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Click here to subscribeLIMITED EDITION CRICKET BOOKS, noted “418 to Win - West Indies Record Score” by Kumar (signed by author & West Indies team) [Trinidad, 2003]; “Curiosities of Cricket” [UK, 1978 reprint]; “10th Wicket First Class Cricket Record Partnership 307 runs” by Riley (signed) [Melbourne, 1997]; “Trumper Triumphant” by Wolstenholme (signed) [UK, 2002]. (4 items)
Sir Alexander Kennedy; Ypres to Verdun, 8vo, grey cloth and boards with photographic front board plate, first edition, signed and dedicated by the author, published by Country Life, London 1921, together with Beatrix Brice, The Battle Book of Ypres; Walter Bloem, The Advance from Mons; Colonel John Davis, The History of the Second Queen's Royal Regiment, vol II; and H B King MC, 7th (S) Batallion Northamptonshire Regiment 1914-19. (5)
Leitch Ritchie; The Wye, Narrative of a Pedestrian Ramble, first edition, 8vo, gilt tooled green morocco, published by Longman, Orme et al, London 1841, together with Alphonse de Lamartine; Souvenirs, Impressions Pensees et Paysages, pendant un Voyage en Orient 1832-33, 16mo, two vols, half calf, published by Churton & Bailliere, London 1835. (3)
Original Bible Leaf from Various Early English Bibles, including a page of St John from the `Breeches` Bible; a page of St John printed by Daniel Vervliet at Antwerp dated 1600; The `Prohecie` from the fourth and last edition of the Mysterious Matthew`s Bible printed by Nicholas Hyll at London in 1551; a page from `The First Booke of Samuel from The First ""King James"" published in London, 1612, all framed and glazed. (4)
MAYO, J.H.Medals and Decorations of the British Army & Navy, Two Volumes, Constable, Westminster 1897, First Edition, 705 pages, colour plates throughout, caseboundIRWIN, D.H.War Medals and Decorations, Gill, London, 1890, First Edition, 189 pages, various plates, casebound; together with a copy of The Military Chest, July/ August 1985FORBES, AChinese Gordon, Routledge, London, 1884, First Edition, 252 pages, frontpiece photograph, caseboundFLEMING, PBayonets to Lhasa, Readers Union, London, 1962, First Edition, 319 pages, various illustrations, casebound, with dust jacket (5)
THE REGULATING SILVER COIN, MADE PRACTICABLE AND EASY, TO THE GOVERNMENT AND SUBJECT, London: 1696; bound with: FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING RAISING THE VALUE OF MONEY, second edition, London: 1695, contemporary calf (worn, lacking front board) (some corner creasing, the last work heavily browned throughout). -- Somner, William. A TREATISE OF THE ROMAN PORTS AND FORTS IN KENT, 8vo, frontispiece portrait, contemporary calf (worn, front board detached), Oxford: 1693 (small section missing from corner of frontispiece, paint spots on first leaf of Somner's text [i5], owner's name on title, browning, some soiling). With 2 other works in 3 volumes
Hubly (R.C.) `G` COMPANY, or, Every-day Life of the R.C.R., 8vo (185 x 130 mm) Being a descriptive account of typical events in the life of the first Canadian contingent in South Africa. Second Edition,111 pages, frontispiece portrait of the author, recently bound in half brown leather titled gilt on the spine, brown cloth sides, first two pages neatly repaired. A South African Bibliography or Hackett (R.G.) SOUTH AFRICAN WAR BOOKS, An Illustrated Bibliography, page159. A South African Bibliography, volume 5, the Supplement, page 157, One copy only listed - 3rd edition. Good Montreal Witness Printing House 1901 Click here to view further details and to bid
Sir Percy Fitzpatrick JOCK OF THE BUSHVELD 225 x 160 x 40 mm First Edition, 3rd Impression, 1907. 22 Full-page illustrations, colour frontispiece with tissue guard. 21 b/w small drawings on almost every page. 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. Professionally re-cased with original dark green cloth front, spine and back. Binding tight. One or two pages with small marks or tears or small bits missing from edge. Otherwise a remarkably good copy. Gilt titles and picture on front and spine. Pages and illustrations very clean. Some bumping on corners or light edge-rubbing. Pages: [i-vi]vii-xv[xvi] pp 1-474[475]. London Longmans Green and Co 1907 Click here to view further details and to bid
Ivan Mitford-Barberton and Violet White SOME FRONTIER FAMILIES Biographical sketches of 100 Eastern Province Families before 1840 228 x 155 x 25 mm First Edition Limited to 1000 copies. This book No. 613. Biographical sketches of 100 Eastern Province families before 1840. A valuable contribution to 1820 Settler Africana. It records family life, adventure and romance. Background to the early wars in the area. Foreword by Tom Bowker. Ivan Mitford-Barberton was the well-known Cape sculptor. Family crests illustrated where available. Dust jacket foxed along top and front edges. Orange paper-covered boards in Very Good condition. General condition of book is Very Good. Cape Town Human & Rousseau 1968 Click here to view further details and to bid
