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T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) Seven Pillars of Wisdom (first trade edition with orig. dustwrapper - 1935)Near fine first edition published f...

George Beet & Thomas Laurent Terpend The Romance and Reality of the Vaal Diamond Diggings (1917)Hardcover. 118pp + ix (index at rear) and over nin...

Baxter,James.H Printing Postage Stamps by Line Engraving (1981 Edition)In the original edition of "Printing Postage Stamps by Line Engraving" the ...

Browne, Major G St J Orde, FRGS, Senior Commissioner, Tanganyika The Vanishing Tribes of Kenya (1925) "with many illustrations and 2 maps" turqu...

Jeppe, Carl The Kaleidoscopic Transvaal (1906) Strange that the author should spell Jameson (of the Raid) Jamieson! The author, son of Sir Julius ...

Claerhout (Frans) STRATE SONDER PAD (Handmade proof copy)28pp plus 4pp Softcover. Scarce handmade saddle-stitched proof copy. Includes a one-off h...

Claerhout (Frans) TWEE ZOENEN OP EEN GEZICHT (Includes a pen-sketch by the artist)42pp hardcover. Includes a pen-sketch by Frans Claerhout on the ...

Darwin ( Charles) THE ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES By means of natural selection or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. Sixth e...

Exhibition Catalogue. JANE ALEXANDER135 pages, chiefly colour and black and white photographs, pictorial wrappers – paperback, a very good copy. E...

Exhibition Catalogue. WILLIAM KENTRIDGEExhibition curators Neal Benezra, Staci Boris and Dan Cameron 159 pages, chiefly illustrations, black picto...

[ Hodgins (Robert)] ROBERT HODGINS (presentation copy)First Edition. 144 pages, chiefly colour illustrations, pictorial wrappers- paperback, a ver...

Journal. THE BEATLES BOOK Monthly No 1 August 1963 – no 77 December 1969. 76 issues: A complete set except for no 37 August 1966 which is lacking...

Poster: THE BEATLES LET IT BE Apple an abkco managed comany presents “Let it Be” Produced by Neil Aspinall Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg in Tec...

Arnold (Marion) IRMA STERN: A FEAST FOR THE EYE156 pages, illustrated in colour throughout, silver cloth, a very good copy in the dust jacket. Opp...

Bekker (Martin) GREGOIRE BOONZAIER (Signed by the artist)First edition: 112 pages, illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, pictorial...

Boonzaier (Gregoire) and Lipshitz (I. Lippy) WENNINGFirst edition: 58 pages of text, colour frontispiece,83 colour and black and white plates, mar...

Carruthers (Jane) and Arnold (Marion) THE LIFE AND WORK OF THOMAS BAINES184 pages, colour frontispiece self-portrait of Baines, profusely illustra...

Heller (D.) A HISTORY OF CAPE SILVER 1700-1870, and, FURTHER RESEARCHES IN CAPE SILVER (The second volume is a presentation copy).First editions: ...

Kibel (Freda) & Dubow (Neville) WOLF KIBEL (limited edition) A Brief Sketch of His Life and Work by Freda Kibel and A Critical Assessment of His W...

Lindop (Barbara) GERARD SEKOTO (Signed by the author)Edited by Mona de Beer 294 pages, colour frontispiece portrait of Sekoto, numerous colour and...

Morrison (M.N.) THE SILVERSMITHS AND GOLDSMITHS OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE 1652-1850First edition: 84 pages, 16 plates and five pages of illustratio...

Nilant (F.E.G.) DIE HOUT- EN LINOSNE?? VAN J.H. PIERNEEF198 pages - 29 pages of letterpress, frontispiece of Pierneef in his studio, 165 black and...

[Clothier(Norman)] LIBYAN WINTERFirst edition: 23 pages, blue cloth boards titled gilt on the upper cover – the boards are worn and the spine is f...

Journal ADA - Art Design Architecture. Nos. 4, 6. ,9 , 11, 12, 13 Founded by Jennifer Sorrell 6 issues, profusely illustrated throughout in colo...

Naidoo (Indres) ISLAND IN CHAINS (Signed by the author) Prisoner 885/63 Ten years on Robben Island as told by Indres Naidoo to Albie Sachs 278 pa...

The Open School. TWO DOGS AND FREEDOM2nd impression: 55 pages, numerous black and white illustrations, the text in the children’s own handwriting,...

Skotnes (Cecil) and Gray (Stephen) THE ASSASSINATION OF SHAKA by Mhlangane Dingane and Mbopa on 22 September 1828, at Dukuza by which act the Zulu...

South African National Gallery. EZAKWANTU: Exhibition held at the Gallery from 31 October 1993 – 29 May 1994 Edited by Emma Bedford 112 pages + 2...

Souvenir. RICORDO AFRICA ORIENTALE32 photographic views of Addis Ababa folded leporello style into a hardcover volume with a pictorial cover, map ...

Tyrrell (Barbara) AFRICAN HERITAGE (Signed by the author) By Barbara Tyrrell and Peter Jurgens. First edition: 276 pages, distribution map, 43 ful...

Payne (Malcolm) Editor] FACE VALUE, A visual, archaeological and historical reading of the Lydenburg Heads, edited by Malcolm Payne. Fourteen orig...

