• Bacon's new large-scale map of South Africa showing all the latest discoveries, new boundaries, railways, roads, etc. 

  Bacon's Geographical Establishment. (Bacon, 1890)

  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.
• Ex libris: Nadine Gordimer 

  Kentridge, William, 1955-; Gordimer, Nadine, 1923-2014 (1965)

  Commissioned from William Kentridge by Nadine Gordimer (1965?). Item can be found in Patrick White. The Cockatoos. London : Jonathan Cape, 1974. EARLY PR 9619.3 WHI. She appears to have stopped using the bookplates around 2000.
• Kroonstad 

  Unknown author (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
• Design for a detached skittle-alley for RE barracks, K.W. Town [Map 37] 

  Thorold, Reginald Gother; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers (1866-03-03)
• King William's Town; plan shewing Military Reserve (bounded by red) and proposed extension (in yellow); called for by War Office memo 4th September 1863. Natal 8/110. [Map 36] 

  Crozier, Henry; White, Henry Arthur; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers (1863-11-23)

  This plan shows the extent of the Military Reserve in 1863.
• King Williams Town: sketch shewing in yellow the approved site of wattle and daub huts, also the approved sites for Officers Quarters 1. Infantry 2. Cape Mounted Rifles. [Map 35] 

  Johnson, Curtis; Renwick, William Turnbull.; White, Henry Arthur; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers (1862-07-19)

  The plan shows a section of the barrack area of the Military Reserve in King William's Town where new barracks and officer quarters were to be erected.
• Port Elizabeth, Algoa Bay. [Map 34] 

  Simmons, Goerge; Renwick, William Turnbull.; Wynyard, Robert Henry, 1802-1864.; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers (1862-03-19)

  Map focuses on the coastline and waters of Algoa Bay, showing beacons lighthouses. Dangerous reefs and breakers at Cape Recife are depicted.
• Sketch shewing approximately the boundaries of the Borough of King William's Town. [Map 33] 

  Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers (1861)

  After 1858, the Borough of King William's Town was created in British Kaffraria, together with other boroughs.
• King Williams Town, British Kaffraria: site plan shewing in yellow the position of the several items proposed to be executed during the year 1859-60 [date altered in pencil to] 1860-61. [Map 32] 

  Gubbins, Francis R.; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers (1859)

  Depicts new buildings to be erected in the military area of King William's Town between 1859 and 1860, but erection presumably delayed a year.
• King William's Town, British Kaffraria. [Map 31] 

  Gubbins, Francis R.; Tyler, Edward Saumerez; Bolton, Daniel, 1794-1860.; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers (1859-12-07)

  Residential properties are shown, their owners and inhabitants listed.
• General plan: sketch shewing postion of posts, signal towers &c. &c. [Map 30] 

  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, Charles (1859-12-08)

  The military posts, in the Districts of Albany and Beaufort in the Eastern Cape, are shown on this map.
• Port Elizabeth. [Map 29] 

  Tatham, R. B.; Smith, Percy; Bolton, Daniel, 1794-1860.; Great Britain. Army. Cape of Good Hope Command. Eastern Province Division; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers (1859-12-08)

  A simple plan of Port Elizabeth demonstrating part of the coastline and the Bakens River. Positions of the ordnance and commissariat stores, Fort Frederick and a nearby hospital are shown. An inset plan shows the dimensions ...
• King William's Town - British Kaffraria - Rough block plan, to shew the site of the military stores, proposed to be erected, coloured in yellow. [Map 28] 

  Molesworth, Morgan Crofton; Dill, Marcus; Bolton, Daniel, 1794-1860.; Jackson, James (Sir), 1790-1871.; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers (1857-11-26)

  Simple plan of King William's Town showing military stores to be erected.
• Sketch shewing position of military posts and German villages on the line of road between East London and Dohne Post, British Kaffraria. [Map 27] 

  Duff, Robert William; Akers, Charles Style; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers (1857-06-18)

  The area covered by this map lies between East London and the Kabousie Mountains in the north. Forts, posts, the German villages and the Dohne and Peelton mission stations are marked.
• Plan shewing the position of all the government buildings at King William's Town, Co[unty] of Middelsex, British Kaffraria. [Map 26] 

  Tylden, Richard, 1819-1855.; Dudswell, G.; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers (1853-10-04)

  Fort Hill, first built in 1835, is shown. The plan also sets out military and government structures in King William's Town after the Eighth Frontier War of 1850-1853.
• Sketch of ground between the Keiskamma Hoek and Fort Hare shewing the proposed line of waggon road. [Map 25] 

  Tylden, Richard, 1819-1855.; Smith, Joshua H.; Robertson, Charles Duesbury.; Moody, Hampden Charles Blamire; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers (1853-07-27)

  This copy, of Tylden's original map (12th July 1853), has been used the show proposed alternations to the waggon road and the bridle path between Fort Hare and Keiskamma Hoek Post. Apparently by the time the later copy ...
• Sketch of ground between the Keiskamma Hoek and Fort Hare shewing the proposed line of waggon road. [Map 24] 

  Tylden, Richard, 1819-1855.; Belfield, Edward; Robertson, Charles Duesbury.; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers (1853-08-19)

  The road between Fort Hare and the Keiskamma Hoek Post, passing Fort Cox is shown, as well as the bridle path going up to the Chumie [Tyhume] River and the Amatola Mountains and down to Keiskamma Hoek Post.
• Sketch of ground shewing in red the amended line of road from Bailey's [sic] Grave to Keiskamma Hoek. [Map 23] 

  Siborne, Herbert Taylor; Smith, Joshua H.; Robertson, Charles Duesbury; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers (1853-06-10)

  The new road is shown following the east bank of the Kabula River, a tributary to the Keiskamma River. The road is in the foothills of the Amatola Mountains
• Sketch of the route from Whittlesea to Burgersdorp called for by the Qr Mr Genl's letter 21st Octr. 1852. [Map 22] 

  Tylden, Richard, 1819-1855.; McLintock, W; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers (1852-11-02)

  The route on the map passes due north through the districts of North Victoria, Cradock and Albert across the Stormberg Mountains. Smaller roads, settlements along rivers, and certain prominent peaks are shown.
• Sketch of ground about Forts Fordyce, District of Beaufort Cape of Good Hope. [Map 21] 

  Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers (1852)

  The two Forts Fordyce, one of stone and one of earthwork, located along what was known as the Beaufort/Argyll Road, are shown. The Forts were named after Lieut-Col John Fordyce killed in the vicinity of the Forts 6 November ...

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