Peter Hawthorne THE TRANSPLANTED HEART with many participants` signatures 215 x 142 x 19 mm First edition, signed by both Barnards, T. Donovan, surgeon, Eileen Blaiberg wife of second heart recipient, and others, dated 22/1/68 and 23/1/68. Includes piece of paper-strip ECG Tape, in an envelope stamped with the date 2/12/67. No other provenance, but presumed to be that of Washkansky. The whole story of the first heart transplant, with background details of all participants and patients and details of the second transplant a month later. Photographs of many participants, and diagrams. Pages 1-189. Dust jacket has some top edge wear and slight edge discoloration. I cm tear on front spine fold. Otherwise Very Good. Blue paper-covered boards, faded along top edge and on spine, otherwise Very Good. Binding Very Good. Johannesburg Hugh Keartland 1968 Click here to view further details and to bid
M.K. Rowan THE DOVES, PARROTS, LOURIES & CUCKOOS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 235 x 150 x 28 mm First Edition, for the John Voelcker Bird Book Fund. Very detailed, yet not difficult to understand, information on each bird described. Habitat, frequency, distribution, social organisation, maintenance activities, reproduction, population dynamics and relations with man, of every South African member of the four orders of birds under the title (Columbiformes, Psittiaciformes, Musophagiformes, Cuculiformes). 8 Full-page colour plates, unpaginated, with identification picture and naming details on opposite page, by Graeme Arnott. Distribution maps. Pages: [i-v]vi-xx pp [1]2-429. Dust jacket has some light wear at spine top edge. Condition Very Good. Green paper covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Very light foxing on half-title page, otherwise no wear or staining. Book, binding, pages Fine condition. Cape Town David Philip 1983 Click here to view further details and to bid
Mossop, George Running the Gauntlet. Some recollections of adventure (first edition, 1937) 205 x 145 Mossop`s book - finished in 1930 and published seven years later, when he was 75 - covers his experiences, beginning in the 1860s, of the Transvaal, then `considered to be in the Wilds of Africa`. `I have never,` he wrote, `lived in a town or near one.` Chapters include `With the F L H` [Frontier Light Horse], `Ulundi`, `Laing`s Nek`, `Amajuba`, `A Transport Rider` and `Witchcraft and Baboons`. Were the book not extremely rare, with good copies changing hands for hundreds of dollars, this copy would not be offered. The mustard cloth-boards are rubbed and extensively stained, the front free endpaper has been removed, the front paste-down is scratched, the first six leaves are stained at the bottom corner and there is some staining to the page edges. However, the binding remains firm, the book is unmarked and there is no foxing or (apart from the stain referred to) any discolouration of the ix + 314 pp of unillustrated text and 2 pp of publisher`s announcements. A simple rebinding would restore much of the book`s attractiveness, making this much better than a reading copy. Fair to Good London etc Thomas Nelson 1937 Click here to view further details and to bid
James, F L The Unknown Horn of Africa (second edition, 1890) 195 x 140 Copies of the important first edition, with includes a scientific appendix and colour plates, change hands for thousands of dollars. This shorter edition was published a year later and a few months after the author, a well-known adventurer, sportsman and natural scientist, was killed by an elephant on the West African coast. He was on another adventure on the opposite side of the subject of this book, the Horn of Africa, and he was then not yet forty. This version includes an obituary, written by two brothers. The olive-green cloth-boards, printed in black and pale-blue on the upper face and decorated in black with gilt lettering to the spine, are well preserved, with only light rubbing and bumping at the spine-joins and corners. The black endpapers are cracked but the hinges are undamaged. The book remains tightly bound. There is little left of the gilt on the top page edge. The contents - xx + 273 pp of b/w illustrated text, notes and index + tissue-guarded engraved signed portrait frontispiece, several inserted b/w plates, folding colour map at the back + 8 pp of publisher`s announcements - are complete, unmarked and undiscoloured. The tissue guard is foxed. This is a collectable copy. Very Good London and Liverpool George Philip & Son 1890 Click here to view further details and to bid
