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Exhibition Catalogue JANE ALEXANDER 135 pages, chiefly colour and black and white photographs, pictorial wrappers - paperback, a very good copy. E...

Exhibition Catalogue WILLIAM KENTRIDGE Exhibition curators Neal Benezra, Staci Boris and Dan Cameron 159 pages, chiefly illustrations, black picto...

Dumas (Marlene) INTIMATE RELATIONS (signed by the artist) 140 pages, chiefly colour illustrations, pictorial wrappers - paperback, a very good cop...

[Hodgins (Robert)] ROBERT HODGINS (presentation copy) First Edition. 144 pages, chiefly colour illustrations, pictorial wrappers - paperback, a ve...

Anderson (A.A.) TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN A WAGGON With illustrations by the author in two volumes. First Edition: 2 volumes, 307 + 253 pages, frontisp...

Baines (Thomas) THE GOLD REGIONS OF SOUTH EASTERN AFRICA Accompanied by a biographical sketch of the author First edition: 240 pages (including 51...

Balfour (Alice Blanche) TWELVE HUNDRED MILES IN A WAGGON 265 pages, frontispiece, 37 full page and other illustrations, folding map, pictorial mar...

Ballantyne (R.M.) SIX MONTHS AT THE CAPE With illustrations by S.E. Waller from sketches by the author. First edition: 256 pages, frontispiece, 1...

Dower (Rev. W.) THE EARLY ANNALS OF KOKSTAD AND GRIQUALAND EAST With 27 illustrations 130 pages, frontispiece, numerous portraits, photographs and...

Galton (Francis) THE ART OF TRAVEL Fourth edition, entirely recast and much enlarged with many additional woodcuts. 4th edition: 360 pages, front...

Horsbrugh (Maj. Boyd) & Davies (Sgt. C.G.) THE GAME-BIRDS & WATER-FOWL OF SOUTH AFRICA With coloured plates by Sergeant C.G. Davies. First editio...

Livingstone (David) & (Charles) NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION TO THE ZAMBEZI & ITS TRIBUTARIES First edition: 608 pages, wood engraved folding fronti...

Lugard (Capt. Frederick Dealtry) THE RISE OF OUR EAST AFRICAN EMPIRE First edition: 2 volumes, 563 + 682 pp., 13 maps - 9 in colour - 2 in pockets...

MacKenzie (John) TEN YEARS NORTH OF THE ORANGE RIVER First edition: xix, 523 pages, frontispiece engraving, folding map, 7 engraved plates and 6 w...

Patterson (Lieut.-Col. J.H.) IN THE GRIP OF NYIKA First edition 2nd impression: 389 pages, numerous photographic plates and illustrations, 9 maps,...

Philip (Rev. John) RESEARCHES IN SOUTH AFRICA Including journals of the author's travels in the interior; together with detailed accounts of the ...

Reitz (Deneys) NO OUTSPAN First edition: 288 pages, 2 folding maps at the back of the book, 4 illustrations, blue cloth titled gilt on the spine, ...

[Van Riebeeck] JOURNAL OF JAN VAN RIEBEECK 3 volumes, 395+406+531 pages, frontispiece portrait, maps and illustrations in each volume, red cloth t...

Warren (Lt.-Gen. Sir Charles) ON THE VELDT IN THE SEVENTIES First edition,404 pages, folding map as frontispiece, title page vignette, folding map...

Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer (1801 - 1876) Disputatio literaria inauguralis qua continetur platonica prosopgraphia etc. (Doctoral Thesis of the ...

Allard Pierson Disquitio historico-dogmatica de realismo et nominalismo (inscribed copy of the author's doctoral thesis) Allard Pierson was a Dutc...

Paul Edwards (Ed). THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY A standard work on the matter. "It has been our aim to cover the whole of philosophy as well as ...

Doe (Bob) FIGHTER PILOT (Signed by the author) First edition: 128 pages, numerous black and white photographs, blue cloth baords, titled gilt on t...

Fitzpatrick (Percy) JOCK OF THE BUSHVELD (Subscribers' Edition) Illustrated by Edmund Caldwell. Facsimile reproduction of the first edition publis...

Flack (Peter H.) HEART OF AN AFRICAN HUNTER Second edition: 266 pages, numerous black and white photographs, red rexine covers, a good copy in a s...

Marais (Johan) and Hadaway (David) GREAT TUSKERS OF AFRICA (presentation copy) 223 pages, profusely illustrated with full colour plates, black and...

Newspapers. THE GRAPHIC Modern mimeographed transcriptions of all the entries about the Zulu War bound in 2 spring back files. They are in very go...

Stott (Clement H.) THE BOER INVASION OF NATAL As viewed by a Natal Colonist. First edition: 224 pages, frontispiece, numerous black and white illu...

Books of Rhodesia Rhodesiana Reprint Library (Gold Series - Complete set) A complete set, 36 volumes of the Gold Series of the Rhodesiana Reprint ...

