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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...

Abraham Ortelius Africae tabula novaThis is a beautiful, rare example of a landmark map of Africa that appeared in the first Atlas: Theatrum Orbis...

Lieut.-Col. W.E. Montague BESIEGED IN THE TRANSVAALThe rare first edition of this book. SABIB Vol. 3, Page 359. It was published in wrappers but t...

AA VV GALERIE DE RUBENS DITE DU LUXEMBOURG OUVRAGE COMPOSE DE VINGT-CINQ ESTAMPESScarce edition of 1809 of the wonderful album of Gallery of Ruben...

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...

Photograph Album ANGLO BOER WAR288 sepia toned photographs depicting various scenes during the Boer War. They all have handwritten captions, but n...

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 ...

Jean Frederic Phelipeaux (1701-1781) CARTA DI TUTTE LE ISOLE CONOSCIUTE NELLE COSTE DI ZANGUEBAR E MADAGASCARCARTA DI TUTTE LE ISOLE CONOSCIUTE NE...

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 ...

Cassini Giovanni Maria (1745-1824) Parte dell'Africa che comprende l'Alta Guinea con la NigriziaOriginal map of 1797 featuring Guinea and its Gulf...

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...

AA VV SOUTH AFRICAVery beautiful map of South Africa, coloured by hand, big size. Author: Blackie & Son Glasgow Date: 1870 circa Technique: etchin...

Mallet Allain Manesson (1630-1706) CAP DE BONE ESPERANCEView of Cape of Good Hope of 1719 by Allain Manesson Mallet. A view of the Dutch Fort of C...

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 ...

Various Bundle of Letters to John Dickson from various South African HistoriansBundle of letters addressed to the late John Dickson from various S...

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...

Defence Headquarters, Pretoria Union Military Discipline Code, Regulations, and Orders and Instructions (1913) Seldom found except in "print on de...

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...

Various Women of South Africa (1913) A curiosity 316 pp of prelims followed by photographs and brief biographies of hundreds of the famous women ...

Boonzaaier, P C (artist) Rand Faces (1915) Boonzaaier was one of the best-known caricaturists and cartoonists of his time Covers lightly edge chi...

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...