Skelton, R A (Superintendent of the Map Room of the British Museum) Explorers` Maps. Chapters in the Cartographic Record of Geographical Discovery (first edition, 1958) 250 x 195; weight 1.2 kg This ex-library copy of the first edition would benefit from rebinding as the mustard cloth-boards are rubbed and bumped, while the spine has been strengthened with clear archival tape. The binding has loosened and the once-gilt top edge has dulled to a dark blue-black. The contents, however, remain in near very good condition, despite the library spine label, stamps on the title-page and elsewhere, and sticker and pocket at the back. The plain endpapers are otherwise unmarked and sound, and the xi + 337 pp of b/w illustrated text and index and colour frontispiece, all on art paper, are unmarked and and bright. Featuring, as it does, well over two hundred maps, Skelton`s book offers many days` feasts for the armchair explorer. Good+ London Routledge and Kegan Paul 1958 Click here to view further details and to bid
Millais (John Guille) A BREATH FROM THE VELDT With Numerous Illustrations by the Author and Frotispiece by the Late Sir J.E. Millais, Bart., P.R.A. New and Revised Edition x + 345 and four pages of publisher`s catalogue, electro-etched frontispiece, title page vignette and 12 electro-etched plates, numerous full-page plates and text illustrations, original dark blue cloth titled gilt on upper cover and spine top edge gilt, other edges uncut, bookplate on the front paste-down endpaper and a corresponding small stamp below the date on the title page. The electro-etchings are lightly foxed, the contents which are printed on coated paper are clean and bright, corners bumped, a good copy. Mendelssohn (Sydney) South African Bibliography, volume 2, page 13 `The first edition was published in 1895 and soon became very rare, and the `Daily Telegraph`, commenting on the publication, stated that it was `a classic of the shooting world.` Czech (Dr. K.) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785 – 1999 (2011), page 196. `Highlighted by the author`s detailed illustrations, this work represents Millais` journey towards the Limpopo River with excursions to hunt Kudu, reedbock, waterbuck, sable and roan. Near the Nuanetsi River, he bagged buffalo and zebra. After leaving the Limpopo, he collected trophy kudu, as well as lion and leopard. A most readable and visually exciting book of African travel and big game hunting.` Good London Henry Sotheran and Co. 1899 Click here to view further details and to bid
Paterson (Lieutenant William) A NARRATIVE OF FOUR JOURNEYS INTO THE COUNTRY OF THE HOTTENTOTS, AND CAFFRARIA IN THE YEARS 1777, 1778, 1779 4to (305 x 245 mm) Illustrated with a map and nineteen copper-plates. The Second Edition, Corrected: xii,175, (i directions for placing of the plates) pages, 19 hand coloured engraved plates (15 of botanical subjects and 4 of Bushmen habitations, Hottentots, Horned Snake and Camelopardalis), folding map, old half calf rebacked preserving the backstrip and red title labels, marbled paper sides, small book label of a previous owner on the front paste-down endpaper, contained in a later slip case in brown cloth with a leather lip. The edges and corners are worn, light foxing on the plates, contents are clean and bright, a good copy unusual with the hand coloured plates. It is uncertain how many copies with hand coloured plates were issued. None of the originals of the engravings in the two editions of Paterson’s Four Journeys are in the collection in the Brenthurst Library so the colouring cannot be compared but the colouring in this copy is botanically accurate. Paterson, William (1755-1810), traveller and lieutenant-governor of New South Wales, was born on 17 Aug. 1755. He entered the army at an early age, but not before he had developed a strong liking for natural history, especially botany. The interest and patronage of Lady Strathmore enabled him to gratify these tastes, and before entering upon active service he had made a series of exploring expeditions in the Hottentot country. He left England early in 1777, arrived at Capetown in May, and on 16 Oct., in company with Captain Gordon, made his first expedition, returning to Cape Town on 13 Jan. 1778. His second expedition lasted from May to 20 Nov. 1778. His third was into the district which he called Caffraria, and claimed as hitherto unknown, and it lasted from 23 Dec. 1778 to 23 March 1779. His fourth journey occupied him from 18 June