Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. IN SEVEN PARTS, BY SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, PRESENTED BY WILLY POGANY 4to (320 x 240 mm) Unpaginated, original light green cloth over bevelled boards, richly decorated and titled in gilt and contrasting green on the upper cover and spine, the cloth is a little rubbed at the top and bottom of the spine and at the corners, decorated endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, 20 tipped-in colour plates by Willy Pogany, as well as other illustrations and fine illuminated script and decorated borders throughout, a good copy. The colophon on the final page reads, `The Letterpress and the Illustrations Printed by Vincent Brooks, Day and Son, Ltd., and the Four-Colour Plates by Penrose, Dalziel, Ltd., at London in the Year of Our Lord, MCMX.` Very Good London George G. Harrap & Co. 1910 Reserve: $75 Click here to view further details and to bid
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Hosten, Edwards, Nathan & Bosman: INTRODUCTION TO SOUTH AFRICAN LAW AND LEGAL HISTORY (Nelson Mandela’s copy from Pollsmoor Prison). 8vo (245 x 155 mm) 948 pages, original laminated boards, first published in 1977, revised and reprinted in 1983, signed on the title page, ‘N.R.Mandela, Pollsmoor Maximum Prison, 14 January 1987.’ with: SUPPLEMENT, 68 pages, bound in light card covers, published in 1984, signed ‘N.R. Mandela’ at the top of the front cover. Mr Mandela was transferred from Robben Island to Pollsmoor Prison in April 1982. In December 1988 he was moved to Victor Verster Prison near Paarl. This book is from a small collection of books given to Priscilla Jana, by Mr Mandela upon his release from prison in 1990. Priscilla Jana, well-known human rights lawyer, represented Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Archbishop Tutu and others. She was elected to Parliament in 2004 and served as Deputy Chair of the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Constitutional Affairs and was a member of the Law Commission on Security Legislation. She was appointed South African Ambassador to the Netherlands in 2001 and to Ireland in 2005. Good Durban & Pretoria Butterworth Publishers (Pty) Ltd. 1983 & 1984 Reserve: $10000 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lyell (Denis D.) MEMORIES OF AN AFRICAN HUNTER 8vo (225 x 145 mm) With a Chapter on Eastern India. Second impression: 268 pages, frontispiece, 47 illustrations, original cloth neatly recased – the cloth is a little dull, newspaper cuttings pasted on the second front free endpaper and the verso of the illustration at page 237 which has off-set onto the facing page, some light foxing on pages 10-15 otherwise the contents are good. Czech (Dr. Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999 (New edition 2011), page 174, ‘In this autobiographical work, Lyell recounts his earliest travels in Mashonaland, heading into the interior after eland, nyala and lion. He continued in Nyasaland where he bagged kudu, lion, impala, sable and hippopotamus. He collected his first elephant using a Gibbs.303 magazine rifle (which he has only fired three practice rounds through!). Lyell devotes a lengthy chapter to his continuing elephant experiences, and includes hunts for buffalo, rhinoceros, eland and lion near Lake Victoria.’ Good London T. Fisher Unwin Ltd. 1924 Reserve: $50 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lyell (Denis D.) AFRICAN ADVENTURE 8vo (220 x 140 mm) Letters from Famous Big-Game Hunter. First US Edition: 270 pages, frontispiece, 10 black & white photographic plates, original light brown cloth titled in green on the spine and decorated with a spear on the upper cover, a good copy. Czech (Dr. Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999 (New edition 2011), page 175, ‘The represents an accumulation of letters spanning thirty years the author received from big game hunters including F.C. Selous, C.H. Stigand, R.J. Cunninghame, T.A. Barns, Martin Ryan, Alfred E. Pease, J. Stevenson Hamilton, J.A. Hunter, Abel Chapman and many others.’ Good New York E.P. Dutton and Company Inc. 1935 Reserve: $60 Click here to view further details and to bid
