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Click here to subscribeDASHWOOD, J.B. The Thames to the Solent by Canal and Sea or the Log of the Una Boat `Caprice`. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1868. First edition, small 8vo (173 x 110mm). Half-title, 7 plates, 1 folding lithographic route map tinted by hand, 7 uncoloured plates. Later red morocco-backed cloth by Maltby of Oxford, spine gilt (spine slightly faded). Provenance: P.A.L. Vine (bookplate); The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
DE MORGAN, William. Joseph Vance, An Ill-written Autobiography. London: William Heinemann, 1906. First edition, 8vo (190 x 121mm). Original cloth, boxed. Provenance: Donald D. Day (signature dated September 1906); Michael Ernest Sadler (bookplate); The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
FLOWERS & GARDENING. - C.S. COOPER & W. Percival WESTELL. Trees & Shrubs of the British Isles, Native & Acclimatised. London & New York: 1909. First edition, 2 vols., large 4to (297 x 228mm). Colour frontispieces, plates (14 colour). (1 plate torn without loss, some browning or spotting.) Original green cloth (extremities somewhat bumped, lower joint of vol. II splitting). - And thirty-eight others of similar interest (39). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
HAYLEY, William. The Life and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper… second edition. Chichester: 1803. Second edition of vols. I and II, first edition of vol. III, 3 vols. (264 x 205mm). (Lacking plates, some light damp-staining.) Contemporary mottled calf, covers with borders decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers (neatly rebacked). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
HUNTING. - Robert B. FOUNTAIN. A History of the Burton Hunt, the first 300 years. Otley: 1996. Limited edition of 500 copies, 8vo (242 x 165mm). Illustrations, some colour. Original cloth. Provenance: W. Leslie Weller (presentation inscription signed by the author to title-page). - And approximately seventy-eight others on hunting (a quantity). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
INGPEN, Roger. Shelley in England. London: 1917. First edition, 8vo (218 x 140mm). Portrait frontispiece, 1 folding genealogical table, plates. Contemporary light brown half-morocco by Root, spine elaborately tooled in gilt, t.e.g. Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
LITERATURE. - `George ORWELL` [Eric BLAIR]. The Road to Wigan Pier. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1937. First edition, Left Book Club issue, 8vo (217 x 140mm). Illustrations. (Minor light browning.) Original limp cloth (old faint creases). - And sixty-eight others of similar interest (69). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
TOPOGRAPHY. - Nikolaus PEVSNER. The Buildings of England, North Somerset and Bristol. London: Penguin Books, 1958. First edition, 8vo (181 x 110mm). Maps and illustrations. Original cloth, dust-jacket (torn with minor loss). - And thirteen others all by or edited by Pevsner (14). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
HINMAN, Charlton (editor). The Norton Facsimile, the First Folio of Shakespeare… second edition. New York & London: 1996. Folio (353 x 237mm). Original leather-backed cloth, slipcase. - And a quantity of others, various (a quantity). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
Hodgson (John) and Hind (John Hodgson) A History of Northumberland, 7 vols, 4to, "Part 1", bound in original green cloth-backed boards, vols. 1 to 6, in 19th Century maroon and gilt morocco, illus. with engravings; first edition limited to 250 copies (and 50 copies on larger paper), vol. 6 is one of 100 copies with a specially printed title page and is a presentation copy signed by the author; Newcastle upon Tyne, 1820-1858. (7)
De La Mare (Walter) Lewis Carroll, 8vo, cloth, spine lettered in gilt, uncut, 1932, first edition, from the library of Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, with his Brackenburn bookplate. Inscribed on the flyleaf by Walter de la Mare with a four-line quotation from his poem 'The Buckle', dated July 1932.
Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, 12mo, original green boards, white lettering, pictorial label with illustration on upper cover, colour illustrations, 1908, first edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Beatrix Potter on pictorial flyleaf "Rebeccah Harrison, from Miss Potter, in remembrance of Sawrey, Oct 19th 08". See illustration.
