed one side only in colo...

Irvin Shrewsbury COBB Film Script: a 152pp. original holograph manuscript “ … The Dark Horse or So This is America ..." Susan HAYWARD, and ot...

William SIMPSON, and others "Kissing" - an original apparently unpublished manuscript Diamonds are forever, but the chance to gift an original man...

Robert Spence HYNDE (editor). - MALAWI The Central African Planter. Robert Spence HYNDE (editor). The Central African Planter. Songani, Zomba, Bri...

Ignatius SANCHO Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho, an African. To which are prefixed, Memoirs of his Life, by Joseph Jekyll... Fifth Edition. W...

[William RAMESAY] The Gentlemans Companion: or, a character of true nobility, and gentility: in the way of essay. By a Person of Quality. The Gen...

Schreiner (Olive) THE HUNTER (Special Private Edition) Half title page, title page, 51 pages of hand printed letterpress and a colophon leaf, inte...

Bosman (Herman Charles) & Skotnes (Cecil) THE ROOINEK (Special Private Edition) with ONE WOODCUT IN COLOUR  and FOURTEEN WOOD ENGRAVINGS  by CECIL...

P. de Bonnefont de Varinay La Compagnie de Mozambique. Sa concession, son administrations, ses resultats (1898; First edition) "The Mozambique Com...

Georges AUBERT Le TRANSVAAL et l'Angleterre en Afrique du Sud (1898) A two folding tables shows most important facts about the values of all South...

John S. Oliver Faults and Dykes. A Geological Study of the Witwatersrand (1911) List of sketches: - Sketch map of the West Rand - Sketch map of th...

L. de Launay Les Mines d'Or du Transvaal (1896) Contents (translated from french): I. Study of geography and history II. Organization of the minin...

Thomas Bowen New and Accurate Map of Africa This attractive 1779 map of Africa was produced by Thomas, the son of the highly regarded Emanuel Bowe...

George Swanston Africa to May 1858 The long title captures the essence of this map. It is a cartographic snapshot of the conversion of terra incog...

Sydney Hall Africa This map was published a brief time before two major discoveries by Europeans became known: Victoria Falls and Lake Maravi. The...

Covens & Mortier Carte d'Afrique. This is an important map in the history of the mapping of Africa. It is the Covens & Mortier edition of Delisle'...

John Cary A new map of Africa This is astriking, large format map of Africa from 1805 by John Cary, a famous London map maker.   Indeed, this map ...

Emanuel Bowen New and Accurate map of Southern Africa This is one of the notable, attractive 18th century maps with a striking vignette. It has nu...

Adrien Hubert Brué Carte physique et politique de l'Afrique A fine example of the first edition of Brué’s large scale map of Africa. The map is f...

Henri Chatelain Carte du Royaume de Congo This striking 1719 map by Henri Chatelain is one of the most detailed and scientifically orientated map;...

Pieter van der Aa Le Cap de Bonne Esperance This is an important map that was widely distributed: it shows the second phase of expansion of the Du...

Castle Line Castle Line map of South Africa This is a fascinating and very informative map of South Africa in 1892 - arguably the first tourism ma...

Francesco Santini Afrique divisee en ses principaux etats A beautiful, mid-18th century, Italian map of Africa with two historically important ins...

Laurie & Whittle Africa and its several regions and Islands This very uncommon map wonderfully depicts in full colour the partitioning of Africa -...

John Barrow Baie False An attractive chart of False Bay (1797) that illustrated John Barrow's book on the Cape of Good Hope (1804) - the chart is ...

Abraham Ortelius Africa nova tabula This map, by the famous Abraham Ortelius, is one of the landmark maps of Africa, from the 16th century: a must...

John Arowsmith Eastern Frontier of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, In the mid 1800s, dramatic changes were taking place along the Eastern fro...

John Barrow Map of the coast of Africa This attractive map of the Cape West coast was published for John Barrow - it is based on one of the few VO...

