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South African Library MAPS OF AFRICA Proceedings of the Symposium on Maps held at the South African Library, Cape Town on 24-26 November 1988. 176 pp. Illustrated soft cover. Illustrated in b/w. Previous owner`s rubber stamp to pre-title pages. Fine condition. Maps of Africa since 1486. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: South African Library Publication Date: 1989 Condition: Fine Size: 212mm x 148mm x 11mm Category: Mountaineering Reserve: $30 Click here to view further details and images

[Arnold (Marion) Editor] SOUTH AFRICAN BOTANICAL ART Peeling Back the Petals. 216 pages, 130 plates mostly coloured, green cloth, a very good copy in the dust jacket. Standard Edition, 2000 unnumbered copies. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: Fernwood Press Publication Date: 2001 Condition: Very Good Size: 4to (300 x 230 mm) Category: Botanical Reserve: $20

Baraitser (M.) & Obholzer (A.) CAPE COUNTRY FURNITURE A pictorial survey of regional styles, materials and techniques in the Cape Province of South Africa. With an historical introduction by Dr Mary Alexander Cook. De Luxe Edition: 367 pages, map, 891 illustrations, quarter brown leather with marbled boards, a very good copy. Number 180 of the De Luxe edition limited to two hundred copies, signed by the authors. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: A. A. Balkema Publication Date: 1971 Size: 4to (280 x 205 mm) Category: Antiques & Collectibles Reserve: $50

Fairbridge (D.) HISTORIC HOUSES OF SOUTH AFRICA 191 pages, colour frontispiece and 10 colour plates after Gwelo Goodman, numerous black & white plates and text illustrations, blue gilt decorated cloth a little worn at the top and bottom of the spine, a good copy. Publisher Place: London & Cape Town Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication Date: 1922 Condition: Good Size: 4to (295 x 233 mm) Category: Architecture Reserve: $50

Fransen (Hans) ARCHITECTURAL BEAUTY OF THE OLD CAPE AS SEEN BY ARTHUR ELLIOTT Photographs of houses and farmsteads now largely demolished or ruined taken at the beginning of the twentieth century. 343 pages, frontispiece portrait, 162 plates, grey cloth, a good copy in the dust jacket. `Of the nearly ten thousand negatives in the Elliott Collection less than 2000 are of architectural subjects. Of these, 160 of the best and most interesting have been selected, nearly all depicting subjects no longer in existence. The thirty-odd photographs of scenes that do still exist unchanged today have been included because they are Elliot`s `classics`. They also introduce a note of optimism. `Editor`s note. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: A.A. Balkema Publication Date: 1969 Condition: Good Size: Oblong 4to (275 x 285 mm) Category: Architecture Reserve: $40

Jowell (Phyllis) & Fold (Adrienne) INTO KOKERBOOM COUNTRY Namaqualand’s Jewish Pioneers. 159 pages, illustrated with old photographs throughout – some in colour, brown cloth, a very good copy in the dust jacket. ‘This chronicle of the Jews of Namaqualand tells the remarkable story of a small group of immigrants who sought freedom and economic opportunity in a remote and arid corner of South Africa. Their determination to succeed in carving out a life for themselves and their families is described in a history spanning 120 years, from mid-1950s to the late 1970s.’ Editor’s note. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: Fernwood Press Publication Date: 2004 Condition: Very Good Size: Oblong 4to (245 x 280 mm) Category: Africana Reserve: $40

Kemp (A.) & Calburn (S.) THE OWLS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 184 pages, colour frontispiece, numerous colour plates and text illustrations, decorated cream cloth, dust jacket, a very good copy in the pictorial card slip case. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: Struik Winchester Publication Date: 1987 Condition: Very Good Size: 4to (308 x 240 mm) Category: Ornithology Reserve: $30

Wallis (J.P.R.) THOMAS BAINES His Life and Exploration in South Africa, Rhodesia and Australia, 1820 - 1875. Illustrated by a selection of Thomas Baines` water-colours, drawings and prints. With captions and a new introduction by F.R. Bradlow. 235 pages, frontispiece portrait, 8 colour plates, numerous black & white illustrations, brown cloth, a very good copy in the dust jacket. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: A. A. Balkema Publication Date: 1975 Condition: Very Good Size: Square 4to (270 x 270 mm) Category: Biography, Letters & Diaries Reserve: $40

Wilson (M.L.), Toussant van Hove-Exalto (Th.) & van Rijssen (W.J.J.) Editors: CODEX WITSENII Annotated watercolours of landscapes, flora and fauna observed on the expedition to the Copper Mountains in the country of the Namaqua undertaken in 1685-6 by Simon van der Stel, Commander at the Cape. Copied at the Cape in 1692 for Nicolaas Witsen, Mayor of Amsterdam, Member of he Chamber of the Dutch East India Company, Ambassador to Great Britain, Etc., Etc. 90 pages, frontispiece portrait of Witsen, 160 colour plates, simulated vellum boards, dust jacket, signed by all three editors on the title page, a very good copy. Publisher Place: Cape Town & Amsterdam Publisher: Iziko Museum & Davidii Media Publication Date: 2002 Condition: Very Good Size: 4to (310 x 220 mm) Category: Africana Reserve: $20

R. Godlonton The Irruption of the Kaffir Hordes into the Eastern Province of the Cape of Good Hope (Limited/numbered ed) Facsimile reprint of 1835 edition. Limited to 750 copies, this is no.626. 297p. Fold-out map and sketch map. Couple of tears to rear of dust jacket along upper edge and two small tears at foot of spine. Contains the narrative and the introductory remarks. Account of the frontier war of 1834-1835. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: C. Struik Publication Date: 1965 Condition: Very good Category: Africana Reserve: $60

W.H.I. Bleek and L.C.Lloyd Specimens of Bushmen Folklore (limited/numbered ed) Facsimile reprint of the 1911 edition. Limited to 750 copies, this is no.441. xl, 468p. 50 illustrations. Previous owner`s name on ffep. Green boards,gilt lettering to spine. A very clean copy of this important work on the mythology, fables, legends and poetry, and the natural and personal history of the Bushmen. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: C. Struik Publication Date: 1968 Condition: Very good Category: Africana Reserve: $50

Pippa Skotnes (Ed) Miscast: Negotiating the Presence of the Bushmen 383p. Profusely illustrated. Stiff card covers. A collection of essays on a wide range of subjects relating to the Bushmen. A very clean and tight copy. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: UCT Press Publication Date: 1996 Condition: Very good Category: Africana Reserve: $150