Mutwa, Credo Vusamazulu INDABA MY CHILDREN (SIGNED) Quarto Book Condition: Collector’s Edition number 993 of 1,212 copies, SIGNED BY CREDO MUTEA 18 Oct 1964, half-leather (spine and corners in leather), corner are slightly scuffed and bumped, light scratch marks to the front and read boards, small tear in leather to top of spine, internally clean, the binding is tight and square, very neat and clean copy. Good + Johannesburg Blue Crane Books Reserve: $95 Click here to view further details and to bid
Bryden, H. A. KLOOF AND KARROO IN CAPE COLONY Octavo Kloof and Karroo: sport, legend, and natural history in Cape Colony, with a notice of the game birds, and of the present distribution of the antelopes and larger game. Hard cover 435 pages with 17 illustrations, published by Longmans, Green and Co, London and New York, 1889, b/w photographic plates accompanied by protective tissue guards. Marble boards with quarter leather to the spine of the board and to the corners of the front and rear boards, rubbing to the front and rear board as well as along the edges of the boards and down the spine, slight bowing to the front board, the binding is tight and square, light foxing to the front and rear free end pages and to some of the protective tissue guards throughout the book. There is some offsetting to the front and rear pastedowns with an ex Libris placed on the front pastedown. This book is in beautiful condition considering its age. Contents as listed in the index: 1. A Cape cart journey, 2. Across Camdeboo to Naroekas Poort, 3. Klipspringer shooting, 4. Life on a mountain farm, 5. The Zebra in Cape Colony, 6. A race with a Kaffir, 7. Vaal Rhebok shooting, 8. A sporting saunter, 9. Birds of prey in Cape Colony, 10. An unlucky day, 11. A secret of the Orange River, 12. The fall of the elephant, 13. Springbok shooting, 14. A Karroo farm, 15. A morning ambuscade on Witteberg, 16. The present distribution of the antelopes and larger game in the Colony, 17. The game birds of Cape Colony, 18. The Boer of to-day, 19. The rise and fall of Upingtonia, 20. The legend of Jan Prinsloo`s kloof, 21. The true Unicorn, 22. The extinction of the true Quagga, 23. The future of the Cape Colony. Good + London Longmans, Green and Co 1889 Reserve: $450 Click here to view further details and to bid
Coetzee, N.J. PIERNEEF, LAND AND LANDSCAPE – PIERNEEF, LAND EN LANDSKAP. The Johannesburg Station Panels in Context Quarto (300mmx225mm) Book condition: 153 pages, text in both English and Afrikaans, good clean copy, very light scratch marks to the front board, neat and clean copy with b/w photographs. Towards the end of the book there are 32 coloured paintings, some dirt marks on page 117, the binding is tight and square. Pierneef’s Johannesburg Station Panels Constitute the largest single commission of landscape painting in the history of South Africa. They were painted at an important time for Afrikaner nationalism. In his landscapes Pierneef addressed the Afrikaner’s nostalgia for the land, their imperialist desires, and he helped legitimize their exclusive claim to South Africa. Very Good Johannesburg CBM Publishing For the Johannesburg Art Gallery 1992 Reserve: $200 Click here to view further details and to bid
Tabler, E.C. To The Victoria Falls via Matabeleland - The Diary of Maj. Henry Stabb 1875 8vo Major Stabb was an Officer of the 32nd Regiment (Duke of Cornwall`s) Light Infantry, stationed at S.Afr. Headquarters in King William`s Town. In 1875, accompanied by Capt. Glascott of the same Regiment, Major Stabb made a hunting trip through the Transvaal and Matabeleland with the Victoria Falls as their aim. They started on 27th March, with a wagon drawn by a span of twelve oxen, and well equipped for travel and hunting, at a cost of about £600; they were assisted by two soldier-servants, Wood and Harrison, and a wagon driver, a drunken and careless Hottentot called Scheeper. Major Stabb kept a diary during this trip, and accurately wrote down all that befell him and his companion in the course of their travels. He tells about their hunting experiences, the places they visited and the inhabitabts they met. His observations on Lobengula and on the habits and customs of the European aborigines of Matabeleland and Northern Bechuanaland have historical value. Book condition: brown linen boards very good, owner inscription on f.f.e-p., light spotting to end-papers, otherwise fine. Jacket conditon: salmon coloured jacket is in good condition, spine faded, with edge wear (moreso at the top). very good Cape Town C.Struik 1967 Reserve: $40 Click here to view further details and to bid
