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Lord Byron: THE POETICAL WORKS OF LORD BYRONWith the additional steel engraved plates from Edward Francis Finden’s Illustrations of the Life and W...

General J. C. Smuts IMPORTANT ARCHIVE OF 33 ALS. (autograph letters signed) FROM JAN SMUTS TO HIS FIRST BIOGRAPHER, NATHAN LEVINathan Levi was a j...

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

Ayn Rand THE FOUNTAINHEADA very nice copy in dustwrapper of the first UK edition of this Ayn Rand highspot. There is slight offsetting (as usual) ...

John Campbell Travels in South Africa,First edition, in two volumes (pp. xii, 322; 384). Octavo (23 cm) in fine bespoke binding - polished red cal...

Major R. Meinertzhagen INTELLIGENCE NOTES ON BRITISH & GERMAN EAST AFRICA PREPARED BY THE INTELLIGENCE DEPT, BRITISH EAST AFRICA, MARCH ,1916This ...

Walter Battiss The Valley of Art (Signed with original watercolour)Marbled paper folder with cloth ties. Contains 35 individual loose paper plates...

Irma Stern Zanzibar (Limited/Signed)104 pages, full page and other illustrations throughout. Original multicolour raffia spine, beige cloth-covere...

Mann (Thomas) DEATH IN VENICE284 pages, bound in half red morocco by Baytun-Riviere, Bath with marbled endpapers and top edge gilt, signature of a...

NIMROD (Appperley C.J.) THE LIFE OF A SPORTSMANvi + (1 leaf contents and list of illustrations) + 402 pages, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece,...

Doves Press: KEATSSELECTED, ARRANGED AND PRINTED at the Doves Press, 15 Upper Mall, Hammersmith, by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson. Published and Sold and ...

Sir J. Percy Fitzpatrick Jock of the Bushveld (SIGNED)Signed on the title page "J Percy Fitzpatrick." His full name is Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick...

Hunter, J. A. White Hunter (true 1st edition)This is the true first edition and one of the scarcest African big game books to locate despite its ...

Latrobe (Rev. Christian Ignatius) JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA, IN 1815 and 1816First edition. vii + (i directions to binder) + 406 pages, f...

[Stout (Captain Benjamin)] NARRATIVE OF THE LOSS OF THE SHIP HERCULESMendelssohn (Sydney) South African Bibliography, volume 2, page 445, 'Captain...

Wallace (Edgar) THE MISSION THAT FAILED52 pages, original pictorial grey light card wrappers, worn at the edges of the covers and on the spine, a ...

AA VV Album of travel in South Africa in 1950'S of Borsalino's familyVery interesting album of a travel in South Africa made in the 1960's by the ...

Howarth, David & Stephen The Story of P & OP & O is as old as seagoing steamships and its story weaves like thread through the history of the Brit...

Solomon, Vivian Edgar The South African Shipping Question 1886-1914In this wonderfully well researched and scholarly work Dr Solomon has traced th...

Adema, Kees Netherlands Mail in Times of Turmoil Volume I 1568-1795The author's objective has been to analyse letters related to wars, military op...

Tabeart, Colin Australia New Zealand UK Mails to 1880/1881-1900 2 Volumes. (SIGNED COPIES)The aim of this new work by gold medal winning author of...

Syme, Marten. A Shipping Arrivals and Departures - Victorian Ports. 1798-1860. Three Volumes. (Volume 3 - Signed)This extensive work continues the...

Stammers, Michael. K The Passage MakersOver a century has passed since the fame and glory of the Liverpool Black Ball Line became subjects of lege...

Pama, C Lions and VirginsNo former colonial territory, aside from the United States of America, has a wealth of historical state symbols comparabl...

Sutton, John Lords of the East - The East India Company and its ShipsJean Sutton first became interested in the East India Company when her husban...

Karabell, Zachary Parting The Desert - The Creation of the Suez CanalThe building of the Suez Canal linking the Mediterranean and the Red Sea was ...

Goldblatt, Robert Postmarks of the Cape of Good Hope - Signed De Luxe Half Blue Morocco Bound + LettersThe Postal History and Markings of the Cape...

Byles, John Diary of a Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope in 1858 (Inscribed to author's sister)The following pages constitute the Diary I kept durin...

David Thomson Scott's Men330 pages. Dust jacket has some wear around edges.  Between the middle of January and the end of March 1912, five men die...

[Roppe (L.), Rock (P.) & Jonckheere (K.)] FRANS CLAERHOUTThis monograph has been produced by Lannoo for "The Friends of Frans Claerhout." Text in ...

Baines, the late Thomas; H Hall (editor); unknown (preface); H Rawlinson (obituary) The Gold Regions of South Eastern Africa (1877) Published some...

