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*Sub Lieutenant Ronald Brimmell RNVR, WORLD WAR II SKETCHES IN NORTH AFRICA, TOBRUK AND CAPE TOWN, OF SHIPPING, DOCKS AND BUILDINGS Ten, pencil, charcoal, signed and variously inscribed, dated and numbered 23 x 31.5cm (10) *Artist's Resale Right may apply to this lot.

Assorted 20th century costume including a tweed and a black mohair full length cape, velvet jackets, dresses, gentleman`s evening suits, fancy dress costumes, Jean Allen blue and white checked evening dress etc (in four boxes)

Quantity of assorted modern ladies costume including a Pret a Porter gold lurex jacket (12); Calvin Klein and other shirts, separates etc, assorted circa 1960`s and later dresses and evening wear including a Jean Allen floral dress with spaghetti straps (size 14); Angela Gore cotton full length dress; Charmone black and white full length evening dress; two piece white trouser suit; white leather waistcoat; blue and white dog tooth check mini dress with zip front; David Butler by Pressler full length blue cape (size 12); two ethnic style two pieces in red and blue; Nicky Ferrari cotton jump suit, jacket and shorts in white with a leopard print (size 12); three wedding dresses, etc (quantity)

A South Africa and World War I medal group of seven to JW Ranford RAMC No 14402 - various ranks - comprising South Africa medal with Transvaal, Orange Free State and Cape Colony bars, Edward VII South Africa Medal with 1901 and 1902 bars, a 1914 Star, War Medal, Victory Medal, George V Meritous Service Medal and a Long Service and Good Conduct Medal

Cape Town Printing The Cape of Good Hope Government Gazette. Published by Authority. January 1, 1836 - December 30, 1836. COMPLETE YEAR Folio The complete Cape Government newspaper for the year 1836. January 1 - December 30, 1836. Issues 1567 - 1619 Printed by Samuel John Mollett at the Gazette Office. Each issue consists of about 8 - 12 pages of government proclamations, legal notices, ordinances, announcement of auctions & other sales, insurance notices, estates, market prices, shipping news & various adverts for publications, theatre, horse races, etc. etc. . In English & Dutch. A very valuable source for government notices, law, property & society at the Cape. A folio size volume, bound in 19th century half-calf, marbled boards & end-papers, leather splitting along hinges, leather corners & marbled covers rubbed, some slight tears to some pages, some pre-binding creasing & folds, some foxing, official postal franking top right corner of most issues. A really nice example of this early South African newspaper. Good+ Cape Town Cape Government 1836 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

John Barrow An Account of Travels Into the Interior of Southern Africa in the Years 1797 and 1798 (1802) 14x21.5cm An Account of Travels Into the Interior of Southern Africa in the Years 1797 and 1798; including cursory observations on the geology of the southern part of that continent; the natural history of such objects as occurred in the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms; and sketches on the physical and moral characters of the various tribes of inhabitants surrounding the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope. To which is annexed a description of the present state, population and produce of that extensive colony; with a map constructed entirely from actual observations, made in the course of the travels. By John Barrow, late Secretary to the Earl of Macartney, and Auditor-General of Public Accounts at the Cape of Good Hope. The First American from the London quarto edition. New cloth boards with gilt titles on spine in protective Brodart, new endpapers, [4] + 386 + folding map. Pages and map browned and foxed, previous owner`s Ex Libris stamp on inside front, small stamps and catalogue numbers appear on three pages, a tight and well preserved copy. Very Good New York GF Hopkins 1802 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Conder, Josiah A Popular Description of Africa: Geographical, Historical, and Topographical in 3 Volumes (1829) 9.8x15.3cm Hard cover, brown boards, Volume 1: Fold out map of Africa at the frontis + 374 numbered pages, three plates (complete). Boards have separated from text blocks which are still intact. Volume 2: pp. iv + 348, 6 plates (complete). Rear hinges cracked text blocks intact. Volume 3. pp. v + 323, 2 plates (complete), of Cape Town and Bethelsdorp. Front and rear hinges cracked but text blocks intact. Foxing on end papers but text pages in all 3 volumes are clean. Boards rubbed and faded. Fair/Binding copies London James Duncan c1829 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Anglo-Boer War: ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS: THE GUERILLA WAR IN THE CAPE COLONY 31 original photographs relating to the guerrilla war in the Cape Colony. Most 155 x 205 mm in size with a few smaller photographs of 120 x 165 mm. Each photograph bears a contemporary annotation on the back. The images include: The Oudtshoorn District Mounted Troops 23rd I.Y. Captain Griffiths squadron at Cradock Col. De Lisle?s column passing through Cradock A notorious rebel J. van Heerden receiving sentence of death which was commuted to penal servitude for life Major Maurice, The Commandant of Middelburg, reading the sentence of death passed on the rebel Marais Col. Copley and the officers of his column Of particular interest is a sequence of five photographs (each 155 x 205 mm) of the members of General Willem Fouche?s commando (some wearing captured British uniforms) posing for photographs, gathering rations, etc., after they had entered Cradock to surrender after the cessation of hostilities. The photographs are loose and are preserved in plastic sleeves. Some are a faded and four bear minor repairs but overall a remarkable series of photographs in good condition. No date, circa 1901-1902 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Pappe (L.) SYNOPSIS OF THE EDIBLE FISHES, at the Cape of Good Hope 8vo (215 x 135 mm) Second edition: 23 pages, grey printed paper wrappers, upper cover lightly stained and some foxing throughout. Good Cape Town W. Brittain, Bureau-Street 1866 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Christopher (J.S.) NATAL, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE 8vo (225 x 140 mm) a Grazing, Agricultural, and Cotton-growing country. Comprising descriptions of this well-endowed Colony from the year 1575 to the present time, by Government Officials and Travellers. With a Map of the Colony, and Engravings. With an Appendix, and a Vocabulary of the Natal or Zulu language. 146 pages, folding colour map as frontispiece, neatly repaired at folds (the paper is brittle), 4 tinted lithographic plates, errata slip tipped in opposite page 43, Addenda (pages 145/6) dated September 1850, full black calf with gilt borders and with red title label on the spine A South African Bibliography, volume 1, page 523, and volume 5, page 69, Mendelssohn (Sydney) South African Bibliography, volume 1, page 336, ‘The author was a staunch believer in the virtue of colonisation as a means of lessening suffering and poverty and he states that he “promoted emigration to Algoa Bay”?There is a short description of the country, with information of every description for the use of the colonists, together with article, contributed by various writers?’ Good London Effingham Wilson; Hatchard and Sons & Trelawny Saunders 1850 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Latrobe (Rev. C.I.) JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA, IN 1815 4to (270 x 220 mm) With Some Account of the Missionary Settlements of the United Brethren, near the Cape of Good Hope. 406 pages, folding coloured map as frontispiece with the author?s outward and return journeys outlined in red and blue, 12 fine hand coloured aquatint plates drawn by R. Cocking from sketches by the author, and 4 uncoloured plates, recent quarter blue leather titled and decorated in gilt on the spine, marbled paper sides, fold in title page strengthened with Japanese paper,some light foxing, the plates are crisp and well coloured. `South Africa in Print` comments about Latrobe that `He has left an important volume of travels with illustrations second only to those of Burchell`. Colvin in his introduction to Mendelssohn`s `Bibliography` describes the Journals as `written with much sweet piety and simplicity of spirit, yet (he) shows shrewdness of observation and a fine common sense.` Good London Published by L.B. Seeley 1818 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Warner, B & Rourke, J. Flora Herscheliana - Sir John & Lady Herschel at the Cape 1834-1838 Sir John and Lady Herschel at the Cape 1834 to 1838. 296 pages, colour frontispiece, 208 plates and illustrations - mostly in colour, beige cloth, an excellent copy in the dust jacket. The Brenthurst Press Third Series No. 2, one of an edition limited to 1025 copies 850 bound in cloth. Very Good to Fine Johannesburg The Brenthurst Press 1998 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

