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[Thomas Clarkson] An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, particularly the African. Second edition, revised and considerably en...

Lorenz Berger NUMISMATA MODULI MAXIMI VULGO MEDAIGLONI EX CIMCHARCHIO LUDOVICI XIV Scarce work of numismatics of 1704, anonymous author, big size....

James Joyce CHAMBER MUSIC - Scarce First Egoist Press Edition Small 8vo. The scarce third edition of this work. Of the 500 copies printed, suppose...

Robert FROST. The Complete Poems of Robert Frost. [Introduction by Louis Untermeyer]. Robert FROST. The Complete Poems of Robert Frost. [Introduct...

Jack Kerouac ON THE ROAD - FIRST US EDITION A finely rebound copy of the correct (US) first edition, first printing of this Twentieth Century high...

Theodore ROOSEVELT (1858-1919). An important 1 page typed letter signed, to Dr. Alexander Lambert Theodore ROOSEVELT (1858-1919). A 1p. typed lett...

Linné (Charles) [Linnaeus (Carl)] A GENERAL SYSTEM OF NATURE THROUGH THE THREE GRAND KINGDOMS OF ANIMALS, VEGETABLES, AND MINERALS, Systematical...

Darwin (Charles) THE DESCENT OF MAN First edition, second issue: 2 volumes: I. viii + 423, II. viii + 475, ex-library with the bookplate of Englis...

ILLUSTR. CHAGALL, MIRO, BRAQUE, MATISSE AND OTHERS VERVE REVUE ARTISTIQUE ET LITTERAIRE - VOL. VII, N° 27 et 28 WITH 29 ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS Th...

Graham Greene THE THIRD MAN and THE FALLEN IDOL This is a fine, possibly unread, copy of the first edition of this Greene high spot, in a fine dus...

Carl VAN VECHTEN (1880-1964) Nigger Heaven Carl VAN VECHTEN (1880-1964). Nigger Heaven. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. Octavo (9 1/16 x 6 inches...

Robert Louis STEVENSON (1850-1894). Kidnapped being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751 Robert Louis STEVENSON (1850-1894)...

James Joyce Ulysses Ulysses by James Joyce, Folio Society, limited and numbered edition, 2004. This edition was published on 16 June 2004 to mark ...

Journal. THE BEATLES BOOK 76 issues: A complete set except for no 37 August 1966 which is lacking. Each one is individually housed in a plastic pr...

Howard, J W, J Medley Wood, E A Brunner, W A Squire, Charles J Crofts and others Twentieth Century Impressions of Orange River Colony and Natal (1...

Major H Rayne The ivory raiders First edition of 1923 of this book about the northwest frontier of the Kenya colony. In 1906, Major Rayne was assi...

Thomas Willis (1621-1675) PATHOLOGIAE CEREBRI ET NERVOSI GENERIS SPECIMEN IN QUO AGITUR DE MORBIS CONVULSIVIS ET DE SCORBUTO Edition of 1670 of ...

DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS AND AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS AND AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS TRANSLATED AND ILLUSTRATED BY BARTEN HOLID...

AA VV ALBUM OF PHOTOS IN TUNISIA OF 1902 Very interesting album of travel in Tunisia made in February March 1902. The collection includes 39 photo...

Picton-Seymour, Desiree (author and artist) Victorian Buildings in South Africa. Including Edwardian and Transvaal Republican styles The illustrat...

Wassermann, Johan, and Brian Kearney (editors); and other contributors A Warrior's Gateway. Durban and the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 (inscribed) Pu...

General Ben Viljoen My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War (1902) Publisher's red cloth binding with black titles. Contents clean with former owne...

Frederick Boyle The Savage Life (1876) The Savage Life. A Second Series of "Camp Notes". 332pp, publisher's red cloth binding. An entirely unopene...

Ernest Hill Report on the Plague in Natal 1902-3 First edition of this important historical document. Published by Cassell in 1904. 192pp. Illustr...

J. Forsyth Ingram NATALIA : A Condensed History of the Exploration and Colonisation of Natal & Zululand. From the Earliest Times to the Present Da...

J. Forsyth Ingram The Story of an African Seaport. Being the history of the port and borough of Durban, the seaport of Natal. (1899) A scarce exam...

Edgar Sanderson Africa in the Nineteenth Century (1898) 335pp, 4 plates, folding map. A near fine copy in the original cloth binding. From Mendels...

Joseph Gwilt (translator) The Architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio - 1st. ed. 1826 First edition in English. Translated from the Latin by Josep...

Cyril Harris & Arthur Beet Kimberley Under Siege (inscribed copy) INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the authors "To dear Isaac, Have always wanted to make his...