Jacques Bellin Carte Reduite d'une Partie des Costes Occidentales et Meridionales de l'Afrique This is one of the more beautiful and historically ...

Luigi Rossi Colonia del Capo di Buona Speranza An attractive 1820, Italian map of the cape of Good Hope based John Barrow's map of 1801. Later col...

Herman Moll To the right honourable Charles ... this map of Africa One of the largest and most detailed maps of Africa to appear in the early 18th...

John Luffman Saldanha Bay This small map is Plate 9 from the second volume ofcJohn Luffman's multi-volume Select plans of the principal cities, ha...

John Luffman Cape Fort This 1801 diagram of The Cape Fort is of the fortification we now know as The Castle. Luffman’s ‘Cape Fort’ was engraved on...

William Berry Africa divided According to the Extent of Its Principall (sic) Parts This is a very uncommon, seventeenth century map of  Africa wit...

Jan Huygen Linschoten (AF Van Langren) Delineatio Orarum maritimarum Terrae One of the most beautiful maps of the east coast of Southern Africa; i...

Jan Huygen Linschoten (AF Van Langren Typus orarum maritimarum Guinae, Manicongo & Angolae ultra promontorium Bonae Spei ... One of the most beaut...

Aaron Arrowsmith To Captain Carmichael ... this Chart of the Cape Colony is inscribed This is a very uncommon, landmark map of the Cape of Good Ho...

Henry Hall South Africa ZuidAfrica This folded map is by Henry Hall R.E. D whose pioneering contribution to South African Cartography and developm...

Franz Schrämbl Das Vorgebirg der Guten Hofnung Verfasst von Herrn L.S. De la Rochette.Neu herausgegeben von Herrn. F.A. Schraembl 1789 This map i...

Johann M C Reinecke Charte der Sudspitze Africa und der Colonie vom Vorgebirgedernugen Hoffnung Uncommon German edition of the first modern map of...

Delisle (Covens & Mortier) Mappe Monde a l'usage du Roy Beautiful, uncommon Covens & Mortier (ca. 1741) edition of Delisle's ca. 1700 world map in...

A.T Bryant The Zulu People A.T Bryant is renowned as the greatest ever authority on the Zulus. This classic volume is regarded as 'his life's work...

Major Ashe & Capt. Wyatt Edgell The Story of the Zulu Campaign This seldom-available book provides unique insight into the daily life of the Briti...

Mounteney Jephson Emin Pasha and the rebellion at the Equator. A scarce book: an engrossing account of Mounteney-Johnson’s travels and harrowing e...

An Observer South African Balloons: a skit on the boom A scarce early Johannesburg printing; one of the earliest examples of financial reporting -...

Thomas Baines Explorations in South West africa A beautiful facsimile edition of an important, uncommonly available book by Thomas Baines F.R.G.S....

Raven-Hart, R Cape Good Hope. This book of transcriptions and translations of texts by early callers to the Cape of Good Hope is invaluable to any...

Mutwa, Credo Vusamazulu Indaba My Children “An absorbing collection of legends . . . This interesting and human book deserves a wide circle of rea...

Anthony Hocking Randfontein Estates The Frist Hundred years This is a lavishly produced company history including the war years and the importance...

C.P Thunberg Travels in Europe, Africa and Asia made between the years 1770 and 1779 (4 Volumes) A complete set of one of the third and revised ed...

Rowland Atcherley A trip to Boerland A little known personal account of an Englishman's tour in the expanding colonial parts of South Africa in th...

James Chapman Travels in the interior of South Africa First Edition of this uncommon book. "Few South African books give better descriptions of th...

David Arnot The land question of Griqualand West This book on the question of Griqaualand West vexed colonial authorities. The book has the stamp ...

Gardiner Williams The Diamond Mines of South Africa First edition of a landmark book on diamonds, diamond mining in South Africa and their history...