Louw (Bernhard) THE GIBSON BROTHERS OF THE RED STAR LINE 132pp printed on uncoated stock. Matt laminated snocover. Illustrated in b/w throughout. Fine. A remarkable story about three Gibson brothers who immigrated to South Africa from England in the early 1870`s at the start of the mining era. Shortly after arriving, two of the brothers secured a Cape cart and set out on the long journey to the diamond fields. Completely ignorant of the roads and watering places for their horses, they arrived 23 days later, a short while after diamonds had been discovered at Colesberg kopje. They immediately recognized the need for transport to convey passengers, mail and goods betweeen Wellington, Kimberley and the goldfields of the Witwatersrand and together with their third brother started the Red Star Line. In Kimberley they established a public tram service; in Observatory near Cape Town they erected many elegant houses; and on their farm on the Jukskei River in the Transvaal, they bred cattle using breeding stock imported from Holland and England. The Gibson`s have long made their mark in South African history and are now firmly rooted in South African soil. This delightful book tells their story. Scarce. Publisher Place: Welgemoed, South Africa Publisher: J.B.Z. Louw Publication Date: 2008 Condition: Fine Size: 224mm x 251mm x 9mm Category: Mining Reserve: $30

Pringle, Thomas Narrative of a Residence in South Africa . . . (New Edition, 1840) ` . . . To which is prefixed a biographical sketch of the author by Josiah Conder` Thomas Pringle came to South Africa with his family from Scotland in a party of 1820 Settlers. They established their Glen Lynden estate in the Albany district, but Thomas soon moved to Cape Town, where he became an activist with John Fairbairn and others for press freedom in the colony and an advocate for the abolition of slavery. Pursuing this work, he moved to London, where he was appointed secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society. Early in 1834, the year of his death, he completed what was effectively his last work, `African Sketches`, with prose and poetry sections and dedicated to his father, Robert Pringle, who had remained in Glen Lynden. Later in the same year, he decided to omit the poetry section and to republish the work as a `Narrative of a Residence in South Africa`. He wrote the preface on 12 November 1834. Meanwhile his poor health made a warmer climate desirable and he booked a passage back to the Cape. He was destined not to leave London, however, dying there only three weeks later. The 1840 `new edition` is set in xvi + 116 pp of double-column type, of which Conder`s biography (`Life of the Author`) occupies pp ix-xvi. This copy is quarter-bound in tan calf and green buckram with the title gilt-stamped on the spine between two raised bands. The cloth is lightly rubbed towards the outside edges. On the front paste-down of the plain cream endpapers is the bookplate of Philip Wathen Court. A cancelled stamp of the International African Institute is on the half-title. Although there are a few marginal marks, a few words lost from the top two lines of one column of pp 41-44 and minor repairs to the top edges of pp 45/46 and 65/66, this remains an attractive copy of this rare item. Publisher Place: London Publisher: Edward Moxon Publication Date: 1840 Condition: Very Good Size: 230 x 155 Category: Africana Reserve: $75

Phillip Tobias (Ed) The Bushmen: San hunters and herders of Southern Africa 206p. Black and white photographs and sketches throughout. Foreword by Professor Raymond Dart. Previous owner`s name on ffep. Slight foxing to endpapers and some wear to edges of dust jacket. A complete pictorial record of the Bushmen, looking at art, ecology, history, language, religion and folklore and biology. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: Human & Rousseau Publication Date: 1978 Condition: Good Category: Africana Reserve: $80

Franck (Bruce) - Illustrator, Manuel (George) & Hatfield (Denis) - Text DISTRICT 6 112pp. Hardcover with DW. Pictorial end-papers. Beautifully illustrated B/W charcoal sketches throughout. With the exception of some oxidized tape marks to the rear eps (presumably to hold a plastic cover in place) all pages are clean and bright. Bindery is tight with unclipped dust-jacket. There is a owner`s name neatly penned to the front free end-paper. Dust jacket has a small nick at the top of the spine. This book offers informed, affectionate and often amusing descriptions and stories of the background and way of life of the people of District 6 an area of Cape Town in South Africa. It is furthermore a portrait of the people of District 6, an area of Cape Town in South Africa, perhaps best known for forced removal of tens of thousands of its inhabitants by the apartheid regime in the 1970s (after this book was published). Publisher Place: Johannesburg Publisher: Longmans South Africa (PTY) Ltd Publication Date: 1968 Condition: Very good Size: 285mm x 213mm x 16mm Category: Apartheid Reserve: $25

Obholzer, A.M. Baraitser, M. and Malherbe, W.D. The Cape House and its Interior (Limited/numbered Edition) Hard Cover, gilt titles and illustrations on boards, Limited/numbered edition number 1043 of 1600 copies, 419pp profusely illustrated. A comprehensive survey of Cape architecture, looking at the early settlers to the Cape, furniture, as well as a detailed survey of woodwork and metalwork. Covers all regions of the Cape. Dust Jacket rubbed, worn at edges and tear on front repaired, internally fine. `The Architecture of the Early Cape of Good Hope is considered by many art-historians to be the major South African contribution to world culture... The Cape House and its Interior presents the first comprehensive survey of these important aspects of Africana`. Publisher Place: Stellenbosch Publisher: Stellenbosch Museum Publication Date: 1985 Condition: Very Good Size: 28x27.5cm Category: Africana Reserve: $150

RAC Royal Automobile Club of South Africa, 1938 Route Book Hard Cover, xxxiv + 355pp. Original red boards with gilt titles and RAC logo on front, illustrated with numerous route maps, maps of towns and cities and advertisements. Fine fold-out map of South Africa in rear pocket. Slight wear to spine and a bit of loss to corners of front endpapers, otherwise a very good copy. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: Royal Automobile Club of South Africa Publication Date: 1938 Condition: Very Good Size: 12.5x24.8cm Category: Travel & Exploration Reserve: $30

Greenstein, Lisa (ed) JEWISH LIFE IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN COUNTRY COMMUNITIES (3 Volumes) Softcover, illustrated, maps, portraits, 215, 528, 500 pp. Contents: Volume 1: The northern Great Escarpment, the Lowveld, the northern Highveld, the Bushveld; Volume 2: Boland, Bushmanland, Central Karoo, Fairest Cape, Griqualand West, Kalahari, Koup, Namaqualand, Swartland, West Coast; Volume 3: Camdeboo, Cape Midlands, Garden Route, Griqualand East and Transkei, Langkloof, Little Karoo, North Eastern Cape, Overberg, Settler Country. Includes bibliographical references and index. `The first two volumes, part of the unique on-going research project of South African Friends of Beth Hatefutsoth (or the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora), have enjoyed great success among readers, both in South Africa and abroad. Volume One focused on the northern and eastern Transvaal areas (mainly comprising today`s Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces). Volume Two focused on the Western Cape. The final instalments will cover the Free State and KwaZulu-Natal, and the southern Gauteng area, including the various towns on the East and West Rand. The third volume chronicles the history of the once strong and now largely vanished Jewish presence in the smaller towns and rural districts of South Africa, has now been published. The book starts with the earliest settlement of Jews in South Africa, before and including the 1820 Settlers. The areas covered in the new volume include the Garden Route, Little Karoo, the Cape-Midlands, Overberg and Settler country. The research covers almost 1500 small towns and villages in South Africa where Jews lived. No village, hamlet or railway siding has been too small; so long as there has been a Jewish presence there, every location has found its way into the record. In addition to recording the story of the various Jewish communities, it also recounts the history of the places in which they lived. The book also includes many colorful anecdotes of life in the country towns and villages, as well as numerous hitherto unpublished photographs`. Inscription on flep of Volume 1, a fine set. Publisher Place: Johannesburg Publisher: South African Friends Of Beth Hatefutsoth Publication Date: 2002 Condition: Near Fine Size: 23x24cm Category: Africana Reserve: $180

