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Major Hook. WITH SWORD AND STATUTE. A personal memoir of a 19thC life in service as a military man, and later as a magistrate, mainly in the Easte...

John Jarvis Bisset. SPORT AND WAR. Lieutenant General Sir John Jarvis Bisset KCMG, CB. (25 December 1819 – 25 March 1894) was a British Army offic...

Eduard Foà (Tr. Frederic Lees). AFTER BIG GAME IN CENTRAL AFRICA. With 71 Illustrations And A Sketch Map Showing Route. (some variant editions we...

Major A. St.H. Gibbons. AFRICA FROM NORTH TO SOUTH THROUGH MAROTSELAND. The author was in charge of the 1898 to 1900 expedition to Marotseland. Ai...

Frederick Courteney Selous. (Illustrated by E. Caldwell). AFRICAN NATURE NOTES AND REMINISCENCES. From Czech: "A wide-ranging work that discusses ...

William Vasse. (Tr. R. & H.M. Lydekker). THREE YEARS SPORT IN MOZAMBIQUE. From Czech: "Guillaume Vasse (even his name was translated) sailed to Mo...

Lord Wolverton & Arthur Paget. FIVE MONTHS SPORT IN SOMALI LAND. Illustrations after photographs by Colonel Paget. Authors proceeded to Somali Lan...

BIBLIOGRAPHY. - Samuel Leigh SOTHEBY & John WILKINSON Auctioneers Catalogue of the Principal Portion of the Valuable Library of John Dunn Gardner,...

[John MOIR] Female Tuition; or, an address to mothers, on the education of daughters. The second edition. [John MOIR] Female Tuition; or, an addre...

A.J. Johnson Johnson's Africa This map is a beautiful example of A. J. Johnson's very attractively hand coloured 1864 map of Africa. The map cov...

Sir Harry Smith. (Ed. G.C. Moore Smith). THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SIR HARRY SMITH. With the addition of five supplementary chapters by the Editor cove...

Penny Silva. (Ed). (Oxford University Press). A DICTIONARY OF SOUTH AFRICAN ENGLISH ON HISTORICAL PRINCIPLES. South African words and their origin...

National Geographic AFRICAN ADVENTURE ATLAS As expected from National Geographic, the ultimate map collection for the African traveller in one vol...

William Charles Baldwin. (Illus. James Wolf and J.B. Zwecker). AFRICAN HUNTING AND ADVENTURE William Charles Baldwin has an honoured place in the ...

W.S. Rainsford THE LAND OF THE LION From Czech: "Rainsford's "safari" trekked through British East Africa where a variety of game was bagged. Afte...

C.G. Schillings. (Tr. Frederic Whyte) IN WILDEST AFRICA From Czech: "In his second work on photographing and hunting game in East Africa, Schillin...

Chez Daumont Le Cap de Bonne Esperance This fascinating, seemingly bizarre and uncommon view of Table Bay (with mirror image text in the headline)...

Nicolas de Fer Cap de Bonne Esperance This is a beautiful, later hand-coloured copperplate print of a prospect of the early Dutch settlement at th...

John Barrow (CJ van de Graaf) Chart of Table Bay at the Cape of Good Hope A chart of Table Bay and surrounds from 1786 that depicts the approaches...

LS Delarochette Cape District Cape of Good Hope This is one of the most fascinating maps of the Cape of Good Hope - a sought-after, historically i...

Myanmar (BURMA) School Red and Gold lacquered manuscript, Kammavaca. Myanmar (BURMA) School. Red and Gold lacquered manuscript, Kammavaca. [Burma...

[Emperor JUSTINIAN (c.482-565)] [Three law books 1553-1553-1556] [Emperor JUSTINIAN (c.482-565)]. [Corpus juris civilis. trans. Body of Civil Law:...

J-B d’Après de Mannevillette Plan du Cap de Bonne Esperance et de ses Environs. This landmark nautical of the Cape of Good Hope is the first to...

BIBLIOGRAPHY, the HUTH / HARMSWORTH / ABBEY copy. - STEWART, WHEATLEY & ADLARD. A Catalogue of the Splendid and Valuable Library of the Rev. Thodo...

Silva, Penny (Editor) Signed By Nelson Mandela A DICTIONARY of SOUTH AFRICAN ENGLISH on Historical Principles Oxford University Press 1996; number...

BIBLIOGRAPHY. - Messrs. EVANS Auctioneers. Catalogue of the Valuable Library of the late John Delafield Phelps BIBLIOGRAPHY. - Messrs. EVANS Aucti...

BIBLIOGRAPHY. - Samuel Leigh SOTHEBY & Co. Auctioneers. Catalogue of [Parts III and IV] the Valuable Library of Benjamin Heywood Bright  BIBLIOGRA...

ENGLISH School, mid-20th century. Original portrait of "Augustus John O.M. R.A." ENGLISH School, mid-20th century. "Augustus John O.M. R.A." [unda...

Goldblatt, David SOME AFRIKANERS REVISITED (Signed Limited Edition) Hardcover SIGNED by David Goldblatt. Limited First edition. NEW. Cloth bound h...

