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Laurie (André) GERARD ET COLETTE 312, [1], frontispiece, title page vignette, all edges gilt, full red leather binding titled gilt with gilt deco...

Serpa Pinto (Major A. A.) HOW I CROSSED AFRICA Translated from the author's manuscript by A. Elwes. In two volumes containing 15 maps and facsimil...

South West Africa Administration SOUTH-WEST AFRICA Wembley Exhibition 1925 35 pages, illustrations, colour map, folding maps and folding illustrat...

Stow (George W.) THE NATIVE RACES OF SOUTH AFRICA With numerous illustrations. Edited by George McCall Theal. Facsimile reprint: 618 pages, 22 col...

Union of South Africa REPORT PRESENTED BY THE GOVERMENT OF THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA TO THE COUNCIL OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS 108 pages + 6 unnumbe...

Union of South Africa REPORT PRESENTED BY THE GOVERMENT OF THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA TO THE COUNCIL OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS iv, 129 pages, foldin...

Vedder (Heinrich) and Inskeep (Adi) THE BERGDAMA An annotated translation of the German original with additional ethnographic material Editor: Mat...

Chris du Toit (author) & Walter Battiss (illustrator) Ander Het Gesê & Draai Sy Nek Om - two fine copies of books illustrated by Walter Battiss F...

South African Golf [Dinner souvenir] MENU = SPYSKAART: One A3 sheet, folded into 4 pages: colour illustrations. Elaborate menu, possibly sponsored...

Olive Schreiner & S.C. Cronwright-Schreiner THE POLITICAL SITUATION One of the more difficult Schreiner "A" items and fairly scarce. A collaborati...

John Fowles The Magus (first edition 1966) First edition, first impression of the author's third book. Binding tight, contents clean, corners shar...

H. A. Wyndham The Early History of the Thoroughbred Horse in South Africa (1924) First edition published by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Pr...

A.J. Ayer LANGUAGE, TRUTH AND LOGIC" - SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, PUBLISHED IN AN EDITION OF ONLY 500 COPIES. One of...

Michel Tapie et. al. ANTONI TAPIES - DERRIERE LE MIROIR NO. 168. DE-LUXE LIMITED SIGNED EDITION No. 133 of 150 De-Luxe copies on Velin de Lana pap...

Giacomo Gastaldi [Giovanni Ramusio] Prima tavola This is the >465 years old, woodcut edition of the famous first 'upside down' map of Africa. The ...

Daniel Lizars Taken from the most celebrated modern geographers AFRICA This seems to be the first time the first edition of this beautiful wall ma...

John Seller [Jeremiah Seller and Charles Price] A chart of ye coasts of Cimbebas and Caffaria from Mt. Negro to ye C. of Good Hope This is a scarc...

Peter Kolbe [Balthazar Lakeman] Caarte van de Kaap de Goede Hoop This 1727 map is seldom available in the market. It is from Peter Kolbe's influen...

Cape Argus Wreck of the chartered troopship "St. Lawrence" Beautiful, small and uncommon lithographed chart of the Paternoster region, north of Ca...

John Seller The Island of Jarsey [Jersey] This is a scarce 1695 miniature map of the island of Jersey by the famous English cartographer, John Sel...

Giobattista Albrizzi Carta Geografica Capo del Buona Speranza This attractive, uncommon map depicts the second early expansion of the Cape of Good...

Giovanni Battista Nicolosi Africa An'upside down' wall map of Africa in its first state (edition). All four panels of the map are in fine conditio...

John Cary Cape of Good Hope This is a beautiful and historically important map of the Cape Colony (the map is in original colour). Engraved on cop...

William Paterson Carte de l'extremite meridionale de L'AFRIQUE William Paterson undertook four extensive journeys in the Cape of Good Hope between...

John Barrow An account of travels into the interior of Southern Africa First edition of Barrow's landmark book of his travels in the Cape of Good ...

John Centlivres Chase The Cape of Good Hope of Eastern Province of Algoa Bay &c. &c. Uncommonly available first edition, with the map and all illu...

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...

Monick (S.) A BUGLE CALLS Maps and Illustrations by Christine Heseltine and l.E. Joubert 828 pages, frontispiece - armorial crest, numerous illust...

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 ...