Biden (C. Leo) SEA-ANGLING FISHES OF THE CAPE xii plus 304pp plus two fold-out maps. Original green cloth hardcover with gilt title to spine. Facsimile DW. Randomly illustrated with more than 40 b/w photos. Beautifully restored retaining original green cloth. Replaced DW (Facsimile of original)and new end-papers. Now very good throughout. Previous owner`s name is penned to front free EP. `Withdrawn from Cape Archives` rubber stamp to Publisher`s page. A true classic of South African angling literature. After the introductory chapters the design of the book is in three parts:- Part I deals with the well-known surface fishes - Elf, Leerfish, Yellow-tail, Kob, Geelbek, Snoek and the Katonkels. Part II is given to the popular bottom-feeders - Red Steenbras, Red Stumpnose, White Stumpnose, Dassie, Galjoen, John Brown, Wildeperd, Roman, White Steenbras, and the two Biskops or Mussel-Crushers. Part III is styled `A Conversation` - an interesting and informative discourse, in which a doctor is the principal speaker. Publisher Place: London Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication Date: 1930 Condition: Very good Size: 227mm x 150mm x 36mm Category: Angling & Fishing Reserve: $50

J.L. Babe The South African Diamond Fields (Limted Edition) Hardcover, fold-out map + 105pp + 14pp advertisements + 399 added Index. A small rubber stamp of previous owner on flep. This facsimile edition of the original 1872 New York edition was limited to 500 copies. Publisher Place: Kimberley Publisher: Historical Society of Kimberley and the Northern Cape Publication Date: 1976 Condition: Fine Size: 12x18.8cm Category: Africana Reserve: $50

Ballantyne, R. M. SIX MONTHS AT THE CAPE: Letters from Periwinkle to South Africa Date of publication not specified, the year 1878 appears on the preface page. Hard Cover, pictorial cloth boards with gilt titling on spine and front, vi + (2) + 256pp, 12 b&w illustrations. Boards and spine rubbed, inscriptions scrached out with pen on flep and ffep, light staining throughout, otherwise very good. `I went to the Cape of Good Hope for private purposes, and had not leisure to devote to that important colony the study and investigation which it deserved. During my limited rambles, however, I necessarily saw and heard a great deal that was extremely interesting, and wrote an account of the same in a series of letters to my excellent friend Periwinkle. Those letters are now before the reader`. Areas covered include the Cape Peninsula, Karroo, Salem, Grahamstown, Port Elizabeth etc. Publisher Place: London Publisher: James Nisbet & Co. Publication Date: Not stated Condition: Good+ Size: 13x19cm Category: Travel & Exploration Reserve: $50

Arnot, David; Orpen, Francis, H.S. The Land Question of Griqualand West, 1875 (Gift Copy SIGNED) The Land Question of Griqualand West: an inquiry into the various claims to land in that territory; together with a brief history of the Griqua Nation. Hard Cover, rebound with gilt lettering on spine, new end papers, xiii + 351pp + 5 fold-out maps (Map 1: Griqualand West and adjoining territories, Map 2: Captain Kok`s Territory + Map 3: Extra to the `Journal`, (map 2 and 3 on one sheet), Map 5: not titled, Map 6: The Line from Rama to David`s Graf). Map 1 has a tear to the first fold and the others have smaller tears. Text pages are clean, there is an inscription and signature of co-author Francis H.S. Orpen on the title page. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: Saul Solomon & Co Publication Date: 1875 Condition: Good+ Size: 16x25cm Category: Africana Reserve: $200

Francois le Vaillant Francois le Vaillant - Traveller in South Africa. (Two vols - limited/numbered ed) And his collection of 165 water-colour paintings, 1781-1784. Vol 1 - xx, 172p, 70 full colour plates of people and landscapes, plus 11 plates of bird paintings, illustrations in text and two folding maps. Vol 2 - xiv, 181p, full colour plates 71-165 mainly of flora and fauna. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to front and spine. In very good condition. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: Library of Parliament Publication Date: 1973 Condition: Very good Category: Africana Reserve: $100

Steevens (G.W.) FROM CAPE TOWN TO LADYSMITH An unfinished record of the South Arican War. viii plus 180mm plus fold-out map plus 32pp Publisher`s ads. Original Cloth hardcover. 2 maps as called for. Some edge wear and a few light stains to cloth. Light foxing to prelims with further occassional foxing to some of the internal pages. Small stress-tear to map junction. Contents include; 1)First glimpses of the struggle. (2)The army corp- has not left England!. (3)A Pastor`s point of view. (4)Will it ne civil war?. (5)Loyal Aliwal: Atragi-comedy. (6)The battle of Elandslaagte. (7)The Bivouac. (8)The home-coming from Dundee. (9)The story of Nicholson`s Nek. (10)The guns of Rietfontein. (11)The bombardment. (12)The devil`s tin-tacks. (13)A diary of dulness. (14)Nearing the end. (15)In a conning-tower. Includes a last chapter by Vernon Blackburn. Publisher Place: Edinburgh and London Publisher: William Blackwood and Sons Publication Date: 1900 Condition: Good Size: 193mm x 135mm x 28mm Category: Anglo-Boer War Reserve: $40