A. Wilmot. HISTORY OF THE ZULU WAR. 8vo Gilt title on red labels, brown half leather with green boards. raised bands & reproduction marbled endpaperss. vii + 249pp + advts. tissue-guarded frontis, foldout map, original sepia tipped-in photograph frontis. Newly rebound. ff a little browned else an attractive copy. Map & frontis in excellent condition. Includes appendix of articles originally published in the PE Telegraph including the despatch from Pietermaritzburg by Bartle Frere of February 12th. VG+ London & Cape Town Richardson & Best & A. White 1880 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

B.B. & B.G. Brock and H.C. Willis. HISTORICAL SIMON`S TOWN. Vignettes, Reminiscences And Illustrations Of The Harbour And Community... 4to ... From The Days Of The Dutch East India Co. And Of The Royal Navy At The Cape Of Its Administrators, Personalities And Buildings With Special Notes On Shipwrecks And Navigation. Blue cloth boards. 217pp illustrated b/w and coloured plates. No inscriptions, bookplate ffep else in Fine unread condition in protected d/w. as new. The definitive history of this early town - with good reference to the Royal Navy and its buildings - all dealt with in subject areas rather than one chronological progression. Fine Cape Town Balkema 1976 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

J.A. De Mist. THE MEMORANDUM OF COMMISSARY J.A. DE MIST. 8vo Original grey-green cloth boards. 290pp 8vo. Ownership inscription front pastedown, eps tanned. contents otherwise unmarked. Van Riebeeck Society First Series Volume 3. This is the report of the commission sent to the Cape in the critical years between the two British occupations. The purpose of the report was to decide on the future government of the Cape, but it ranged widely over social, economic and political conditions of the Cape at the end of the 18th century. De Mist was appointed Commissioner-General in 1802 when the transfer occurred. G-VG Cape Town Van Riebeeck Society 1920 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Osbert Wyndham Hewett. (Ed). `... AND MR. FORTESCUE`. A Selection from the Diaries from 1851 to 1862 of Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford, K.P. 8vo With TLS from Author. No inscriptions. top edge dusty o/w VG+ in VG dustwrapper. Comes with a 1-page Typed & signed letter from the Author dated August 1958 expressing great glee at the success of this book, also noting the prescence of his sister in Cape Town. There is also an original 1-page publisher`s promotional order form included. VG+ London John Murray 1958 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Brian Kearney. ARCHITECTURE IN NATAL. From 1824 To 1893. 4to Ochre cloth boards. 255pp illustrated b/w. 4to. Bookplate ffep. A Fine unread copy in protected VG+ d/w (spine fading, light wear only, no chips, loss or tears). The definitive reference to early Natal architecture. With over 500 illustrations and plans. Covers domestic and public buildings of the early colonial period, town planning, the influence of building techniques and materials, professional status and problems of architects, surveyors, and engineers. Fine Cape Town Balkema 1970-1973 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