F0UR REPUBLICAN TITLES - CLARKE THOMAS JAMES - Glimpses of an Irish Felon's Prison Life. P/B. National Publications Committee Cork 1970. First Edition. Pages 63 8vo. Frontis. Very good. COOGAN TIM PAT & GEORGE MORRISON - The Irish Civil war. H/B. Weidenfeld Nicolson London 1998. First. Illustrated photographic history. Pages 282 and index, 4to in repaired jacket. Very good. COOGAN TIM PAT - The IRA. H/ B. London: Pall Mall 1970. Pages x, 373. Illustrated. Very good + copy in worn jacket. CONNOLLY JAMES - The Workers Republic. A selection from the Writings . H/B. Sign of the Three Candles Dublin 1951. First. Pages 264 8vo. In original cloth. A clean copy near fine. GLEESON JAMES - Bloody Sunday. H/B. Davies London First edition 1962. Pages 209 8vo. Illus. Original green cloth some wear to spine and corner edges.
AMBROSE JOSEPH G - The Dan Breen Story. Mercier Press, Dublin, 1981. First edition, Pages 120. Very good. Very scarce title. BOURKE MARCUS - The O`Rahilly. Anvil Books Ltd., Tralee, 1967. First Edition. Pages, 138. Illustrated. Very good. Scarce. BROWNE KEVIN J. - Eamon De Valera and the Banner County. Glendale, Dublin 1982. First Edition. Fine copy. BUCKLAND PATRICK - Irish Unionism 2. Ulster Unionism & the Origins of Northern Ireland 1886-1922. Gill Macmillan, Dublin, 1973. First Edition. Pages, 207. Card covers. Very good + in jacket with edge-wear. All paperbacks and all scarce. { 4 }.
SIX SCARCE TITLES RELATING TO 1916 - EDWARDS RUTH DUDLEY - Patrick Pearse: The Triumph of Failure H/B. Gollancz London 1977. Pages, 384, 8vo. Illustrated. Very good + in like jacket. GALLAGHER FRANK - The Anglo-Irish Treaty. H/B. Hutchinson London 1965. First. Near Fine copy in very good jacket. GALLAGHER FRANK - Days of fear. P/B. Mercier Cork 1967. First. Pages 118 plus adverts. Very Good DE VALERA EAMON - Eamon de Valera 1882-1975: the controversial giant of modern Ireland. A survey in text and pictures of the life and influence of a famous leader. H/B. Irish Times Dublin 1976. First. Large 8vo. Pages 144. Front e.p. has been removed else very good. DUBOIS, L. PAUL AND GILL T.P. - The Irish Struggle and Its Results. H/B. Longmans Green and Co. London 1934. First. In worn covers. Binding loose. Text very good. DWYER T RYLE - Michael Collins and the Treaty. P/B. Mercier Press 1981. First paperback edition. Pages 172. Very good + (6)
Tallents (H.), The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry in the Great War, 1914-1918, 1926, first edition, plates and maps as called for, original cloth; Din (M. Hayaud), One Hundred Glorious Years, A History of the Punjab Frontier Force, 1849-1949, nd. [c1950], cloth; Mackay (John), The Reay Fencibles, or Lord Reay`s Highlanders, 1890, cloth (3)
Millais (John Guille) A BREATH FROM THE VELDT Numbered Standard Edition 395 x 300 x 30 mm Standard edition, No. 397 of 750. Facsimile reproduction of the first edition of 1895, with additional frontispiece and publisher`s introduction. Bound in white synthetic leather, illustrated with antelope heads on front and spine. Top edge gilt. The book is presented in a box decorated with a cheetah hunting scene and the facsimile signature of John G. Millais. There is a small, closed crack in the side of the box. The book itself is in Near Fine condition. John G. Millais was the son of Sir John Millais, founder of the pre-raphaelite group of artists in the 19th century. Both the original and the new frontispieces were painted by Sir John. This book is a magnificently illustrated volume of his son`s experiences in South Africa and Rhodesia on hunting and exploring expeditions 236 pages. New frontispiece, frontisiece, 12 etchings, 12 full-page illustrations and 125 illustrations in the text. Near Fine Bulawayo Books of Rhodesia 1974