Various Reports on the Concentration and Refugee Camps in South Africa (9 vols; 1901-1902) This lot comprises the complete United Kingdom Parliamentary reportage on the concentration and refugee camps in South Africa during the Anglo-Boer War, as follows: (1) Report on the Concentration Camps in South Africa by a committee of ladies under the presidency of Millicent Garrett Fawcett (the Fawcett Committee). Cd 893, 1902. pp i + 21 Report; 22-24 Appendixes; 25-38 Natal Camps: Howick, Pietermaritzburg, Merebank; 39-109 Orange River Colony Camps: Bloemfonten, Norvals Pont, Aliwal North, Bethulie, Kimberley, Orange River, Springfontein, Brandfort, Winburg, Heilbron, Kroonstad, Vredefort Road, Harrismith; 110-208 Transvaal Camps: Johannesburg, Irene, Krugersdorp, Potchefstroom, Klerksdorp, Balmoral, Middelburg, Belfast, Barberton, Vryburg, Mafeking, Vereeniging, Heidelberg, Standerton, Volksrust, Nylstroom, Pietersburg. This report is full-bound in black leather with raised bands and gilt lettering and rules on the spine. Condition: Fine. (2) Reports etc on the Working of the Refugee Camps in the Transvaal, Orange River Colony, Cape Colony and Natal. Cd 819, Nov 1901. The 387 pp of this volume comprise reports on the various camps between 22 March and 20 Sept 1901, including three by Dr Kendal Franks. This volume is quarter-bound in blue leather and grey buckram, gilt lettering to spine. Condition: Very Good. (3) Further Papers on the Working of the Refugee Camps in the Transvaal, Orange River Colony, Cape Colony and Natal. Cd 853, Dec 1901. viii + 131 pp. Blue limp covers, side-sewn. Covers chipped, contents Very Good. (This copy has the stamp of the `Biblioteque du Palais de la Paix`.) (4-6) Further Papers on the Working of the Refugee Camps in South Africa. Cd 902, Feb 1902. i + 124 pp. Side-sewn into limp blue covers. Covers chipped, contents Very Good. Cd 934, Feb 1902. v + 103 pp. Side-stitched into limp blue covers. Covers chipped, contents Very Good. Cd 936, March 1902. 32 pp. Side-stitched into limp white covers. Condition: Good +. (7-9) Statistics of the Refugee Camps in South Africa. Cd 939, April 1902. 7 pp. Cd 942, May 1902. 5 pp. Cd 1161, June 1902. 5 pp. These provide monthly returns of the numbers in the camps, deaths and other figures for a total of 46 camps for the period January-April 1902. These three reports are in white covers, either sewn or self-covered and all are in Good+ condition. Complete sets of these concentration and refugee camp reports, which are a mine of information on activities still debated today, are scarce. This set is in well above average condition. Publisher Place: London Publisher: H M S O Publication Date: 1901-1902 Condition: Variously Good to Fine Size: 320 x 230 Category: Anglo-Boer War Reserve: $450

Latrobe (Rev. C.I.) LATROBE`S VISIT TO THE SOUTH OF AFRICA Journal of a Visit to South Africa in 1815 and 1816 with some account of the missionary settlements of the United Brethren near the Cape of Good Hope. 406pp. Brown gilt decorated border cloth cover with gilt title and decorations to the spine. Facsimile reprint. Limited edition No. 648 of 1000 copies. Fold out maps, colour and b/w illustrations. Corners are bumped. Previous owner`s Ex Libris book-plate to front fixed EP. Internally clean and tight. Very good copy. Introduction by Frank Bradlow. Latrobe was a missionary sent out to visit the settlements at Genadendal and Groenekloof. The Governor of the Cape had expressed a wish that a third missionary station should be opened, and in order to choose a site Latrobe travelled through a large part of the country up to the Little Fish River. `South Africa in Print` comments about Rev. Latrobe that `He has left an important volume of travels with illustrations second only to those of Burchell.`, and in his introduction to Mendelssohn Mr. Ian D. Colvin writes about him: `This delightful man was a friend of Burchell`s and like Burchell an admirable artist as well as a charming writer. He travelled extensively, and his Journal, written with much sweet piety and simplicity of spirit, yet shows shrewdness of observation and a fine common sense-characteristics which we shall find in other of the great missionary travellers.` Abbey Travel 325, Gay 3117, Hosken p. 120, Mendelssohn I, p. 866-867. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: C. Struik Publication Date: 1969 Condition: Very good Size: 275mm x 222mm x 41mm Category: Travel & Exploration Reserve: $50

Anglo-Boer War: IN AND ABOUT THE WAR Xmas Number of the Cape Times (December 1899) 44 pages, original green printed paper wrappers, photographic illustrations throughout, commercial advertisements on the wrappers and in the text. The wrappers are frayed with some loss, edges of some pages frayed, leaf 5/6 torn across the centre. Not in ‘A South African Bibliography’ or the Supplement. ‘The circumstances of the times, and the manner in which history is being made in South Africa, suggest a departure in the conception and style of the Christmas Number of the “Cape Times.” It had been contemplated publishing an Annual dealing more particularly with the Social, Artistic, and Literary life and works of the peoples of South Africa, but with War raging in the land and the whole course of South Africa history being changed it has been deemed advisable to deal with the great events of the times. Accordingly, the Christmas Number of 1899 will be devoted from a pictorial point of view to the Theatre of War, and will detail as far as may be in the circumstances with the events that have led to the present issue. Accordingly, we present a short and succinct account of South African history from the early thirties down to the present time, giving a sketch of the rise of the Dutch Republics and some particulars of the manner in which they have abused the greatest privileges which have even presented to any people on the face of the earth.’ From the Introduction. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: The Cape Times Publication Date: December 1899 Size: Folio (430 x 280 mm) Category: Anglo-Boer War Reserve: $100 Click here to view further details and images

Anglo-Boer War: 34 STEREO CARDS & VIEWER 34 Underwood & Underwood cards, copyright 1900 and 1901, are mostly of events during Robert’s march to Pretoria. With a viewer (patent applied for Underwood & Underwood, manufactured in New York) missing the sliding clip on the viewing arm which has been simply repaired. The captions on the back of the cards are in five languages, English, French, German, Spanish, Norwegian and Russian, and bear the seller’s stamp of Reid Bros., 19 Roeland Street, Cape Town. Overall the cards (87 x 177 mm) are in good condition. Publisher Place: London Publisher: Underwood & Underwood Publication Date: 1900 & 1901 Condition: Good Category: Anglo-Boer War Reserve: $75 Click here to view further details and images

Edited by Marilyn Martin and Joe Dolby Albert Adams – Journey On A Tightrope English, Monograph, Softcover, 285x230mm, full colour, 120 pages. Catalogue of the first comprehensive retrospective exhibition of works by Albert Adams ran at Iziko Museum. Albert Adams was born in Johannesburg in 1930 but at the age of four came to Cape Town with his mother and sister. Unable to study at the Michaelis School of Art, University of Cape Town, because of the apartheid policies, he applied for, and was awarded a scholarship to study at the Slade School of Art in London where he studied from 1953 to 1956. He enrolled for a brief course of study at the Munich Academy of Arts and later in 1957 attended master classes under the internationally renowned artist, Oskar Kokoschka. Often his subject matter is inspired by international events but he always returned to South Africa for inspiration, depicting, amongst others, the homeless people of Cape Town, the darker side of the Cape Minstrels and in a more allusive way the ‘baggage’ or legacy of apartheid. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: SA National Gallery Publication Date: 2008 Condition: Fine Category: Art & Art Reference Reserve: $40 Click here to view further details and images

