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Photograph Album 2 Photo Albums with 95 original photos from Gambia (1917-22) With stunning pictures of Gambia during the colonisation, among the ...

George Orwell HOMAGE TO CATALONIA The scarce first edition lacking the dustwrapper of this title recalling Orwell's experiences in the Spanish Civ...

Barrow (John) A VOYAGE TO COCHINCHINA IN THE YEARS 1792 & 1793: and also of such European Settlements as were visited on the Voyage: with Sketches...

Charles W Traylen ORME’S COLLECTION OF BRITISH FIELD SPORTS Orme (Edward) ORME’S COLLECTION OF BRITISH FIELD SPORTS. Illustrated in twenty beaut...

Richard Oviet TYLER The Planets The Planets. [New York:] Uranian Press, 1958. Large 4to. 20 leaves of sekishu paper, printed one side only in colo...

Irvin Shrewsbury COBB Film Script: a 152pp. original holograph manuscript “ … The Dark Horse or So This is America ..." Susan HAYWARD, and ot...

William SIMPSON, and others "Kissing" - an original apparently unpublished manuscript Diamonds are forever, but the chance to gift an original man...

Robert Spence HYNDE (editor). - MALAWI The Central African Planter. Robert Spence HYNDE (editor). The Central African Planter. Songani, Zomba, Bri...

Ignatius SANCHO Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho, an African. To which are prefixed, Memoirs of his Life, by Joseph Jekyll... Fifth Edition. W...

[William RAMESAY] The Gentlemans Companion: or, a character of true nobility, and gentility: in the way of essay. By a Person of Quality. The Gen...

Schreiner (Olive) THE HUNTER (Special Private Edition) Half title page, title page, 51 pages of hand printed letterpress and a colophon leaf, inte...

P. de Bonnefont de Varinay La Compagnie de Mozambique. Sa concession, son administrations, ses resultats (1898; First edition) "The Mozambique Com...

Georges AUBERT Le TRANSVAAL et l'Angleterre en Afrique du Sud (1898) A two folding tables shows most important facts about the values of all South...

John S. Oliver Faults and Dykes. A Geological Study of the Witwatersrand (1911) List of sketches: - Sketch map of the West Rand - Sketch map of th...

L. de Launay Les Mines d'Or du Transvaal (1896) Contents (translated from french): I. Study of geography and history II. Organization of the minin...

Adrien Hubert Brué Carte physique et politique de l'Afrique A fine example of the first edition of Brué’s large scale map of Africa. The map is f...

John Barrow Baie False An attractive chart of False Bay (1797) that illustrated John Barrow's book on the Cape of Good Hope (1804) - the chart is ...

John Barrow Map of the coast of Africa This attractive map of the Cape West coast was published for John Barrow - it is based on one of the few VO...

John Luffman Cape Fort This 1801 diagram of The Cape Fort is of the fortification we now know as The Castle. Luffman’s ‘Cape Fort’ was engraved on...

Henry Hall South Africa ZuidAfrica This folded map is by Henry Hall R.E. D whose pioneering contribution to South African Cartography and developm...

Franz Schrämbl Das Vorgebirg der Guten Hofnung Verfasst von Herrn L.S. De la Rochette.Neu herausgegeben von Herrn. F.A. Schraembl 1789 This map i...

A.T Bryant The Zulu People A.T Bryant is renowned as the greatest ever authority on the Zulus. This classic volume is regarded as 'his life's work...

Major Ashe & Capt. Wyatt Edgell The Story of the Zulu Campaign This seldom-available book provides unique insight into the daily life of the Briti...

Mounteney Jephson Emin Pasha and the rebellion at the Equator. A scarce book: an engrossing account of Mounteney-Johnson’s travels and harrowing e...

An Observer South African Balloons: a skit on the boom A scarce early Johannesburg printing; one of the earliest examples of financial reporting -...

Thomas Baines Explorations in South West africa A beautiful facsimile edition of an important, uncommonly available book by Thomas Baines F.R.G.S....

Raven-Hart, R Cape Good Hope. This book of transcriptions and translations of texts by early callers to the Cape of Good Hope is invaluable to any...

Mutwa, Credo Vusamazulu Indaba My Children “An absorbing collection of legends . . . This interesting and human book deserves a wide circle of rea...

Anthony Hocking Randfontein Estates The Frist Hundred years This is a lavishly produced company history including the war years and the importance...

C.P Thunberg Travels in Europe, Africa and Asia made between the years 1770 and 1779 (4 Volumes) A complete set of one of the third and revised ed...

