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LATROBE, C I A Journal of a Visit to South Africa Account of missionary-traveller's trek from Cape Town to the Great Fish River, while he visited...

LE VAILLANT F Second Voyage dans l'Interieur de l'Afrique, 3 volsThe second voyage of the intrepid French traveller from Cape Town up the wester...

PERCIVAL, ROBERT Voyage au Cap de Bonne EsperancePercival was entrusted with the attacks on the Dutch forces at Wynberg and Muizenberg; both with...

LEGUAT F Voyage et Avantures de Francois Leguat & de ses Compagnons en deux Isles desertes des Indes OrientalesLeguat was a French Huguenot who h...

TACHARD, GUY, pere Second Voyage du Pere Tachard et des Jesuites envoyez par le Roy au Royaume de SiamA second embassy to Siam was sent in March 1...

CHOISY, FRANCOIS TIMOLEON, abbe le JOURNAL DU VOYAGE DE SIAM, FAIT EN 1685 & 1686Important travel account of the embassy of the priest François-Ti...

VALENTYN F BESCHRYVING VAN DE KAAP DER GOEDE HOOPEImportant and rare volume by the author, who had access to the archives and source documents of...

Thomas Tegg (printed for) Affecting Narrative of the Loss of the Grosvenor, IndiamanAn abridged 'sixpenny' version of Carter's account of the ship...

BROEN J Exercitatio Physico-Medica de Duplici Bile VeterumMedical treatise by Scandinavian scholar. Latin text. In original 17th century full calf...

WYLDE, ATHERTON ( COLENSO F. E.) My Chief and IThe author was a fervent admirer of Col. A W Durnford, and chronicles six months of life with the ...

HAWTHORNE. NATHANIEL. ---- RACKHAM. ARTHUR. Illustrates. A WONDER BOOK.FIRST RACKHAM EDITION.  DELUX LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM. O...

LANGLEY. BATTY. ; LANGLEY. THOMAS. THE BUILDER'S JEWEL.FIRST EDITION. Engraved frontispiece, dated using the Masonic Calendar-AL(Anno Lucis)5741. ...

JOHNSON. SAMUEL. A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:TWO VOLUMES.  Eighth edition; corrected and revised. Portrait frontis in volume one engraved...

CHURCHILL. WINSTON. S. A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES.LIMITED EDITION SET. Four volumes. First Canadian Editions.  Each volume one of 3...

HEMINGWAY. ERNEST. ACROSS THE RIVER AND INTO THE TREES.PRESENTATION ISSUE, PRECEDING THE FIRST U.S. EDITION. One of just 24 copies. With Scribner ...

William Faulkner Requiem for a NunFirst trade edition, first printing. Publisher's gray-green and black cloths, lettered in gilt; in the original ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Last TycoonFirst edition, first printing. Fine in an unclipped lightly worn and rubbed jacket with some light fading to sp...

Graham Greene The Basement Room and Other StoriesFirst edition, in the secondary red cloth binding. About near fine with a tiny stain to the front...

Graham Greene The Virtue of DisloyaltyFirst edition, privately printed in an edition of 300 for distribution by the author and publisher. Ivory pa...

Rudyard Kipling Departmental DittiesNinth edition, limited to 150 copies.  Original cloth, pages uncut. Near fine with light dust soiling and two ...

Rudyard Kipling Puck of Pook's HillFirst edition. Near fine in publisher's original red cloth with some fading to the spine and darkening of the b...

A. A. Milne Michael and MarySpecial edition, limited to 260 copies, signed by the author. Very good with some fading and rubbing to the outer pane...

Thomas Pynchon VFirst edition, first printing. Publisher's lilac cloth, with the letter "v" in various typefaces to the front board in blind, spin...

George Bernard Shaw The Apple CartFirst edition, first printing. Fine book; in a fine and very crisp jacket with only a very small closed tear to ...

Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens] Adventures of Huckleberry FinnFirst edition, with many of the first issue points, including: conjugate title leaf with...

Evelyn Waugh Unconditional SurrenderFirst edition, first printing. Fine book; in a slightly edge toned jacket with extremely minor fading to spine...

Richard Yates Revolutionary RoadFirst edition, first printing. A near fine and very lightly rubbed book; in an unclipped jacket with a few minor c...

Gillmore, Parker ("Ubique") The Great Thirst Land [1878] "I shoot for the pot - id est, to fill the pot; when that is done I cease to take the li...

Bryden, H A Kloof and Karroo (first edition, 1899)Green cloth-boards with gilt design and lettering on upper panel and spine. One-sided maroon end...

Le Vaillant [Francois] Voyage Dans l'Interieure de l'Afrique par le Cape de Bonne-Esperance Dans les Annees 1780, 81, 82, 84 & 85 This is a handso...