Payne,David & Emma The Writings, Photographs & Sketches of Henry Charles Harford 1850-1937(SIGNED by BOTH AUTHORS and Dr. Adrian Greaves) Henry Charles Harford was an entomologist and a vibrant personality of the Anglo Zulu War. Harford had always fascinated David Rattray, the world famous lecturer on the Anglo Zulu War of 1879 and himself a qualified entomologist. David gave countless world-wide presentations and always wove the story of `Charlie Harford the beetle collector` into his entralling lectures. Harford participated in a number of important actions during the Zulu War and was at Rorke`s Drift until the invasion of Zululand. He led the first attack against the local Zulu Chief Sihayo and accompanied Lord Chlemsford on his ill-fated reconnaissance which left the main British camp at Isandlwana unprepared for a full Zulu attack the following day. He witnessed the result of the Zulu victory at Isandlwana and went on to see the aftermath at Rorke`s Drift; he then supervised the disbandment of the Natal Native Contingent. At the same time his senior officer, Commandant Lonsdale, gave Harford custody of two officer deserters, Lieutenants Higginson and Stephenson; both officers had abandoned their men in action against the Zulus and the situation caused Harford some perplexing moments. Following the Zulu defeat on the 4th July 1879 Harford was part of the force that searched for King Cetshwayo and he was personally given the custody of King Cetshwayo folowing his capture until the king was imprisoned at Cape Town. The authors have faithfully transcribed Harford`s notes, diaries and journals using his own spelling and syntax. Where this needs clarification, the modern usage has been included)in italics). Harford`s use of punctuation is old fashioned and many of his sentences run into several lines. Where this has caused confusion, the editor has added the occasional comma or full stop. Otherwise, this project is a faithful reproduction of Harford`s hand-written records. Hardcover with dustcover.Signed to 1/2 title page by David and Emma Payne/Adrian Greaves and Audrey-Harford`s Grand-daughter. xx plus 304 pages detailed text, maps and illustrations. As New. ***Due to annual holidays shipment will only be made from 10th August 2013, various despatch options are available. Publisher Place: The London/Wales Publisher: Ultimatum Tree Limited Publication Date: 2008 Condition: As New Size: 25 X 31.5cm Weight 2 kgs. Category: Africana Reserve: $100 Click here to view further details and images

Carr, J D Combretaceae in Southern Africa (copy 6 of the de luxe edition of 6 numbered copies) [PREVIOUSLY SOLD ON ANTIQUARIAN AUCTION #4] Denzil Carr, an amateur in the class of George `Aloes` Reynolds, authored two comprehensive monographs on Southern Africa`s two most prolific botanical families - the Acacias and the Combretums. Both have become modern classics in their field. Two staff members of Fontein Books, Michael Barnett (designer and typographer) and Richard Proctor-Sims (editor), published Combretaceae of Southern Africa for the Tree Society of Southern Africa for a modest honorarium plus the right to produce and market a de luxe edition of six special copies, each a different colour goatskin, printed on Hahnemuele text paper with half-leather and marbled paper binding and solander boxes by Peter Carstens. One of these was presented to the Special Collection of the National Botanical Gardens in Kirstenbosch, Cape Town. This, Number 6 (the maroon copy), is being offered for sale for the second time. The book itself is unmarked and mint; the solander box is rated only fine as two of the the corners of the solander box are lightly bumped. As well as the frontispiece and 16 other full-page colour plates painted by Elise Buitendag, there are more than 300 photogaphs, distribution maps and other b/w illustratons in the text. This may well qualify as the finest example of botanical book production to have been published in South Africa in the second half of the 20th century. Strongly recommended to a South African public book collection. Further images on request. Publisher Place: Johannesburg Publisher: Tree Society of Southern Africa Publication Date: 1988 Condition: Fine Size: 320 x 240 x 45 Category: Botanical Reserve: $500 Click here to view further details and images

Baines (T.) THE GOLD REGIONS OF SOUTH-EASTERN AFRICA 240 pages (including 51 pages of commercial advertisements), frontispiece portrait - a laid down photograph of Baines, title page vignette, large folding map in pocket in back cover, 3 plates, folding facsimile letter, engraved illustrations in the text, original pictorial dark green cloth with a gilt vignette of a galloping zebra on the upper cover, neatly recased – the cloth is dull and lightly stained, some light foxing throughout. Mendelssohn (Sydney) South African Bibliography, volume I, page 71. `The volume is a most important work, and contains full information of every description upon the subject of the gold discoveries in Matabeleland and Mashonaland ... The book also contains an account of the gold discoveries in the Transvaal...` An unusual variant in dark green cloth. Publisher Place: London & Cape Colony Publisher: Edward Stanford, J.W.J. Mackay, Port Elizabeth Publication Date: 1877 Condition: Good Size: 8vo (225 x 150mm) Category: Africana Reserve: $100 Click here to view further details and images

Livingstone (David) MISSIONARY TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SOUTH AFRICA Including a sketch of Sixteen Years` Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; Thence across the Continent, down the River Zambesi, to Loanda on the West Coast; thence across the continent, down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean. 711 pages, folding wood-engraved frontispiece of Victoria Falls by J.W. Whymper, portrait, 2 other wood-engraved plates by Whymper, 42 wood engraved plates and other illustrations, 2 folding maps by Arrowsmith - 1 in pocket in rear free endpaper, edged uncut, recently bound in grey cloth with gilt titling on the spine, small stain the margin of the plate at page 66, otherwise contents bright. Bradlow variant 8. A rare variant with both the index and additional pages 8* & 8+. The index and additional pages were issued in early 1858 and they could be obtained from the publisher and bound in. They appeared in cloth bound copies towards the end of February. In the extra page 8’s Livingstone gives a brief account of his married life (to Mary Moffat) and the upbringing of his children whom he had omitted to mention in earlier issues. In this copy the publisher’s catalogue which appears at the end is dated 1st November 1857. Publisher Place: London Publisher: John Murray Publication Date: 1857 Condition: Good Size: 8vo (230 x 145 mm) Category: Travel & Exploration Reserve: $150 Click here to view further details and images

Tabler (E.C.) PIONEERS OF RHODESIA 185 pages, frontispiece, 12 plates, green skivertex, some of the text has been crossed out with one line of blue ink - only affecting a few pages. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: C. Struik Publication Date: 1966 Condition: Good Size: 8vo (250 x 155 mm) Category: Africana Reserve: $20 Click here to view further details and images

