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Robert Henry Dyke THE SWITZERLAND OF SOUTH AFRICA Small 52pp. book with prelims in the original gilt lettered green bevelled buckram boards. Decor...

General J. C. Smuts GENERAL SMUTS EXPOSES THE FOLLY OF NEUTRALITY A 32pp pamphlet in the original wraps with a drawing of Smuts and Parliament of ...

Fleming, Ian The Diamond Smugglers First edition, with an introduction by 'John Blaize' formerly of the International Diamond Security Organizatio...

Percival, Captain Robert An Account of the Cape of Good Hope First edition, first state (pp. xii, 339). Quarto (28 cm) in quarter leather over mar...

Barrow, John Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa. Second edition, (the "best" edition) with additions and alterations, in two volumes (pp...

James Backhouse A Narrative of a Visit to the Mauritius and South Africa. First edition, signed and with the inscription, 'David Benson/ from his ...

Rev. John Philip Researches in South Africa; illustrating the civil, moral, and religious condition of the native tribes; First edition, in two vo...

J. Theodore Bent The Ruined Cities of Mashonaland. Being a Record of Excavation and Exploration in 1891. (pp.xi, 376). Octavo (22 cm) in half moro...

Andrew A. Anderson Twenty-Five Years in a Waggon in the Gold Regions of Africa. First edition, in two volumes (pp. x, 307; vi, 253). Octavo (21 cm...

Rowland J. Atcherley A Trip to Boerland, or A Yearƒ??s Travel, Sport, and Gold-Digging in the Transvaal and Colony of Natal. (pp. x, 267). Octavo ...

Sir Percy Fitzpatrick and E. Caldwell (Illus.) Jock of the Bushveld (pp. xvi, 474) with the first edition points as called for at pp. 65, 316, 337...

Lt.-Colonel E. Elers Napier Excursions in Southern Africa, 2 volumes. Scarce second edition. Bookplate of Charles William Orde, Nunnykirk. https:/...

A. H. Keane, F.R.G.S. AFRICA. VOL. I. NORTH AFRICA & VOL. II. SOUTH AFRICA. 2 volumes. New edition. Dark green cloth with gilt title and vignettes...

James Salter-Whiter A Trip to South Africa 1 volume. Presentation first edition copy 1892. Publishers red cloth beveled boards. Gilt title and gil...

Lock Ron & Quantrill Peter THE 1879 ZULU WAR Forward by David Rattray. 310 Pages of text and illustrations from The Illustrated London News.  Alth...

Sinclair Lewis THE TRAIL OF THE HAWK - INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION The fairly scarce first edition of this early and rather unsuccessful novel by Sinc...

R.C.F. Maugham AFRICA AS I HAVE KNOWN IT 1 volume. First edition. Publishers tan cloth with black title. Black title on spine. xii, 372 pages + 2 ...

Major R. S. S. Baden-Powell The Downfall of Prempeh. A Diary of Life with the Native Levy in Ashanti 1895-96 1 volume. First edition. Scarce.  Pub...

FR. C. CAGNOLO. I.M.C. The Akikiuyu 1 volume. First edition. Scarce. Brown cloth with gilt title. Gilt title on spine + coloured page edges. Name ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE The first edition, later issue of this classic title, Dr. Homes' most enduring work. In ...

Liltved, William Rune COWRIES AND THEIR RELATIVES OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 208 Pages of text and colour photographs. Liltved is an internationally reco...

Various PICTURE SHOW MAGAZINE - SIX 1926 ISSUES Six issues (January to July 1926) of this early film magazine featuring the movies and stars of th...

Pretorius, Fransjohan (Editor) SCORCHED EARTH A Photographic history of the British Concentration Camps. 28,000 Afrikaners women, children and the...

Evelyn Waugh ROBBERY UNDER LAW A near fine copy in the original fresh blue cloth with bright gilt lettering on the spine. Internally very clean an...

French COOKING / CUISINE - ??mile BERNARD & Urbain Fran??ois DUBOIS La Cuisine classique, ??tudes pratiques, raisonn??es et d??monstratives de l'?...

P.(aulus).P.(etrus) J.(ohannes) COETSER GEBEURTENISSE UIT DI KAFFER OORLOGE van 1850 tot 1853, 1846 en 1834 en 1835 - RARE FIRST EDITION (PAARL 1...

Nadine Gordimer et.al. THE FIRST CIRCLE in "SIX ONE ACT PLAYS" This is by far and away the scarcest Gordimer book,  particularly so in the dustwra...

Edith WHARTON (editor). The Book of the Homeless (Le Livre des Sans-Foyer) edited by Edith Wharton. Edith WHARTON (editor). The Book of the Homele...

Kurt VONNEGUT Welcome to the Monkey House A collection of short works. George DELACORTE (publisher). - Kurt VONNEGUT (1922-2007). Welcome to the M...

[Emperor JUSTINIAN (c.482-565)]. [Corpus juris civilis. trans. Body of Civil Law: the foundation of Western legal tradition] [Emperor JUSTINIAN (c...

