1915 Map, Florence Nightingale letter, Cecil Skotnes woodblock print, Walter Battiss screenprint and more.͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ 

New Stock: Engravings, Maps, Letters & more

April 2024

 

Holmdens Map of the Transvaal and Swaziland 1915
Province of Transvaal in the Union
6 panels, each panel is 101cm x 76cm
R30,000

 

Letter written and signed by Florence Nightingale
c.1890
One page of an autograph letter. The first part of this letter is missing. Laid down on card.
18cm x 11cm
R20,000.

 

One World One Community Congress, Johannesburg
November 1977
Woodblock print by Cecil Skotnes (1926-2009)
Signed and numbered in pencil 41/150
55cm x 44.5cm excluding mountboard
R10,000

 

The Newborn Kid
By Walter Battiss (1906-1982)
Screenprint on paper. Inscribed with the title in pencil in the margin. Inscribed with the artist’s initials in the image.
Some offsetting to the borders
17cm x 28.5cm excluding mount board.
R4,000.

 

Addo Hunt
1892
Original photograph taken after a hunt in Addo, Eastern Cape.
29cm x 38cm framed.
R3,500

 

Portrait of a Gentleman
c.1950’s
Black crayon on paper by map and poster artist Bernard Sargent
(1921-2011)
29cm x 46cm excluding mountboard
R3,000

 

Bronze Bust of Voortrekker Leader Andries Pretorius
By Coert Steynberg (1905-1982) renowned South African sculptor and medallist.
17cm x 9cm x 6cm
R3,000

 

Augrabies Falls District 1963
Signed and inscribed watercolour by Richard “Dick” Findlay (1928-1999).
Findlay’s watercolour illustrations were published in several reference works on birds, plants and mammals of South Africa. He also illustrated a reprint of The Soul of the Ape and The Soul of the White Ant - both by Eugène Marais.
28cm x 19.5cm excluding mountboard.
R2,750

 

Title Deed for Grootfontein Signed by Johan Rissik
Dated 21 December 1895
55.5cm x 39cm
R1,500

 

Typed Signed Letter by Lady Olave Baden-Powell (1889-1977)
Dated 5 April 1936
Lady Olave Baden-Powell was the World Chief Guide, Chief Commissioner for Girl Guides and the wife of Robert Baden-Powell (mentioned in the letter).
R1,500

 

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