Ross (P.T.) A YEOMAN`S LETTERS (Private edition, no.1 of 50 copies) 8vo (225 x 150 mm), By P.T. Ross (Late Corporal 69th Sussex Company I.Y.). Illustrated by the author. 186 pages, 8vo (225 x 150 mm), frontispiece portrait of the author, numerous sketches and cartoons, decorated full vellum, top edge gilt, some light spotting on the other page edges, the contents which are printed on coated paper are bright. Inscribed on the front free endpaper; ‘Private Edition: Limited to 50. No.1 ‘To dear old Jack from his sincere friend & former comrade, the author.’ Good London Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Limited 1901 Reserve: $200 Click here to view further details and to bid
Various Africa Exploration and History (4 titles) (1) Narrative of an Exploratory Tour. Arbousset (T.) & Daumas (F.); C Struik, Cape Town, 1968. To the North-East of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. Facsimile reprint, Africana Collectanea Series No. XXVII: 330 pages, frontispiece, folding map, 10 illustrations, brown vynide, light foxing to extremities, end papers yellowing, dust jacket shelf worn with small tears, else Very Good. (2) Missionary Heroes of Africa; Stock, Sarah Geraldina, London, London Missionary Society, 1897, 180x218mm, With 75 illustrations and a map, Hard back, decorated cloth, pp. viii + 204 + advertisements. Spine area a bit sun faded, light foxing on end papers, otherwise very good internally, covers and binding fair. Presentation plate on flep: `Presented to James Riley, by the London Missionary Society, for collecting the sum of 6/6 for the New Year Offering of Ships, January, 1898 in Connection with Adelphi Chapel Sunday School`. (3) The Portuguese Pioneers, Edgar Prestage; A. & C. Black Ltd, 1933, First Edition, Hardcover, 15x22.5cm, pp. xiv + fold-out maps + 352. Blue cloth with gilt on front and spine, first and last two leafs sun-faded, internally very good, binding very good, inscription and stamp on flep, dj in poor condition. (4) The African Past, Chronicles from Antiquity to Modern Times; Davidson, David. Longmans, New York, 1964; First Edition. Hardcover, 8vo, pp. 392. A Good copy in a Good DJ. Various Reserve: $60 Click here to view further details and to bid
Various Adventure Novels set in Africa (7 titles) (1) The Young Colonists, Henty, G.A.; New York, The Mershon Company; c1910. Hard cover, pictorial front board, pp. iii + 281, b&w illustrations. Slightly shaken, wear to endpapers, usual shelf-wear to boards. A Good copy. (2) Sanders of the River; Wallace, Edgar; Ward, Lock & Co Ltd, London, c1930. Hard cover, red cloth, pp. 256, end papers yellowing otherwise very good. (3) Sandi the King-Maker; Wallace, Edgar; Ward, Lock & Co Ltd, London, c1920. Hard cover, orange cloth, pp. 256, end papers yellowing, light spotting, otherwise good. (4) Peter Simple; Marryat, Captain; J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1929. 12mo, Quarter leather, ex-library copy (Jagger Bequest), pp. xxxiv + 522, usual stamps and markings, Fair-Good. (5) A Warrior King; Evelyn, J; Blackie & Son; Old Bailey, London, 1890. Decorative Cloth, 12mo, `A Boys Adventures in Africa`. Frontis + 2 other Illustrations. Brown cloth cover with Illustration of African Warrior on front. Shield and Spears design with gilt lettering on spine. pp 190 + 32 Publisher`s advertisements, stamp on verso of title page. A Very Good copy. (6) Willie Wyld: Lost in the Jungles of Africa; Morrison, William James; Publ. House M.E. Church, So., Nashville, Tenn., 1912. Hard cover, 8vo, pictorial front board, color and b&w illustrations, pp. 114. Front hinges cracked but still intact. A Good copy. (7) Dead Man`s Land; Manville-Fenn, G; S. W.; Partridge & Co., London, not dated, c1900. Hardcover, 8vo, Illustrated Cover, Eight Colour Illustrations 410 Pp. Plus 32 Page Publishing Catalogue. Inscription on flep, front hinges loose but intact, overall a Good+ copy. Various Reserve: $60 Click here to view further details and to bid
A Georgian style silver three piece tea set, Boardman Glossop & Co Ltd, Sheffield 1904 and 1912, 26oz all in. Condition Report: Overall the tea set looks in good order, however there are a few small issues. There is overall light surface scratching and minor denting to both the tea pot and jug and all three items have a crease to the base rim [due to being dropped?]. The hinge and handle appear firm, the gauge fairly thick and the hallmarks clear.