J.L.Smail Historical Monuments and Battlefields in Natal and Zululand 25 X 32cm Historical Monuments and Battlefields in Natal & Zululand. Hardcover with unclipped dustcover. Interesting historical account of the History and Battlefields with maps and numererous photographs, in Natal & Zululand, Numbered 917 of 1500 copies.Very clean copy. Very Good Cape Town Howard Timmins 1965 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Doyle P.Liebenberg The Drakensberg of Natal 18 X 24.5cm A useful and practical book about the Drakensberg Mountains of Natal and Lesotho, containing many maps and showing various walks and climbs in detail.Some of these are folding. Illustrated boards with maps as endpapers.x,plus 178 pages detailed text, numerous references and an historical background outlining the past and also pointing out the dangers and conditions that prevail in this region. Detail about the early climbers,ascents and degrees of difficulty with contour maps. Very clean copy. No Marks. Very Good Cape Town T V Bulpin 1972 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Ian Morrison Durban.A Pictorial History-Limited Signed edition 13/100 copies.De Luxe Binding. 22 X 29cm Durban-A Photographic record of the changing face of the city of Durban,Ian Morrison has presented a fascinating array of old photographs showing Durban as it grew from that small settlement in the 1830`s to a gracious city. Although buildings are the focus of the book, many street scenes also capture the people, their styles of dress, and the progress of transport from horse and oxcart through to trams, buses and cars. Original deluxe red pimpled/leather, with gilt edges.Signed limited edition 13 of 100 copies only Very Good Cape Town Struik Publishers 1987 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Findlay, Professor George; preface by Professor Raymond Dart Dr Robert Broom. Palaeontologist & Physician 1866-1951 . . . 255 x 180 ` . . . Biography. Appreciation. Bibliography. The Taungs Skull. Sterkfontein. Kromdraai. Contributions to the Study of Man` This, the authoritative biography of the person acknowledged as one of South Africa`s three great palaeontologists (with Dart and Philip Tobias), was partly based on material for an autobiography passed to one of Broom`s sons, who subsequently declined the opportunity in favour of Finlay, the present author. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Broom`s 85-year life is that he was a medical practitioner for forty years between his early achievements at Victoria College, Stellenbosch, in the field of marsupial palaeontology and the last 17 years of his life, when as an elderly staff member of the Transvaal Museum he carried out the major work of his life in the field of man`s predecessors, including the australopithecines. Until he joined forces with J T Robinson, the co-author of many of his later publications, he preferred to work on his own. These publications - no fewer than 456 in number - remarkably included several on postage stamps and one recording an aloe named after him. Quarter-bound in brown simulated leather and tan cloth, gilt to the upper panel and the spine, this book, despite making use of typewriter-generated camera-ready copy, epitomises Balkema`s high production standards, including a superbly informative typographical tan cartridge dustjacket and excellent paper stocks for the xviii + 157 pp of text, chronology, bibliography and index and the 32 pp of inserted plates. Unmarked and undiscoloured, this is a superb copy in every respect. ÿ Fine Cape Town Balkema 1972 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Small, Adam (poet), Jansje Wissema (photographer), Willem Jordaan (designer) District Six (mint first edition) 300 x 247 On the back cover is the story of how the Cape Provincial Institute of Architects commissioned Dutch photographer Jansje Wissema to record the last days of District Six, how her negatives were not printed as she died soon after completing the commission and how the negatives were discovered (literally in a shoebox) almost twenty years later to form the main content of this magnificent production. Most copies of the first (1986) edition of this book were numbered and signed by Adam Small. This unmarked, fine copy is an exception to that rule, while maintaining the production values of the first edition (browner sepia duotone reproduction of the photographs and quality of the materials used). Drawn-on card covers printed in three colours and laminated; plain black `endpapers` front and back; 12 pp grey matt section with poem `Rising Up` by Adam Small; and 32 pp gloss art section with duotone sepia reproductions of 74 of Jansje Wissema`s evocative photographs of people and places in Cape Town`s District Six, which was demolished in 1968 in terms of the then Government`s Group Areas Act. Mint Johannesburg Fontein 1986 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Major Hook WITH SWORD AND STATUTE on the Cape of Good Hope Frontier 224 x 143 x 30 mm Detailed journal of the history of the frontier wars in South Africa from the 1840s to the Boer War and political developments up to 1907. Major Hook was closely associated with these events as an administrator and soldier. The frontispiece shows Fred Crewe rescuing Major Hook`s son Godfrey in Matabeleland. The original of this picture was presented to the Durban Art Gallery by Cecil Rhodes. The book is full of personal descriptions of dramatic historical events and makes very good reading. A scarce book, not often on sale. 32 b&w photographs and sketches, plus a photograph of Sir Walter Currie not included in the table of illustrations. 17 prelim pp and pp 1-434. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on front and spine. Blind stamped frame design on front and back cover. Top corners slightly bumped. Top and bottom edges of spine have small de-laminating tears. Spine sunned. Some foxing throughout, and on tissue guard of frontispiece and title page. Brown stains on prelim pp. Foxing pp 430-434. Back and front endpapers have thin cracks. No DJ. Apart from the defects noted, the book is in Very Good condition. On the ffe the author has written a gift inscription to the famous South African politician, Senator F S Malan. Malan has written his own name and address on the front endpaper. This book is the revised edition, published simultaneously by Juta (this red cloth)in Cape Town and Greaves, Pass and Co (green cloth) in London in 1907. Dated on last page facing p 434 by Greaves, Pass 1907. Cape Town Juta 1907 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Godlonton, R A Narrative of the Irruption of the Kaffir Hordes into the Eastern Province of the Cape of Good Hope 1834 - 1835 (Limited Edition) 220cm x 147cm A Narrative of the Irruption of the Kaffir Hordes into the Eastern Province of the Cape of Good Hope 1834-1835. Into the Eastern Province of the Cape of Good Hope 1834-1835. Including Parts I, II and III of the Introductory Remarks. Hard cover in original black cloth with gilt on spine and front, facsimile reprint (Africana Collectanea Series) of the 1835 edition, this being No. 436 of the edition limited to 750 copies. (xii) + 270 + 297pp + portrait frontispiece and 2 maps (1 folding). Partial browning to free endpapers. Previous owner`s inscription on flep, light wear to extremeties of dj. Very Good Cape Town C. Struik 1965 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Edited and text by J.C. Quinton, Vernon