E. F. Knight South Africa After the War. A Narrative of recent Travel. (1903) xiii + 356pp + 40pp, illustrations. Binding tight and contents clean...

J. G. Millais Wanderings and Memories (1919) Binding tight, contents clean with former owner's name on front end paper. 298pp. Illustrated. Includ...

Stuart, James, and D McK Malcolm (editors) The Diary of Henry Francis Fynn Copy 288 of 1700 copies of the first edition of 1950. Turquoise dustjac...

H. J. Taylor Capetown to Kafue. The Story of an Eighteen Thousand Miles Journey. (1915) Hardcover, 127pp. Image of Mupumani, the Leper Prophet on ...

Paul Verlaine Hombres (Hommes) - 1st. ed. 1903 Published by Albert Messein although the title page states: 'Imprimé sous le manteau et ne se vend ...

Dr. Alec Kaplan Catalogue of the Coins of South Africa (limited & signed de luxe edition of the FIRST Kaplan catalogue, 1950) First edition of Ale...

Stevenson-Hamilton, Lt-Colonel J (Warden of the Kruger National Park) South African Eden. From Sabi Game Reserve to Kruger National Park (1938) Th...

Russell, George The History of Old Durban. And Reminiscences of an Emigrant of 1850 [1899] The date of this first edition is taken as the year aft...

Kepper, G L De Zuid-Afrikaansche Oorlog. Historisch Gedenkboek [1902] Black-printed pictorial blue-grey cloth-boards with gilt-embossed titling to...

The Right Hon. Sir Bartle Frere Afghanistan and South Africa. A Letter to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone regarding Portions of His Midlothian Spee...

Goldblatt, Peter The Woody Iridaceae. Nivenia Klattia & Witsenia Hardback with dustcover over original illustrated dustcover. Watercolours by Fay ...

Tony Sanchez-Arino Hunting in Ethiopia (Signed & Numbered Edition- 373 of 1000 copies) An anthology of hunting stories on all manner of game in Et...

Tony Sanchez-Arino Hunting in the Sudan (Signed & Numbered edition-976 0f 1000 copies) Hunting in the Sudan. First Edition. Edited by Tony Sanchez...

Tony Sanchez-Arino Hunting in Zambia (Signed & Numbered Edition-34 of 1000 copies) This is the sixth volume in Safari Press's African Country Seri...

Gregg, Lyndall (Dot Schreiner) Memories of Olive Schreiner Hardback with unclipped illustrated dustcover over original red boards with gilt letter...

T.W. Comyns THE WAR: BRITONS V. BOERS Exceedingly rare paperback booklet on the Boer War by an Australian and published in Australia in 1900. Sm...

Andriessen, W F Gedenkboek van den Oorlog in Zuid-Afrika (1904) Tan cloth-boards, gilt and black lettering and 3-colour vignetted design to the up...

Pittaway, Jonathan, and Craig Fourie SAS Rhodesia. Rhodesians and the Special Air Service This is an as-new unmarked copy. Colour pictorial paper-...

Roberts, Lt -Colonel F J (editor); Field-Marshal Viscount Plumer (foreword) The Wipers Times (1930) This second impression copy was printed a mont...

Lock, Ron, and others A collection of three signed Zulu War books All three of these items are hardcover copies in fine condition, with dustjacket...

Webb, C de B, and J B Wright (editors) A Zulu King Speaks. Statements made by Cetshwayo kaMpande on the history and customs of his people No 3 of ...

Welch, Ronald; David Harris (illustrator) Zulu Warrier (1974) In this short historical novel, the central character is "Lieutenant Robert Maryon",...

Kim Shippey (author) and Gert Hattingh (photographer) The Unbeatables. Springboks in Australia. 1971 This book - now rare - tells the story of the...

Charles Dickens Little Dorrit Little Dorrit is a serial novel by Charles Dickens published originally between 1855 and 1857. It is a work of satir...

Charles Dickens David Copperfield Work in progress Following the serial publication of David Copperfield in parts May 1849 - Nov. 1850, the novel ...

Charles Dickens The Mystery of Edwin Drood  The Mystery of Edwin Drood was Dicken's last book, and remains unfinished. It was published in August ...

Charles Dickens Bleak House Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in twenty monthly instalments between March 1852 and Sept...

Charles Dickens Dombey and Sons Dombey and Sons follows the fortunes of a shipping firm, whose owner is frustrated at not having a son to follow h...

Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby Work in Progress Nicholas Nickleby; or, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby was originally published as...

French-Sheldon (M. 'Bebe Bwana') SULTAN TO SULTAN Adventures among the Masai and other tribes of East Africa. 435pp. Original red cloth hardcover,...

The Rev. Henry Callaway Nursery Tales, Traditions, and Histories of the Zulus, in Their own Words, with a Translation into English, and Notes. (18...