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Gerard Martin Les BASUTO dans les Centres Miniers du TRANSVAAL (1939; 1st Edition) "La Bulletin des Missions. Les Basuto dans les Centres Miniers ...

Frederick Dangerfield Map of the South African Republic (1884) Map showing the Boundaries of the South African Republic as defined by Article I of...

Meintjes, (Johannes) MEINTJIES First Edition.  Green Cloth boards. Dust wrapper has slight wear to top and the spine is faded, colour illustration...

Oatley, Terry (author); Graeme Arnott (illustrator); Steven Piper (foreword) Robins of Africa Colour-illustrated dustjacket, blue cloth-boards, gi...

Gooders, John (editor) Birds of Mountains and Moorlands In its original form, this and the other four volumes in the series were originally publis...

Fisher, James (author); Tory Peterson (illustrator) The World of Birds Colour-illustrated dustjacket, full-bound, colour photograph of flamingoes ...

Liversidge, Richard; Jill Adams, Norman Lighton (paintings); Cecily Niven (foreword) The Birds Around Us Laminated colour-illustrated paper-boards...

Diamond, Anthony, Rudolf Schreiber, David Attenborough, Ian Presit Save the Birds This title was an international collaboration, with Rudolf Schre...

Campbell, Bruce, Elizabeth Lack (editors); K H Voous, J J Bunel & other contributors A Dictionary of Birds Colour illustrated dustjacket, blue clo...

Jeppe, Frederick A & Jeppe, C.F.E Jeppe's Map of the Transvaal or S.A.Republic and Surrounding Territories Numbers 4-5-6 Jeppe's Map of the Transv...

Pat Moran The Tokens of Natal Edition limited to 500 copies of which this is copy number 428. Pages 65. Tokens were introduced by the Durban Club ...

John Centlivres Chase, a Settler of 1820 The Cape of Good Hope & The Eastern Province of Algoa Bay (book once belonged to W. H. Coetzer & Manfred...

Rip van Winkle (pseudonym of Ian Duncan Colvin) The Parliament of Beasts and other verses (copy inscribed by author I. D. Colvin) A scarce signe...

Gary Player Play Golf with Player. Instruction on every Aspect of the Game. (Book is period signed & inscribed by The Black Knight) This is the fi...

Graham Greene Our Man in Havana (fine first edition) First edition, first impression. An excellent copy with clean pages, square text block, sharp...

Captain Marryat The Mission: or Scenes in Africa 2 volumes. Zaehnsdorf bindings. First edition 1845. Bookplate of Charles Plumptre Johnson. https:...

J. A. St. John Egypt and Nubia; their scenery and their people 1 volume. First edition 1845. Bickers fine tooled bindings. Green full-leather with...

Rev. James Smith A Pilgrimage to Egypt 1 volume. First edition 1897. Publishers green pictorial cover with gilt title and gilt Egyptian scene. Gil...

Edgar Sanderson, M. A. Africa in the Nineteenth Century. 1 volume. First edition 1898.  Publishers wine-coloured covers. Gilt cover title and gilt...

William Charles Baldwin African Hunting and Adventure from Natal to the Zambesi 1 volume. Second edition 1863. 6 Colour lithographs by J. Wolf. Pr...

Barth (Henry) TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES IN NORTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA In three volumes First American edition: 3 volumes: I. xxvii,657. II. Xiii, 70...

Bunsen (Christian Charles Josias) EGYPT'S PLACE IN UNIVERSAL HISTORY. First English edition. 5 volumes: 740 + 646 + 640 + 699 + 943 pages, maps, d...

[Culpeper (Nicolas)] CULPEPER'S COMPLETE HERBAL xii, 416 pages, 12 full colour plates - 2 bound out of sequence, rebound in half tan leather with ...

Dutton (E.A.T.) KENYA MOUNTAIN With an introduction by Hilaire Belloc. New edition: xvi, 219 pages, frontispiece, 55 photogravure plates, 3 sketch...

Forbes (James) LETTERS FROM FRANCE First edition: 2 vols 428 + 452 pages, .engraved frontispiece in each volume offsetting from the plates on the ...

[Gift (Theo) pseudonym] CAPE TOWN DICKY Illustrated by Alice Havers. Monotints by Ernest Wilson. 64 pages,16 chromolithographic plates and other ...

Holman (James) TRAVELS IN MADEIRA, SIERRA LEONE, TENERIFFE, ST JAGO, CAPE COAST, FERNANDO PO, PRINCES ISLAND ETC ETC Second edition: x, 491 pages,...

Lagden (Sir Godfrey) THE BASUTOS With 70 illustrations and 9 maps in two volumes. First edition.Two volumes: vol 1 xvi + 337 pages, vol 2 xii + 29...

Morton (H.V.) IN SEARCH OF SOUTH AFRICA (Limited edition signed by the author) First edition. xiii, 368 pages, coloured frontispiece, 7 coloured p...

Pike (Nicholas) SUB-TROPICAL RAMBLES IN THE LAND OF THE APHANAPTERYX. First edition: xviii, 509 pages + [2] frontispiece, title page vignette, 5 p...

