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John Tallis Cape ColonyThis attractive map of the Cape Colony appeared in the Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World, Geographical, Pol...

Buchanan, Capt. Angus Three Years Of War In East AfricaBuchanan relates his military experiences fighting the Germans and their askaris near Mt. T...

Murray, T. Douglas & A. Silva White Sir Samuel BakerMurray, the executor of Samuel Baker’s estate, teamed with White to pen a biography of the fam...

Wild, Commander Frank Shackleton's Last VoyageLed by Ernest Shackleton, this account includes extracts from the diary he kept from 24-28 September...

Stobbe, Dr. L. H. O. Hunting In PersiaIn this privately printed work, Dr. Stobbe recounts hunting ibex in the Zagros Mountains in Iran, gazelle on...

Jean Baptiste d'Apres de Mannevillette Vue de la Baye de False / Vue de la Rade de Simons-Baye.Beautiful 1775 sea charts and silhouette views of F...

Field Intelligence Department KimberleyThis 1900 folded map of the district of Kimberley is one of the products of the Anglo-Boer War.The map show...

Guillaume Delisle Carte du Congo et du Pays de CafresThe first modern map of South Africa produced in 1708 by the famous Guillaume Delisle, who br...

Willem Blaeu Aethiopia inferior vel exteriorWillem Blaeu's famous map of Southern Africa which was the standard map of the region in the 17th cent...

Jean Baptiste d' Anville Untitled map of Southern AfricaThis is the southern half of the landmark map of Afica by d'Anville. His map was the next ...

Eberhard von Koenen Heil - und Giftpflanzen in S?¬dwestafrika272 p, ill. Abstract: 'Das schön ausgestattete und durch ganzseitige Schwarz-Weiss-Ze...

Graham Viney & Philida Brooke Simons The Cape of Good Hope 1806 - 1872Brenthurst Second Series Number 10, Standard, cloth bound edition which was ...

Basil Le Cordeur; Christopher Saunders The war of the axe 1847'In 1846, a man was caught stealing an axe in Fort Beaufort, a small eastern-frontie...

Vernon S Forbes & John Rourke Paterson's Cape Travels 1777 to 1779Number 6 in the first Brenthurst Series; an exposition of Paterson the traveller...

Anna H Smith Cape Views and Costumes Water-colours by H.C. de MeillonCape Views and Costumes by Henry Clifford de Meillon is the third volume in t...

George Thompson Travels and Adventures in Southern AfricaSecond edition of 'one of the best (books) ever written upon South Africa' ... ' his powe...

British South African Company The British South African Company - MapsA scarce and historically important set of three colonial maps of Southern R...

Map. GOLD MINES AND MINERAL RIGHTS OF THE ORANGE FREE STATE & S.W.TRANSVAALFull colour map mounted on linen and folded (110 x860 mm), a very good ...

S.N. Sterling Silver Bookmarks.Four beautiful 19th century silver bookmarks. The finials are all marked "sterling." They are very practical and lo...

George McCall Theal, Litt.D., LL.D. Catalogue of Books and Pamphlets.Title page bears library stamps. Spine faded and rubbed top and bottom. Libra...

Burrows, Edmund H. OVERBERG TRILOGY:1. OVERBERG OUTSPAN: a chronicle of people and places in the southwestern districts of the Cape; illustrated b...

Balfour, Alice THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN WATERCOLOURS OF ALICE BALFOUR.8 pages of text; 10 loose leaves of captioned colour illustrations, interleaved ...

Count Joseph Potocki Sport in Somaliland. De Luxe Edition 259 of 500 copies. The African Collection 1988.Full brown leather De Luxe edition, with ...

Hamilton, General Douglas Records Of Sport In Southern IndiaAn excellent work on sport in Southern India, this provides a mixture of hunting in th...

Foster, David The Scientific AnglerFoster was an acknowledged authority upon all branches of angling. This book has been compiled from his own MS....

Austen (H.C.M) SEA FIGHTS AND CORSAIRS OF THE INDIAN OCEAN229pp. Original cloth hardcover with gilt title to spine. Coloured frontispiece, three m...

Jodocus Hondius II Africae Pars Meridional.Arguably the best engraved antique miniature map (13.4 x 9.1cm) of South Africa, engraved by Jodocus Ho...

J.M. Barrie - Arthur Rackham Illustrations PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS - ARTHUR RACKHAM ILLUSTRATIONSAlthough not dated, this is the 1912 Rack...

Izaak Walton - Arthur Rackham Illustrations THE COMPLEAT ANGLER - FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITIONA very good copy of first Rackham illustrated t...

Flack (Peter) HUNTING THE SPIRAL HORNS BUSHBUCKPpxxii, 410pp, photographs throughout, b/w photographs, colour illustrations, maps, photograph end-...

Richard Meinertzhagen Nicoll's Birds of Egypt. Published under the Authority of the Egyptian Government (1930)Complete with author's portrait on f...

