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Ferdinando Galli BIBIENA Direzioni A' Giovani Studenti nel Disegno dell' Architettura Civile (1764)"Direzioni a`Giovani Studenti nel Disegno dell`...

Edmond Carton de Wiart; M. Eugene EtienneLes grandes Compagnies Coloniales Anglaises du XIXe siecle (The great English colonial companies)British ...

Charlotte Barter (A Plain Woman) ALONE AMONG THE ZULUSPublished under the direction of The Committee of General Literature and Education, Appointe...

G. H. Perry & Co, Fine Art Publishers Glimpses of Natal South Africa's Garden Province - African Durban Scenes"Glimpses of Natal South Africa's. G...

D. H. Reader Makhanya Kinship Rights and Obligations - Communications from the School of African Studies Hardboard covers, cloth spine; "Colonial ...

Paul Roussier Documents sur les relations entre la France et le royaume de Ouaire à la côte d'Afrique (1784-1787)Excerpt from the newsletter of ...

Ahari Abu Bakr Kutbi / Johannes Baptist Van Loon Ta'rikh-i Shaikh Uwais: An important source for the history of Adharbaijan in the 14th century No...

SEWELL. ANNA. BLACK BEAUTY.BLACK BEAUTY.--  His Grooms and Companions. The autobiography of a Horse. Translated from the original Equine by Anna S...

HUGHES. TED. CROW.CROW.  FIRST EDITION.  Signed by Ted Hughes on the title page. A tiny abrasion to the top of the front panel of the dustwrapper ...

CHURCHILL. WINSTON SPENCER GREAT CONTEMPORARIES.GREAT CONTEMPORARIES.  Second Impression, printed September 1937, the same month as the First. Ins...

CHURCHILL. WINSTON SPENCER. THE RIVER WAR.THE RIVER WAR.  1899. FIRST EDITION. First Printing, second state. Two volumes.  Portrait frontis' of Vi...

SHAKESPEARE. WILLIAM. ROMEO AND JULIET. Shakespeare's Tragedy.FIRST HATHERELL EDITION. Beautifully illustrated with 22 fine, full colour plates. E...

CARROLL. LEWIS. THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, And what Alice found there.THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, And what Alice found there. CARROLL. LEWIS. ; Te...

KING JAMES BIBLE. THE HOLY BIBLE.FIRST ROYAL QUARTO EDITION. Two volumes bound into three with separate title page for the New Testament. The Apoc...

MILNE. A. A. THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER.THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Large paper limited edition issue on hand made paper. One ...

MACHIAVELLI. NICCOLO. THE FLORENTINE HISTORIE.FIRST ENGLISH EDITION.  Printed by T.C. (Thomas Creede) for W. P.(William Ponsonby) Pagination: xii,...

William Burroughs The Naked LunchParis: The Olympia Press, 1959. First edition, first issue with the original price of "Francs 1500" (later issues...

Edgar Rice Burroughs The Beasts of TarzanChicago: A.C. McClurg and Company, 1916. First edition, first printing. Illustrated by J. Allen St. John....

Charles Dickens Master Humphrey's ClockLondon: Chapman & Hall, 1840 - 1841. Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne and Cattermole. First edition, fir...

Ian Fleming You Only Live TwiceLondon: Jonathan Cape, 1964. First edition, first impression, second state ("Published March 1964"), binding B, of ...

Barrow, John An Account of Travels Into The Interior of Southern Africa in the Years 1797 and 1798: Volume 1: Title. Dedication. Contents. Folding...

Baines,Thomas Explorations in South-West Africa. (Redvers Buller Collection)The journey was started on March 20th, 1861, and the author was joined...

Burchell, William.J.(Edited by Helen McKay) The South African Drawings of William J, Burchell- Volume One- The Bachapins of Litakun. Volume 2-Land...

Butler,Captain H. South African Sketches: Illustrative of The Wild Life of a Hunter on the Frontier of Cape Colony.A rather scarce volume of hunti...

Backhouse, James A Narrative Of A Visit to the Mauritius and South AfricaThe book is in the form of a diary, and the author seems to have traverse...

Bekker, Martin Gregoire Boonzaier Gregoire Boonzaier by Martin  Bekker. Standard Edition with matching Slipcase. This book is he result of the con...

Dixie, Lady Florence In The Land of Misfortune With illustrations from Sketches by Major Fraser and Capt. C.F.C.Beresford,R.E. Engraved by Whympe...

Distant, W.L A Naturalist in the TransvaalMember of the Anthropological Institute, The Entomological Society of France, Fellow of the Entomologica...

Stirling, John Our Regiments in South Africa 1899- 1902. Contemporary 1/2 leather binding with matching brown cloth sides.  Four raised ribs to sp...

Rose, Cowper Four Years in Southern Africa Sketches of life in the Cape Colony and Kaffraria during the first quarter of the nineteenth century. T...