LEIBBRANDT H C V Die Rebellie van 1815 - Algemeen bekend as Slachters Nek Complete record of the trials of the accused rebels, together with many other relevant documents. Dutch text. An increasingly scarce important historical document. 1013 pp with fold-out map. Bound in green linen-covered boards, spine heavily sunned, but book is in very good, tight and clean condition in plastic protector. Ownership stamp on tp. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: J C Juta Publication Date: 1903 Condition: Good Size: 245 x 160mm Category: Africana Reserve: $80 Click here to view further details and images

PEEL S Trooper 8008, IY The author chronicles the actions seen by a trooper in the regiment in the Northern Cape, Free State and later the Transvaal. 168 pp with bw plates and folding map, plus 24 pp ads at rear. Good condition in original covers, except for slight damage at top of spine, some isolated spots of foxing only, specially on edge of textblock. Publisher Place: London Publisher: Edward Arnold Publication Date: 1901 Condition: Good Size: 230 x 155 mm Category: Anglo-Boer War Reserve: $80 Click here to view further details and images

Rev. John Ayliff The Journal of `Harry Hastings`-Albany Settler. The Rev.John Ayliff, 1820 Settler and one of the pioneer missionaries of the Eastern Cape, left among his papers an unfinished manuscript, here published in full for the first time under the title The Journal of Harry Hastings.Albany Settler. It consists of a narrative mostly in diary form of the experiences of a young British settler of 1820 whom the writer calls ` Harry Hastings`: the four month voyage from London to Algoa Bay, the trek to the settlement near Bathurst and the difficult months that followed. Harry Hastings is to be regarded not only as an alter ego of John Ayliff, but also as a typical British settler, a `rooinek` transplanted from Whitechapel to the Zuurveld. Unclipped dustcover, with maps to endpapers-Frontispiece with 106 pages text plus illustrations. Very clean copy. ***Due to annual holidays despatch will be from 10th August 2013. Various shipping options available. Publisher Place: Grahamstown Publisher: Messrs Grocott & Sherry Publication Date: 1963 Condition: Very Good Size: 14 X 22cm Category: Africana Reserve: $30 Click here to view further details and images

Lategan (Prof. dr. Felix V.) DIE BOER SE ROER, Die Groot Geweerboek van Suid-Afrika 209 pages, colour frontispiece , numerous colour and black & white illustrations, original brown cloth gilt, dust jacket worn along the top edge. No. 806 of an edition limited to 2000 copies. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: Tafelberg Publication Date: 1974 Condition: Good Size: 4to (280 x 215 mm) Category: Antiques & Collectibles Reserve: $30 Click here to view further details and images

Lategan (Prof. dr. Felix V.) DIE BOER SE ROER TOT VANDAG Die ontwikkeling van die vuurwapen in Suider-Afrika. Second impression: 208 pages, numerous colour and black & white illustrations, original red cloth gilt, a good copy in the dust jacket. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: Tafelberg Publication Date: 1982 Condition: Good Size: 4to (280 x 215 mm) Category: Antiques & Collectibles Reserve: $30 Click here to view further details and images

Walton (James) OLD CAPE FARMSTEADS 47 pages, colour frontispiece, maps and numerous plans and illustrations, blue cloth, a very good copy in the dust jacket. `In the first part of the book the author considers some possible European sources of origin of the Cape rural vernacular architecture and traces its development during the first two centuries of Colonial settlement at the Cape. In subsequent sections he deals with the architectural components of the Cape wine farm and stock farm, ranging from simple wolwehokke, vethokkies, soap houses, pigsties, fowl runs and dovecots to the ornate manor houses and wine cellars. The book is profusely illustrated with over 190 line drawings and photographs by the author and 90 drawings and photographs by Alys Fane Trotter, Johannes Mulder, E.V. Strade, Arthur Elliot and others.` Editor’s note. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: Human & Rousseau Publication Date: 1989 Condition: Very good Size: Small 4to (260 x 210 mm) Category: Architecture Reserve: $30 Click here to view further details and images

Anglo-Boer War: THREE MILITARY PASSES E.R. Military Pass (Local) Numbers 72, 158 & 198 Cape Colony, Martial Law, passes issued by officers in Worcester for a Mr G.Keyler to travel to various places – Parbridge Kloof, Bushmans Vlei & The Retreat Farm – during February, March & April, 1901. Each 92 x 156 mm, printed in red, perforated along the left hand side. Category: Anglo-Boer War Reserve: $30 Click here to view further details and images

Cape Colony: THE PROMINENT MEN OF THE CAPE COLONY 212 pages, other than Lord Milner and Cecil Rhodes who receive a two-page spread each all the other subjects are given one page with a portrait photograph and a biography. Bound in quarter maroon roan leather with a gilt decorated and title front cover, all edges gilt. The leather of the spine is worn and chipped and the cloth is dull and insect scarred. The contents which are printed on coated paper are generally good apart for several small tears in the lower margins none of which affect the printed area. The last ten pages are lightly water stained around the edges but again this does not affect the printed area. Signed Nangle on the front free endpaper. A Dr. E.C. Nangle’s entry appears on page 172. A South African Bibliography, volume 3, page 751. It is unknown how this book came to be published in Maine. As most of the important figures of the time are included it is presumed not to be hagiograhphic. In the Editors’ Note a delay in publication is explained as being due to the prolongation of the Anglo-Boer War. Publisher Place: Portland, Maine, USA Publisher: The Lakeside Press Publication Date: 1902 Condition: Good Size: Oblong 4to (320 x 240 mm) Category: Biography, Letters & Diaries Reserve: $75 Click here to view further details and images

Mackenzie (John) AUSTRAL AFRICA, LOSING IT OR RULING IT Being Incidents and Experiences in Bechuanaland, Cape Colony, and England. 2 volumes: 515 + 525 pages, frontispiece portrait in each volume, 30 plates, 2 folding colour maps, original brown cloth title gilt and with a map of Southern Africa stamped in black on the upper covers. There is foxing on the title pages caused by the tissue guards and some scattered foxing elsewhere in the text, spotting on the uncut page edges, book plate on each front paste-down endpapers, whilst the spines are slightly faded the cloth is in very good condition and the bindings firm and tight. Mendelssohn (Sydney) South African Bibliography, volume 1, page 850, ‘This work affords the best detailed historical account of the events which led to the inclusion of Bechuanaland amongst the colonies of South Africa – the first step towards the retention of the hinterland of the Cape for the Empire….. The work is of voluminous nature, and it divided into six books which discuss native life in Bechuanaland, the European expansion, the proceedings of the Dutch freebooters, and the foundation and suppression of their republic, the Imperial and Colonial policies with regard to the country, Sir Charles Warren’s expedition, and many other local and colonial matters. The volumes contain a large number of illustrations, a map, and a copious index. Publisher Place: London Publisher: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington Publication Date: 1887 Condition: Good Size: 8vo (225 x 145 mm) Category: Africana Reserve: $300 Click here to view further details and images