Smith ( Robert Angus) AIR AND RAIN. First edition: xiii, 600 pages, 8 graphs and illustrations, apparatus for Pettenkofer's process listed as bein...

Smith (Arthur Donaldson) THROUGH UNKNOWN AFRICAN COUNTRIES First edition. xvi, 471 pages, photogravure frontispiece portrait, 6 maps - 5 folding (...

Timlin (William) THE SHIP THAT SAILED TO MARS First edition. Illustrated title page and 48 colour plates by the author and 48 decorated sheets of ...

Dorothy Una Ratcliffe (Mrs McGrigor Phillips) EQUATORIAL DAWN - ONE OF 25 COPIES No. 23 of 25 copies bound in half calf with one additional plate....

H Lincoln Tangye In New South Africa (Signed) Simpkin Marshall, 1900. Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Good condition hardcover with brown...

Churchill (Winston Spencer) LONDON TO LADYSMITH VIA PRETORIA First edition: 498 + 32 pages of publisher's catalogue at the end, coloured folding m...

Du Plessis (Johannes) THRICE THROUGH THE DARK CONTINENT First edition in English. 350 pages, frontispiece, folding map, 19 plates, numerous black ...

Gibbons (A. St. H.) EXPLORATION AND HUNTING IN CENTRAL AFRICA 1895-96 First edition. 408 pages, frontispiece portrait of the author, folding map, ...

Hall (Hugh Lanion) I HAVE REAPED MY MEALIES 251 pages, frontispiece portrait, green cloth titled gilt on the upper cover and spine, a very good co...

Melland (Frank H.) & Cholmely (Edward H.) THROUGH THE HEART OF AFRICA Being and account of a journey on bicycles and on foot from Northern Rhodesi...

Govt of South Africa Census of the European or White Races of the Union of South Africa 1918 Cape Town, Govt of South Africa, 1920. Very good but ...

Oswell (W. Edward) WILLIAM COTTON OSWELL The story of his life with certain correspondence and extracts from the private journal of David Livingst...

[Weinthal (Leo) ] THE STORY OF THE CAPE TO CAIRO RAILWAY AND RIVER ROUTE, FROM 1887 TO 1922 Compiled, Illustrated and Edited by Leo Weinthal. 5 Vo...

Evelyn Waugh LABELS The first edition in the scarce dustwrapper of Waugh's third book and his first travel title, recounting his travels in the Me...

Evelyn Waugh WHEN THE GOING WAS GOOD First edition of this title which comprises "all that the author wishes to preserve of the four travel books ...

John Brand OBSERVATIONS ON POPULAR ANTIQUITIES: 3 volumes. Revised edition 1841.  Half-tanned leather over marbled boards. Raised bands with gilt ...

Charles Whymper EGYPTIAN BIRDS For the Most Part Seen in the Nile Valley 1 volume. First edition 1909. Only 3000 copies printed with no further ed...

Rosita Forbes From Red Sea To Blue Nile 1 volume. First edition 1925. Publishers green boards. Embossed title with vignette on cover. Gilt title t...

Kemp, A C (text); C G Finch-Davies and others (illustrations) The Biography of Claude Gibney Finch-Davies 1875-1920 The text covers: Prologue His...

Clancey, Dr Phillip Alexander, former director, Durban Museum, author & illustrator) Rare Birds Preface List of colour plates Topography of a bir...

W. H. Hudson The Naturalist in La Plata 1 volume . First edition 1892. It seems only 1000 copies of this edition were printed. Publishers green c...

Tarboton, Warwick, and David Allan: Transvaal Museum, Pretoria The Status and Conservation of Birds of Prey in the Transvaal Two-colour illustrate...

Louis Creswicke South Africa and the Transvaal War.  In generally fair/good condition. Cracking to spine of Vol. II and top of Vol. III. Occasiona...

E. Alexander Powell The Map that is Half Unrolled 1 volume. First edition 1925. Publishers green pictorial cover. Gilt title with gilt vignette of...

Captain J. K. Tuckey Narrative of an Expedition to Explore the River Zaire usually called the Congo in South Africa in 1816 1 volume. First editio...

Gerard De Nerval The Women of Cairo; Scenes of Life in The Orient 2 volumes. First editions 1929. Red-cloth covers with black title to spine. Dust...

HENRY WALTER BATES, F.L.S The Naturalist on the River Amazons 1 volume. Fifth edition 1879. Green cloth blind stamped cover with gilt vignette. De...

C. Pierpoint Johnson & John E. Sowerby The Useful Plants of Great Britain 1 volume. First edition 1862. Scarce copy. 25 hand-coloured engraved pla...

Her Majesty's Stationery Office Lot of 5 contemporary documents about The British South Africa Company (1893-1903) 1) "Copies and extracts of corr...

Paul L. Hoefler F. R. G. S. Africa Speaks; A Story of Adventure 1 volume. First edition. Publishers black cloth covers. Gilt title with large lion...