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James Matthews Pass me a meatball, Jones. (signed copy of the author's banned Apartheid era poetry) Softcover, 44pp. Signed by the author on the t...

Theal, George McCall Records of South-Eastern Africa-Nine Volume Set Originally published- The Government of Cape Colony. 1898. Volume I. Half Tit...

Various contributors Flower Paintings of Katherine Saunders (Signed by Chris Saunders) Hardback with dustcover over original boards. Flower Painti...

Tony Sanchez-Arino Hunting in Kenya.(Signed & Numbered-228 of 1000 copies) This is the eighth and last volume in Safari Press's African Country Se...

ZB Molefe & Mike Mzileni A Common Hunger to Sing A tribute to South African black women singers, who refused to stay silent, and who made their vo...

Topography A Treatise on Practical Surveying and Topographical Plan Drawing (1829) Three-quarter calf binding with marbled boards. (xii), (191pp),...

Bosch, Andree & De Waal, Johann ESIAS BOSCH; 191 pages: illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits. Quarto. Quarter leather & cloth. Cloth covered ...

Badcock, Peter SHADOWS OF WAR; 50 pages of text, [50] pages of illustrations: chiefly portraits. Quarto. Full embossed leather & leather covered s...

Pama, C. REGENCY CAPE TOWN: 140 pages: illustrations., plan, portraits (1 as frontispiece). Quarto. Cloth, dust wrapper. Name on front endpaper. N...

Pretorius, Andre OUR THREATENED HERITAGE: 217 pages: illustrations, frontispiece, plans, maps. Quarto. Pictorial paper covered boards. Signed & da...

Wolhuter, Harry MEMORIES OF A GAME-RANGER; 313 pages: illustrations, portraits (laid down) as frontispiece, map on endpapers. Half calf with raise...

Burden, Matilda OU-KAAPSE MEUBELS: ix, 436 pages: colour illustrations, maps. Quarto. Paper covered boards, dust wrapper. Text in Afrikaans. Signe...

Burrows, Edmund H. OVERBERG OUTSPAN: xiv, 310 pages: illustrations, frontispiece, folding genealogical chart, portraits, plans, maps (2 on endpape...

Cape Provincial Institute of Architects THE BUILDINGS OF CENTRAL CAPE TOWN; 3 volumes (65 pages; 369 pages; 697 pages): illustrations, plans. Oblo...

Welz, Stephan CAPE SILVER & SILVERSMITHS: xi, 172 pages: illustrations, portraits, maps. Quarto. Cloth, dust wrapper slightly faded on spine and r...

Fort, G. Seymour ALFRED BEIT: 221 pages, [4] leaves of plates: illustrations, portraits (1 as frontispiece). Cloth, scarring along lower edge. Dus...

Pearse, R.O. BARRIER OF SPEARS: xi, 304 pages: illustrations (some colour), maps on endpapers. Quarto. Pictorial skivertex. No. 88 of 100 copies. ...

William Shakespeare Mr. Shakespear's Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Faithfully re...

David Randall-Maciver Medieval Rhodesia Medieval Rhodesia by David Randall-Maciver, M.A, D.Sc, F.R.G.S. Laycock student of Egyptology at Worcester...

Sanders, James APARTHEID'S FRIENDS: xvii, 539 pages: illustration., portraits. Paperback. Page edges browned. Sanders examines South Africa's inte...

Schwarz, E.H.L. THE KALAHARI, or, THIRSTLAND REDEMPTION vi, 163 pages: illustrations, frontispiece, tables, maps (2 folding). Paper covered boards...

Andersson, Charles John Andersson, Charles John. LAKE NGAMI, or, EXPLORATIONS AND DISCOVERY: xviii, 546 pages: illustrations, large folding map. (...

Coetzee, J.M. DUSKLANDS 134 pages. Cloth, dust wrapper, with slight wear to edges of spine. A very good copy of the first edition of Coetzee's fir...