Johannes Meintjes MAGGIE LAUBSERA very good plus, clean, tight and unmarked copy of this scarce and desirable title, the first monograph on this i...

Frieda Harmsen MAUD SUMNER - PAINTER AND POETA very good plus copy of this scarce monograph in the original green pictorial boards. 4to. 231pp. Ex...

Campbell, Roy (poet) The Flaming Terrapin (1924) Durban-born Roy Campbell was perhaps South Africa's most famous poet. He dedicates this, his firs...

Tyrrell, Barbara (author and illustrator); and others Barbara Tyrrell trio (With T V Bulpin) African Heritage. 276 illustrated pp. Howard Timmins,...

Breytenbach, J H, (Staatshistorikus [State Historian]) Die Geskiedenis van die Tweede Vryheidsoorlog in Suid-Africa, 1899 -1902 (2 volumes [of 5],...

Various Medical Registers: 1. Orange River Colony (1904); 2. Colony of the Cape of Good Hope (1907); 3. Union of South Africa (1933)"Print on dema...

Cairns, Margaret; Wilhelm Gruter (editor) Cradle of Commerce (1974) Copy 125 of limited edition, signed by the author No dustjacket, black cloth-...

Brooke Simons, Phillida, and Michael Godby The Life and Work of Charles Bell (signed by the first author) Charles Davidson Bell (1813-1882), who w...

Lotsy, Dr J P, and Dr H N Kooiman (editors) (*) Genetica. Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor Erfelijkheids- en Afstammingsleer (No 10, in English, 1928...

Grogan, Tony (artist and author) Between the Cape and Cairo. Tony Grogan paints Malawi (dedicated by the author) (1995) "For Graham, with best wis...

Smuts, J C Greater South Africa. Plans for a Better World. The Speeches of J C Smuts (1940) The dustjacket is edge-chipped, with the condition oth...

Molsbergen, Dr E C Godee Stichter van Hollands Zuid-Afrika Jan van Riebeeck 1618-1677 (1912) "26 Portretten, Platen en Kaarten" No dustjacket, c...

Mossop, George Running the Gauntlet (two copies: first edition,1935, and 1990 reprint) Both editions of this title are included in the lot. The fi...

Not stated Cape Town Foreshore Plan. Final Plan (1948) The book shows the plans for a massive enlargement in the middle of the last century of Tab...

Ian Knight Three Zulu War titles (two dedicated by author) Zulu. Islandwana & Rorke's Drift 22-23 January 1879. Colour plates by Michael Chappell ...

Puyfontaine, Huguette Roy de Louis Michell Thibault 1750-1815 (1972) Born in France in 1750, Thibault was an early South African architect and eng...

Routledge FRGS, Edmund (editor) Every Boy's Annual (1884) First edition copy of this classic boys' book, published 136 years ago, dedicated to the...

Echard, Laurence (editor and publisher) An Abridgement of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World (1698) Copies of this 1698 book are very rarel...

Theal, George McCall The Yellow and Dark-Skinned People of Africa South of the Zambesi (1910)Theal's major ethnographical book, and the only one f...

Lighton, Norman (artist); A V Bird (editor); and C S Barlow The paintings of Norman Lighton for Roberts Birds of South Africa (fine copy of standa...

Angus, George French The Kafirs Illustrated. Facsimile reprint of 1849 edition with an introduction by Frank Bradlow. Copy 930 (1974) Hand-numbere...

The Rev. Stephanus Jacobus du Toit Di Eerste Boek van Moses genoem Genesis (first edition of the first Bible book translated into the Afrikaans la...

Robert Wilson, Herbert Randolph (edit.) Life of General Sir Robert Wilson (1862)"Life of General Sir Robert Wilson, from Autobiographical Memoirs,...

Hugh Marshall Hole The Making of Rhodesia (1926)414pp. Fifteen plates with four maps in text and fifth fold-out map at rear. All present. Publishe...

Sarel Erasmus [Douglas Blackburn] Pinsloo of Prinsloosdorp. A Tale of Transvaal Officialdom. [1899]"Pinsloo of Prinsloosdorp. A Tale of Transvaal ...

A. G. Hales Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa 1899 - 1900. Letters from the Front. (1900) First edition published by Cassell & Company ...

Wainwright, Geoff Hunting For Trouble. (Numbered & Signed Copy. 61 of 1000 copies)I have a story that must be told about hunting in Zambia and the...

Rohwe, Rolf Campside Tales. (Numbered and Signed copy 399 of 1000 copies)Stories from the life of a Professional Hunter in Zambia and Tanzania. Th...

Cameron, Mike with James Cameron My Wanderings Through Africa.(Signed and numbered first edition. 160/1000 copies)Reading these anecdotes, one can...