View from the Camp Ground, Cape (1842)
R20,000

Watercolour on paper of Rondebosch/Newlands in Cape Town, looking across the vast, low-lying Cape Flats toward the distant Hottentots Holland or Tygerberg mountain ranges. During the early to mid-19th century, the "Camp Ground" (originally used as a military camping site by both Dutch and British forces) was a largely open, pastoral commonage.

Unsigned, attributed to South African Charles Davidson Bell (1813-1882)

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There are 55 items in this category (books, documents, maps, artwork).

Etching by William Kentridge (1979)
R18,500

Menu for a dinner held at the Carlton Hotel in honour of Reinhold Cassirer, depicted on the stamp in the etching.

Artist's Proof - Signed and Numbered VI / VI in pencil. This is an early work by William Kentridge (1955 - ) with significant associations.

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Standard Railway Map of South Africa 1907
R7,500

Chromolithograph, linen-backed map.

This map serves as a perfect geographic "snapshot" of South Africa during a brief, highly tense transitional window between the end of the Anglo-Boer War (1902) and the formation of the Union of South Africa (1910).

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There are 19 items in this category (maps, books, documents, autographs)

Le Canal De Mosambique (c.1780)
R4,500 

Le Canal De Mosambique, L’Isle De Madagascar, Les Etats Du Monomotapa et les Royaumes Voisins by Rigobert Bonne (c.1780)

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Given the variety of Antique Maps on the website, we have created separate categories for Maps of Africa, Maps of Southern Africa, Maps of the Rest of the World and World maps. (Work in progress).

A Dutch incunable leaf from The Book of the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ (c.1500)
R3,500 

The text is part of a devotional work, possibly the Boec vanden leven ons heren Ihesu Christi (The Book of the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ) or a similar life-of-Christ narrative popular in the 15th century.

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Map of Switzerland (German Edition) by Sebastian Munster
(c1544-1628)
R3,000 

Hand coloured (later) woodcut from the famous Typus Cosmographicus Universalis or Cosmographia. This book detailed the earliest German version of the world (after the 1s century AD cartographer, Claudius Ptolomy).

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Given the variety of Antique Maps on the website, we have created separate categories for Maps of Africa, Maps of Southern Africa, Maps of the Rest of the World and World maps. (Work in progress).

David Hockney Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik Exhibition Poster (1977)
R3,000 

Exhibition in Munich, Germany.

David Hockney (9 July 1937 – 11 June 2026) was an Engish painter, stage designer and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. He was known for his vivid, stylised realism and championed figurative work, often in a bold style, during a period when abstract art predominated

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Wrestling Event at The Portuguese Hall ( Turffontein, Johannesburg). Apartheid Interest. 1985
R3,000

By July 1985, South Africa was under an intense international sporting boycott due to Apartheid. However, professional wrestling (rofstoei) functioned on a bizarre fringe between legitimate sport and theatrical entertainment.

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Salzburg Churches and Fortress by Rudolf Hradil c.1970
R2,000 

Original etching, number two of ten.
By the Austrian master printmaker Rudolf Hradil (1925–2007).
The German inscription reads: “Salzburger Kirchen und Festung, Original-Radierung” (Salzburg Churches and Fortress, Original Etching).

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There are 12 items in this category.

Two Maps of the Battle of Doornkop
R2,000  

Jameson Raid interest.
Ex Libris Capt. Peter Digby, considered to have had arguably the finest Boer War book and medal collection in private hands.

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