Various Africana Auction Catalogues by Richard R Currie and an Africana price-list (1943-1947) 330 x 205 (1) 24 February 1943. `Captain A J Griffin`s magnificent Africana collection` including approximately 500 books by Isaacs, Kolben, Burchell (the 2-vol set in original binding), Latrobe, Campbell and Harris (both with coloured plates). Page 1 includes the note: `Collectors should bear in mind that Africana is daily becoming more difficult to secure, and the destruction of many thousands of rarities in the London Blitz has increased the scarcity.` - Richard R Currie, The Old Mart, Commissioner Street, Johannesburg. ii + 35 mimeographed pages describing 475 lots. The list comes under cover of a letter from Eva V Rose, of Fox Street, Johannesburg, who compiled the catalogue `and handled every book in the collection`. She was prepared to act for buyers `on the usual 10% buying commission`. (2) 24 and 25 October 1945. The same auctioneer and the same Eva V Rose. This time 758 items of Africana and 47 works of art. There is no single main seller. i + 39 pp (Africana) + 8 pp (paintings) + 12 pp (non-Africana items). (3) March 1947. A priced catalogue of a large private collection of Africana collected over more than 20 years from `Africana Private Collector` c/o P O Box 455 Port Elizabeth. 23 pp + 1 p addendum (p 18 missing). This copy was returned to the sender with a one-penny stamp. No money was required until the wanted item was delivered. High-priced items included 27 pounds 10 shillings for a Roupell; 24 pounds 10 shillings for a Golden Cockerel edition of Sparrman, `finished on 27 October 1944 on mould-made paper`, No 6 of 50 specially bound copies in white pigskin, gilt, in cloth case; and 19 pounds ten shillings for a Fairbridge; and the same for a first edition of Olive Schreiner`s `Story of An African Farm` (Ralph Irons, 2 vols, 1883, `original decorated cloth, good state`). Good Johannesburg and Port Elizibath Richard R Currie and others 1943-1947
Dornan (S. S.) PYGMIES AND BUSHMEN OF THE KALAHARI 220 x 145 x 40 mm Africana Collectanea Volume L. Numbered Edition No. 984 of 1000. Facsimile reprint of the 1925 edition. Dust jacket edgeworn with small tears at base of spine. Red synthetic leather with gilt logo and gilt titles on spine. Book clean and undamaged. 29 b/w photographs. Fold-out sketch map at the back. Pages [1-12]13-318. Rev. Samuel Shaw Dorman (1871-1941) based his book on first-hand information and investigations while working as a missionary and doing survey work in the area now known as Botswana. His personal observations are of great interest, but when theorising on matters outside his experience he is regarded as being less reliable. An important record, nevertheless. Very Good Cape Town C. Struik 1975
Cartwright, A.P. THE FIRST SOUTH AFRICAN: The life and times of Sir Percy FitzPatrick 25 x 17 cm 256 pages, [52] pages of plates: illustrations, portraits, map. Full leather, with raised bands and spine label. No. 55 of an edition limited to 250 copies Cartwright calls FitzPatrick `the first South African` because `...in an age in which there were no South Africans, but only Transvalers, Free Staters, Natalians and Cape Colonials and Africanders, he started calling himself a South African and announced the fact wherever he went. The marked difference between Sir Percy and most of his colleagues in the mining industry 80 years ago was that when he said he was going `home` he meant that he was returning to South Africa.` Introduction. Very good Cape Town Purnell 1971
Voet (Johannis) COMMENTARIUS AD PANDECTUS First edition: 2 volumes bound in 3: I. (16), 979, (71 errata and index). II. Part 1. (8), 728. Part 2. 729-1028, (78 addenda and index), pages, large woodcut printerÂ’s device on the title page of volume I. Volume I bound in full blind tooled vellum with trimmed edges, volume II in quarter vellum with marbled paper sides (the paper is worn), with uncut edges. Some pages in each volume are browned with some foxing but overall a crisp set. ‘Johannes Voet`s Commentarius ad Pandectas, the leading institutional work in Roman-Dutch law, is also the most frequently quoted exposition of that legal system in the South African courts. The opening title of that magisterial work, however, has for the most part been unjustly neglected by our judges, scholars and law teachers alike. Apart from providing an exceptionally fine introduction to the elements of law and justice, this title reveals the imposing range of Voet`s scholarship, which sweeps within its compass many ancient writings.Â’ Andrew Domanski, Fundamina, A Journal of Legal History, volume 19, Issue 2, 2013. http://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_epublication_article/funda_v19_n2_a4 Size: I. 330 x 210 mm. II. 355 x 225 mm. Volume I, Lvgdvni Batavorum, : Apud Johannem Verbessel, 1698 Volume II, Hagæ-Comitum, : Apud Abrahamum de Hondt, 1704 1698 - 1704
