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Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge - SDUK South Africa This is an attractively hand-coloured first edition of the landmark 1834 map of ...

Anglo Boer War LADYSMITH TOWN GUARD - 2 POSTERS Ladysmith Rules for Town Guard signed by Lieut. Col. Sim and dated 5 February 1902. Formation of ...

Anglo Boer War SIEGE OF LADYSMITH. AUCTION CATALOGUE 4 pages, printed only on the recto of each, in very good condition. The auctioneer, Joe Dyson...

Anglo Boer War LADYSMITH GRAND PROMENADE CONCERT PROGRAMME Natal Volunteers Siege Sports Monday 4th December 1899. Under the indignant protest of...

Backhouse (James) A NARRATIVE OF A VISIT TO THE MAURITIUS AND SOUTH AFRICA 648 + lvi pages appendix, frontispiece View of Table Bay - an etching f...

[Barker (Nicolas)] LADY ANNE BARNARD'S WATERCOLOURS AND SKETCHES (Signed by Nicolas Barker) With an introduction by Nicolas Barker 116 pages, 66 c...

Mann (Thomas) A SKETCH OF MY LIFE 69 pages, original straight-grained cloth lightly tanned along the spine and edges, tape marks on the front and ...

Capstick (Peter Hathaway) A MAN CALLED LION (Signed by the author) Artwork by Art Vance. Cover title : A man called lion: The life and times of J...

Clammer (D.) THE LAST ZULU WARRIOR (Limited edition) 240 pages, large 4to (330 x 295 mm), colour frontispiece, map, plans, numerous colour and bla...

Cock (Jacklyn) and Koch (Eddie) GOING GREEN (Inscribed by Nelson Mandela) 262 pages, numerous black and white photographs, graphs, maps, pictorial...

Commemorative album SALUTE TO A GREAT SOUTH AFRICAN Pictorial commemorative album published on his death. 65 pages, chiefly sepia toned photograp...

De Lannoy (Charles) & Vander Linden (Herman) HISTOIRE DE L’EXPANSION COLONIALE DES PEUPLES EUROPÉENS NÉERLANDE ET DANEMARK 487 pages" 4 fold...

[De Neuville (Alphonse)] THE DEFENSE OF RORKE'S DRIFT 22 - 3 JANUARY 1879 To Her Majesty the Queen this plate is by special permission dedicated b...

Dixon (Capt. C.M.) THE LEAGUER OF LADYSMITH 18 humorous chromolithographic sketches with captions on the opposite leaves, original green cloth bac...

Doyle (Arthur Conan) THE GREAT BOER WAR Nineteeth impression. 769 pages, 4 colour folding maps at the back of the book, light foxing on the page e...

Doyle (A. Conan) THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA New edition completing 300,000 copies New edition. 158 pages, half leather with matching cloth boards, ti...

Diary. FRANKLIN KAYE KENDALL Handwritten account in black ink in an a5 leather bound notebook, in good condition although the covers are rubbed an...

Fitzpatrick (Sir J. Percy) SOUTH AFRICAN MEMORIES Prepared for the Press from the Manuscript of the author by G.H.Wilson. First edition. 320 page...

Freeman (J.J.) A TOUR IN SOUTH AFRICA With notices of Natal, Mauritius, Madagascar, Ceylon, Egypt, and Palestine. 492 + 16 (publisher’s catalogue)...

[Granville (A.K.)] WITH THE CAPE MOUNTED RIFLES 262 pages, original brown cloth, decorated with a gilt vignette of a C.M.R. on the upper cover and...

Graves (Robert) ON ENGLISH POETRY. xi,(i blank), 149 pages, original yellow cloth titled in black, upper cover decorated with a cobbled design – s...

Graves (Robert) WELCHMAN’S HOSE Wood Engravings by Paul Nash ix, (i), 61 pages, original black cloth spine with gilt titling, paper-covered sid...

Jackson (Frederick John) THE BIRDS OF KENYA COLONY AND THE UGANDA PROTECTORATE Completed and edited by W.L. Sclater. First edition. 3 volumes, 159...

Jeppe (Frederick A.) JEPPE'S MAP OF THE TRANSVAAL SHEET 1 : Plan of Johannesburg and surrounding Suburbs and Townships (reduced form Pritchard's C...

Penny (Fanny Emily) and Lawley (Lady Annie Allen Cunard) SOUTHERN INDIA Painted by Lady Lawley. Described by F.C. Penny 257 pages, 50 colour plate...

Lines (G.W.) THE LADYSMITH SIEGE (presentation copy signed by the compiler) Cover title: Record Containing: Regiments Defending the Besieged Borou...

Liturgy 5 EARLY SOUTH WEST AFRICAN TEXTS IN OSHINDONGA AND HERERO 5 duodecimo volumes, 3 untitled on the covers in full leather which are scuffed ...

May (James Lewis) [translator] TEN DROLL TALES (Limited edition) Being the Story of the Fair Imperia, the Venial Sin ,the Merrie Diversions of His...

Marloth (Dr. Rudolph) DAS KAPLAND 435 pages, 8 maps, 20 heliogravures and 200 text illustrations, original printed yellow paper covered boards wit...