DE BOSDARI C Anton Anreith - South Africa's first sculptorDespite the somewhat misleading and pretentious title, a valuable contribution on this ...

PLAYNE, SOMERSET Cape ColonyHuge, authoritative work, mainly on all aspects of farming, as well as a full description of the principal farms in th...

BUTLER, GUY et al The 1820 SettlersWritten by a team of authorities on the history of English South Africans, the book is illustrated by hundreds...

Wild Life Protection Society of South Africa AFRICAN WILDLIFE Vol 1 No 1 - Vol 14 No 4 Complete run 1946-1960A complete run of this quarterly peri...

MORRISON M N The Silversmiths and Goldsmiths of the Cape of Good Hope 1652-1850 Increasingly scarce work on the subject, still sought after as a ...

SWA ADMINISTRATION Laws of South West Africa 1942Wartime issue of latest amendments and proclamations of the Union Government with reference to th...

LINDENBERG, JACOB (Publisher) BIBLIAMagnificent antique family bible from the early 18th century. This quality work has been an exhibit on loan to...

Charles Bemont Chartes des Libertes Anglaises (1100 - 1305) (1892; 1st Edition)"CHARTES DES LIBERTÉS ANGLAISES (1100 - 1305) avec une introduction...

Union of South Africa (Government Printing and Stationery Office) Union of South Africa. Department of Mines and Industries. Fisheries Survey. FIS...

Union of South Africa (Cape Times Limited, Government Printers) Union of South Africa. First Report of the IRRIGATION FINANCE COMMISSION (1925; 1s...

H. B. S. Cooke, M.A., D.Sc., F.G.S., F.R.Met.S., F.R.S.S.Af. Union of South Africa. Department of Mines. Fossil Mammals of the Vaal River Deposits...

Ho Jen Ching Histoire constitutionnelle de la CHINE (1936; 1st Edition) Stunning work about the constitutional history of China, divided into thr...

Histoire generale des Voyages ou Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre,avec les Mœurs des habitans, la Relig...

P. de Bonnefont de Varinay La Compagnie de Mozambique (1899; 1st Edition; 2 folding maps of Mozambique and Southeast Africa) "The Mozambique Comp...

Mermeix La Revolution de Johannesburg (1897; 1st Edition)1st edition of this work about the history of South Africa (written in Paris during 1896,...

Jules Poirier Le Transvaal 1652-1899 (1899; 1st Edition)This stunning book contains many historical, financial, political, economic and military d...

Clater, Francis (Chemist and Druggist, Retford) [Clater's Cattle Doctor]. Every Man his own Cattle Doctor, or a Practical Treatise on the Diseases...

Robertson, William, D D, Principal of the University of Edinburgh and Historiographer The History of America (3 vols, 1817), including the History...

De Wet, Christiaan Rudolf Three Years War (October 1899 to June 1902) (First edition)This is a very good copy of the first English edition of one ...

Reitz, Deneys; preface by General the Rt Hon J C Smuts, P C Trekking On (first edition)The unclipped two-colour typographic dustjacket (price 15s ...

Colvin, Ian D The Cape of Adventure (first edition)In his book, Colvin reprints one or more extracts from the works of each of more than forty tra...

Edmond Carton de Wiart; M. Eugene Etienne Les grandes Compagnies Coloniales Anglaises au XIXe siecle (1899; 1st Edition) Stunning work about the g...

PIERRE MALEVAL Croisiere autour de l'AFRIQUE (1938; 1st Edition)"Seven weeks in cargo: Cruise around the AFRICA" by Pierre Maleval, a stunning tra...

Bertrand Mounier L'Organisation de l'Economie Imperiale par les Comites Coloniaux (1942; 1st Edition)Thesis for PhD with detailed scientific obser...

Backhouse (James) A NARRATIVE OF A VISIT TO THE MAURITIUS AND SOUTH AFRICA648 + lvi pages appendix, frontispiece View of Table Bay - an etching f...

Baines (Thomas) EXPLORATIONS IN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA535 pages (pages [390] - [457] or sections *1 - *5 are additional to the pagination making a tot...

Baines (T.) THE GOLD REGIONS OF SOUTH-EASTERN AFRICA240 pages (including 51 pages of commercial advertisements at the end), frontispiece portrait...

[Boyes (John)] A WHITE KING IN EAST AFRICAWritten by Himself      Edited by C.W.L. Bulpett  First US Edition: xv, 320 pages, photograph of the au...

Campbell (John) TRAVELS IN SOUTH AFRICABy the Rev. John Campbell  With a Map and Coloured Prints   2 volumes: vii (including the advertisement le...

Findlay (F.R.N.) BIG GAME SHOOTING AND TRAVEL IN SOUTH-EAST AFRICAWith Chapters by Olive Schreiner and S.C. Cronwright-Schreiner.  A Map and Nume...