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- ItemBacon's new large-scale map of South Africa showing all the latest discoveries, new boundaries, railways, roads, etc.(Bacon, 1890) Bacon's Geographical Establishment.Map of Southern Africa, south of the Zambesi River. Issued after the incorporation of the British South Africa Company but before Zimbabwe came to be called Rhodesia.
- ItemBearings of principal military posts and remarkable peaks visible from proposed sites of signal towers at Hill S of Piet Apples Location, Great Fish River and Hill over Fraser's Camp. [Map 12](1843) Hall, Henry, 1815-1882; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers; Reid, JohnThe original map was by Henry Hall. This is a copy possibly by John Reid. The original signed sketch is in the Cape Archives.
- ItemCopy of a sketch of the country in the vicinity of the Amatola Mountains; from an actual survey by C. L. Stretch, Capt. P.C. Infantry. [Map 6](1835) Piers, H. W.; Stretch, Charles Lennox, 1797-1882.; Great Britain. Army. Royal EngineersThe area depicted here fell within the newly proclaimed Province of Queen Adelaide. Fort Cox, overlooking the Kieskamma River and the Amatola Valley, had been constructed in August 1835 by Captain Stretch.
- ItemDonaldson & Hill's stand map of Johannesburg; from W. H. Auret Pritchard's Commercial map.(Donaldson & Hill, 1898) Donaldson & Hill. Firm.; Pritchard, W. H. AuretShows the stand number of each stand/plot in Johannesburg
- ItemDonaldson and Hill's map of Johannesburg and suburbs.(Donaldson and Hill, 1898) Donaldson & Hill. Firm.The map at the bigger scale is of the CBD and the scale was given in Cape feet ; the map at the smaller scale is of the whole of Johannesburg and the scale was given in English feet. Dated from Grocott & Sherry's Plan of Johannesburg and suburbs, 1898, compiled in 1897, which has the same details as this one.
- ItemGeneral plan: sketch shewing postion of posts, signal towers &c. &c. [Map 30](1859-12-08) Tatham, R. B.; Smith, Percy; Bolton, Daniel, 1794-1860.; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers; Great Britain. Army. Cape of Good Hope Command. Eastern Province Division; Fanshawe, CharlesThe military posts, in the Districts of Albany and Beaufort in the Eastern Cape, are shown on this map.
- ItemInsurance plan of Johannesburg: South African Republic, South Africa, September 1895(Chas. E. Goad., 1910) Chas. E. Goad, Ltd.Printing of 1895 updated with new sheets and revision stickers issued in June 1910 and with subtitle: Transvaal Colony. South Africa ... The activities or company name on each erf (stand) in every block in the central and commercial areas of Johannesburg are shown.
- ItemInsurance plan of Johannesburg: Transvaal Province, South Africa, January 1938(Chas. E. Goad., 1938-01) Chas. E. Goad, Ltd.The activities or company name, on each erf (stand), in every block, in the central and commercial areas of Johannesburg are shown. The files are named after the streets appearing at the top of each sheet. Each sheet shows four streets to the south of this and four east to west.
- ItemJunction of the Little with the Great Fish River, right bank as far as Kooste's Drift in front of Grahamstown. [Map 5](1824-04-03) Stretch, Charles Lennox, 1797-1882.; Great Britain. Army. Royal EngineersMap shows part of the area of the Deputy-Drosty of Albany between the Great and Little Fish Rivers and the Suurberg mountains (Zuureberg). Grahamstown is shown as well as abandoned military posts.
- ItemKroonstad(Publisher not identified, 1903)Topographic map of the Free State from below Kroonstad to the Vaal River. Sheet from a set of maps of the Free State (Orange River Colony) produced between 1901 and 1910
- ItemL'Africa diuisa nelle sue parti secondo le pui moderne le pui relationi collo scoperte dell'origine del Nilo(Doninico Padoani, 1691) Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718Map has a cartouche at top right corner giving the scales. In the centre of Africa is a cartouche explaining the source of the Nile. At the left base is the title cartouche with a dedication.
