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Jenkins (James) THE MARTIAL ACHIEVEMENTS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND HER ALLIES;Engraved title page ( vignette uncoloured); hand coloured aquatint title ...

Peter Heylyn Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World. And all the principal Kingdoms, Provinces, and Seas, and Isles thereof.pp. frontis, to ...

Adam Olearius [and John Davies, Trans.] The Voyages & Travels of the Ambassadors sent by Frederick Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy,...

Various WURM MAGAZINE - FIVE ISSUESFive issues of this very scarce avant-garde Afrikaans and later bilingual South African literary magazine which...

J.P. Malherbe IN TIME OF THE WAR - UNPUBLISHED AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF THE BOER WARThis is a 219pp. neatly handwritten manuscript notebook bound i...

Carl Ludwig Christian R?¬mker FIVE IMPORTANT AUTOGRAPH LETTERS ON ASTRONOMY FROM CARL RUMKER TO JOHN LEEThis lot comprises 5 autograph letters fro...

Reverend W. Houghton British Freshwater FishesIllustrated with a coloured figure of each species drawn from nature by A.F Lyndon and numerous engr...

G. B. Sowerby Illustrated Index of British Shellsxv p, 24 hand coloured engraved plates. Original red pebble-grained cloth, stamped in gilt and de...

Thomas Carleval Disputationum iuris variarum ad interpretationem regiarumInteresting work of right of 1683 written by the jurisconsult Thomas Carl...

DIODORO SICULO DELLE ANTIQUE HISTORIE FABULOSEBeautiful edition of 1542 of the lucke and famous historical work by the historian Diodoro Siculo (9...

Lloyds of London. POLICY OF ASSURANCE REGISTER FOR TABLE BAY, CAPE TOWN107 pre-printed leaves - printed by G. Greig in Cape Town and bound into a ...

Van der Weyer (Captain B.G.) MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF LETTERS WRITTEN DURING THE ANLGO BOER WARWhile serving with the 1st Battalion Scots Guards from...

Leo (John) Leo Africanus A GEOGRAPHICAL HISTORIE OF AFRICABefore which, out of the best ancient and moderne writers, is prefixed a generall descri...

The GUTENBERG Bible. BIBLE, in Latin. ƒ?? Biblia Latina, a 3-volume facsimile edition of the ƒ??Gutenberg Bibleƒ??.The Gutenberg Bible - facsimile...

Bible THE ENGLISH BIBLE - GENEVA VERSION 1585With most profitable annotations among all the hard places, and other things of great importances as ...

Bruce ROGERS (designer/typographer). - Robert FROST The Complete Poems of Robert Frost. [Introduction by Louis Untermeyer].Robert FROST. - Bruce R...

Deering, Maister Edward; Edward Blount (editor and publisher) "Derings Workes. More at large than euer hath heere-to-fore been printed in any one ...

Stern (Irma) CONGO (Number 6 of 300 signed copies)50 pages, frontispiece, illustrated throughout with black & white photographs of paintings by Ir...

Maugham, W Somerset; Graham Sutherland (illustrator) Cakes and Ale, or The Skeleton in the Cupboard. One of 1000 copies signed by the author and a...

Proust, Marcel; preface by Andre Maurois; edited by Pierre Clarac and Andre Ferre A LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU (3 vols)The editors have removed l...

Matz, B W (compiler); Dickens's daughter (introduction); Harold Copping (illustrator) Character Sketches from Dickens (1924)RESTORED This is a sca...

O'Brian, Patrick Clarissa OakesThis is a fine, complete and unmarked copy of the first printing of the first edition of the 15th of Patrick O'Bria...

Codd, L E W; foreword by R A Dyer; colour illustrations by Cythna Letty & M E Connell Trees and Shrubs of the Kruger National ParkRESTORED Finely ...

Fox, Francis W, and M E Norwood Young; botanical descriptions by Gerrit Germishuizen Food from the VeldBrief biographies of the two distinguished ...

Abel Chapman The Borders and Beyond1 volume. First Edition in beautiful condition. Dark green boards with gold embossed titles on spine. xxi, 489 ...

A. H. Evans Birds1 volume. From the library of David Armitage Bannerman, signed and with a written personal anecdote. Publishers green cover with ...

Abel Chapman RETROSPECT1 volume. From the library of Captain L. Scott Briggs M. C. It appears that the Captain was acquainted with the author. The...

The Druid (Henry Hall Dixon) Silk and Scarlet1 volume. Fine Binding by Hatchards, Piccadilly. From the library of William Rose Wood Anderson. Remi...

Abel Chapman MEMORIES OF FOURSCORE YEARS LESS TWO 1851 - 19291 volume. From the library of Ivor W. G. Barry.  With a memoir by George Bolam. Publ...

Rev. Charles Gray Life of Robert Gray2 volume set. Book plate from the library of Henry B. Marshall. Publishers green cloth with gilt bishopric se...

Abel Chapman and Walter J. Buck WILD SPAIN (ESPA??A AGRESTE)1 volume. First edition 1893. A lovely copy of a field sports classic. Chapman and B...