S. Forbes, Percival Kirby, et al. Francois le Vaillant - Traveller in South Africa and His Collection of 165 Water-Colour Paintings, 1781-1784 (Copy Number 101 of 250 Copies) 314mm x 240mm Two volume set. The total print run was limited to 2,500 copies, but this set is copy number 101 of 250 de luxe copies that were bound in full leather with gilt edges. Original full blue leather bindings with gilt titles on the spines. All edges gilt. Decorated end papers. Volume 1 has xx prelims, 172 text pages, followed by the colour plate section. Volume 2 has xiv prelims, 181 text pages, followed by the colour plate section. Two large folding maps. In addition to the 165 colour plates, there are 11 other full colour plates with general illustrations, portraits, etc. CONDITION DETAILS: This set is lightly used with minor signs of use. Clean and attractive Cape Town Library of Parliament 1973 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Mursalo, T A In Search of a Better Life. A Story of Croatian Settlers in Southern Africa 240 x 160 Despite being published fairly recently (privately, 32 years ago, in a workmanlike production by Printpak, Cape Town), this book, which describes the history and lives of a tiny ethnic and cultural minority of South Africans, is rare. It remains interesting, however, not only for its stated purpose of opening a window on this small community but for the tapestry its early chapters paint of the constituent parts of the then Yugoslavia, which has in more recent years been broken up again. The first Croatians came to South Africa in the 1870s, mainly to work on diamond mines and, later, on goldmines. The author has been able to source more than thirty interesting photographs, which, with several maps, are printed with the ix + 201 pp of text. The spine of the two-colour illustrated dustjacket is sunned. The black cloth-board covers, gilt to the spine, the plain endpapers and the illustrated text, appendixes and index are in very good condition, unmarked and undiscoloured. ÿ Very Good Johannesburg Author 1981 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Wallace, Edgar; introduction by Eric Rosenthal Unofficial Dispatches of the Anglo-Boer War (facsimile edition) 190 x 135 This Africana Collectanea volume is a reprint of Edgar Wallace`s first book. Full-colour laminated dustjacket. Full bound in red simulated leather, gilt to upper panel and spine. Plain endpapers. The xiii pp of prelims include Eric Rosenthal`s brief but lively pen-portrait of the author. Double-sided frontispiece, 332 pp of facsimile text and a new index. The jacket has been repaired, but the cover, binding and contents are unmarked and in better than good condition. This is No 465 of the limited Struik edition of one thousand copies. Before establishing himself as a prolific and highly successful thriller writer, Edgar Wallace had come to South Africa from Britain as a young man. He was soon appointed as a foreign correspondent for Reuters and the London Daily Mail, reporting both during and in the period leading up to the Anglo-Boer War. He then accepted an offer to be the first editor of the Rand Daily Mail, but rejoined the London Daily Mail after only nine months in the South African job. ÿ Good + Cape Town Struik 1975 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Scholtz, Leopold The S A D F in the Border War 1966-1989 220 x 155 We rarely list recently published books, either new or as new, but this title, which offers perhaps the best coverage, though very late, of the long-running bush war between South African forces on one hand and, on the other, Swapo (the South West African People`s Organisation), the MPLA in Angola and their Cuban allies, must be an exception. The military historian author, who was a correspondent during the last phase of the war, writes that an accurate picture of what happened did not start to emerge before the combatant sides, including, in the wings, the United States and the Soviet Union, started publishing original documents. Even now, Scholtz emphasises that his book `is only a first attempt; as further sources become public, the picture will become even fuller and more nuanced`. Paperback, xvi + 526 pp of text, notes and index + 32 pp of b/w photographs.   Mint Cape Town Tafelberg 2013 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Meintjes, Johannes The Sword in the Sand 14x25cm Hardcover Octavo (143x220mm) bound in the original dark grey cloth on boards with white title to spine, in Good condition; pictorial dust wrapper with some insect damage; 14 preliminary and 242 pages of text, including index; photographic frontispiece and 16 pages of black and white plates; Title page signed by the Author. Meintjes recounts the events surrounding the life, Boer War exploits and death of an Afrikaans folk hero. Gideon Jacobus Scheepers was born in Middelburg, Transvaal (then known as the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek [ZAR] or South African Republic). He joined the ZAR State Artillery as a heliograph operator at the age of 16. In 1898 he transferred to the Orange Free State Artillery Corps, to assist in establishing a signals section in that unit. During the Anglo-Boer War he initially served as a signaller in Natal. Later he took part in the Battle of Magersfontein. Thereafter he entered the Cape Colony as part of a Commando and was soon promoted to Commandant of his own Commando of 150 men. His orders were to disrupt British communications by destroying railways and telegraph lines. His successes caused a number of Cape Rebels to join his Commando. By the 10th October 1901 Scheepers was seriously ill, probably from appendicitis, and had to be abandoned at Kopjeskraal, a farm in the vicinity of Prince Albert. A part of Scheepers‹¨« Diary, written in a small notebook has survived, and covers the period from his surrender to his execution. Having surrendered to the British on the 11th October he was given medical treatment and later transferred to Graaff-Reinet. Although Scheepers was an officer of the OFS Artillery Corps, and therefore a prisoner of war, he was put on trial before a military tribunal on charges of murder, arson and damage to the railways. The court appears to have been totally biased and found him guilty on very slender evidence. He was sentenced to death and executed on the 18th January 1902. The manner of his execution led to international criticism. Good Cape Town Tafelberg-Uitgewers 1969 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Captain William Cornwallis Harris Wild Sports of Southern Africa (1844) 8vo,(180 x 245) The Wild Sports of Southern Africa, being the narrative of an expedition from the Cape of Good Hope, through the territories of the Chief Moselekatse, to the tropic of Capricorn, 26 colour plates, map,360pages, condition:very good. very good London Pelham, Richardson 1844 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Frank BRADLOW Thomas Bowler in Mauritius: a Detail in the History of Contacts Between the Cape of Good Hope & Mauritius 1866-1868 Thomas Bowler in Mauritius: a Detail in the History of Contacts Between the Cape of Good Hope & Mauritius 1866-1868. No. 174 of 300 copies, signed by Bradlow. A very good copy in the original 1/4 parchment, salmon paper boards, as issued. Some minor soiling and fading on the boards and edge wear, overall a very good, clean, attractive copy. Very Good A A Balkema 1970 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

