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Angas, George French The Kafirs IllustratedFirst edition 1849, published by J. Hogarth. Half-bound in red leather over red marbled papers. The fro...

Gerard Mercator Junioris AfricaThis striking map is one of the most well researched and influential maps of the continent map to the end of the 16...

Dr. John Hewitt. (Photographer.) 100 Magic Lantern glass slides taken in Sarawak by Dr. J. Hewitt. 1905 - 1908.There are 2 boxes of slides - 50 sl...

Dr. J. Hewitt (Photographer.) 93 Photographs, 25 Glass Photographic Plates and 19 Postcards from Kuching, Sarswak. 1905 - 1908.This lot includes: ...

Adriano Castellesi (ca 1485-1521) DE SERMONE LATINO ET MODIS LATINE LOQUENDI EIUSDEM VENATIO AD ASCANIUM CARDINALEM ITEM ITER IULII II PONTIFICIS...

Baker, H, and others SIR HERBERT BAKER COMPILATIONThis lot consists primarily of correspondence between Sir Herbert Baker and AT Babbs (1870 - 195...

A.A. Milne WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG - 1ST. EDITIONThe first and by far the scarcest of the 4 Winnie The Pooh books. With Ernest Shepard illustratio...

Boxing Album ALBUM OF HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING CHAMPIONS - MANY ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURES AND PHOTOGRAPHS.This album of plastic sleeves in a lever-a...

HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT REPORT ON MOMBASA VICTORIA LAKE RAILWAY SURVEY1 Report. Preserved in protective buckram case with leather gilt title.  Or...

A. Wilmot History of the Zulu WarLondon: Richardson and Best; Cape of Good Hope: A. White, 1880. First edition (pp. viii, 249). Octavo (20 cm) in ...

Jodocus Hondius Nova Africae Tabula [A new map of Africa]This map was drawn and engraved in 1606 on copperplate by famous Jodocus Hondius the elde...

Goldblatt ( David) SOUTH AFRICA THE STRUCTURE OF THINGS THEN (Signed by the photographer)With an essay by Neville Dubow First edition: 260 pages, ...

Curtis (Charles P. Jr) and Curtis (Richard C.) HUNTING IN AFRICA EAST AND WESTWith illustrations First edition. x, 281 pages, frontispiece, map, 7...

S.C. Cronwright-Schreiner S.C.CRONWRIGHT-SCHREINER AUTOGRAPH LETTERS TO PUBLISHER T.FISHER UNWIN RE HIS ANGORA GOAT BOOKA series of three signed a...

Girolamo Occhi Rizetti DE PESTILENTIBUS, AC VENENOSIS MORBIS bound with ESACTA FEBRIUM PER INFERIOREM AGRUM BRIXIENSEM ANNO 1649 DIVAGATARUMVery s...

The C.I.V. The C.I.V. Being the story of the City Imperial Volunteers And Volunteer Regiments of the City of London, 1300-1900SPECIAL LIMITED EDIT...

South African War, 1899-1902 [Bronze medal] In Commemoration of the ... City of London Imperial Volunteers and their service in South Africa 1899-...

Adam Blenkinsop A Transport Voyage to the Mauritius and back;"This is a book of gossip. Therefore let the geographer, the man of statistics, the e...

Richard Lydekker [editor] The Royal Natural History6 Volume Set. 72 chromolithographs with tissue-guards. Sixteen hundred engravings. Half-leather...

Alexander (Sir James Edward) AN EXPEDITION OF DISCOVERY INTO THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA. Through the hitherto undescribed Countries of the Great Namaq...

Bailey, Jim [editor] KENYA:332 pages: illustrations, portraits. Quarto. Paperback, rubbed. Page edges browned.Kenway PublicationsNairobi1993Very g...

Magubane, Peter JUNE 16:1 volume (no pagination): illustrations, portraits. Quarto. Paperback. Originally published in 1986 as the tenth anniversa...

Fransen, Hans [comp.] A GUIDE TO THE OLD BUILDINGS OF THE CAPE:xii, 596 pages: illustrations, frontispiece, plans, maps. Folio. Paper covered boar...

Baraitser, Michael & Obholzer, Anton TOWN FURNITURE OF THE CAPE224 pages, [16] pages of plates: illustrations (some colour). Quarto. Paper covered...

Walton, James HOMESTEADS AND VILLAGES OF SOUTH AFRICAxii, 111 pages: illustration, plans, maps. Quarto. Half leather & cloth. Book plate & name on...

Bekker, Martin GREGOIRE BOONZAIER112 pages: illustrations (some colour), portraits. Quarto. Pictorial paper covered boards, dust wrapper. Paper co...

Westby-Nunn, Tony HOUT BAY:176 pages: illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits, maps. Paper covered boards. Signed & dated by Westby-Nunn on insi...

Ross, Graham THE ROMANCE OF CAPE MOUNTAIN PASSESxv, 224 pages: illustrations (some colour), portraits, maps (some colour). Paper covered boards, d...

Bell, Charles Davidson HUNTING THE RHINOCEROS:Loose-leaf reproductions of five sketches, laid down on cartridge paper. Sketch: 13 x 21,5 cm. Paper...