Charles Scott Shaw Stories from The Karkloof Hills-Revised & Enlarged Edition. 15 X 21cm First published in 1971, this revised and enlarged edition is in response to continuing demand and the interest in the early history of the Natal Midlands. The additional material inlcudes accounts of John Vanderplank, who was the first British settler: of Catherine Barter and her ward `Salome`; Natalie Robinson, Effie Smythe and Barbara Buchanan. There are new chapters about Thomas and Ellen Fannin and the Farmers` Village of Howick....Trade paperback format with flaps/map xiv plus 233 pages text with supporting illustrations. Very clean copy. Very Good Pietermaritzburg Shuter & Shooter 1990
Sir Percy Fitzpatrick JOCK OF THE BUSHVELD First edition - 2nd Impression. Original gilt decorated green cloth - covers on book are bright. No Inscriptions or markings. Binding tight. Twenty three full-page illustrations including colour frontispiece. Slight wear to edges. Very Good Longmans Green & Co 1907
Sir Percy Fitzpatrick JOCK OF THE BUSHVELD 220 x 160 x 40 mm First Edition, Fifth Impression, May 1908. Illustrations by E. Caldwell. One seldom sees a copy of this book so well preserved. No jacket. Cream leather-bound spine with gilt design and dark blue title block, gilt titles. Blue cloth-covered boards, speckled, some corner wear but very firm. Marbled endpapers in cream, pale pink and blue. Bookplate on ffe of May Hely-Hutchinson and possible subsequent owner initials on bookplate. Some prelim pp foxed, otherwise book inside generally very clean and well bound. Book must have been produced with uncut pages some of which have been cut leaving rough edges. Top edge Gilt. 22 b/w full page illustrations, colour frontispiece with tissue guard, b/w vignettes on almost every page. On p 65 well-known example of the dung beetle pushing the dung with its front end. Error corrected in later editions. Pages [i-vi]vii-xvi pp 1-474[475]. A South African classic, Fitzpatrick uses the story of Jock, the dog, to describe his adventures in the Bushveld. Edward Caldwell was brought to South Africa to do the drawings from life, while in the bushveld. Very Good London Longmans Green and Co May-08
Lloyd, A. B. In Dwarf Land and Cannibal Country (Harry Struben`s Presentation Copy) 16x24cm A Record of Travel and Discovery in Central Africa. 8vo, frontispiece portrait + xxiv + 385 + advertisements, illustrated with black & white photographs and plates, all three maps present. Red cloth covers with gilt decoration on front and titles on front and spine. First edition. A record of travel and discovery in Central Africa. Red cloth boards with gilt on front and spine, ex library copy with usual stamps but no cards, light foxing throughout, front and rear hinges cracked but intact, shaken. A piece of history comes with this title in the form of a Presentation Card which is glued to the inside front: `Presented by W.H. Struben, Esq.` Harry Struben and his brother Fred discovered gold on the farm Wilgespruit at the western end of the Witwatersrand in 1884. The area is today called Roodepoort. They were the first to strike gold and are righfully regarded as South Africa`s gold mining pioneers. In 1886 the Executive Council of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek announced in an official document that W.H. Struben is considered the real discoverer of the Witwatersrand gold fields. Harry later served as the first president of the Chamber of Mines. Fair London T. Fisher Unwin 1899
Vinii (Arnoldi) INSTITUTIONUM IMPERIALUM COMMENTARIUS ACADEMICUS ET FORENSIS 4to (255 x 200 mm) Jo. Gottl. Heineccius jc. recensuit, et praefationem notulasque adjecit. Cui Jacobi Gothofredi j.c. Historia, et Bibliotheca Juris Civilis Romani praeponitur. Accedit etiam ad calcem Edictum perpetuum Salvii Juliani a Guilielmo Ranchino collectum. Editio novissima, ceteris auctior, et emendatior. New edition, 2 volumes: I. xl, 510. II. (2), 514-997 pages (lacks pages 511-513 in volume I and pages 998-1005 in volume II), engraved portrait of the author in volume I, title pages printed in red and black, recently rebound in half green simulated leather with brown cloth sides, red title labels on the spines, tear across the half title page in volume I, some light foxing but overall the contents are good. Arnold Vinnius (4 January 1588, Monster - 1 September 1657, Leiden) was one of the leading jurists of the 17th century in the Netherlands.This work was reprinted 54 times from the first 1642 Leiden edition to the 1867 Spanish translation. (Wikepedia). Good Neapoli Apud Dominicum Terres 1772