Villa-Vicencio, Charles + Niehaus, Carl (Editors) (Mandela signature) Many Cultures, One Nation - A Festschrift for Beyers Naude This copy has four signatures, the most important one being that of Nelson Mandela, on the left hand side of the title page. The presentation inscription is signed by Beyers Naude, with the editors` autographs at the bottom of the title page. Original dust jacket. Original red paper wrappers (paperback) with white titling on the spine. 184 pages. CoONDITION DETAILS: The dust jacket has creases, the spine is sun bleached and the upper side has traces of the imprint left by someone scribbling on a piece of paper held on top of the book. Both the foredge and bottom edges have stain marks. The paper of the text block is toned. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: Human & Rousseau Publication Date: 1995 Condition: Reasonable Size: 214mm x 137mm Category: Africana Reserve: $100 Click here to view further details and images

Newman, Kenneth Roadside Birds of South Africa (Copy Number 107 of 200 Signed copies) Copy number 107 of the de luxe leather bound edition limited to 200 signed copies. Original green full leather binding with gilt titling on the spine and a decoration on the upper board. 104 pages, distribution maps, illustrations and 32 coloured plates. CONDITION DETAILS: A few minor signs of wear. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: Purnell & Sons Publication Date: 1969 Condition: An attractive copy Size: 254mm x 203mm Category: Ornithology Reserve: $20 Click here to view further details and images

Various, as listed Lot of Four- Books about Cecil Rhodes..... Four books about the life of Cecil Rhodes in Southern Africa as listed below. Cecil Rhodes & The Princess by Brian Roberts. Hardcover with clipped dustcover. Published by Hamish Hamilton-London-Reprinted July 1969. ISBN 0241 01603 7. Frontispiece, map and numerous illustrations with 405 pages text. 15 X 22cm. Very clean copy. The Founder-Cecil Rhodes and The Pursuit of Power, by Robert I. Rotberg. Large paperback format- 16 X 23.5cm. Published by Jonathan Ball-Johannesburg-2002 ISBN 1 86842 136 8. xxxviii plus map and 800 pages of text with illustrations and supporting data. As New. Cecil Rhodes and the Cape Afrikaners-The Imperial Colossus and the Colonial Parish Pump, by Mordechai Tamarkin. Hardcover with dustcover. Published by Jonathan Ball-Johannsburg-1996 ISBN 1 86842 032 9. x plus 339 pages text with supporting data. 16 X 24cm.As New. Cecil Rhodes-Makers of the Nineteenth Century, by Basil Williams. Original hardcover without dustcover. Published by Constable and Company-London-Second Impression March 1921.Frontispiece plus xi and 353 pages of text with folding map. Many pages uncut.15 X 35.25cm. Very clean copy. ***Due to annual holidays, despatch will be from 10th August 2013. Various shipping options are available. Publisher Place: As Listed Publisher: As Listed Publication Date: As Listed Condition: Very Good Size: As Listed Category: Africana Reserve: $40 Click here to view further details and images

Bertram Mitford- Through the Zulu Country-Its Battlefields and People. Long sought after by Anglo-Zulu War enthusiasts, Bertram Mitford`s Through the Zulu Country is both a classic travelogue and an important source book. Zululand has always held a particular fascination, a mixture of high adventure and tragedy, and Mitford, a Cape civil servant and writer of boy`s adventure stories, was amongst the first to feel its lure. With an Introduction by Ian Knight. Frontispiece, xxvi plus 257 pages text, with 19 illustrations. Near fine condition. ***Due to annual holidays, despatch will be from 10th August 2013. Various shipping options are available. Publisher Place: London Publisher: Greenhill Books Publication Date: 1992 Condition: Very Good Size: 14.5 X 22cm Category: Africana Reserve: $20 Click here to view further details and images

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) Two volume set. The total print run was 2500 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 titling on the spines. All edges gilt. 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 by the colour plate section. Two large folding maps. In addition to the total of 165 colour plates, there are 11 colour plates with general illustrations and portraits, etc. CONDITION DETAILS: A lightly used set with minor signs of use. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: Library of Parliament Publication Date: 1973 Condition: Clean + attractive Size: 314mm x 240mm Category: Africana Reserve: $150 Click here to view further details and images

Audrey Moriarty WILD FLOWERS OF MALAWI Eighty full colour plates covering 360 paintings of wild flowers in Malawi. The first comprehensive illustrated book of the wild flowers of this region. Index and list of botanical terms. Pages [i-viii] pp 1-166 Dust Jacket inside surface foxed. Considerably edge-worn and bumped all round. Small tears at top spine edge, 2 cm tear on front top corner. Dust jacket now protected with loose cellophane cover. Red paper-covered boards, white titles on front cover and spine. Red endpapers. Book in Very Good condition. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: Purnell Publication Date: 1975 Size: 250 x 175 x 20 mm Category: Botanical Reserve: $25 Click here to view further details and images

Alice Blanche Balfour TWELVE HUNDRED MILES IN A WAGGON A collection of letters describing a leisurely journey from Cape Town by train to Kimberley and then by wagon for 1200 miles through Matabeleland and Mashonaland in the early 1890s. Alice Balfour was a sister of James Balfour who later became prime minister of England. Limited Printing No. 38 of the 140 Collectors Edition, Heritage Series Vol II, 1970. Facsimile reprint of the 1895 Edition. Route map of front and back endpapers. 4 colour prints, numerous black and white sketches, all by the author. Fold-out route map. Pages [i-ix]x-xix [1]2-265. Binding quarter leather. Blue cloth-covered boards with top edge gilt. Tan leather band with silver titles on spine, colour frontispiece with tissue guard. Blue slipcase with gilt waggon design, slightly worn on edges. Overall condition Very Good. Publisher Place: Salisbury Rhodesia Publisher: The Pioneer Head Publication Date: 1970 Size: 223 x 144 x 36 mm Category: Travel & Exploration Reserve: $65 Click here to view further details and images

Bertram Mitford THROUGH THE ZULU COUNTRY The account of a Cape Civil Servant`s journeys three years after the Zulu War of 1879, describing battlefields, conversations with Zulu combatants and the hardships of travel. This is the 1975 Facsimile Edition of the Kegan Paul, Trench, London, Edition of 1883. Number 823 of a Limited Edition of 1000 copies. Five black and white photographs. Pages [i-v]vi-xi pp 1-323. Dust jacket torn at spine top and rubbed on front and edges. Sunned on spine. Brown synthetic leather-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Book condition Very Good. Publisher Place: Durban Publisher: TW Griggs & Co Publication Date: 1975 Size: 223 x 150 x 28 mm Category: Travel & Exploration Reserve: $30 Click here to view further details and images