to 21 Dec. the same year. He made several fresh contributions to science, and is credited with having brought to England the first giraffe-skin ever seen there. The French traveller Le Vaillant several times refers to his researches in high terms. Paterson published `A Narrative of Four Journeys into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffraria in the years 1777–8–9,` London, 1789, 4to. A second corrected edition and a French translation appeared in 1790. His botanical collections are in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paterson,_William_(1755-1810)_(DNB00) Mendelssohn (S.) South African Bibliography, volume 2, pages143-4, `Mr Paterson accompanied Colonel Gordon (Commander of the Troops of the Dutch East India Company in South Africa) and Jacob van Reenan in several trips to the interior. He remarked that he does not give a description of the Cape as he would be only repeating what Sparrman and Masson had already communicated in their publications. In the course of his travels the author penetrated as far as Namaqualand on the west, and the Great Fish River on the south-east. Although the principal feature of the work is the description of the botanical specimens collected and noted by Mr. Paterson, there are many interesting notes respecting the natives, with a few remarks on the Dutch Colonists.` Good London Printed for John Johnson 1790 Click here to view further details and to bid
Karen Blixen The Illustrated Out of Africa 19.5 X 26cm Out of Africa is probably the finest book ever written about the nature of the African continent and its people-although at first sight it is not about either of these things. Karen Blixen set out in middle age to record the central experience of her life, in which with her husband she went out to Kenya to manage a coffee plantation close to the Ngong Hills near Nairobi, and continued to do so by herself for ten years after her divorce. What she achieved, however is a uniquely poignant evocation of a vanishing land and its peoples,whose destiny seems to echo the author`s own preoccupations but remains eternally distinct from them. This superbly illustrated edition brings alive the Kenya of those years: the day to day events on a struggling farm. the often eccentric European settlers, the Afriacn peoples among whom they lived and, above all, the magnificent, wild land in which the story is set. Hardback with clipped dustover over laminated boards with 288 pages , text, illustrations and colour illustrations. Very good condition. Very Good London Cresset Press-Century Hutchinson 1989 Click here to view further details and to bid
Charles M.Doughty. Travels in Arabia Deserta 14.5 X 23cm Travels in Arabia Deserta by Charles.M.Doughty, with a new preface by the author. Introduction by T.E.Lawrence, and all original maps, plans & illustrations. Thin-paper edition in one volume complete and unabridged. It has been considerd convenient in this thin paper one-volume edition to retain the general arrangement of the orignal two-volume edition as finally revised by the author. Thus the numbering of the pages will be found to start afresh at the beginning of volume two, and the INDEX to remain as in the earlier editions. Hardback without dustcover.Reprinted July 1926.Preface to First Edition/Second Edition and Third Edition-Introduction( by T.E.Lawrence) -l plus 623 pages +Volume Two plus 690 pages text, contains some folding maps/plans, with line drawings to text. Slight offset to endpapers. Very clean copy. Very Good London Johanathan Cape Limited & The Medici Society Jul-26 Click here to view further details and to bid
Sir Winston Churchill The Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill-Centenary Limited Edition-Volume1-Boxed-MY EARLY LIFE & MY AFRICAN JOURNEY 16.5 X 24 plus Green Box The First Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill. Centenary Limited Edition Volume 1. My Early Life was originally published on October 20th 1930, and My African Journey in December 1908. The earlier book arose out of a visit to Uganda, undertaken when Churchill was Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, and first appeared in an abridged serial form in The Strand Magazine. It is characteristic of his buoyant style and ceasless curiousity, and though inevitably dated in some respects is still of great interest in its views and descriptions. Churchill writes with verve and enthusiasm on subjects ranging from national economics to hunting and trekking. My Early Life, is of course, one of Churchill`s classics. Although not written until 1930, the book covers his early years up to the moment when he was first elected to Parliament. It therefore includes such important events in his life ias his first experience of warfare, his participation in the cavalry charge at Omdurman, his capture by and escape from the Boers, his triumphal entry into Ladysmith, and his first elections. Ivory full vellum binding with gilt decoration to boards and spine, marbled endpapers, all edges giled. With matching green and gilt slipcase. 385 pages plus 134 pages. With some illustrations and maps. Near Fine. Near Fine London Library of Imperial History/The Hamlyn Publishing Group 1973- Centenary Limited Edition Click here to view further details and to bid
