Africa from Bryars and Bryars

Leeds, John Waddington Ltd, c. 1942. Double sided Escape and Evasion map, printed in three colours on rayon (man-made fibre), old folds. For the highly classified production of EE maps, MI9 approached British games manufacturer Waddington’s through the Ministry of Supply, as the firm already had a proven track record of printing on silk. Bond suggests that the maps… Read more about this item

London, George Philip &: Son Ltd, c. 1899. Lithographed folding map, 64 x 55.5 cm, printed in colours, laid on linen; without printed wraps or slip-case. Insets on the map depict ‘Africa before the scramble’ and ‘England on same scale showing main railway lines’. Text at the foot of the map explores the progress of the proposed Cape to… Read more about this item

London, George Philip &: Son Ltd, c. 1898. Lithographed folding map, 64 x 55.5 cm, printed in colours, scattered foxing, blank verso, folding into printed card wraps. The cover title adds: ‘showing the Cape-Cairo Railway: present and future railway systems, principal steamer routes, European possessions & treaty boundaries, forest regions, chief products, mining districts, etc.’ Insets on the map… Read more about this item

London: Sifton, Praed & Co Ltd ‘The Map House’, 1936. Lithographed folding map, sheet size 88.5 x 885. cm, printed in colours, laid on linen, errata label to verso, folding into blue-grey wallet-style printed paper wrappers carrying advertising. The map was ‘compiled with the help of the Public Works and Survey Departments of Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika’ and shows… Read more about this item

London, c. 1921. Lithographed folding map, 99 x 76 cm, printed in colours, dissected into 9 panels and laid on linen, brass eylets mounted in upper margin, marginal pin-holes, a few minor spots and stains. A schoolroom map of Africa, showing the redistribution of Germany’s African colonies among the victorious Allies which was agreed at Versailles. Bacon’s Norwich Street… Read more about this item

London, c. 1894. Lithographed folding map, 67 x 56 cm, printed in colours, dissected into 20 panels and laid on linen, folding into publisher’s red cloth covers with printed paper label. The Lado Enclave has been ceded to the Congo Free State, which took place in 1894, although the territory ceded in return is not clearly demarcated. Also published… Read more about this item

Paris: Imprimerie Gaillac-Monrocq, c. 1950. Route map advertising steamship services between France and West Africa, 112 x 78 cm, printed in colours, a couple of closed tears, lined on linen. Advertising postal, passenger, and cargo services between Marseille and West Africa. The SS Canada was built for the Fabre Line in 1911 and taken out of service in 1952;… Read more about this item

Paris, Editions Blondel la Rougery, 1950. Route map of the western Mediterranean and Northwest Africa, 63.5 x 99 cm, printed in three colours, lined on linen. Shows the routes from Marseille and Bordeaux to Tunisia, Alergira and Morocco, with considerable detail of the road network inland. Decorative elements include a compass rose, a matelot steering a ship’s wheel, and… Read more about this item

[London?], c. 1900. Second Anglo-Boer War souvenir handkerchief, 45 x 45 cm, printed in blue ink on fine linen, a couple of trivial spots, blank verso. Set in the borders of a map showing the contested regions of South Africa (chiefly Orange Free State and Transvaal) is the text of Rudyard Kipling's poem 'The Absent-Minded Beggar', with the music… Read more about this item

Nuremburg, 1728. Copper-engraving, 49.5 x 58 cm original hand-colour, inset of Madeira, allegorical cartouche (which features, inter alia, Atlas jutting from the Atlas Mountains), and with views of Marrakesh and Meknes; trivial marginal spotting, blank verso. This map of Morocco was one of only two original maps engraved by the son of Johann Baptist Homann, Johann Christoph, in his… Read more about this item

Madrid, Artes Graficas Mateu, c. 1921. Folding map, 75 x 112 cm, printed in colours, 5 inset maps including environs of Ceuta and a sketch map of Morocco and the Iberian peninsula for location and scale, dissected into 40 panels and laid on linen, folding into blue cloth covers, minor wear; one annotation (calculation) next to scale. The Empire… Read more about this item

London,, 1900. Folding map, stated fourth edition on the cover, sheet size 98.5 x 72.5 cm, printed in colours, laid on linen, folding into red cloth covers lettered direct in gilt, a little worn; publisher’s adverts to pastedown and bookseller’s label (Franklin, Newcastle-on-Tyne). Inset maps of Natal; Witwatersrand; Kimberley district; Mafeking district; the Southwestern Frontier, with an inset map… Read more about this item

London, c. 1851. Steel engraving, 36 x 25 cms, recent hand-colour, slight spotting, blank verso; engraved by John Rapkin for the ‘Illustrated Atlas’, with vignettes of Port Natal engraved by William Lacey after Henry Winkles.

London, Charles Knight, c. 1844. Steel engraving, 33 x 39 cm, engraved by John & Charles Walker, original hand colour in outline, slight spotting, numbered in an old hand in the margin, blank verso. The map reflects the state of European knowledge of the interior before the mid 19th century search for the sources of the Nile. For example,… Read more about this item

London: Stanford’s Geographical Establishment, 1925. Folding map, 61 x 73 cm, printed in colours, dissected into 8 panels and laid on linen, folding into green cloth covers with handwritten paper label. The map shows railways completed and under construction. A gummed Nigerian revenue stamp has been franked on the verso. Several places have been ringed in red, green or… Read more about this item

London: Maclure & Macdonald , 1882. Lithograph, map 25.5 x 68.5 cm, sheet size 31 x 84.5 cm, bird’s eye plan of the Canal, printed in colours, old folds and creases, pressed, spotting to verso, blank verso. A ‘Special Supplement’ of The Graphic (a weekly illustrated newspaper), issued on 2 September 1882, in between the British bombardment of Alexandria… Read more about this item

London, Samuel Augustus Oddy, 1811. Copper engraving, 28.5 x 25 cm, original hand-colour, blank verso; the continent of Africa, published in ‘Oddy’s New General Atlas of the World’. The map features an inset of the Azores and Cape Verde islands. Much of the interior detail is highly speculative. James Wallis (fl. 1810-1825) was born in Southampton in 1784, the… Read more about this item

London,, 1912. Engraved British chart, sheet size 68.5 x 105 cm, black and white, engraved by John and Charles Walker, one or two closed marginal nicks and tears, blank verso; shows soundings etc, with interior detail of relief and settlements including Durban, and inset coastal profiles. Map

London, c. 1680. Copper engraving, 11.5 x 13.5 cm, black and white, English text beneath and on the verso, published 'Geography Rectified' in various editions fron 1680 onward. Shirley Atlases in the British Library, T.Mord 2a no. 48. Map

London, 1815. Copper engraving, sheet size 62.5 x 95 cm, inset of Delagoa Bay, original hand colour in outline, one or two small stains and closed tears, trimmed close to neatline affecting letters of the imprint, old folds and old paper repairs to verso, which is blank other than a note in a contemporary hand addressing the map: ‘To… Read more about this item