F. W. Frohawk Natural History of British Butterflies 2 volume set. First edition 1924. Folio size. Publisher's dark blue blind-stamped cloth. 60 f...

Edward Daniel Clarke Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa 2 volumes. Fourth edition 1816. Rebound in black cloth over decorativ...

Constance Larymore A Resident's Wife in Nigeria 1 volume. First edition. Publishers brown cloth with gilt title [faded]. Tissue-guarded frontispie...

ALBERT F. CALVERT Nigeria and Its Tin Fields 1 volume. Greatly enlarged second edition. Very scarce. First edition published 1912 with 199 pages. ...

Colonel Chaille-Long My Life in Four Continents 2 volumes. First edition. Scarce. Publishers blue cloth with gilt titles. Presentation bookplate. ...

Elspeth HUXLEY White Man's Country 2 volumes. Scarce First edition.  Publishers red cloth covers. Gilt title on spine. Volume I. 1870-1914. xii, 3...

Arnold Hodson Where The Lion Reign Skeffington, [1928]. London, 1928. First edition. Elegantly bound in near fine half leather with marbled boards...

James L Clark Trails of the Hunted Chatto & Windus, London, 1929. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Trails of the Hunted 269 pp plus 47 illustr...

Vivant Denon Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt (2 Vols) 1st English Edition. 343 & 320 pages. 2 Volumes. Elegantly bound in green cloth gilt. Near ...

Lieutenant William Bligh THE LOG OF THE BOUNTY A Golden Cockerel Private Press book. Two volumes. Vol.1 434pp. and Vol.2 258pp. With 4 woodcut eng...

Winston Churchill LONDON TO LADYSMITH This is a very good plus copy of the "New Impression" published very soon after the first edition in 1900. I...

Osa JOHNSON Four Years in Paradise 1 volume. First U.K. edition 1941. Publishers giraffe like patterned cloth. Illustrated with exquisitely reprod...

Verney Lovett Cameron (C.B., D.C.L., Commander Royal Navy) ACROSS AFRICA 1 volume. New edition (with new and original matter and corrected map.) I...

Daniell (Samuel) AFRICAN SCENERY AND ANIMALS A facsimile reprint of the large folio of aquatint plates first published in 1804 - 1805, introductio...

Williams (A.F.) THE GENESIS OF THE DIAMOND 2 volumes, 352 + 636 pages continuously paginated, 8vo (255 x 200 mm), tables, diagrams, 31 photographi...

Williams (A.F.) SOME DREAMS COME TRUE Being a sheaf of stories leading up to the discovery of copper, diamonds and gold in Southern Africa, and of...

Picart (Bernard) and Bernard (Jean Frederic) THE RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES AND CUSTOMS OF ALL THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD - 3 engraved plates Folios 390 x...

H. A. L. [Henry Astbury Leveson] "The Old Shekarry" Sport in Many Lands 2 volumes. First edition. Very scarce set. Red cloth decorative board with...

Lieut.-Col. A. F. MOCKLER-FERRYMAN British Nigeria 1 volume. First edition. Publishers green cloth with gilt title on spine. Colour fold-out map f...

Frederick William Hugh Migeod Through Nigeria to Lake Chad 1 volume. First edition. Publishers tan-cloth covers with title on spine. Name and date...

Mary Hall A Woman's Trek London, Methuen and Co, 1907, 1907. 1st Edition. 424 pages. Near fine half leather binding with green boards. Gilt title ...

John Parkinson The Dinosaur in East Africa London, Witherby, [1930]. 8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, tyrannosaurus blocked in g...

Carleton S Coon Measuring Ethiopia and Flight into Arabia Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, MA, 1935. Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Ja...

H R P Dickson Kuwait and Her Neighbours London, George Allen and Unwin, 1968, 2nd Imp. Elegantly bound in near fine half leather binding with marb...

Sir Muirhead BONE (1876-1953) and Lady Gertrude BONE (1876-1962). Days in Old Spain Sir Muirhead BONE (1876-1953) and Lady Gertrude BONE (1876-196...

MALARIA, and its treatment. - Simon MASON (b.1701). The Nature of an Intermitting Fever and Ague consider'd ... with the best and most rational me...

Augustus Henry Lane-Fox PITT RIVERS. Antique Works of Art from Benin, collected by Lieutenant-General Pitt Rivers. Augustus Henry Lane-Fox PITT RI...

Alexander SOLZHENITSYN (1918-2008) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ƒ?? Translated by Ralph Parker. Alexander SOLZHENITSYN (1918-2008) One D...

Samuel JOHNSON (1709-1784). A Dictionary of the English Language ... First American, from the eleventh London edition Samuel JOHNSON (1709-1784). ...

[Edward FITZGERALD (1809-1883)]. ƒ?? George CRABBE (1754-1832). Readings in Crabbe's 'Tales of the Hall. [Abridged and adapted, with an introducti...