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Chute (Robin) Shooting Flying, A Bibliography of Shooting Books 1598 - 1950, 2001, numbered limited edition of 500, signed by the author, 4to., original cloth; Horne (Bernard S.), The Compleat Angler, 1653 - 1967, A New Bibliography, 1970, first edition, dust wrapper (stained); Callahan (J. Kenneth), A Dictionary of Sporting Pen Names, 1995, first edition, 4to., original cloth; Walton (Isaak), The Compleat Angler, 2003, Flyfisher's Classic Library, numbered limited edition of 150, illustrations after Arthur Rackham, t.e.g., full bonded leather, slipcase; with six others (10)

Luer (Carlyle A.) The Native Orchids of the United States and Canada excluding Florida, 1975, first edition, 4to, original cloth; Kreutz (C.A.J.) The Orchids of Rhodes and Karpathos, 2002, folio, first edition, English and German text, original pictorial boards; Jones (David L.) Native Orchids of Australia, 1993, 4to, original cloth; with fourteen others (17)

Lambeth (Joseph A.) Lambeth Method of Cake Decoration and Practical Pastries, 1936, 4to., first edition, 20 colour plates, original cloth

Caw (James L.) Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures of the British, French & Dutch Schools belonging to John Reid, 1913, one of 230 copies printed for private circulation, folio, plates, t.e.g., outstanding morocco gilt by Maclehose of Glasgow; idem, Sir James Guthrie, A Biography, 1932, folio, dust wrapper; Baird (William), John Thomson of Duddington, Pastor and Painter .., 1895, 4to., numbered ltd. edition of 110, signed by the author, plates as called for, t.e.g., original cloth; Shepherd (Thomas H.), Modern Athens!, Displayed in a Series of Views; or Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century ..., 1829, 4to., engraved title, 120 engraved views on 60 plates, a.e.g., half morocco; [Glasgow], The Regality Club, First Series, 1886-9, 4to., four parts in one volume, plates, original wraps bound in at rear, t.e.g., half morocco by Ferguson of Glasgow (5)

Lorna Bailey, Old Ellgreave Pottery, two jars and covers decorated with stylised zig zags, a cream jug of the same design, a flattened wall pocket vase, and a limited edition 'Rose' vase, together with two pairs of candlesticks; the first pair with spiral twist bodies in the 'Chetwynd' pattern, 16cm high, the second pair with chunky banded bodies and Art Deco stylised landscape design, 18cm high, each signed and printed factory marks (9)

Lorna Bailey, Old Ellgreave Pottery, a 'Kaleidoscope' charger, 36cm diameter, limited edition 84/100, together with two rocket shaped vases, the first in the 'Oakland' pattern, 25cm high, the second in the 'Dimsdale Hall' pattern, 19.2cm high, signed, titled, and printed factory marks (3)

EVERARD (J), JUDGEMENT OF PARIS, first edition, 48 camera studies of the female nude, George Routledge, 1941; LIVING COLOUR, 1937; PORTRAIT OF A MODEL, (plate 1 detached), 1939 (3)

WALLACE (ALFRED RUSSELL), SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT AND MORAL PROGRESS, signed first edition, inscribed on the fly leaf 'Mss Casey, from her friend the Author, Alfred Wallace, Brondstone, March 26th 1913', Cassell, 1913; a ceramic portrait plaque of Alfred Wallace, titled and initialled verso (2)

CASEY (C), AGRESTIA LIGUSTICA. RIVIERA NATURE NOTES, two copies, first editions, one signed by Olive B. C. Casey, the other by E. C. Casey, black cloths with gilt lettering, Manchester, 1898; RIVIERA NATURE NOTES, 2nd edition, corrected copy with numerous ink and pencil annotations, notes, letters and cuttings, London, Quaritch, 1903; a second copy of the same signed O. B. C. Casey with additional cuttings and photographs; a third copy signed E. Cromford Casey; a forth copy signed Olive. B. Casey (bright condition to cover); THE WHITE OLIVE, AND OTHER ROMANCES OF THE RIVIERA, corrected copy, green cloth, Fisher & Unwin, 1899. With a hand written note book entitled 'Lepidoptera' dated between 1889-1891 in Nice and other parts of the south of France, unknown hand, (8)