Benard, Ed & Twala, Mwezi MBOKODO:160 pages: maps (1 on endpapers). Paper covered boards, dust wrapper. Twala describes what it was like to live i...

Bird, John THE ANNALS OF NATAL, 1495-1845;2 volumes (xiv, 754 pages; xv, 497 pages). (Africana collectanea; volumes 14 & 15). Skivertex, dust wrap...

Cruise, Wilma & Hemp, Doreen CONTEMPORARY CERAMICS IN SOUTH AFRICA208 pages: colour illustrations, colour portraits. Quarto. Pictorial cloth, dust...

Jeppe, Harold SOUTH AFRICAN ARTISTS, 1900-1962172 pages: illustrations (some colour). Cloth, scarred on edges, dust wrapper frayed along edges wit...

Luthuli, Albert LET MY PEOPLE GO:255 pages: portraits (1 as frontispiece). Paper covered boards, dust wrapper frayed along edges, faded & with sma...

Van der Stel, Simon SIMON VAN DER STEL'S JOURNEY TO NAMAQUALAND IN 1685;431 pages: colour illustrations. Folio. Cloth, dust wrapper. Front endpape...

Lagden, Sir Godfrey THE BASUTOS, THE MOUNTAINEERS & THEIR COUNTRY:2 volumes (xvi, 337 pages, [36] leaves of plates; xii, p. 338-690, [36] leaves o...

Le Roux, G.J. & Lombard, R.T.J. [ed.] HUGENOTEBLOED IN ONS ARE;194 pages: frontispiece, maps. (Genealogy publication; no. 27). Skivertex, dust wra...

Burrows, Edmund H. THE MOODIES OF MELSETTER:204 pages: illustrations, portraits, maps. Cloth. Stamp on front endpaper. Genealogical table in penci...

Thompson, George TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA:xviii, 493, 15 pages: illustrations, frontispiece, portraits, plans (1 folding),  table...

Stereographic viewer South African War, 1899-1902 [stereographs]The viewer is made of patterned aluminium and light wood with dual viewer lenses, ...

Ricciardi, Mirella, designed with Barney Wan; foreword by Malcolm MacDonald Vanishing Africa (1971)The contents of this book on East Africa are di...

Schmidt, L (editor); preface by J A Stegmann (chairman of Sasol) Sasol Art Collection (de luxe copy)English and Afrikaans. The standard copies wer...

J.C. Juta & Co. Juta's Directory of Cape Town, Suburbs and Simon's Town for 1901.A valuable source of primary historical information. Boards and s...

A.R.E. Burton F.R.G.S. Cape Colony To-day. An interesting book for railway enthusiasts. 316 Pages of railway photographs and information. Nine rai...

Gsell, Paul (editor); Paul Prina (translation from the French) Auguste Rodin Die Kunst (1912)Full-bound in black morocco, gilt to the upper panel ...

Andrieu, Pierre; Arthur L Hayward (translator); decorations by B Biro Fine BoucheThe author's preface and translator's note offer both information...

Cassou, Jean (chief curator of the Paris Museum of Modern Art); Kurt Jung, translator Die [Franzoesischen] Impressionisten und ihre Zeit [The Fren...

Dennis Edwards & Co. The Dennis Edwards Business Directory of South & Central Africa for 1928.A tome of 1608 pages. A very valuable source of prim...

S. W. Silver & Co. S.W. Silver & Co.'s Handbook to South Africa.George McCall Theal complained that Silver & Co. were amongst the worst plagiarize...

Staatsdrukkerij van de Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek. Notulen der Verrichtingen van de Conferentie op 31 Mei 1899A most interesting record of the me...

Cape of Good Hope. Ministerial Department of Native Affairs. Blue-Book on Native Affairs, 1886.A mine of information of the Civil Commissionership...

Government Printing and Stationery Office. Translation of the Resolutions of the Executive Council of the Late South African Republic. 1890. With ...

C.J. Saunders-Chairman-Tongaat Group Flower Paintings of Katherine SaundersDustcover over green rexine boards with gilt vignette to front board, a...

R.G.Hackett (Compiled) South African War Books-An Illustrated bibliographyAn illustrated bibliography of English language publications relating to...

Watt, Steve In Memoriam- Roll of Honour Imperial Forces-Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902This book is an attempt to record the particulars of every Imperia...

Greenwall, Ryno Artists & Illustrators of the Anglo-Boer WarDustcover over green boards with gilt vignette-Soldier on Horesback to front board and...

Erritzoe, Johannes The Birds of Cites and How to Identify ThemHardback with dustcover, over green boards, illustrated by Helga Boullet Erritzoe an...

Shaw, Irwin Two Weeks in Another Town (1960)This first UK edition copy with dustjacket (designed by the author) was one of 14 million copies of Sh...

Tooley, R V Collectors' Guide to Maps of the African Continent and Southern Africa (numbered and signed edition of 25 copies, 1969)Rare - one of "...

Goldscheider, Ludwig Leonardo da Vinci. The Artist (1945)"ALL IN ONE BOOK" From the foreword: "The present work is not a book on Leonardo. It is,...