Van der Merwe, N.J. TOT NAGEDAGTENIS VAN EMILY HOBHOUSE: 52 pages: portraits (1 as frontispiece). Cloth. Front hinge weak. Order of Service laid d...

Bosman, Paul & Hall-Martin, Anthony THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN: 70 pages: illustrations (some colour). Oblong quarto. Cloth, dust wrapper. An artistic ...

Captain Sir John C. Willoughby EAST AFRICA AND ITS BIG GAME 1 volume. First edition 1889. Original dark green cloth with gilt title and vignette o...

Felice Benuzzi No Picnic on Mount Kenya 1 Volume. Second printing of the American edition. Dust jacket with pictorial cover. Red cloth boards with...

Rev. Henry Rowley The Story of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa 1 volume. First editions are relatively scarce. Publishers green blind-...

Captain H. A. Wilson A British Borderland 1 volume. First edition 1913. Scarce book on hunting and soldiering in Kenya and Uganda. Green cloth boa...

Barrow (John) TRAVELS INTO THE INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AFRICA In which are described the character and the condition of the Dutch Colonists of the Ca...

Cameron (Verney Lovett) ACROSS AFRICA Fifth edition: 2 volumes, xvi, 389 + xii, 366 pages, frontispiece in each volume, 27 full page plates, 4 fac...

Darwin (Charles) JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY New edition: 615 pages, wood engraved frontispiece and numerous wood e...

Darwin (Charles) ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES With a new preface by Charles G. Darwin. Illustrated with wood engravings by Paul Landacre. xxx 470 page...

Gibbon (Edward) THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE 7 volumes: frontispieces, top edges gilt uncut fore-edges and bottom edges...

Gilbert (G.K.) THE MOON'S FACE [52] pages, frontispiece, numerous text drawings, a good copy. Reprinted from the Philosophical Society of Washingt...

Lyell (Sir Charles ) THE GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCES OF THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN xii, 520 pages + 32 pages publisher's catalogue, frontispiece, numerous text...

Monteiro (Joachim John) ANGOLA AND THE RIVER CONGO First edition: 2 volumes.Vol 1 viii, 305; vol 2 iv, 340.folding map as frontispiece in volume 1...

Wallace (Alfred Russell) DARWINISM With a portrait of the author, map and illustrations. xvi, 494 pages + 2 page bibliography of the author's oth...

Watt (Prof. J.M.) & Breyer-Brandwijk (M.G.) THE MEDICINAL AND POISONOUS PLANTS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA First edition. 324 pages, colour frontispiece, ...

Weismann ( Dr. August) THE EVOLUTION THEORY. Translated with the Author's co-operation by J. Arthur Thomson and Margaret R. Thomson. Illustrated....

G. E. Pearse & L. E. Van Onselen Eighteenth Century Furniture in South Africa & Cape Antique Furniture. 2 volumes. Second volume is a limited edit...

Rowland Ward Records of Big Game 1 volume. Distinctive Rowland Ward zebra-patterned endpapers. Records of Big Game 'Note Book' with zebra-patterne...

Bleek (Dorothea F.) A BUSHMAN DICTIONARY 773 pages, grey printed card wrappers - paperback, a very good copy. From the introduction by Professor J...

Bleek (W.H.I.) & Lloyd (L.C.) SPECIMENS OF BUSHMAN FOLKLORE With an introduction by George McCall Theal. Facsimile reprint: 468 pages, colour fron...

Clark (J.Desmond) THE STONE AGE CULTURES OF NORTHERN RHODESIA 157 pages, folding map and five other maps, 31 plates from photographs and sketches ...

Gamitto (A.C.P.) KING KAZEMBE Being the diary of the Portuguese expedition to that potentate in the years 1831 and 1832. Translated by Ian Cunnis...

Junod (Henri A.) THE LIFE OF A SOUTH AFRICAN TRIBE Second Edition Revised and Enlarged. Second Edition: 2 volumes, 557 + 660 pages, illustrated th...

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...

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

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...

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...