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C. J. Mieny Leipoldt in London: Die VormingsjareNumber 203 of a limited edition of 250 copies. Half leather. Gilt titling to front and spine. Text...

Rattray (Capt. R.S.) ASHANTI.First edition: 348 pages, frontispiece, folding genealogical table at the back, 143 black and white photographs, uncu...

[Stout (Captain Benjamin)] NARRATIVE OF THE LOSS OF THE SHIP HERCULES112 pages, rubber stamp at  the top of the title page and at the end of the t...

Fred A. McKenzie, C.N.T. du Plessis, Charles T. Bunce. The Real Kruger and the Transvaal.The authors aim to provide an impartial review of facts a...

John Robinson Notes on Natal: An old Colonist's book for new SettlersA reprint of the first edition printed 1872. First published by Robinson & Va...

Joseph Kurschner Die Buren und der S?¬dafrikanische Krieg.4to; original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, and ornately blocked in gilt, silve...

Alfred Milner (Signed). QUITRENT LAND GRANTThe map was originally surveyed in 1823 by James Swan. This "represents ... applied for by Donald and J...

Amelia B. Edwards A Thousand Miles up the Nile1 volume. New edition 1891. Publishers pictorial cloth. Gilt title and gilt decorative lineal border...

Tjader, Richard The Big Game Of AfricaTjader's 1909 safari into British East Africa brought him to some of the finest big game hunting lands of th...

Omar Khayyam. (Tr. Edward Fitzgerald). THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAMWith only 56pp this is likely an earlier copy of the Collins Clear-Type edition...

Menpes (Mortimer) WAR IMPRESSIONS (Edition De Luxe, the engraverƒ??s copy)254 pages, 8vo (277 x 215 mm), colour frontispiece portrait of Lord Robe...

J. G. Millais Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland3 volumes. First editions. Limited edition of 1025 copies. Three truly magnificent volumes. Firs...

Charles DICKENS The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED. - Charles DICKENS. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Lond...

Benjamin Moodie Autograph DocumentsA tranche of documents relating to Benjamin Moodie's farm 'Grootvaders Bosch' which is situated in the Western ...

Sir Albert R Cook Uganda MemoriesKampala, The Uganda Society. 1945. 1st edition, 1945. Hardback. Size approx 10 x 8 ins. In green cloth with embos...

Markham, Plasket, Rivers & Steyn. ALS to Benjamin Moodie dd. 11th July 1827.Writer (Markham) was probably secretary to Sir Richard Bourke at this ...

Roald DAHL Over to You. 10 Stories of Flyers and Flying.Roald DAHL. Over to You. 10 Stories of Flyers and Flying. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 19...

Matthew Perry. Matthew Perry. Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan, ...Narrative of the expedition of a...

Ben HECHT (1893-1964). Gaily, Gaily [The memoirs of a cub reporter in Chicago].Ben HECHT (1893-1964). Gaily, Gaily [The memoirs of a cub reporter ...

JUNIUS (pseudonym). The Letters of Junius. Complete in one volume, with a copious index. The first American Edition.JUNIUS (pseudonym). The Letter...

John Murray and Fran Briggs MOMENTS OF TRUTH - INSCRIBED BY DESMOND TUTUSquare 4to. 124 pages. In the original glossy pictorial wraps. Profusely i...

Berman (Esm??) THE STORY OF SOUTH AFRICAN PAINTINGFirst Edition. 256 pages, illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, quarter leather ...

Gilbert (G.K.) THE MOON'S FACE Address as retiring president delivered December 10 1892 [52] pages, frontispiece, numerous text drawings, a good ...

Jowett ( Benjamin) trans. THUCYDIDESWith introduction, marginal analysis, notes and indices in two volumes. 2 volumes; vol. 1 xx, 708 pages; vol. ...

King (Charles William) ANTIQUE GEMS Their Origin, Uses, and Value as Interpreters of Ancient History; and as Illustrative of Ancient Art. With hi...

Melville (Herman) OMOO Illustrated by Mead Schaeffer First UK Edition: 299 pages, frontispiece, 7 colour plates, watermarks on plate opposite page...

Mendelsohn (F.) ed. THE GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN RHODESIAN COPPERBELT.First edition: 523 pages, numerous maps – some folding, diagrams and charts, ...

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

Doke, Clement M THE PHONETICS OF THE ZULU LANGUAGEGreen  Boards with gilt lettering. This treatisenon the Phonetics of the Zulu Language a thesis ...

Rennie Airth Snatch! & Once A Spy (Signed )Snatch! London Johnathan Cape, 1969. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good....

Douglas Goode Cycads of AfricaThis title is not to be confused with Douglas Goode's 1989 book of the same title. This is a much more ambitious wor...