J. W Grill J.F. Victorin`s Travels in the Cape - One of 100 bound in full leather J.F. Victorin`s Travels in the Cape: The Years 1853-1855. Hunting and Nature Pictures from the late Young Naturalist`s Letters and Diaries. FULL GREEN LEATHER with gilt titles on the spine and gilt device to the front board. Book Condition: Near fine in a very good dust-jacket. xvi + 125 pp. 9 Plates. Translated from the first Swedish edition by Jalmar and Ione Rudner. No. 34 / 100 copies only. The full edition was limited to 1200 copies, with 1-100 bound in full leather and the remaining copies were bound in cloth. Very Good to Fine Cape Town Struik 1968 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

George Cloete Visser OB - Traitors or Patriots? This is the first account, authoritative and factual, of a `war` within a war - the extraordinary story of the Ossewabrandwag in South Africa between 1938 and 1948. Pages 216, 25 chapters and 12 plates. Very good Cape Town Macmillan South Africa 1977 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Newspaper Alice Times and Seymour and Peddie Gazette, Cape Colony, 1878 320 x 465mm Alice, Victoria East, friday, july 26th, 1878, period advertisment, 4 pages, 320 x 465mm, condition:good.Printed and published by the proprietor, William Dewey, at his office, Alice, Cape Colony. good Alice William Dewey 1878 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Carruthers (Jane) MELTON PRIOR 4to (310 x 245 mm) War Artist in Southern Africa 1895 to 1900. 279 pages, frontispiece portrait, 89 illustrations from Prior`s sketches, top edge gilt, half leather, marbled boards, contained in a cloth slipcase. This copy was specially bound by Peter Carstens for presentation to speakers at the Financial Mail`s Investment in 1988 conference held at the Carlton Hotel, Johannesburg, on November 12 and 13 1987. Brenthurst Press Second Series No. 3. `The drawings of Melton Prior reflect a working life spent in the trouble spots of the British Empire. As a war artist employed by the Illustrated London News, Prior recorded both memorable moments and everyday events in the lives of colonials, soldiers and their opponents. In 1878 he was sent to Southern Africa for the first time, to cover the Eastern Cape frontier war. By the end of his career he had witnessed and recorded military campaigns in Basutoland, the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, the Transvaal War of 1880 to 1881, the Jameson Raid, the 1896 rebellion in Matabeleland, and the South African War of 1899 to 1902.` Editor`s note. Very good Johannesburg Brenthurst Press 1987 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Society Of Bibliophiles PHILOBIBLON. Journal Of The Society Of Bibliophiles In Cape Town. A5 Series 3 Nos. 1-35. January 1999 to November 2010 inclusive. Bound 4 volumes gilt on blue vynide. Last 4 issues loose. A5 format. A full run from 1999 to 2010. Well researched articles of Africana interest. Print and illustrations to a very high standard. Fine Cape Town Society Of Bibliophiles 1999-2010 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Bullock (Charles) THE MASHONA (The Indigenous Natives of S. Rhodesia) 8vo (220 x 145 mm) 400 pages, glossary, index, red cloth gilt. Light foxing on the preliminary pages including the title page, stamp of the Rhodesia Scientific Association on the front free endpaper and elsewhere in the text. Good Cape Town & Johannesburg Juta & Co., Ltd. No date (1927) Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Edited and text by J.C. Quinton, et al. Francois le Vaillant - Traveller in South Africa and his collection of 165 water-colour paintings 1781-1784 (Limited Edition) 312mm x 233mm Copy number 868 of an English edition limited to 2,500 copies. Complete two volume set. Original blue buckram boards with gilt titling on the spines and the upper boards. Decorated end papers. Volume one has xx prelims, 172 text pages, followed by the colour plate section. Volume two has xiv prelims, 181 text pages, followed the colour plate section. There are 165 full page full colour plates plus 11 further colour illustrations and two folding maps. CONDITION DETAILS: The books themselves are internally clean and attractive. The bindings have a little wear and light soil marks - see images provided. A reasonable set Cape Town Library of Parliament 1973 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Skota (T.D. Mweli) Editor & Compiler THE AFRICAN WHO’S WHO 8vo (220 x 145 mm) An Illustrated Classified Register and National Biographical Dictionary of the Africans in the Transvaal. Contributed by Leading Africans. 373 pages, photographic portraits accompany each entry, blue paper-covered boards – spine faded, a good copy. As well as the Who’s Who the volume includes a directory of churches with names and addresses of their leaders, schools, hospitals with a list of African doctors in the Transvaal and a directory of registered African nurses and midwives, a list of African writers and authors, and lists of merchants and traders. 3rd Edition (Revised and Enlarged). But the first edition thus. In 1930 and 1932 Skota published two edition under the title The African Yearly Register, being an illustrated national biographical (who’s who) of black folks in Africa, which covered the whole of the African continent. He explains in a preface that in the 1960’s political developments made compiling an Africa-wide Who’s Who impossible so he concentrated on the Transvaal with the intention of following this with editions for the Cape, Natal, O.F.S., Transkei and the British Protectorates. Included is a biography and photograph if Skota himself. Born in Kimberly. In 1912 he was organiser and later sub-editor of the Abanthu-Batho, then the only African newspaper in the Transvaal.In 1922 he founded and edited African Shield. He was later appointed president of the Bechuanaland and Griqualand West National Organisation which was subsequently banned. He was also an executive member of the All-African Convention. Johannesburg, Distributed by the Central News Agency, limited., No date (circa 1965) Good Johannesburg No date (circa 1965) Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Heller (D.) IN SEARCH OF VOC GLASS (De Luxe Edition) 4to (250 x 190 mm) 103 pages, frontispiece, 21 plates, original dark blue simulated leather, the gilt titling on the upper cover and spine has worn away. No 233 of the Special De Luxe Edition limited to 300 copies signed by the author. Good Cape Town Maskew Miller Limited No date (circa 1951) Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Neville Lewis Studio Encounters: Some reminiscences of a Portrait Painter 182 pages and 16 plates. Kings, revolutionaries, sportsmen and artists jostle one another in these reminiscences of South Africa`s leading portrait-painter. People such as Churchill, the King of Spain, Montgomery, Solly Joel, Smuts and Luthuli. Very good Cape Town Tafelberg 1963 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Editor: Jaques Malan South African Music Encyclopedia 4 volumes A most beautiful set of four volumes in pristine condition. Pages 458, 513, 381 and 520. Very good Cape Town Oxford University Press 1979 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

