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Abraham Ortelius Africa tabula novaFamous map of Africa by Abraham Ortelius , printed in 1570 in the first year of its publication. Seldom visible...

R & J Ottens Occidentalior Tractus Indiarum Orientalium ['The western extension of the East Indies' , i.e. the Indian ocean]Beautiful, decorativ...

Johann Homann Totius Africae Nova Representatio qua praeter diversos [New representation of the whole of Africa, but differentEarly eighteenth ce...

O'Haire, Rev James, Missionary Apostolic Recollections of Twelve Years in South Africa (1883) A longer version of this work was published some eig...

Botha, Colin Graham (Chief Archivist for the Union) Place Names in the Cape Province (1925) "This book has been compiled to stimulate an interest ...

Barrow (John) AN ACCOUNT OF TRAVELS INTO THE INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AFRICATo which is annexed a description of the present state, populations, and p...

Bax (D.) HET OUDSTE KAAPSE ZILVER 1699 - 1751Summary in English. 208 pages, 28 photographic illustrations, full brown leather binding titled gilt ...

Bax (D.) ZUID AFRIKAƒ??S EERSTE OPENBARE VERZAMELINGSchenkers Von Dessin, James Cook, James King. With a summary in English. 156 pages, 32 photogr...

[Bernard (Francois)] NEDERLANDSCH AFRIKA Vergeleeken met den tegenwordigen Staat, die volkplantinge, in 't licht gegeeven naar het handschrift van...

[Cape Almanac] THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE ALMANAC AND ANNUAL REGISTER FOR 1842Containing the Public Departments, Local Institutions, and various other ...

De Villiers (Christoffel Coetzee) GESLACHT-REGISTER DER OUDE KAAPSCHE FAMILIEN.First edition: 3 volumes 397 + 520 +679 pages, half blue leather wi...

Fielding (T.H.) and Walton (J.) A PICTURESQUE TOUR OF THE ENGLISH LAKESWith Accounts of Ancient and Modern Manners and Customs, and Elucidations o...

Latrobe (Rev. C.I.) JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA IN 1815 AND 1816 With a new introduction by Frank Bradlow Facsimile reprint: 48 introductio...

Le Vaillant (Fran??ois) VOYAGE DE MONSIEUR LE VAILLANT DANS L'INTERIEUR DE L'AFRIQUE2 volumes: vol 1 xxiv, 383pages, vol 2 403 pages, frontispiece...

Le Vaillant (Fran??ois) SECOND VOYAGE DANS L'INT??RIEUR DE L'AFRIQUE3 vols: vol 1 xliv, 304 pages; vol 2 426 pages; vol 3 525 pages, 22 plates, ha...

Pamphlet. EEN EEUW VAN ONRECHTOp last van den Staatssecretaris der Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek F.W. Reitz [1], 72 pages, rebound in full brown lea...

Schreiner (Olive) TROOPER PETER HALKET OF MASHONALANDFirst edition. 264 pages, frontispiece of a hanging, 24 pages publisher's catalogue, green cl...

Pringle (Thomas) EPHEMERIDES; OR OCCASIONAL POEMSFirst edition: 220 pages, foxing throughout, full leather which is very worn - the front board is...

[Raven-Hart (R.) Editor] CAPE OF GOOD HOPE 1652-17022 volumes, 222 + 527 pages – continuous pagination, tipped in colour frontispiece in each volu...

Sparrman (Andrew) A VOYAGE TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE TOWARDS THE ANTARCTIC POLAR CIRCLE AND ROUND THE WORLDBy Andrew Sparrman, M.D., professor of p...

Thompson (George) TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN SOUTHERN AFRICAFacsimile reprint: 493 + 15 pages of new index to this reprint edition, 20 plates, 17 v...

Vondel (J.V.) tr. PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NAZOOS HERSCHEPPINGEVertaelt door J.V. Vondel 499 pages + 9 pages index, additional hand coloured engraved title...

Walton (James) HOMESTEADS AND VILLAGES OF SOUTH AFRICA (Signed by the author)De Luxe Edition: 114 pages + 55 photographic illustrations, maps, pla...

Barth, Henry Travels and Discoveries of North and Central Africa (1890)The Minerva Library of Famous Books published this edition of Barth's "grea...

Acebes, Hector (plates); Isolde Brielmaier (the photographs); Ed Marquand (portrait) Portraits in Africa 1948-1953 (2004)This is a fine, unmarked ...

Boonzaier (D.C.) OWLOGRAPHS (Signed by the artist)First edition: 63 pages, chiefly full page caricatures, black pictorial wrappers - paperback, th...

Du Toit (M.L.) SUID AFRIKAANSE KUNSTENAARSFirst edition. 30 pages of text, frontispiece, 20 full page black and white plates, pictorial paper cove...

Eglington (Charles) MAUD SUMNERFirst edition: 48 pages, numerous colour and black & white plates and illustrations, light brown cloth, a good copy...

Goldblatt (David) SOME AFRIKANERS PHOTOGRAPHED (Signed by the photographer)First Edition. 167 pages, 158 full-page photographs, black buckram titl...