Ruth Gordon The Place of The Elephant- BOXED (Signed Limited Edition) 19 X 25cm Ruth Gordon has for some time been acknowledged as one of our leading local historians, whose deep love and concern for Pietermaritzburg and its past have invariably been channeled into action. Her latest venture is this highly informative and readable account of Maritzburg`s history- from the early days of Piet Retief and his fellow trekkers in 1837 to the present. History, to Dr Gordon, means people rather than mere events, so her pages are vitalised by characters and personalities--and not just Lieutenant Governors and their elegant ladies. You`ll encounter the Empress Eugenie, of course together with Shepstone, Colenso and Baynes; but you`ll meet a host of other citizens too, who made-and left-their marks: `Cockney` James, Dan Scott who built the theatre: the Froomberg family who ran the Carlton Bar: the sadistic Canon Nisbett who threatened the already precarious stste of education in 1865....Hardback with Dustcover- Maps to endpapers. First Edition _limited Edition Number 34. Signed by author to title page.Signed at Royal Show May 1981- 143 pages text with supporting photographs and illustrations.BOXED. Fine Fine Pietermaritzburg Shuter & Shooter 1981 Click here to view further details and to bid
Saxton, Christophorus; Kip, Wilhelmus FLINT Comitatus quem Ordovices Olim Incoluerunt Plate size: 265 x 321 mm; Paper size: 315 x 375 mm; Copper engraved map with later hand colour. Name of map: FLINT Comitatus quem ORDOVICES olim Incoluerunt, Christophorus Saxton descripsit, Wilhelmus Kip Sculpsit. This is from an edition of William Camden’s `Britannia` first published in 1586. It was the last to be published in his lifetime and the first to be illustrated with county maps although this had been contemplated since at least 1589. Shows Chester clearly and other towns in Cheshire and Denbighshire. Camden (1551-1623) was an antiquary and historian. An academic by profession he would become the headmaster of Westminster School in 1593. He spent much of his time travelling and collecting material for his highly respected `Britannia`. This is engraved by William Kip and is from the first fully illustrated edition of William Camden`s classic work, this example from the preferred second edition without text to the verso. Condition: the paper is in good condition with the expected yellowing due to its age, the two pages neatly joined (join visible on the rear); the map is uniformly spotted/foxed, the paper is wrinkled, and the edges are chipped. The engravings are crisp and the hand-colouring is of a very high quality - providing a very good example of the art of map printing of the early 17th century. good London Camden, William 1610 Click here to view further details and to bid
Ian Fleming (& Others) IAN FLEMING LOT - 5 BOOKS 8vo. Comprising: 1. Fleming. The Diamond Smugglers. 1st. Edition. 1957. The scarce second issue variant with gilt lettering on the spine which is much scarcer than the white lettering variant. An about very good copy which has some mild foxing of the endpapers and a few spots internally. There is also a fairly large transverse inscription on the medial side of the front pastedown. The dw. is very good plus complete and not price-clipped and has a slight crease of the rear flap. It has only light fading of the spine. 2. Fleming. Thrilling Cities. 1963. Small neat inscription on the verso of the ffep. otherwise a very clean fine copy. In a very good plus price-clipped dw. which has some light markings but is otherwise complete and notably has a bright pink unfaded spine which is uncommon in this title. 3. Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica. Deutsch. 1965. Some evidence of a ? name erasure from the ffep. otherwise a clean near fine copy. In a very good plus dw. which is not price-clipped and and has some light edge wear but no chipping. 4. The Education of a Poker Player by Herbert O. Yardley. First thus with a 3pp. introduction by Fleming. A very good plus unmarked copy in 1/4 cloth and patterned boards. In a very good minus dw. which has considerable wear and some chipping and tears. (See scan). 5. All Night at Mr. Stanyhurst`s by Hugh Edwards. 1963. First thus with 14pp. introduction by Fleming. Bookseller`s small label on front pastedown otherwise about fine. In a very good dw. which has some signs of use notably two approximately 1cm. tears of the inner aspect of the front flap not visible externally. Very Good London Jonathan Cape & Deutsch 1957-1965 Click here to view further details and to bid