Wallace, Edgar THE MISSION THAT FAILED - EDGAR WALLACE`S FIRST BOOK This fragile booklet is Edgar Wallace`s first publcation. It is a 52pp. volume of poetry, subtitled : A Tale of The Raid and Other Poems Reprinted from the `Owl` etc. The Jameson Raid and other South African topics. The wrappers of this book are almost always chipped. This copy has an 8x30mm. chip and the top of the front panel adjacent to the spine and a few smaller chips. Internally it is clean and unmarked. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: T.Maskew Miller Publication Date: 1898 Condition: Nearly Very Good Size: 12mo. Category: Africana Reserve: $130 Click here to view further details and images

Baxter, T.W and Turner, R.W.S Rhodesian Epic `Rhodesian Epic is a collection of pictures that tells the story of Rhodesia from the earliest times down to the granting of self-government in 1923. The majority of pictures reproduced are from the National Archives collection.` A superb collection of black and white photographs, illustrations and maps. Book condition: very good, residual sellotape marks on both end-papers, with first few preliminaries foxed; text, illustrations and binding all good (glossy paper); dust-jacket: very good, not price-clipped, inner surface uniformly foxed, edge wear; 239pp. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: Howard Timmins Publication Date: 1966 Condition: very good Size: 4to Category: Rhodesiana Reserve: $40 Click here to view further details and images

Ellis (Rev. William) ELLIS`S THREE VISITS TO MADAGASCAR THREE VISITS TO MADAGASCAR DURING THE YEARS 1853-1854-1856, INCLUDING A JOURNEY TO THE CAPITAL. With notices of the natural history of the country and of the present civilization of the people. xiv + 426pp + 6pp. Original Embossed Pictorial Cloth with gilt titled spine. No Date, 1885 (? ) ; Reprint of Original Edition, Preface Dated 1858 (Not Updated)Illustrated by woodcuts from photographs. No Map and Frontis as called for but most likely never bound-in as there is no evidence of such ever being detached. Research on other available copies of this particular publication all indicate the same. Presentation note to prelim, dated 1889. Some Edgewear and scuffing to covers with light blistering to front cover cloth. Internally very good. Ellis was sent to Madagascar three times to investigate whether Christians were being maltreated. That investigation was not productive, as he was denied access to the capital, but it was the first widely read account of the island, and a thorough description of the society, customs, religion and natural history. In 1852 the affairs of Madagascar had reached such a crisis that Ellis (1794-1872), a missionary, was requested to visit the island, in order to ascertain and improve the condition of the christians. (DNB). He visited the Cape in 1854 on which he gives an interesting account of many places together with botanical notes and information respecting the natives.Grandidier 1633; Mendelssohn I, p.518; SAB II, p.185. Publisher Place: Philadelphia Publisher: John E. Potter and Company Publication Date: c1885 Condition: Good Size: 193mm x 138mm x 35mm Category: Travel & Exploration Reserve: $30 Click here to view further details and images

Preston (J.S.) GABOON STORIES 160pp. Original blind embossed and gilt decorated pictorial hardcover. Illustrated. Pasted down maps to rear EP`s. Light wear to spine ends and corners. Evidence of an Ex Libris label having been detached from the front fixed EP. Remarkably good condition throughout. `I will tell you of a visit I made to an out-station soon after I readied Gaboon. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson invited me to go with them to attend the examination of Mr. Dorseys school at Prince Glass village, two miles up the river. It was a pleasant row in the boat-along the green banks, and we soon reached the place, and climbed the steep hill to the teachers house. This is near what was formerly the OzjTunga mission station. where Mr. Griswold died in 1844. It commands a beautiful view of the river and sea. Indeed, all our stations ir Gaboon are very pleasantly situated. On entering the schoolroom we found a number of natives assembled, seeming quite interested in the examination of thirty bright little boys and girls. Mr. Dorsey was a colored American; but Mary, his wife, was a native of Cape Palmas, and had been educated in the mission. The children recited very well in the primary English studies, and then Mary examined her little girls in reading and spelling in Mpongwe, after which the whole school recited the Mpongwe Catechism in concert. At the close, Mr. Dorsey invited the visitors present to stay and take dinner. As Mary seemed to wish it very much, we stayed with the rest. We sat down at a long table, with about twenty natives, some of them chiefs. The dinner was of plantains, roasted and boiled, yams, sweet potatoes, rice, different kinds of fresh fish, besides salt beef and sea-biscuit from the mission store. Everything was nicely cooked, and we enjoyed it as much as did the natives. When we had finished eating, two little boys quietly took away the plates, and brought on coffee and roasted peanuts. It was all managed very quietly, without mistakes or confusion...` Publisher Place: New York Publisher: American Tract Society Publication Date: 1872 Condition: Very good Size: 174mm x 120mm x 16mm Category: Travel & Exploration Reserve: $30 Click here to view further details and images

Moodie, D.C.F. Moodie`s Zulu War Sections covering the Anglo-Zulu War from Moodie`s History of the Battles and Adventures of the British, the Boers, and the Zulus, first published in 1879, are contained within this volume (264pp.) accompanied by several line sketches, engravings, and maps. A very good copy in blue leatherette boards, red spine label, and very good dust-jacket (some creasing to lamination on rear panel, and flap foxed end-papers); no inscriptions, a clean copy. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: N & S Press Publication Date: 1988 Condition: very good Size: 8vo Category: Africana Reserve: $20 Click here to view further details and images

Peter Clarke Fanfare In December 2004 veteran artist Peter Clarke exhibited a body of 100 collages, produced over a number of years, at Michael Stevenson. Each fan-shaped collage is accompanied by beautifully written text either quoted or written by Clarke to describe the thoughts of a character who has influenced his life in some way, whether historical, literary, biblical, imaginary or real. In this book published to coincide with the exhibition, each work is reproduced full-page and full-colour. The plates are preceded by an interview conducted by Michael Stevenson in which Clarke talks about his life and work. 112 pages, hard cover. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: Michael Stevenson Publication Date: 2004 Condition: Fine Category: Art & Art Reference Reserve: $30 Click here to view further details and images

Paul Bosman & Anthony Hall-Martin The Magnificent Seven - and the other great tuskers of the Kruger National Park 70p. Colour paintings and pencil drawings are accompanied by text on elephant bulls, as well as other mammals and birds that share their habitat. Couple of marks to half-title page. Otherwise, a clean and very good copy. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: Human & Rousseau Publication Date: 1994 Condition: Very good Category: Africana Reserve: $300 Click here to view further details and images