Meintjes (Johannes) COMPLEX CANVASFirst edition: 47 pages, numerous black and white sketches, grey cloth, a very good copy in the dust jacket whic...

Mitford-Barberton (Ivan) IVAN MITFORD BARBERTON (Limited edition signed by the author)Limited edition: 16 pages of text and 49 unnumbered full pag...

Schoonbee (Eliz-Marie) comp J H PIERNEEF 1886 - 1957xvi, 124 pages, profusely illustrated with full page colour plates of his work on coated paper...

Daniell (William) THE ORIENTAL ANNUALFirst edition. 263 pages + 4 pages of advertisements, engraved frontispiece and title page vignette, 20 full ...

Roscoe (Thomas) THE TOURIST IN ITALYFrom the title page vignette: The Landscape Annual for 1832 First edition: 286 [2] + 5 pages of adverts, engra...

Roscoe (Thomas) THE TOURIST IN SPAINFrom the title page vignette: The Landscape Annual for 1835 First edition: viii, 288 pages, engraved frontispi...

Photographs. KREUZ UN QUER DURCH DEUTSCH S??D-WEST- AFRIKA100 photographic illustrations on 50 stiff card leaves, the card covers are detached, ti...

Callaway, the Rev Canon (translator) The Religious System of the Amazulu (1870) Rare Published by the author in three parts in 1870, a fourth par...

Stuart, J (former Assistant Secretary for Native Affairs, Natal) A History of the Zulu Rebellion 1906 and of Dinizulu's arrest, trial and expatria...

W.P.M. Henderson, Francis G. Pay. Official South African Municipal Yearbook.Upper board detached from spine. First (upper) quire loose. Boards ero...

Macmillan, Allister, FRGS (compiler and editor) Rhodesia and Eastern Africa. Historical and Descriptive; Commercial and Industrial; Facts, Figures...

Macmillan and Ferguson. (Compilers.) Central Cape Colony Illustrated.This is basically a commercial directory with commercial coverage of: Uitenha...

Maclean, Gordon Lindsay (text), Gail Darroll (illustrations); Peter Scott (foreword) Ducks of Sub-Saharan Africa (1986)Copy 1396 of 2500 subscribe...

S.N. Untitled.This is a most unusual book. There is no title page, statement of responsibility, nor a name in the publisher's domain. I have been ...

Chase*, John Centlivres (author); Joseph S Christophers (editor) The Cape of Good Hope and the Eastern Province of Algoa Bay, etc, etc, with stati...

Baker, Sir Samuel, FRGS Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia and Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs (1908) all editions of this book are rare; the first e...

Stanley, Henry M How I Found Livingstone. Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa, including 4 months' residence with Dr Livingston...

Ballard (Charles) THE HOUSE OF SHAKAFirst edition: 136 + [7] pages, profusely illustrated with black and white photographs and illustrations, blac...

Bryant (A.T.) BANTU ORIGINSFirst edition: 340 pages, frontispiece portrait, light foxing mainly on the page edges, grey cloth titled in white lett...

Freislich (Richard) THE LAST TRIBAL WAR With an introduction by William Plomer. First edition: viii, 117 pages,map, 8 illustrations, green cloth ...

Gibson (J.Y.) THE STORY OF THE ZULUS338 pages + 1 page publisher's catalogue, frontispiece portrait, black and white illustrations, light foxing, ...

Holden (Edward S.) SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL238 pages, frontispiece, title page vignette, top edge git, green cloth titled gilt on the spine, starting ...

Isaacs (Nathaniel) TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN EASTERN AFRICAWith a sketch of Natal Newly revised and edited in one volume, with a biography of the...

Keltie (J.Scott) ed. THE STORY OF EMIN'S RESCUEFirst American edition: 176 pages, map, 3 portraits, red cloth slightly faded on the spine, a good ...

Noble (John) DESCRIPTIVE HANDBOOK OF THE CAPE COLONY: ITS CONDITION AND RESOURCES315 pages, fine tinted lithographic panorama of Cape Town as fron...

Samuelson (Levine Henrietta) Nomleti SOME ZULU CUSTOMS AND FOLKLOREFirst Edition: 82, [2] pages, 1 diagram, light foxing, green cloth slightly ins...

Sime (James) WILLIAM HERSCHEL AND HIS WORKFirst edition: 265 + 6 pages publisher's catalogue, original green cloth titled gilt on the spine, which...

Wilmot (Alexander) and Chase (John Centlivres) HISTORY OF THE COLONY OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPEFirst edition: 530 + xvii (appendix) dark green pebbl...

Hepburn (J.D.) TWENTY YEARS IN KHAMA'S COUNTRY AND PIONEERING AMONG THE BATAUANA OF LAKE NGAMIxvi plus 397pp. Cloth hardcover with gilt title to s...

Orpen, Neil (With H J Martin) SALUTE THE SAPPERS - In 2 VolumesSouth African Forces - World War ll Series. Volume 8 - Part 1 & 2 Part 1 - The for...

Orpen, Neil EAST AFRIACAN AND ABYSSINIAN CAMPAIGNSSouth African Forces at - World War ll Series - Volume 1 Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. ...