Claude Gibney Finch-Davies The Birds of Southern Africa (De Luxe Collector's Edition limited to 250 copies)DE LUXE COLLECTORS' EDITION, NUMBER 235...

Thomas Baines (illustrations), R. F. Kennedy (Text) The Birds of South Africa painted by Thomas Baines (1820-1875) De Luxe Limited edition"Compris...

Harland (Richard) NDLOVU"African Hunter" guide to Ndlovu: the art of hunting the African elephant by Richard Harland... foreword by Craig Boddingt...

Wolhuter (Harry) MEMORIES OF A GAME-RANGERPpxiv,316. B/w plates, line illustrations throughout, end-paper maps. Green cloth, upper board titled in...

Various (SA Art Library) LOT OF 7 SOUTH AFRICAN ART LIBRARY TITLESLot of 7 hardcover titles with DW's, each individually featuring a popular South...

Osborn, Max Irma SternJunge Kunst Band 51. Mit einem Auszug aus dem "tagebuch einer malerin" und 32 bildern. 2929 pages of letterpress (of which 7...

Walter Battiss The Artists of the Rocks (Limited/signed edition)Limited to 500 copies, this is no. 223, signed by Battiss. 250pp. 100 pages of tex...

John North & Brown, R.A. [ed.] THE ROAD TO ULUNDI:66 pages: chiefly illustrations (some colour), portraits (1 as frontispiece), map. Oblong quarto...

Payne, S.H.C. (Captain) SAS INKONKONI 1885-1985Blue Boards with gilt lettering, in very good dust wrapper. The SAS Inkonkoni unit served the Royal...

Mills, Gus, and Lex Hes (compilers); John Hanks (foreword) The Complete Book of Southern African Mammals (1997) Colour-illustrated dustjacket, gre...

Cameron, Will J. From Cape Town To The Belgian CongoCameron delivered an address relating his African experiences to the Executives' Club of Chica...

Mark Twain PUDD'NHEAD WILSON, More Tramps Abroad, Life on the Mississippi, The American Claimant1. Pudd'nhead Wilson - Frontispiece portrait of th...

Willem Steenkamp & Helmoed-R??mer Heitman MOBILITY CONQUERSHardcover with dust jacket, 1152 pages with 61 maps, c 400+ photos, 2pp of colour (bad...

Struben (H.W.) RECOLLECTIONS OF ADVENTURESvi plus 208pp. Original green cloth hardcover. B/W frontis. Faded spine. Previous owner's signature to f...

Hepburn (James Davidson) TWENTY YEARS IN KHAMA'S COUNTRY AND PIONEERING AMONG THE BATAUANA OF LAKE NGAMIxvi, 397pp., portrait frontispiece, text i...

Du Val (Charles) WITH A SHOW THROUGH SOUTHERN AFRICA AND PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF THE TRANSVAAL WAR...with a description of the diamond fields. x...

Stephen Black. (Ed). THE SJAMBOK"A Weekly Critical Paper For The Spreading Of Truth". A satirical magazine that might be regarded as the 'Private ...

A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland (authors); [Andrew Bell] (160 copperplates) Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: in...

Ball, John S; Patricia van de Ruit (illustrator); Jane Browning (editor) Epiphytic Orchids (1978)Colour-illustrated dust jacket, red faux leather ...

Beckwith, Carol, and Angela Fisher (photographers); Graham Hancock (text)) African Ark. People of the Horn (1990)"The Horn" is the Horn of Africa ...

Fisher, Angela Africa Adorned (1984)Seven sections: East Africa - The Body as Art  Equatorial Africa - Treasures and Trade Old Africa - Pockets o...

Gordon-Brown, A Christopher Webb Smith. An Artist at the Cape of Good Hope 1837-1839 (1965)The then recently rediscovered Christopher Webb Smith w...

Hillegas, Howard C With the Boer Forces (1900/1987)Number 472 of 1000 signed and numbered copies, facsimile copy in the Scripta Africana series of...

Rodger Commercial & Press Photos GANDHI AND JINNAHShows Gandhi & Jinnah walking side by side. Original bromide print. Our Ref. #27467Bombaynd. c.1...

Steyn, Peter, and Graeme Arnot Hunters of the African Sky (1990)Copy of unnumbered first edition of 1990 limited to 4000 copies. Colour-illustrate...

Cartwright, A P (author); Benny Gruzin (illustrator) The Gold Miners (1962)First edition with preface by the President of the Transvaal and Orange...

Henning, C G GRAAFF-REINETMinor wear to spine upper and lower. Well Illustrated with diagrams, manuscripts and photographs. Pictorial Boards. A me...

Kokusen'ya Kassen A Lady in Chinese Costume by Suisho Nishiyama (1879 - 1958)Original Suisho Nishiyama (1879 - 1958) Japanese Woodblock Print Koku...

Abb?? Dicquemare (French) Carte Des C??tes Occidentales De FranceNautical chart in black and white. Nautical chart drawn by Abbé Dicquemare for "L...