Harris (W. Cornwallis) THE WILD SPORTS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 8vo (190 x 120 mm) Being the narrative of an expedition from the Cape of Good Hope through the territories of the Chief Moselekatse to the Tropic of Capricorn. Second edition (the first to be published in London): 387 pages, tinted lithographic frontispiece, 6 lithographic plates, folding map ‘Exhibiting the relative positions of the emigrant farmers and the native tribes, May 1837’ compiled by the author with the route of his travels outlined in red, inscription of a previous owner on the half title page, bound in half green leather with red title labels on the spine, green vynide sides – the edges of the spine and the corners are worn and the top edge has been trimmed in the rebinding leaving two plates with no margins at the top, Bindings in this style were commissioned by Struik Booksellers in the 1950’s and 60’s from a monastery in Mozambique. The contents are in good condition. Good London John Murray 1839
Trollope (Anthony) SOUTH AFRICA 8vo (250 x 185 mm) A reprint of the 1878 edition with an introduction and notes by J.H. Davidson. 504 pages, sketch map of Trollope`s route as frontispiece, paper covered boards and rexine back, a very good copy in the dust jacket. `South Africans, noting the inconsistencies and factual blemishes, have tended to cast the book aside. Yet in "South Africa" will be found a fair-minded account of the country and all its peoples; one of the first recognitions of Kimberley as the cradle of the new South Africa, its prosperity based on minerals and its town swelling with a black proletariat; and a recognition of the fact that any attempt by the British Government to extend the franchise to the black majority would be fiercely resisted by the colonists, even to the point of rebellion.` Editor`s introduction. Very good Cape Town A.A. Balkema 1973
Holliday (J.D.) DOTTINGS ON NATAL AS PUBLISHED IN 1865 8vo (210 x 140 mm) And Sundry Tit-Bits of Colonial Experience. New edition: 59 pages, printed light green limp cloth covers, stapled binding. First and last pages foxed, the two staples are rusted. Good Pietermaritzburg P. David & Sons 1890
Peter Baxter Rhodesia: Last Outpost of the British Empire (SIGNED) First edition (hardback)limited to 150 copies, signed by the author on the title page. 544pp of text including index, with b&w illustrations. DJ now in loose protective plastic overwrap. This is the first complete history of Rhodesia, the country founded by Empire Builder, Cecil John Rhodes. Throughout this historical tapestry the author has skilfullY threaded in the many, often larger-than-life personalities who shaped Rhodesia`s destiny from the early characters like Cecil John Rhodes, Leander Starr Jameson, Frank Johnson, King Lobengula, Archibald Colquhoan and many others, to the later ones like Godfrey Huggins, Sir Edgar Whitehead, Garfield Todd, Joshua Nkomo, Robert Mugabe, Ian Smith and a host of others. Fine Alberton Galago 2010
Holub (Emil) SEVEN YEARS IN SOUTH AFRICA 8vo (218 x 145 mm) Travels, researches, and hunting adventures, between the diamond-fields and the Zambesi, 1872-79, Translated by E.E. Frewer. Facsimile reproduction of the 1881 edition with a new Foreword. De Luxe edition: 2 volumes, 426 + 479 pages, frontispiece, folding colour map, numerous plates and illustrations in the text, full light brown leather with green title labels on the spines, top edges gilt, contained in a green rexine slip cases. A very good set. This leather-bound edition in the Africana Reprint Library series is limited to 107 copies. This is No. 91 Holub describes his first three expeditions to the remoter regions of southern Africa in the 1870`s. His compelling ambition was to follow in the footsteps of Dr Livingstone and, specifically, to reach Luanda by way of the Zambesi valley and across Angola. That he failed in his principle objective does not diminish his stature as a traveller-explorer nor, indeed, the fascination which modern readers will derive from his meticulous accounts of the journeys, the third of which took him to the upper reaches of the Zambesi River. Very good Johannesburg Africana Book Society 1975
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