M Whiting Spilhaus South Africa in the Making 1652-1806 422 pages. This book is in pristine condition. Chapters include: The Dutch East India Company occupies the Cape, Governer Simon van der Stel, Adriaan van der Stel, the burghers make a stand, Graaff-Reinet, The war and the Cape, Cape Colony under British Occupation, Lord Macartney is appointed Governor, the Siege of Graaff-Reinet, the Dutch Government takes over the Cape..... Very good Juta & Company 1966 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Gabriel de Jongh Boekenhoutfontein (Paul Kruger`s Farm House) 665 x 480mm Fine Art Print, dimensions of paper: 665 x 480mm, dimensions of print : 580 x 380mm, condition:very good.Built near Rustenburg (1872) in the Cape Dutch style of the Colesberg area, Kruger lived and worked from the farm as Commandant General and Vice President of the Zuid-Afrikaanse Republiek and was living here at the time of the annexation of the Transvaal.Gabriel Cornelis de Jongh, painter, was the son of landscape artist, Tinus de Jongh. The farm and structure are mentioned in The Historical Monuments of South Africa by J.J Oberholster. very good 1969 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Cullinan, Patrick Robert Jacob Gordon 1743-1795 4to An excellent, very near fine copy, in the slipcase, which is bumped on the bottom corner, with the book`s corner likewise slightly bumped. `The full-length biography of the remarkable 18th century explorer, soldier and scientist, following his explorations in Southern Africa, his military service at the Cape, and concluding with his tragic suicide after the surrender of the Cape to the British in 1795. Of Scottish descent, he was first and foremost a Dutchman, serving initially in the elite Scots Brigade, and later with the Dutch East India Company, rising to the rank of Colonel and commanding the Cape Garrison from 1780-1795. Of his six journeys, only the journals of the four made between 1777 and 1786 have so far come to light. It is these records - discovered in 1964 after over 150 years of obscurity - that provide the basis for this masterful study of Gordon the man.` 215pp. beautifully illustrated in colour. Near fine condition. near fine Cape Town Struik Winchester 1992 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Anderson (Mark Robert Dunbar) BLUE BERG - BRITAIN TAKES THE CAPE 251mm x 197mm x 16mm `An Account of the 1806 Battle of Blaauwberg and the Participants as well as the Causes leading up to this, the Second Occupation of the Cape by the British`. 207pp. Blue Hardcover boards, silver-foil titling and DW. Illustrated in colour and b/w on gloss stock. DJ has colour painting by Angus McBride, entitled `The Highlanders land, under fire, on Melkbos beach` Small speck to edge of text-block. Else fine throughout. Fine South Africa Mark Robert Dunbar Anderson 2008 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Esme Bull Aided Immigration from Britain to South Africa 1857-1867 766p. Contains information on transportation of immigrants, settlement at the Cape. Also a list of British immigrants to South Africa. Very good Pretoria HSRC 1991 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