J. L. B. Smith The Sea Fishes of Southern AfricaThe Sea Fishes of Southern Africa by J.L.B. Smith First edition, 1949 hardcover. Includes a letter...

Cape Town [album] BEAUTIFUL CAPE TOWN[12] leaves: black and white illustrations of Cape scenes with printed captions; bound in an album format, an...

Major P.J. Pretorius JUNGLE MANThe now scarce first edition of this title which went through several reprints. The adventurous life of Major Preto...

Rawlinson (W.G.) & Finberg (A.J.) THE WATER-COLOURS OFJ.M.W. TURNER42 pages of letterpress and 30 tipped in colour plates mounted on grey card and...

Bunt (Cyril G.E.) WINDSOR CASTLE THROUGH THREE CENTURIES 111 pages of letterpress and 9 tipped colour plates and 29 plates in black and white, fin...

Wincza, Ada and Laddy Bush and Plains.(Signed and Numbered 666 of 1000 copies- with further inscription)The Winczas recount their efforts as Polis...

Tom of Finland. (Text Micha Ramakers. Ed. Burkhard Riemschneider) TOM OF FINLANDThis book is the most comprehensive monograph on Tom of Finland ye...

Rick Day PLAYERS"I want to blur the lines of sexuality with this project. Men and women should be able to turn the pages and lose themselves in be...

Lt. Col C H Stockley African Camera HuntsLondon, Country Life Limited, 1948. Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. 1s...

C.R. Anhaeusser & S. Maske. (Eds). MINERAL DEPOSITS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA.Volume 1 contains 79 papers, including descriptions of Archaean gold, nicke...

Thomas Baines THE GOLD REGIONS OF SOUTH EASTERN AFRICAA very nice copy in the original green gilt decorated cloth of the first edition of this imp...

Robert Byron The StationJohn Lehmann, london, 1949. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Book is cleanl...

Major George Deane (Editor) DIARY OF SERVICES OF THE FIRST BATTALION THE ROYAL SCOTS DURING THE BOER WAR - SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902A rare Boer War v...

Rev. J. Young The Perils of Paul Percival1 volume. First edition ca.1840. Green blind-stamped covers. Gilt title with gilt vignette on cover. Gilt...

Nicholas Pike SUB-TROPICAL RAMBLES in the Land of the APHANAPTERYX.1 volume. First edition 1873. Publishers brown cloth  blind-stamped bevelled bo...

H. W. Tilman Snow on the Equator1 volume. First edition 1937. Red cloth covers. Silver and red titles to spine.  xi, 265 pages. 24 photo illustrat...

John Petherick Egypt, The Soudan and Central Africa1 volume. First edition 1861. Half leather over buckram cover. Gilt crest to cover "Royal Engin...

Wilfrid Robertson ZAMBEZI DAYS1 volume. First edition 1936. Very good copy of a scarce hunting title. Light orange cover with black titles. Black...

Joy Adamson Forever Free ( Signed )Collins & Harvill Press, 1962. Hardback. First edition. VG++ hardback (minimal edgewear, clean and unmarked), i...

Clive Phillips-Wolley BIG GAME SHOOTING1 volume. Deluxe edition with the Badminton Armorial Crest on covers. Illustrations by Charles Whymper, J. ...

Lady Annie Brassey In The Trades, The Tropics, & The Roaring Forties.1 volume. First edition 1885. "Highly decorative publisher's pictorial cloth ...

Charles Dudley Warner My Winter on the Nile2 volumes. First editions 1891. C. D. Warner (1829-1900) was an American novelist, a friend of Mark Tw...

H Lincoln Tangye In New South Africa ( Signed Presentation copy )LONDON SIMPKIN MARSHALL, 1900. NEW ISSUE, WITH 26 ILLUSTRATIONS. ORIGINAL RED CLO...

Sir Gerald Portal The British Mission to Uganda in 18931 volume. First edition 1894. Publishers burgundy cloth with gilt vignette. Gilt title to s...

Hans Sauer Ex Africa1 volume. First edition. Signed dedication on title page. The dedication is to fellow author C.P. Fitzgerald. Original signed ...

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

W. H. Coetzer W. H. Coetzer 80. The Autobiography of W.H. Coetzer, F.R.S.A., F.I.A.L., F.I.B.A.79pp with numerous colour plates and black & white ...

C. S. Woodward Oriental Ceramics at the Cape of Good Hope 1652-1795 (De Luxe Signed & Limited Edition)An account of the porcelain trade of the Dut...

Lieut-Colonel R. L. Playfair Travels in the Footsteps of Bruce in Algeria and Tunis.1 volume. First edition 1877. Green cloth bevelled cover with ...