Rowland Atcherley A trip to Boerland A little known personal account of an Englishman's tour in the expanding colonial parts of South Africa in th...

James Chapman Travels in the interior of South Africa First Edition of this uncommon book. "Few South African books give better descriptions of th...

David Arnot The land question of Griqualand West This book on the question of Griqaualand West vexed colonial authorities. The book has the stamp ...

Gardiner Williams The Diamond Mines of South Africa First edition of a landmark book on diamonds, diamond mining in South Africa and their history...

Verney Lovett Cameron Across Africa This is the account of the first person to cross Africa, after he had determined Livingstone had died and retr...

Vernon S Forbes; John Rourke; Eric Axelson (Editor) Paterson's Cape Travels 1777 - 1779 One of only twenty-six presentation copies, in full leathe...

Randolf Churchill Men, Mines and Animals in South Africa The author was a British member of parliament, travelled widely in South Africa observing...

Brenthurst Press Brenthurst Press Series Two (10 Volumes) A complete set of the ten volumes of the De Luxe first edition (only 125 published) of S...

Brenthurst Press Brenthurst Press Series One: De Luxe Edition (10 Volumes) De Luxe first edition copies (number 55 of only 125) of this well known...

Van Riebeeck Society VRS Series 1 (50 volumes) A complete set in very good condition of the First Series, 50 volumes (1918-1969) in the original l...

Anders Sparrman A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope George McCall Theal wrote of Sparrman's book: "the most interesting and the most trustworthy acc...

William Cornwallis Harris The wild sports of Southern Africa Fifth Edition of this iconic book, which is the most desirable edition because of the...

William John Burchell Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa A beautiful set of the first edition of William John Burchell's Travels in the In...

Senator George Glaeser Munnik Kronieke van Noordelike Transvaal Undated publication with 136 pages in very good condition. Probably printed in the...

Her Majesty's Stationery Office Lot of 4 contemporary documents about affairs of Natal, Zululand and Adjancent Territories (1882-1885) "South Afr...

Gordimer, Nadine, and more than forty others; Tony Fleischer (editor) New South African Writing, 1964, 1965, 1967 and 1977 The volumes are from Ju...

Anglo Boer War: LEAFLETS - RAID ON THE BOER REPUBLICS Individual pagination of each pamphlet – about 500 pages – no title page or index, black and...

Andersson (Charles John) THE LION AND THE ELEPHANT 386 pages, wood engraved frontispiece, 3 engraved plates, recent quarter tan leather with marbl...

Andersson (Charles John) NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF DAMARA LAND 394 pages, map as frontispiece, 4 lithographic plates, some light foxing, original blue...

Barrow (John) AN ACCOUNT OF TRAVELS INTO THE INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AFRICA IN THE YEARS 1797 AND 1798: the natural history of such objects that occu...

Bleek (W.H.I.) and Lloyd (L.C.) SPECIMENS OF BUSHMEN FOLKLORE Facsimile reprint. 468 pages, colour frontispiece, 49 plates - 8 partly coloured, gr...

Butler (Guy) & Skotnes (Cecil) PILGRIMAGE TO DIAS CROSS (Private edition signed by the poet and the artist) 31 pages of text, 12 original wood cut...

[Cape Times] CAPE TIMES ANNUAL 1928 120 pages, numerous black and white photographs, contemporary adverts, portraits, colour plates, original pict...

Catlin (George) LAST RAMBLES AMONGST THE INDIANS OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND THE ANDES First edition. 361 pages, frontispiece, 7 plates, numerous b...

Chambliss (Rev. J.E.) THE LIVES AND TRAVELS OF LIVINGSTONE AND STANLEY 761 pages, frontispieces of both Livingstone and Stanley, 24 black and whit...

1820 Settlers SOUVENIR IN COMMEMORATION OF THE CENTENARY OF THE 1820 SETTLERS OF ALBANY. APRIL 1820 - APRIL 1920 160 pages, illustrated throughout...

Illustrated London News. THE LATE PRINCE IMPERIAL 32 pages, 4 double page plates, 5 full page plates, numerous black and white illustrations, fray...

Krige (Uys) THE WAY OUT (Signed by the author) First revised Edition. 260 pages, 10 black and white photographs – one of Uys Krige and signed by h...

Latrobe (Rev. C.I.) A JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA Second Edition. 580 pages, folding map as frontispiece (carelessly folded ) - Latrobe's j...

Moodie (Maj. John Wedderburn Dunbar) SCENES AND ADVENTURES AS A SOLDIER AND A SETTLER 299 pages, frontispiece photograph of the author laid down, ...