P E Aston (Editor) The Raid on the Transvaal by Dr. Jameson 306 pages, frontispiece of Dr. L.S. Jameson, 1896 first edition by Dean & Son, Limited. A clean copy tightly bound. Ex-libris stamp in front. Spine is sun-faded and very brittle and would probably need some repair. Fair London Dean & Son Limited 1896 Click here to view further details and to bid
Pauline Smith THE LITTLE KAROO - 1st. Edition in Scarce DW. 8vo. This is a classic collection of short stories and Pauline Smith`s highspot. Next to Olive Schreiner, Smith was South Africa`s most important writer of English Literature in the early part of the twentieth century. The first edition is not common and the dust wrapper is decidedly scarce. The introduction is by Arnold Bennett who Smith wrote about in a published book: `A.B. A Minor Marginal Note`. This is a clean unmarked copy although the ffep. has moderate offsetting. The rear cloth has some bubbling which seems to be a binding fault as there is no evidence of damp. The dw. is complete and not price-clipped. It has some edge wear and age toning with a darkened spine. Very Good London Jonathan Cape 1925 Click here to view further details and to bid
Steyn (Peter) NESTING BIRDS. COLLECTORS` EDITION 305 x 225mm An exhaustive study of the breeding habits of Southern African birds by one who has devoted his life to this subject. He collected and recorded his first egg as a schoolboy in 1949. 240 pages, large quarto (305 x 225mm), limited to 150 numbered copies in a beautiful half morocco binding gilt, in slip case, by Peter Carstens, signed by the author. This is number 14. The text of each group includes a basic outline, introductory comments, territorial/courtship behaviour, breeding season, nest, eggs, incubation period, nestling period and post-nestling dependence. The book, which is an ornithologist`s goldmine, is illustrated with some 500 brilliant colour photographs, mostly by the author. This is a very fine copy. Very fine Cape Town Fernwood Press 1996 Click here to view further details and to bid
Malherbe, D F du Toit Stamregister van die Suid-Afrikaanse Volk / Family Register of the South African Nation 250 x 165 x 55; weight 2 kg `This issue differs in many ways from the first two editions, which were published in 1959 and sold out in four months.` - from the preface. As well as enlarging the entries, the author has listed the sources for each entry, obtained permission to take information from other published and unpublished work and received a foreword from the State President, Dr Jansen, and a preface from the Prime Minister, Dr Verwoerd. Apart from library stamps and a bookplate on the front endpaper and a Dewey reference on the spine, this copy is fine throughout. Full-bound in handsome green simulated leather with gilt lettering to the upper panel and the spine, unsunned endpapers and unmarked bright text - xxvii + 1208 pp of bilingual text. After 48 years, this edition by still be South Africa`s most comprehensive one-volume genealogical reference. One Johannesburg bookseller notes: `extremely elusive: $250`. Fine Stellenbosch Tegniek 1966 Click here to view further details and to bid
Elmslie, W A (medical missionary), with an introduction by Lord Overtoun Among the Wild Ngoni. Being some chapters in the history of the Livingstonia Mission in British Central Africa (1901) 200 x 135 `The sphere chosen by the Livingstonia Mission [named after Dr Livingstone] was the west shore of Lake Nyasa, an inland sea some 400 miles long, discovered by Livingstone and Dr Stewart, and in 1875 the `Ilala`, bearing the pioneers of the mission, Dr Laws and his helpers, steamed into the Lake and took possession for Christ.` Beige cloth-boards, black and gilt to the upper panel and the spine, which is detached from the upper panel, though with the binding remaining firm. The front free endpaper has ownership and library stamps. The contents are unmarked and unfoxed - title-page, present but detached + 319 pp of text and index + frontispiece and 13 further inserted plates + 1 p of pubisher`s announcements (there is a further page of these announcements on the verso of the title-page). The `map at back` referred to in the list of illustrations, is missing, though with no sign of its having been deliberatey removed. First (1899) editions are understandably more valuable but even this second edition is comparatively rare. Good+ Edinburgh and London Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier 1901 Click here to view further details and to bid