RILING (R), THE POWDER FLASK BOOK, Bonanza Books, 1953; HAYWARD (J), THE ART OF THE GUNMAKER, 2 vols, vol I 2nd edition, 1965, vol II first, 1963, clipped d.j, Barrie & Rockliff (3)

Books - Graham Greene first editions, published by Bodley Heads 1978, The Human Factor, jacket by Michael Harvey, The Honorary Consul 1973, jacket also by Michael Harvey, plus E. M. Forster Abinger Harvest first edition 1936 Butler & Tanru Ltd., London (3)

•ELIZABETH BLACKADDER OBE, RA, RSA (Scottish b. 1931) FLOWERS FROM A SCOTTISH GARDEN Limited Edition print, No. 11 of 40 The margin signed in pencil and further signed by The First Minister Alex Salmond, 49 x 59cm (19 1/4 x 23 1/4"), with certificate of authenticity The above work is the artwork for The First Minister`s 2013 Christmas Card

•ELIZABETH BLACKADDER OBE, RA, RSA (Scottish b. 1931) FLOWERS FROM A SCOTTISH GARDEN Limited Edition print, No. 12 of 40 The margin signed in pencil and further signed by The First Minister Alex Salmond, 49 x 59cm (19 1/4 x 23 1/4"), with certificate of authenticity The above work is the artwork for The First Minister`s 2013 Christmas Card

•ELIZABETH BLACKADDER OBE, RA, RSA (Scottish b. 1931) FLOWERS FROM A SCOTTISH GARDEN Limited Edition print, No. 13 of 40 The margin signed in pencil and further signed by The First Minister Alex Salmond, 49 x 59cm (19 1/4 x 23 1/4"), with certificate of authenticity The above work is the artwork for The First Minister`s 2013 Christmas Card

•ELIZABETH BLACKADDER OBE, RA, RSA (Scottish b. 1931) FLOWERS FROM A SCOTTISH GARDEN Limited Edition print, No. 14 of 40 The margin signed in pencil and further signed by The First Minister Alex Salmond, 49 x 59cm (19 1/4 x 23 1/4"), with certificate of authenticity The above work is the artwork for The First Minister`s 2013 Christmas Card

•ELIZABETH BLACKADDER OBE, RA, RSA (Scottish b. 1931) FLOWERS FROM A SCOTTISH GARDEN Limited Edition print, No. 15 of 40 The margin signed in pencil and further signed by The First Minister Alex Salmond, 49 x 59cm (19 1/4 x 23 1/4"), with certificate of authenticity The above work is the artwork for The First Minister`s 2013 Christmas Card

J.F. CAMPBELL "The Celtic Dragon Myth" translated by George Henderson with pictures by Rachel A Grant Duff, first edition, John Grant, Edinburgh 1911, one brown cloth volume THE STRAND MAGAZINE An illustrated Monthly, vol X July to December, Georg" e Newnes Ltd, London 1895, 1 volume (2)

Pictures of Glass by Laurence Whistler, boxed and signed, No. 80 of 1400, together with Worcester Porcelain, Stanley Fisher, signed edition,Armorial Worcester Porcelain of the First Period, 1964, Marshall Collection, The Stieglitz Collection, by Dr W all Worcester Porcelain, 1947 catalogue, and the 1915 Catalogue of the Collection of Worcester Porcelain lent by H Eccles to Swansea Art Gallery and An Introduction to English Blue & White Porcelains by Geoffrey Godden FRSA signed by the author.(firs t edition of 750)

