Maps of Southern Africa by Norwich, Oscar I

(Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, 1993) 086852199X. Folio; original brown boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. 88, incl. index; lavish full-colour reproductions of the maps; several other monochrome illustrations. A few fox spots to reverse of dustwrapper and half-title. Near-fine condition. "The delight of antique maps is as much in their beauty as in their historical and rarity value. Sought-after and jealously guarded by collectors and museums, they are seldom exposed to public view. This book contains a selection of about thirty of the most splendid maps in the renowned collection of Dr Oscar Norwich, chosen to illustrate the development of the art and science of map-making over the last half a millennium, since the days of the Renaissance explorers. The discovery and exploration of southern Africa is revealed in these maps, each individually reproduced and with its own cartobibliography." .