John R.Rourke & Fay Anderson The Proteas of Southern Africa 255 x 330mm Purnell, text by John P.Rourke (Compton Herbarium, National Botanic Gardens of S.A.), illustrated by Fay Anderson, Lura Ripley and others, list of subscribers, historical background, systematic account, bibliography, glossary, index, 236 pages, condition:very good. The author was asked to recommend a book in which all Protea species in South Africa are described And illustrated. This is the book to answer that enquiry. very good Cape Town Purnell 1980 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

`Wine and Spirit` The Wine Book of South Africa (1936) 160 x 245mm The Wine Book of South Africa, The Western Province of the Cape and its Wine Industry, hardcover, text by Major Leslie Cox, period advertisment, 224 pages, condition: very good.Overseen by the editor of the `Wine and Spirit` magazine, this book is a showcase of the Cape Wine Industry . very good Stellenbosch Wine And Spirit 1936 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

George Carter The Wreck of the Grosvenor (reprint) 145 x 205mm Softbound facsimile reprint, THE WRECK OF THE GROSVENOR: containing a Narrative of the Loss of The Grosvenor, East Indiaman, wrecked on the Coast of Caffraria, 1782; by Mr.George Carter from the examination of John Hynes,one of the survivors: And JOURNAL OF A JOURNEY from the Cape of Good Hope undertaken in 1790 and 1791, by Jacob Van Reenen and others of his Countrymen, in Search of the Wreck of the Honourable The East India Company`s Ship The Grosvenor to discover if there remained alive any of the unfortunate sufferers. With additional notes, and a map by Capt. Edward Riou (1792). With a Preface by C. Graham Botha, M.A., Van Riebeeck Society for the Publication of Southern African Historical Documents, fold-out map, 207 pages,145 x 205mm, condition:very good. The Grosvenor was a three-masted East Indiaman of 729 ton displacement on her return voyage (to England) when she was wrecked ( 4 August 1782 ) on the Pondoland coast. She was carrying a crew of 132 and 18 passengers (12 adults and 6 children) with a cargo valued at £75,000. Of the 123 survivors, only 18 reached Cape Town and were repatriated to England. the remainder dying of their injuries or trying to reach safety. Others were killed , or joined local Bantu tribes. This latter aspect is still contentious and is covered by Hazel Crampton in `The Sunburnt Queen` and Stephen Taylor`s, `Caliban`s Shore: The Wreck of the Grosvenor and the Strange Fate of Her Survivors`.These facsimile reprints were originally published in 1791 and 1792. very good Cape Town Van Riebeeck Society 2008 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Holden, Rev. William C. History of the Colony of Natal (De luxe edition) 220mm x 145mm This is the fourth title in the Africana Collectanea series. This is copy number 45 of the leather bound de luxe edition which was limited to 50 copies - the total number printed, including the standard edition was 750 copies. Original brown leather spine and corners with a green title label on the spine with gilt titling and the publisher`s device on the upper board. 8 prelims followed by a facsimile of of the 1855 edition with viii prelims, 463 text pages followed by a 12 page index, colour tinted frontis with a total number of 18 illustrations BUT WITHOUT the maps and charts called for in the original edition. CONDITION DETAILS: A few signs of light use. A clean copy Cape Town C. Struik 1963 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Collins, Wm. W. Free Statia - Reminiscences of a Lifetime in the Orange Free State (De luxe edition) 220mm x 143mm This is the 12th volume in the Africana Collectanea series. This is copy number 25 of the 50 de luxe copies bound in leather. The total edition, including the standard edition was 750 copies. Original brown leather spine and corners with a gree title label on the spine with gilt titling and the publisher`s device on the upper board. 8 prelims, 344 pages, 8 illustrations which were taken in facsimile from Backhouse`s Narrative and the frontis portrait of Sir John Brand is from the Excalibur Portrait Gallery. CONDITION DETAILS: There is a book plate on the front paste down. A lightly used copy with minopr signs of use. A clean copy Cape Town C. Struik 1965 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Casalis, Eugene My Life in Basutoland - A Story of Missionary Enterprise in South Africa (De luxe edition) 190mm x 131mm This is the 38th volume in the Africana Collectanea series. This is copy number 50 of the de luxe edition bound in leather which was limited to 50 copies. The total edition, including the standard edition was 750 copies. Original brown leather spine and corners with a green title label on the spine with gilt titling and the publisher`s device on the upper board. This is a facsimile of the 1889 edition, 8 prelims, 300 pages. CONDITION DETAILS: A few scuff marks on the binding, otherwise a clean copy. A clean copy Cape Town C. Struik 1971 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Casalis, Rev. E. The Basutos; or, Twenty-Three Years in South Africa (De luxe edition) 207mm x 136mm This is the 16th title in the Africana Collectanea series. Copy number 29 of the de luxe edition bound in leather and limited to 50 copies. The total print run was 750 copies, including the standard edition. Original brown leather spine and corners with a green title panel on the spine and gilt titling with the publisher`s device on the upper board. 