[Skotnes (Pippa) Editor] SOUND FROM THE THINKING STRINGS (Artistƒ??s proof No. I) Three original colour etchings and Seventeen original monochrome...

Woodward (R.B. & J.D.S) NATAL BIRDS(Including the Species belonging to Natal and the Eastern Districts of the Cape Colony) 215 + vi pages - append...

[Burchell (William John) THE SOUTH AFRICAN DRAWINGS OF WILLIAM J. BURCHELL Volume One: The Bachapins of Litakun. Volume Two: Landscape Drawings. C...

Burchell (W.J.) TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AFRICA Reprinted from the original edition of 1822-4 with some additional material and with an...

Mendelssohn (Sidney) SOUTH AFRICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY. Being the Catalogue Raisonné of the Mendelssohn Library of Works Relating to South Africa, includ...

Dubow (Neville) - Edited and Commentary by. PARADISE - IRMA STERN (Inscribed to Frank Bradlow and signed twice)112pp. Hardcover with cellophane pr...

Fitzpatrick (Percy) JOCK OF THE BUSHVELD (Collectorsƒ?? Edition) Illustrated by Edmund Caldwell. Facsimile reproduction of the first edition publ...

Flack ( Peter H.) HEART OF AN AFRICAN HUNTERSecond edition: 266 pages, numerous balck adn white photographs, red rexine covers, a good copy in a s...

Monick (S.) A BUGLE CALLS (Presentation Copy) Maps and Ilustrations by Christine Heseltine and l.E. Joubert 828 pages, frontispiece - armorial cre...

Arment (David ) and Fick-Jordaan( Marisa) WIRED: CONTEMPORARY ZULU TELEPHONE- WIRE BASKETSPhotographs by Andrew Cerino. 212 pages, chiefly colour ...

Bosch (Andree) & De Waal (Johann) ESIAS BOSCHPhotographs by Willie van Heerden 191 pages, colour frontispiece, numerous colour and black and white...

Coetzee (Cyril) HAROLD VOIGT : THE POETRY OF SIGHTFirst edition: 202 pages, frontispiece, chiefly full page colour illustrations, black cloth, a f...

Cruise (Wilma) CONTEMPORARY CERAMICS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA208 pages, many colour illustrations, light blue cloth, dust jacket, a fine copy preserved ...

Fransen (Hans) THE CAPE CHAIR/ DIE KAAPSE STOEL The illustrated edition of the catalogue of an exhibition held in the Steelenbosch Museum in April...

Ogilvie (Grania) THE DICTIONARY OF SOUTH AFRICAN PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS799 pages, numerous illustrations in colour, simulated blue cloth titled in...

Richings (Gordon) THE LIFE AND WORKS OF CHARLES MITCHELL (Collectors Edition)Collectors’ Edition: 224 pages, frontispiece portrait of Charles Mitc...

Schoeman (Amy) TONES AND TEXTURES (Subscribersƒ?? edition)Photopoetry from Namibia. Prose - Dorian Haroff. First edition: Unpaginated (46 pages), ...

Skawran (Karin) and Macnamara (Michael) Editors WALTER BATTISS222 pages, illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, oatmeal cloth, a ve...

Staples (Chester O.) MILLS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA:viii, 228 pages, numerous colour photographs, maps as end papers. blue cloth titled gilt with gilt v...

Stevenson (Michael) ART & ASPIRATIONS (Sponsors' Edition)Sponsors’ Edition:199 pages, frontispiece portrait profusely illustrated throughout in co...

Stevenson (Michael) and Stewart ( Michael Graham) eds. SOUTH EAST AFRICAN BEADWORK 1850 -1910 With an introductory essay by Sandra Klopper. First ...

Stokhuyzen (F.) FREDERIKE STOKHUYSEN (Signed by the artist) Text by Marielle Renssen 128 pages, colour frontispiece, chiefly colour illustrations,...

Van Der Westhuizen (Pieter) LIFE LOVE AND LANDSCAPES: (Collectors' Edition - sample copy.)First edition: 160 pages, chiefly colour illustrations, ...

VladislaviŽ? (Ivan) Editor Tƒ??KAMA-ADAMASTOR188 pages, profusely illustrated in colour and black & white throughout – including 4 large fold-out ...

Col Colin Harding Frontier PatrolsHardcover. Condition: Near fine. Clean, tight. Inked name on half-title page, otherwise unmarked. Front board wi...

Lionel Decle Three Years in Savage AfricaHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. New Edition. 8vo. pp, xxxi, 594. 39 page publisher's list dated Nov.189...

Percy Selous and H A Bryden Travel and Big GameFirst edition, tall 8vo, pp 195, 6 drawings by Charles Whymper, (plate (moose), original green dec...

Alice Balfour Twelve Hundred Miles in a WaggonHardcover. Very Good plus maroon cloth gilt. 8vo. pp. 265. Colour fold-out map of Cape Colony and so...

Abel Chapman Memories of Fourscore Years Less Two 1851-1929Ppxxviii,257 + 3pp ads. Frontispiece portrait photograph, colour & b/w plates by W.H. R...