Proctor-Sims, R (editor) Report from South Africa, January and September 1966. The South West Africa CaseBetween 1964 and 1967, Report from South ...

Washburn, Claude C; with 44 original etchings and drawings by Lester G Hornby Pages from the Book of Paris (1910)RESTORED This attractive art-book...

Thomson, Professor Arthur A Handbook of Anatomy for Art Students (1915)RESTORED This was Muriel Seehan's drawing prize for 1918 from the Princess ...

Van Wyk, R P (photographer), S Muller (text) and M Heyns (translator) Jong Afrikaner. A Self-Portrait; and (Afrikaans and English) Peroration on t...

Solomon T. Plaatje SECHUANA PROVERBSThe first edition of this scarce Sol Plaatje book in nice condition. Oblong 12mo. 98pp. Bound in the original...

Saul Solomon - Introduction THE PROGRESS OF PRINCE ALFRED ERNEST ALBERT THROUGH THE CAPE COLONY, BRITISH KAFFRARIA. ORANGE FREE STATE & PORT NATA...

General Louis Botha FINE CARD SIGNED BY LOUIS BOTHAPrinted card measuring 15 x 11cms. from Louis Botha dated 25 February 1907 from "Het Volk's Kan...

Olive Schreiner TWO OLIVE SCHREINER 1ST. EDITIONS - TROOPER PETER HALKET OF MASHONALAND & THOUGHTS ON SOUTH AFRICAThis lot comprises the following...

Theophilus Hahn TSUNI-IIGOAM: The Supreme Being of The KHOI-KHOI - INSCRIBED COPY WITH MANUSCRIPT CORRECTIONSThe scarce first edition of this impo...

Pellissier, S H; preface by G B A Gerdener Jean Pierre Pellissier van BethulieRESTORED This is the definitive biography by S H Pellissier of his g...

Palmer, Eve (author and photographer), and Norah Pitman (artist) Trees of South AfricaThis was the first, one-volume, edition. It is profusely ill...

Mackworth-Praed, C W, and Captain C H B Grant The Birds of the Southern Third of Africa (2 vols)One of the authors, Captain Grant, an honorary ass...

M.L. du Toit - Curator and Introduction EMPIRE EXHIBITION 1936 ART GALLERY/KUNSGALERYScarce 141pp. catalogue of the art exhibition held to coincid...

Mackworth-Praed, C W, and Captain C H B Grant Birds of Eastern and North Eastern Africa (2 vols)These are 1980 reprints of the second edition of 1...

John X. Merriman JOHN X. MERRIMAN - NICE AUTOGRAPH LETTERA nice 4pp. autograph letter on a single folded leaf, dated "Stellenbosch, 23 Aug. 1901",...

Theal, George M'Call South Africa. Cape Colony, Natal, Orange Free State, South African Republic, Rhodesia & all other Territories south of the Za...

Thomas Cook and Son Cook's Tourists' Handbook. Holland, Belgium, the Rhine and Black Forest (1901)Full-bound in flexible maroon morocco with round...

Various Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Thirty opera programmes from the mid-1960sNine of the more famous productions and performances are listed...

Orpen, Neil; foreword by Maj-Gen W H Evered Poole; illustrated by P Miller Prince Alfred's Guard 1856-1966Copy number 236 of the limited edition o...

Le Vaillant SECOND VOYAGE DANS L'INTERIEUR DE L'AFRIQUE - THIRD VOLUME ONLYThis odd volume is offered primarily for the 9 coloured copper engravin...

Beeton, Mrs Isabella; edited by S O Beeton The Book of Household Management (1869)RESTORED This is a very good copy of the revised edition of Mrs ...

General J. C. Smuts THE SYNDICALIST CONSPIRACY IN SOUTH AFRICA. A SCATHING INDICTMENT.30pp. pamphlet in the original printed buff wraps. Concernin...

Hutchinson, John; foreword by Field Marshal J C Smuts A Botanist in Southern AfricaRESTORED The author was Keeper of the Museums of Botany at the ...

Bosman, D B (introduction, text editing, language notes); H B Thom (historical notes) Daghregister Gehouden by den Oppercoopman Jan Anthonisz van ...

Kitchingman, James; Basil Le Cordeur and Christopher Saunders (editors) The Kitchingman Papers. Missionary Letters and Journals 1817 to 1848Mint c...

Erskine May, Sir Thomas The Constitutional History of England since the accession of George the Third, 1760-1860 (3 vols)Although ex-library, this...

Walton, James CAPE COTTAGESA record of the cottages of the Cape which were mainly built and occupied by the Khoikohi and others. Covers the Namaqu...

Marloth, Rudolf (author); B W Marloth (editor) The Flora of South Africa. Vol III. Sympetalae. Section I. Ericaceae-Verbenaceae. Families 107-125R...

Hine, Reginald L The Cream of Curiosity (1920)"Of these wrinkled parchments . . . " This title has been the subject of several print-on-demand ver...