Thomson, Ron MAHOHBOH (Signed) #2425 of limited first edition of 2500 copies signed by the author.Cover sketch and pen & ink sketches by Alan Walk...

Ballen, Roger BOARDING HOUSE A fine unread copy in like dust jacket. Photographs by Roger Ballen. Essay by David Travis. 128pp with 65 black and w...

FRANSEN, HANS (compiled by) A GUIDE TO THE OLD BUILDINGS OF THE CAPE Illustrated with plans and photographs by Andre Pretorius, Arthur Elliott and...

J. C. Beattie Report of A MAGNETIC SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA Beattie was Professor of Physics at the South African College Cape Town. 231 pages. With...

Douglas Goode Cycads of Africa (Signed) Inscribed to previous owner on the title page with a small . 256p, illustrated throughout with colour draw...

Major-General W.C.F. Molyneux Campaigning in South Africa and Egypt viii, 287p, 4 maps, 2 of which are fold-out. Previous owner's name on half-tit...

William Negley Archer in Africa (Limited/Signed ed) Limited to 1000 copies, this is no.226. 235p. Signed by author and by Jim Rickoff, President o...

The House of Commons Suppresion of the Slave Trade by the Great Britain and USA (1822) "Further papers relating to the slave trade: Viz. Copy of t...

Her Majesty's Stationery Office Netherlands. Report on the Gold Industry of Dutch Guiana (1897) "Foreign Office. 1897. Miscellaneous series No.422...

Pirsig; Robert M ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE First U.K. edition. Previous owners name and inscription on front end paper. Small cell...

Ed: Olivier; Gerrit PENNY SIOPIS TIME AND AGAIN Soft cover - Near Mint condition. Sioipis has establishedd herself as one of South Africa's most t...

[Dr. Arthur BROUGHTON (c.1756 - 1796)] & Carl von Linne , i.e. LINNAEUS. Enchiridion Botanicum: complectens ... Plantarum per Insulas Britannicas ...

Quinte-Curce (Quintus Curtius Rufus) Historia Alexandri Magni (1664) "Q. Curtii Rufi. Historia Alexandri Magni. Cum Notis selectiss, Variorum: Rad...

Palgrave, Olive H Coates (Paintings) TREES OF CENTRAL AFRICA Dust jacket has foxing and is edge-worn with small tears. Orange cloth covered boards...

Bradlow, Frank R (With collaboration of Edna Bradlow) THOMAS BOWLER HIS LIFE AND WORK This is an exhaustive and definitive catalogue of all Bowler...

Maureen Rall Petticoat Pioneers: Limited an numbered An edition limited to 500 numbered copies of which this is number 462. Pages 239. This book i...

Scholz, Ute (ed) The Levinson Collection Being the Olga and Jack Levinson Collection of S.W.A./Namibian Art compiled by Heilwig and Peter Andreae ...

Holden, W. Clifford British Rule in South Africa Late Victorian style leather and book cloth binding with a title label on the spine and gilt deco...

Shelley, G.E. A Handbook of the Birds of Egypt This is an ex-library book. The new red leather and marbled paper binding dates from around a hundr...

Hamilton, Charles (Edited by F.G.H. Price) Sketches of Life and Sport in South-Eastern Africa Original red pebble grained cloth binding with gilt ...

Stern, Rev. Henry A. Wanderings Among the Falashas in Abyssinia; Together with a Description of the Country and its Various Inhabitants Bound with...

Moodie, Lieut. J.W.D. Ten Years in South Africa; Including a Particular Description of the Wild Sports of that Country in Two Volumes Two volume s...

Harris, Captain William Cornwallis The Wild Sports of Southern Africa The Victorian style full brown leather binding with gilt titling on a black ...

Burrows, Edmund H; foreword by M E Rothman (M E R) Overberg Outspan; illustrated by Deon Krige (dedicated by author) Originally published "in a re...

Lord SNOWDON (1930-2017, photographer). - Issey MIYAKE (b.1938, designer). A collection of 24 images by Snowdon contained in four 'Issey Miyake Pe...

Cape Provincial Institute of Architects The Buildings of Central Cape Town Volumes 2 and 3 Volume Two: Catalogue. A survey undertaken during 1977 ...

Pierre Barrere Essai sur l'histoire naturelle de la France equinoxiale (1741; First Edition) First edition copy we offering here last time has bee...

La Fontaine; Smiles; Beale Cheltenham College book prizes (1854, 1876, 1903) Three special bindings for book prizes awarded by Cheltenham College....

Godfrey, Denis; Anna H Smith (ed) The Enchanted Door; Africana Byways Denis Godfrey's The Enchanted Door has been one of the best introductions to...

Bender, Roger James POSTCARDS OF HITLER'S GERMANY Volume 1, 2, & 3 This 3 volume set is lavishly illustrated on glossy paper and is a study of the...

Walker, Eric A Lord De Villiers and his Times This early work by Walker, later famous for his History of South Africa, was written more than ninet...