8 prelims, followed by a facsimile of the 1861 edition with xix prelims, 361 pages, a folding map and 29 illustrations. CONDIYION DETAILS: The yellow tinting on the frontis normally leaves some off-setting on the title page, as in this copy. A lightly used copy. A clean copy Cape Town C. Struik 1965 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Chase, John Centlivres The Cape of Good Hope and the Eastern Province of Algoa Bay, etc. etc. With Statistics of the Colony (De luxe edition) 195mm x 118mm This is the 25th volume in the Africana Collectanea series. Copy number 40 of the de luxe leather bound edition limited to 50 copies. The total print run was 750 copies, including the standard edition. Original brown leather spine and corners with a green title label on the spine with gilt titling and the publisher`s device on the upper board. 6 prelims, followed by a facsimile of the 1843 Pelham Richardson, London editio, xvi prelims, 338 pages, a new index taking the pagination to 358, a large folding map with four pictorial views, black and white illustrations. CONDITION DETAILS: A few signs of light use. Sight toning to the end papers. A booksellers label on the front paste down. A clean copy Cape Town C. Struik 1967 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Hensman, Howard Cecil Rhodes - A Study of a Career (De luxe edition) 219mm x 146mm This is the 46th volume in the Africana Collectanea series. Copy number 19 of 50 de luxe copies that were bound in leather. The total edition, including the standard edition was limited to 1,000 copies. Most of the titles in the series are facsimiles, but this edition is called the second edition, the 1901 William Blackwood edition being the first. xvi prelims, 382 pages, 6 black and white illustrations and a large folding map of Rhodesia at the rear. CONDITION DETAILS: A lightly used copy. Bookseller label on the front paste down. A clean copy Cape Town C. Struik 1974 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Anderson, Andrew A. Twenty-Five Years in a Wagon. Sport and Travel in South Africa (De luxe edition) 219mm x 149mm This is the 48th volume in the Africana Collectanea series. Copy number 47 of 50 de luxe copies bound in leather. Including the standard edition, the total print run of this edition was limited to 1,000 copies. Original brown leather spine and corners with a green title label on the spine and gilt titling and the publisher`s device on the upper board. The lay out of this edition follows that of the `New Edition in One Volume` of 1888 published in London by Chapman and Hall. xiii prelims, 427 pages, 14 illustrations and a fold out map at the rear. CONDITION DETAILS: The title label is holding firm, but the edges are not properly glued down. Bookseller label on the front paste down. A previous owner had a plastic covering, which when removed, left some tape residue marks on the end papers. Attractive Cape Town C. Struik 1974 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Andersson, Charles John Notes of Travel in South Africa (De luxe edition) 222mm x 145mm This is the 31st volume in the Africana Collectanea series. Copy number 8 of 50 de luxe copies that were bound in leather. The total print run, including the standard edition, was 750 copies. A few chapters on hunting. Original leather spine and corners with a green title label on the spine and gilt titling and the publisher`s device on the upper board. 6 prelims followed by a facsimile of the 1875 Hurst and Blackett, London, editio. CONDITION DETAILS: The binding has a few scuff marks. A bookseller`s label on the front paste down. A sound copy Cape Town C. Struik 1969 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

Louis Liebenberg The Art of Tracking: The Origin of Science x, 176p, illustrated. Pictorial boards, slight foxing to endpapers. In a wide ranging book, Liebenberg looks at all aspects of tracking, from principles, classification of spoor, evolution of tracking, and hunter gatherers of the Kalahari. A clean, neat copy. Very good Cape Town David Philip 1990 Click here to view further details and images and to bid

John Martineau The Life and Correspondence of Sir Bartle Frere - Two vol set (includes letters) Contains original letter in envelope from Sir Bartle`s wife, Catherine to John Richards esq, Secretary to the Divisional Council, Cape of Good Hope after Sir Bartle Frere`s death. Vol 1: xi, 516p, frontispiece portrait, sketches, 3 single page maps, 2 fold-out maps (Sind and India). Vol 2: vii, 469p. frontispiece, sketches, fold-out route map of Zanzibar mission, fold-out map of South Africa. Original maroon cloth with gilt Frere coat of arms on front boards, gilt lettering on spine. Corners are bumped, stickers on spine. Head and foot of spine are slightly worn and some damage to cloth edges in places. There are a few holes (insect) on front paste-down and first few pages of Vo 1. Ex-libris bookplate of Sir Hugh Clifford on front paste-down. C. Frere`s name stamped on ffep, also Gertrudae A. Frere`s name in faded ink and date of 1903. Fair London John Murray 1895 Click here to view further details and images and to bid