Louis Botha Memorial Committee [LOUIS BOTHA ALBUM]: [24] pages: chiefly illustrations, portraits. Includes a "Call to Pretoria" for the unveiling ...

Henry Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair Vanity Fair by Henry Makepeace Thackeray, illustrated in colour by Lewis Baumer, published by Hodder and Sto...

Duckitt, Hildagonda J. HILDA'S DIARY OF A CAPE HOUSEKEEPER: 300 pages: frontispiece. Pictorial paper covered boards with gilding, dust wrapper fra...

GB Sowerby Illustrated Index of British Shells (First edition) xv p, 24 hand coloured engraved plates. Original red pebble-grained cloth, stamped ...

Kelly, David (artist and contributor); Obedi Mkandawire and nine other contributors Malawi. Endangered Beauty (inscribed by the artist and with si...

Burton, R. F. The Arabian Nights (12 volumes) Kamashastra Library Edition. 12 volumes. Overall condition of set good. Some stains (damp?) around t...

Horace Waller [and David Livingstone] The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa from 1865 to His Death. First edition, in two volu...

Henri Breuil, Mary Boyle, and E. R. Scherz The White Lady of the Brandberg. Volume One of the Rock Paintings of Southern Africa. Number 28 of a fi...

Sir Percy Fitzpatrick and E. Caldwell (Illus.) Jock of the Bushveld London: Longmans Green, 1907. First edition, third impression (pp. xvi, 474) w...

J[ames]. B. Taylor A Pioneer Looks Back (pp. 248, index). J. B. Taylor's copy with his bookplate "James B. Taylor/ Lyne Grove" (Surrey), also with...

Theodore Reunert Diamonds and Gold in South Africa First edition (pp. xvi, 242) a presentation copy to H.W. Struben with the author's inscription ...

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

Frances E. Colenso and Lieut.-Colonel Edward Dunford AND Frances Sarah Colenso History of the Zulu War and Its Origin AND Colenso Letters from Nat...

Petrus Borchardus Borcherds An Autobiographical Memoir Cape Town: A. S. Robertson, 1861. First edition (pp. xxv, 500). Octavo (22 cm) in brown pub...

The South African Vigilance Committee President Kruger's Retrogressive Policy Cape Town: Imperial South African Association, 1900. Pamphlet in gra...

Percy Alport Molteno A Federal South Africa TOGETHER WITH Selections from the Correspondence of P. A. Molteno A Federal South Africa. London: Samp...

Sir James Tennant Molteno The Dominion of Afrikanderdom. Recollections Pleasant and Otherwise AND Further South African Recollections The Dominion...

Anthony Trollope South Africa In two volumes (pp.319; 319!). Duodecimo (16 cm), in half leather over (very) dark blue patterned cloth, marbled end...

Capt. C. H. W. Donovan With Wilson in Matabeleland or Sport and War in Zambesia. First edition (pp. xiv, 322). Octavo (23 cm) in publisher’s scarl...

J. Leyland Adventures in the Far Interior of South Africa including a Journey to Lake Ngami AND Rambles in Honduras First edition (pp. vii, 283,...

Arthur M. Mann The Truth from Johannesburg, A Vindication of the People. First edition (pp. 123). Duodecimo (18 cm) in half green morocco over peb...

Montague George Jessett The Key to South Africa: Delagoa Bay. Copy No. 2 of an edition limited to fifteen copies, signed by Jessett on limitation ...

A. E. Heyer A Brief History of the Transvaal Secret Service System. With Publisher's Address. Apparent first edition (pp. 31). Booklet (21 cm), in...

J. D. Rheinallt Jones and C. M. Doke (Eds.) Bushmen of the Southern Kalahari. Papers reprinted from Bantu Studies… together with some additional...

C H Radloff Gevangenisstemmen Radloff, predikant te Pearston, word gevangene geneem tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog. Saam met hom is verteenwoordiger...

Louis Libenberg The Art of Tracking In a work of painstaking and wide-ranging scholarship - touching the fields of paleontology, archaeology, anth...

Hempel, Gustav, and Karl Wilhelm (authors); W Liepoldt (botanical artist) Die Baume und Straucher des Waldes. II Abtheilung. Die Laubhoelzer. Ers...

Graham Publishing Harare Beneath a Zimbabwe sun Beneath a Zimbabwe sun, published by Graham Publishing Harare 1987, first edition limited deluxe i...

Belton, Gordon (author-photographer); Josh Spencer (editor); Philip Nankin (foreword) A Sailor's Scrapbook. A Photo-Essay of Lawhill and Passat by...

Wilson, Edward (author and photographer); Brian Roberts (editor) Birds of the Antarctic This is a fine copy of the 1980 reprint with the editor's ...

Flannery, Tim, and Peter Schouten A Gap in Nature. Discovering the World's Extinct Animals Perhaps the most authoritative and comprehensive of the...