Netto (Dr. Friedrich) BUBENSTREICHE IN LUSTIGEN VERSEN UND ULKINGEN BILDERN 8 pages printed in stiff card, colour cartoons surrounding a text of r...

Pringle (Thomas) AFRICAN SKETCHES Part I, Poems Illustrative of South Africa (including 'The Bechuana Boy') Part II, Narrative of a Residence in ...

Renshaw (Richard) VOYAGE TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE The Indian Ocean, and up the Red Sea, with Travels into Egypt, through the desert, etc., giving ...

Royal Military Chapel. THE GUARDS' CHAPEL - WELLINGTON BARRACKS 131 pages, frontispiece, original red pebble grained cloth titled gilt with armori...

Serote (Mongane Wally) ON THE HORIZON ( Presentation copy signed by the author) Foreword by Raymond Suttner 132 pages, pictorial wrappers (paperb...

South Africa THE SPIONSKOP DESPATCHES Presented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty. Facsimile reprint. 48 pages + [12 pages] appendix, fronti...

Terence (Publius Terentius Afer) COMOEDIAE Title page reads: Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae. First Baskerville Edition. (ii), 364 pages, full spri...

Totius [pseudonym] Du Toit ( Jacob Daniel) POEMS 2 books of poems 1.Wilgerboom Bogies – verse van Totius. Derde druk Pretoria, 1923. 44 pages, lig...

War on Want Jigsaw Puzzle. NELSON MANDELA AND THE ANC FLAG. Design by Paul Morton. Colour photograph of Nelson Mandela taken in the 1950's superim...

War on Want Jigsaw Puzzle WINNIE MANDELA Photo by Orde Eliason. Colour photograph of Winnie Mandela superimposed as a jigsaw puzzle, unopened in i...

Hall (Hugh Lanion) I HAVE REAPED MY MEALIES 251 pages, frontispiece portrait, simply rebound in green cloth titled gilt on the upper cover and spi...

Jack (Major E.M.) ON THE CONGO FRONTIER Exploration and sport with 44 illustrations and a map. 310 pages, frontispiece, folding coloured map, 39 b...

Johnston (Sir Harry H.) BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA First edition. 544 pages, frontispiece, 6 folding colour maps, profusely illustrated with black and...

Johnston (Sir Harry H.) THE UGANDA PROTECTORATE An Attempt to Give Some Description of the Physical Geography, Botany, Zoology, Anthropology, Lang...

Thomsom ( J.B.) JOSEPH THOMSON African explorer. A biography by his brother with contributions by friends First Edition: 358 pages, frontispiece p...

Lacy (George) [The Old Pioneer] PICTURES OF TRAVEL, SPORT AND ADVENTURE First edition. 420 pages, frontispiece portrait, 27 black and white plates...

Livingstone (David) and (Charles) NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION TO THE ZAMBEZI AND ITS TRIBUTARIES 608 pages, wood engraved folding frontispiece - a ...

Lydekker (Richard) THE GAME ANIMALS OF AFRICA 484 pages, 15 plates, 97 text illustrations, original maroon cloth titled gilt on upper cover and sp...

Melland (Frank H.) IN WITCH-BOUND AFRICA An account of the primitive Kaonde tribe and their beliefs with 47 illustrations and 3 maps. 316 pages, f...

Millais (John G.) FAR AWAY UP THE NILE With illustrations from drawings by the author, by H.R. Millais, and from photographs. 254 pages, frontispi...

Serpa Pinto (Major A. A.) HOW I CROSSED AFRICA From the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean through unknown countries; discovery of the great Zambesi aff...

Sharpe ( Sir Alfred) THE BACKBONE OF AFRICA With photographs and maps. First edition. 282 pages, frontispiece bound next to the half title page, 3...

Stanley (H.M.) HOW I FOUND LIVINGSTONE Illustrations and maps First edition. 736 + 8 pages publisher's catalogue dated October 1872, frontispiece ...

Angas (George French) SOUTH AUSTRALIA ILLUSTRATED Facsimile reprint. 60 coloured plates with descriptions, reproductions of the of the 10 original...

Baines (Thomas) PHOTOCOPIES OF MANUSCRIPT ITEMS Held in the Mitchell Library in Sydney. 3 volumes Thomas Baines Journal January – March 1856. 318 ...

Baker (H.A.) & Oliver (E.G.H.) ERICAS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA (De Luxe Subscriber's Edition) With paintings by Irma von Below, Fay Anderson and others ...

Baines (Thomas) THE GOLD REGIONS OF SOUTH-EASTERN AFRICA 240 pages (including 51 pages advertisements), frontispiece portrait - a laid down photog...

Barrow (John) NOUVEAU VOYAGE DANS LA PARTIE MERIDIONALE DE L'AFRIQUE: Oú l'on examine quelle est l'importance du Cap de Bonne-Espérance pour l...

Bleek (W.H.I.) REYNARD THE FOX IN SOUTH AFRICA First edition. 94 pages, original brown cloth, titled gilt on upper cover and back, a very good cop...

Burchell (William J.) TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AFRICA Reprinted from the original edition of 1822 - 4 with some additional material and...

[Cape Almanac] THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE ALMANAC AND ANNUAL REGISTER FOR 1850 Containing a list of the Public Departments, Local Institutions and vari...