Dark Estuary, by BB, First Edition, 1953, illustrated by D J Watkins-Pitchford, together with Confession of a Carp Fisher, by BB, illustrated by D J Watkins-Pitchford, Will Lone, by BB, 1941, illustrated by Watkins-Pitchford, The Sportsman`s Bedside Book, by BB, 1948, illustrated by Watkins-Pitchford, Letters from Compton Deverell, by BB, 1950, illustrated by Watkins-Pitchford, and The Idle Countryman, by BB, 1948, illustrated by Watkins-Pitchford

Wild Chorus, Peter Scott, 1951, London Country Life, together with Morning Flight, Peter Scott, 1950, London Country Life, Tides Endings by BB, First Edition, 1953, illustrated by D J Watkins-Pitchford, Severn Wild Fowl Trust Annual Report, 1949-1950 , signed by Peter Scott, and Down the River by H E Bates, reissue, 1968, illustrated by Agnes Miller Parker

THE PICTURE GOER`S WHO`S WHO & ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE SCREEN TODAY, first edition 1933 illustrated 1 vol cloth, and HISTORIC WARWICKSHIRE by H Tom Burgess FSA one volume cloth

Johnston (Sir Harry) THE UGANDA PROTECTORATE Tall 8vo (250 x 185 mm) An Attempt to Give Some Description of the Physical Geography, Botany, Zoology, Anthropology, Languages and History of the Territories Under British Protection In East Central Africa, Between The Congo Free State and the Rift Valley and Between the First Degree of South Latitude and the Fifth Degree of North Latitude. Second and Cheap Edition, with Prefatory Chapter Giving Additional Matter. 2 volumes: I. 470. II. (471) – 1018 pages – continuously paginated, 48 coloured plates (including the frontispieces), 505 illustrations, 9 maps, original blue cloth gilt. 20 mm gash in the spine of volume II, and the front free endpaper of volume II is creased – this appears to be a production fault, the contents of both volumes are bright. Good London Hutchinson & Co. 1904 Reserve: $75 Click here to view further details and to bid

White (Stewart Edward) AFRICAN CAMP FIRES 8vo (225 x 155 mm) First UK edition: 415 pages, frontispiece, 31 plates, map as endpapers, decorated green cloth over bevelled boards, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, contents crisp, a good copy. Czech: An annotated Bibliography of African Big Game hunting Books, 1785 to 1999, page 300, ‘A noted novelist of his day. In this work , the author travelled to British East Africa where he hunted lion on the Kapiti Plains, and kudu near Tsavo.’ Good London Thomas Nelson and Sons Apr-14 Reserve: $100 Click here to view further details and to bid

Cole (Barbara) THE ELITE (De Luxe Edition - with original SAS lapel badge) 8vo The Story of the Rhodesian Special Air Service iv+450pp(last blank), 20 coloured and 16 black & white plates, text maps, Roll of Honour, chronology, glossary, bibliography, index. Full leather bound, the spine is lettered in gilt, upper board blind-stamped. Text-block is gilt edged. This copy is unique in that the cheaper inferior quality SAS badge inserted in the blind embossed oval on the front board has been replaced with an original, detachable, top-quality, solid bronze, SAS lapel badge. The book is complete with its original slipcase and loosely inserted leather bookmark. First edition, de luxe, limited to 1500 numbered copies. *Signed by the author. This copy No. 914. Fine Amanzimtoti Three Knights 1984 Reserve: $500 Click here to view further details and to bid

Andre Brink 4 SIGNED Andre Brink titles An Act of Terror: First edition 1991 hardcover with dust jacket in good condition. Looking on Darkness: 1979 hardcover with dust jacket in good condition. The Rights of Desire: 2001 paperback in good condition. An instant in the wind: 1981 paperback in good condition. Various Various Reserve: $30 Click here to view further details and to bid