edited by C. Lang Neil South Africa in peace and war 4to Published early in the Anglo-Boer War, this volume has a few pages on major towns, famous places & early incidents of the war. Cape Town, Kimberley, Port Elizabeth, Bloemfontein, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban & Pietermaritzburg all get a page or two, as well as a number of full-page & smaller photos. There are a few pages on Rhodesia & one each on SWA & Mozambique. HACKETT, p. 173. London, Miles & Miles, (c. 1899). First edition. 4to. Landscape format. Decorative cloth. Pp. 191,(1), photos, illustrations, portraits. Original cloth covers, darkened & worn, binding a bit shaken, hinges repaired internally with tape, label on end-paper, some corners creased, some edge-wear to some pages. Good London Miles & Miles 1899 Click here to view further details and to bid
Thomas Pakenham The Scramble for Africa (signed) 180 x 255mm SIGNED, DATED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, first South African edition, 1991, illustrated, cartoons and engravings, list of maps, introduction, prologue, epilogue, chronology, sources, select bibliography, notes and index, 738 pages, condition:very good.Thomas Pakenham is the author of `The Mountains of Rasselas` (Ethiopia), and the bestsellers, ` The Boer War ` and `Remarkable Trees of the World`.`The Scramble for Africa` was the winner of the WH Smith Literary Award and the Alan Paton Award . The author is the 8th Earl of Longford, his mother the historian, Elizabeth Longford , known for her royal and military biographies , and his sister the historical novelist, Antonia Fraser. very good South Africa Jonathan Ball 1991 Click here to view further details and to bid
Basil Williams (introduction) The Selborne Memorandum; a review of the mutual relations of the British South African Colonies in 1907 1925 first edition with 184 pages. 5 folding maps and charts. Original brown-red cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. This is an ex-library copy. Papers relating to a Federation of the South African Colonies. Chapters inside: Historical cause of South African Disunion. Results of Disunion on the Railway development of South Africa, results of Disunion on the Fiscal Policy, Disunion as affecting the Native and Labour Questions, Disunion as affecting the Economic Position, National Expansion.... Very good Humphrey Milford 1925 Click here to view further details and to bid
V. Sackville-West, Devil at Westease pub. Doubleday and Company, 1946, signed and inscribed by the author in non price-clipped dust jacket; The Garden pub. Michael Joseph, 1945, first edition in non price clipped dust jacket; The Easter Party, pub. Michael Joseph,1953, first edition, in non price-clipped dust jacket; together with eighteen other books by the author and related books (21)
How to Catch Them series, 17 vols, all with dust jackets, some first editions to include three copies of Routledge`s Country Books, `The Anglers` Library`, (20)Titles and publication dates for How to Catch Them Series are as follows; Tench, third printing 1961; Rainbow Trout, first edition 1960; Bream, third impression 1960; Trout, first edition 1955; Eels, first edition 1958; Loch Fishing first edition 1962; Chub, first edition, 1954; Sea Fishing Tackle first edition, 1965; Rods, first edition, 1959, and another copy; Rods, second impression, February 1961; Salmon, second impression, 1959; River fly-fishing, first edition 1961; Artificial Flies, second impression 1959; Roach, third printing, November 1956, and another copy; Mackeral, first edition 1963 Routledge`s Country Books titles; Pike and Perch; Sea Fish; Coarse Fish.
David Moss (American, Contemporary), ""The Song of David,"" 1987, first edition full color facsimile and commentary volume of the Moss Haggadah, edition 146/500, published by BET Alpha Editions, production carried out under the direction of Martino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, Italy; text printed by letterpress, color plates and duotones by offset; paper cuts by Lasercraft in Santa Rosa, CA; paper made by Cartiere Fedrigoni, Verona; bound/boxed by Recalcati Legatoria, Mil````an, Italy, overall (with portfolio case): 18""h x 12""w x 2.25""d. Provenance: The David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Collection (Chicago, IL)
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