Important early hand-coloured map of South Africa.

This highly detailed map of South Africa shows towns, rivers, roads, mountains, lakes and other information.

Drawn from, and comprehensively updating Hall's 1856 work, the map was compiled from local authoritative information only — not merely surpassing its predecessors in scale and completeness, but also achieving notable accuracy and precision.

Surviving within in its publisher's original cloth binding. Note split to upper board, wear to the original printed title label.

Edward Stanford, 6 & 7 Charing Cross (London), c 1874.

Although interior condition is overall good, because this original map is 150-years-old, it displays minor signs of use and age — the usual discolouration to old paper; note small splits along upper crease, few tiny ink flecks [shown in photo further below] — consistent with a printed object of this vintage.

Map folds out to approx 745 mm x 432 mm tall (circa 28 inches x 15.5 tall if you prefer)

¶ Henry Hall (1815-1882) Dublin-born soldier and cartographer.

Hall moved, in 1842, as Foreman of Works in the Royal Engineers, to Cape Colony, serving on the Eastern Frontier during 1846-1852 Frontier Wars.

South Africa's foremost contemporary cartographer, his work is held at the British National Archives, the Cape Archives Repository and elsewhere. ¶

⁂ Further ref: Journalis S.A. Rochlin (1962); Elri Liebenberg for International Symposium Old Worlds-New Worlds: The History of Colonial Cartography 1750-1950 (Utrecht University, August 2006) ⁂

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