TROYE, Gustav Arthur.- Map of the Transvaal or S.A. Republic. Pretoria, Fehr & Dubois (Wintherthur Switzerland, engraved and printed by Wurster, Randegger & Cy), 1892.
Estimation :
500 / 600
Description
6 sheets (54 x 76 cm), lithographed, assembled and mounted on cloth, total size : 151,5 x 161,5 cm, folded (browned, cracked, edges trimmed).
Troye's greatest cartographical achievement and according to Prof. Elri Liebenberg "the most complete, accurate and attractive map of the Transvaal produced up to that time". Gustav Troye was an associate of Fred and Charles Jeppe. After years spending to fit the patchwork of incompatible cadasters, their joint forces resulted in compilation maps on both sides. This map, inspired by Jeppe's third map of 1889, is compiled from actual surveys and supplemented with valuable information from Fred Jeppe, Richard Kelsey Loveday and others. Troye used farm diagrams and inspector's records to map farm boundaries and list farm names, hence the most striking feature of this map is a network of red lines crisscrossing the landscape. With an inset map of South-Africa on scale 1/5000000.
# L.F. Braun, Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South-Africa, 2014, p. 193. # Biographical database of Southern African Science.; # Tooley IV-292. # Liebenberg, "Die Kartierung von Süd-Afrika [...].", Cartographica Helvetica 30 (2004), pp. 31-32.
IHFZ Carte de compilation cadastrale du Transvaal avec limites et noms des fermes.
Troye's greatest cartographical achievement and according to Prof. Elri Liebenberg "the most complete, accurate and attractive map of the Transvaal produced up to that time". Gustav Troye was an associate of Fred and Charles Jeppe. After years spending to fit the patchwork of incompatible cadasters, their joint forces resulted in compilation maps on both sides. This map, inspired by Jeppe's third map of 1889, is compiled from actual surveys and supplemented with valuable information from Fred Jeppe, Richard Kelsey Loveday and others. Troye used farm diagrams and inspector's records to map farm boundaries and list farm names, hence the most striking feature of this map is a network of red lines crisscrossing the landscape. With an inset map of South-Africa on scale 1/5000000.
# L.F. Braun, Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South-Africa, 2014, p. 193. # Biographical database of Southern African Science.; # Tooley IV-292. # Liebenberg, "Die Kartierung von Süd-Afrika [...].", Cartographica Helvetica 30 (2004), pp. 31-32.
IHFZ Carte de compilation cadastrale du Transvaal avec limites et noms des fermes.