Long,Una (Edited) The Journals of Elizabeth Lees Price, written in Bechuanaland, Southern Africa 1854-1883.Mrs. Price was the daughter of a missio...

Prichard, Helen.M Friends and Foes in The TranskeiA narrative of two years' residence in South Africa, 1876-8, the latter part of which was spent ...

Froude, James Anthony Two Lectures on South Africa.Mr Froude visited Africa in 1874, and appears to have had a kind of semi-official mission from...

South African Writers- Edited by Professor Noble. The Cape and Its People and Other Essays The editor states that the object of the volume was " t...

Goode, Chas. The Cape Town Directory for 1865. With which is published(written expressly for this work) The Prize Essay Etc.With which is publish...

RAWLINSON, George History of Phoenicia8vo,  xxii, 583pps (+24pps adverts), 2 fold. maps,  10 plates, 122 woodcuts in text, orig. cl.Longmans, Gree...

ALPINUS, Prosperus (1553-1617) De Praesagienda Vita et Morte Aegrotantium Libri Septem....Small 4to,  port., 9ff, 559pp, 19ff, antique-style cal...

LOWER, Mark Anthony The Worthies of Sussex... with Incidental Notices, Illustrative of Sussex History.Large 4to, frontis.,  6 ff,  346pp, 1 f,  or...

RENNERT, Hugo Albert The Life of Lope de Vega (1562-1635)8vo,  xiii, 587 pp,  half red calf, gilt spine, blue labels, for H. Sotheran.G. E. Stech...

TAYLOR, Samuel Angling in All Its Branches, Reduced to a Complete Science : First Edition 8vo,  xv, 298 pp + [6] pp adverts.,  later half green m...

STEWART, John (late of Jamaica) A View of the Past and Present State of the Island of Jamaica;First Edition 8vo, xiii, [3], 363, [1] pp, original...

RIVIERE, Lazare (1589-1665) The Practice of Physick, in Two Volums, Very much EnlargedFolio, [-]2. A-C2, D-Z, Aa-Kk, Qq-Zz, Aaa-Yyy4, Zzz1, Bbbb-...

[BROWN, Thomas] (of Shifnal, 1663-1704) The Weesils. A Satyrical Fable First Edition.  4to,  title-page [verso blank], pps 1-12,  [1]f (Postscrip...

WHITEHEAD, Paul (1710-1774) Manners. A Satire.First Edition,  First Issue, with band of printer’s flowers below title on page [3].Folio, A-D2, [E...

LOWNE, B. Thompson The Anatomy, Physiology, Morphology, and Development of the Blow-Fly.8vo.  2 vols.  x, 1-350, +  viii,  351-778pp, orig. cloth....

L’ESTRANGE, Sir Roger (1616-1704) L’Estrange His Appeal Humbly Submitted to the Kings most Excellent Majesty And the Three Estates Assembled ...

BATES, F. A. Graves Memoirs of the Civil War, Compiled from Seventeenth Century Records.Large 4to, xxvi, 415 pp, 45 plates, 6 charts in pocket at ...

HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-64) The Complete Works... with Introductory Notes by George P. Lathrop...12 volumes, 8vo (200x130mm), contemporary half...

Samuel Beckett En Attendant GodotParis: les èditions de Minuit, 1952. First edition, first printing. Original publisher's white paper wrappers, le...

William Faulkner Intruder in the DustNew York: Random House, 1948. First edition, first printing. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in blue and gi...

Ernest Hemingway Green Hills of AfricaNew York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First edition, first printing. Original publisher's green cloth, du...

Virginia Woolf Monday or TuesdayLondon: The Hogarth Press, 1921. First edition. One of 1000 copies. Illustrated woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. Original...

Virginia Woolf A Writer's DiaryLondon: The Hogarth Press, 1953. First edition, first printing. One of 9,000 copies. Publisher's orange cloth board...

George Eliot Felix Holt the RadicalEdinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1866. Three volumes. First edition, in Carter's "A" binding (the earlies...

George Eliot The Mill on the FlossEdinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860. First edition, original publisher's cloth with gilt spines, covers ...

Stephen King Night ShiftGarden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. First edition, presumed second printing with "T" in gutter of page 336. Sign...

Henry James The Tragic MuseLondon: Macmillan and Co., 1890. First English edition. One of 500 copies. Three volumes, original publisher's blue clo...

W. Somerset Maugham The Moon and SixpenceLondon: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition, first issue, with four pages of ads. Signed and inscribed...

SAR & H Verslag van die Hoofbestuur van Spoorwee en Hawens oor die Jaar Geeindig in Maart 1953In-depth report on railroad and harbour infrastructu...

Union of South Africa Province of the Cape of Good Hope Vol. 2 Minutes and Ordinances of the Second Session of the First Provincial CouncilMinutes...