- ItemMap of Johannesburg: showing the municipal boundaries defined by the Johannesburg Municipal Proclamation No. 16 of 1901 & the proposed extension of the municipal boundaries.(Unknown, 1902) Transvaal (Colony). Johannesburg Municipal Boundaries Commission, 1902.; Duncan, Patrick, 1870-1943 (Chairman)Gives the boundaries of Johannesburg. Issued as appendix A of Transvaal (Colony). Johannesburg Municipal Boundaries Commission, 1902. Report
- ItemMap of parts ii, iii & iv of the Witwatersrand Magisterial District: showing electoral divisions ...(Government Printer, 1908) South Africa. Surveyor General's Office; Gilfillan, M. S.; Melvill, B.Names of parts. 2. Braamfontein; 3. Doornfontein: 4 Klipriviersberg.. Compiled and drawn in the Surveyor General's Office. B. Melvill, Chief Draftsman ; M. S. Gilfillan, Surveyor General. This is plate 7 which was issued with 'The government of South Africa' (1908), as well as a Chart of the Electorial Divisions of British Southern Africa, showing the populations of each Colony. It would have provided information for the 1908 National Convention to form the Union of South Africa.
- ItemA map of the extratropical part of Southern Africa / constructed by William J. Burchell(London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1822-02-01) Burchell, William John, 1781-1863Folded map from Burchell's Travels in the interior of Southern Africa, 1822-1824. Drawn by him from his " geographical and astronomical observations made during these travels" and formed from new materials from other documents.
- ItemA map of the gold fields of south eastern Africa(Edward Stanford, 1876) Baines, Thomas, 1820-1875; Chapman, James, 1831-1872.The top map covers the area from Smithfield in the Free State to the Zambezi River. The lower map covers the area of the southern Free State, Natal and the Cape Colony. Maps issued to accompany: The gold regions of south eastern Africa / T. Baines, 1877.
- ItemMap of the Lydenburg gold fields, S.A. Republic (Transvaal)(Stanford's Geographical Establishment, 1883) Loveday, Richard KelseyMap of the Lydenburg gold fields area showing gold diggings, surveyed lines including those in dispute, approximate lines, the Portuguese line, the Swaziland line, main and other roads, kraals and farms boundaries and farm numbers. Compiled from the actual survey, inspection reports, and the best available information by R. Kelsey Loveday.
- ItemMap of the North Eastern Suburbs of Johannesburg(M. A. Zoccola, 1904) Whooley, A. Sedgewick; Zoccola, M. A.Specially prepared for M. A. Zoccola to show his estate Lombardy ; with the townships and agricultural holdings into which it has been divided. Compiled from various sources and actual survey by A. Sedgwick Woolley Shows area from the Rand Railway-line to North of the Jukskei River.
- ItemMap of the Pretoria and Heidelberg gold fields: compiled from diagrams of surveyed farms.(Suryeror General's Office, 1887-02-20) Troye, G. A.Made from farm surveys from the Magaliesberg to the Vaal River (mostly Gauteng)
- ItemMap of the southern goldfields of the Transvaal: compiled from official sources, by Fred. Jeppe.(Surveyor General's Department, 1896) Jeppe, FrederickTitle from margin: First portion of Jeppe's map of the southern Transvaal, showing southern goldfields. Compiled using surveyed farms from Pretoria to south of the Vaal River.
- ItemMap on the Eastern Frontier of the Cape of Good Hope and the bordering county of Kafir [sic] tribes, to explain Lt Colonel Lewis's report dated 18th March. [Map 7](1844-10-28) Reid, John; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers; Lewis, Griffith George, 1784-1850.The Map shows the great Fish River as the eastern border of the Colony except for a strip of the coast line going east to just short of the Kei River. This was the frontier subsequent to treaties the Xhosa made with Sir Andries Stockenstroom in December 1836.