An 18ct yellow gold ring set five inline brilliant cut diamonds. Condition Report: Overall condition of the ring is good, the shank having light wear. Although the stones appear unchipped and brilliant to the eye, all have varying marks and brownish tinge under a glass. Age estimated as 1970-1980's The spread on the stones are: 1/4ct, 2x 1/8ct, 2x 1/16ct APPROX without much depthWeight overall 2.2gm
A Wolseley Fifteen brochure, dated November 1919, with specifications for saloon and touring car, 10 pages, a Wolseley Twenty brochure, dated November 1919, covering four body styles, 11 pages, a Wolseley catalogue, dated October 1924, covering 11/22 hp, 16/35 hp and 24/55 hp models, well illustrated, 20 pages, a Wolseley catalogue, dated October 1927, covering 11/22 hp, 12/32 hp, 16/45 hp and 21/60 hp models, a Morris Cars for 1931 catalogue, dated 1st September 1930, covering 8 hp Morris Minor, 11.9 hp Morris-Cowley, Morris Major Six, 15 hp Morris-Oxford Six, 18 hp Morris Isis Six and Morris light transport vans and fire tender, 40 pages, well illustrated.
(x) MalayaFederated Malay States1900 Negri Sembilan 1c. to 50c. set of eight, all unused with part original gum and light toning, fine. S.G. 1-8, £500 Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) MalayaFederated Malay States1933-34 Survey Department essay, $5 Travellers Palm set in a frame with the names of the four Federated Malay States (Norris Type B), in green and blue showing guide crosses in each corner, marginal; top right corner with light crease otherwise fine. Photo Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) MalayaPahang1897 (Aug.) 3c. on half of 5c. blue, bisected diagonally, tied by red "ulu pahang" c.d.s. on 1897 (9 Aug.) front to Singapore; the bisect with slightly rounded top left corner and the front with vertical crease and some light staining at edges. Photo Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) MalayaSungei Ujong1881 CA 2c. brown with Types 9+13, unused with small part original gum, lower right corner with light crease, otherwise fine. S.G. 8, £375. Photo Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) MalayaSungei Ujong1882-84 2c. pale rose, three examples showing Types 12+14 used (pulled perf. at lower left), 16+14 unused with part original gum (light black mark at top) and 17+14 used (small thin). S.G. 17, 19, 20; £555 Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) MaltaEarly Letters and Handstamps1770s entire to "Monsieur Depont des Granges en son hotel" at La Rochelle, rated "22" and showing good to fine strike of "marseille/de malthe" h.s. (M/DM); some light creasing at left. Photo Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) MaltaEarly Letters and Handstamps1810 (24 July) entire from Athens to London, rated "6/-, showing slightly over-inked curved framed "malta" in red (MSF-1aR) and, on reverse, "foreign" arrival c.d.s.; a little soiled and with some light staining at edges. Photo Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) MaltaEarly Letters and Handstamps"rapporto giornale di cholera" (4) dated 11th, 28th and 30th August and 1st September 1837, all with folds and two with some light foxing, otherwise fine Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) MaltaEarly Letters and HandstampsMaritime Mail1834 (18 Apr.) entire letter from Athens to Edinburgh and re-addressed to Greenock, rated "3/5" (deleted) and "4/1", showing on reverse clear undated "malta/f" in green overstruck by two arrival datestamps in red and, on face, Falmouth boxed "½" in green, "postage/to/edinburgh/not paid" and light "greenock/penny post" (crossed by light filing crease). Photo Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) MaltaEarly Letters and HandstampsMaritime Mail1865 (14 Feb.) double rate envelope to Palermo, bearing 1862 4d. Pl. 3 vertical pair tied by "A25" duplex, showing red crayon "2" and "5½", unframed "p.d." and, on reverse, fine strike of "malta-palermo/piroscafi postali/italiani" keyhole datestamp without year date and arrival c.d.s.; the 4d. pair crossed by light crease. Rare. Photo Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) MaltaEarly Letters and HandstampsMaritime Mail1866 (Nov.) entire from Alexandria to Marseilles, bearing France 1863-70 40c. tied by "2240" in diamond of dots, showing light "malta/mb" d.s. for 16 November and "paq. ang/1 marseille 1" c.d.s. in red. Photo Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) MaltaEarly Letters and HandstampsMaritime Mail1875 (5 Apr.) entire to Constantinople, marked "Per S.S. Albanian", sent unpaid by private ship, showing despatch c.d.s. and "4d" in circle, and bearing extremely rare "Via brindisi" perforated green steamer label with manuscript "Albanian" inserted and with red British PO Constantinople arrival datestamp (13.4) on reverse; the entire with light horizontal filing crease, the label with some minor creases and two small tears at left. Only two examples of this label on cover have been recorded, this being much the finer. Photo Note: The label was issued by Delfosse et Cie Paris, and is believed to have been used to indicate the route for mail sorted on board ship, one label being put on the top cover of a bundle.provenance: "Rosemarie", November 1978Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) MaltaEarly Letters and HandstampsIncoming Mail1859 (25 June) entire letter, ex the "Tagliaferro", from Marseilles, bearing 1853-61 imperf 20c. (2) cancelled by "1896" in diamond of dots, showing despatch c.d.s. with arrival datestamp on reverse; 1864 (July) entire letter from Marseilles, bearing 1862 40c. tied by Anchor in diamond of dots, showing "sinai" c.d.s. of the French Packet with arrival datestamp on reverse; and 1865 (20 June) entire letter, ex the "Tagliaferro" correspondence, from Marseilles, bearing 1862 40c. tied by "2240" in diamond of dots, showing despatch c.d.s. with light arrival datestamp on reverse. A fine trio of covers from France Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) MaltaGreat Britain used in Malta"M" Obliterators1859 (12 Feb.) entire to Genoa, bearing 1857 4d. tied by light strike, showing red crayon "1¼", oval-framed "p.d." and unframed "piroscafi/postali/francese" in red with, on reverse, despatch and arrival datestamps Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) Malta1860-84 HalfpennyIssued StampsA selection with no watermark, white paper, brown-orange unused with part original gum, some short perfs at left, CC perf 14 buff (regummed), yellow-buff with part original gum (slight wrinkle), pale buff with part original gum (light horizontal crease) and yellow with traces of gum, rough perf 12½ buff-brown with part original gum and CA orange-yellow with part original gum; generally fine. Cat. £2045 Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) Malta1935 Silver Jubilee½d., 2½d., 6d. and 1/- in a lower left corner blocks of four with one in each showing extra flagstaff [49], the 1/- with light corner crease in selvedge otherwise fine mounted mint. S.G. 210a-213a, £770+ Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) MaltaCovers and CancellationsVillage Postmarks1906 (6 Sept.) picture postcard to Floriana, bearing KE ½d. tied by "asciak" c.d.s. with "am" code; some very light toning around perfs. Photo Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) MaltaCovers and CancellationsVillage Postmarks1915 (Feb.) envelope to Sliema, bearing KG V ½d. and War Tax ½d. tied by "birchircara" c.d.s. with code "a"; some light peripheral staining and part of flap missing Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
New Guinea1914-15 on German New Guinea, 5mm. apart1d. on 3pf., 1d. on 5pf. (2, one with short "1"), 2d. on 10pf., 2d. on 20pf., 2½d. on 10pf., 3d. on 25pf., 3d. on 30pf., 4d. on 40pf. and Official 1d. on 3pf. and 1d. on 5pf. (both with a light tone on reverse), fine mint. Cat. £1,165 Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
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