De Raay, Leon The History of the Postage Stamps of the Orange Free State and Orange River Colony. Part I (edition of 100 copies; 1907) 190 x 135 From the library of the late Andre Bezuidenhout, a leading collector and authority of the philately and postal history of the Anglo-Boer War and the Orange Free State. One of his philatelic coups was tracking down the whereabouts of the complete 17-volume stamp collection of Leon de Raay (author of this title and the title in Lot 308), purchasing it and bringing it from the Netherlands to South Africa. This title was described by A E Geldhof in his 1938 work as one of the two outstanding books without reference to which his own monograph could not have been written. All the printed works of De Raay (sometimes Raaij), the leading authority of the last decade of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century on the stamps of South Africa, are collectors` items. Published 106 years ago, this is an outstandingly well-preserved copy. The mushroom cloth-boards, gilt to the spine, are lighly bumped at the corners and spine. The binding has been strengthened and new plain endpapers inserted. Some of the 388 pp of illustrated text, photographs, maps and plates are foxed. There are no owner signatures and the copy is unmarked except for `34` in pen (the number of this copy from the edition of 100 copies). Very Good Amsterdam N Yaar [the author`s own firm] 1907 Reserve: $100 Click here to view further details and to bid

Burchell, William J Travels in the interior of Southern Africa (2 Volumes, 1953 Limited Edition) 17.5x24.5cm Two Volumes, illustrated with vignettes and colour plates, pp. 29+381+3 & 16+473, plates, vignettes, large folding maps. In original blue cloth boards, gilt titles on spine, light wear to boards, spines slightly faded, ex libris card pasted to inside front and previous owner`s name in ink on flep of both volumes, internally very good. Limited edition, one of 1,250, reprinted verbatim from the original edition of 1822-4, with some additional material. Introduction by I. Schapera; `the most valuable and accurate work on South Africa published up to the first quarter of the 19th century`. Good+ London The Batchworth Press 1953 Reserve: $200 Click here to view further details and to bid

Koestler, Arthur The Gladiators - (signed association copy to Alan Paton) 8vo "Koestler`s first novel, `The Gladiators`, about the Spartacus slave revolt. However, he uses the story of Spartacus as an allegory for the corruption of socialism by Stalin. Dark blue cloth boards, silver design and spine titling, end-papers clean, text clean, page edges lightly spotted. Dust-jacket: rubbed, lightly chipped (more wear/creasing at spine ends), flaps creased, not price-clipped, very little (if any) spine fade. The jacket is now protected by a Brodart plastic sleeve. Koestler`s inscription on the half-title reads: `To Alan Paton, (from one elderly gladiator to another), Arthur Koestler, 26.10.66`It is not clear where this copy was signed (perhaps the author signed and sent them on request to Paton), but Koestler`s signature is scarce, therefore making this signed `author association` copy a unique item, linking two great authors and activists of the 20th century - a handsome addition to the library of the Paton collector.One other interesting fact is that Cynthia Jefferies (Koestler`s third wife, and secretary, was South African). Born Kösztler Artúr 5 September 1905, Budapest, Austria-Hungary. Died: 1 March 1983 (aged 77) London, England. Occupation: Novelist, essayist, journalist. Nationality: Hungarian, British. Ethnicity: Jewish. Citizenship: Naturalized British subject. Period: 1934–1983. Subjects: Fiction, non-fiction, history, autobiography, politics, philosophy, psychology, parapsychology, science. Notable work(s): Darkness at Noon, The Thirteenth Tribe. Notable award(s): Sonning Prize (1968) CBE (1972). Spouse(s): Dorothy Ascher (1935–50), Mamaine Paget (1950–52), Cynthia Jefferies (1965–83). [source: wikipedia]" a good copy London Hutchinson This edition 1965 (1939) Reserve: $180 Click here to view further details and to bid

De Wet, Christiaan, to Mario Lupini Scripta Africana (complete 11-vol limited edition) 270 x 230; shelf space 0.5 m; weight 25 kg The attractiveness of this series was recognised by the growth in the number of subscribers from about 350 at the start to the maximum of 1000 by the time the seventh volume appeared. The titles selected included two on the first Anglo-Boer War, two by foreign military observers, one by a former British Member of Parliament, and two new books. The photographic coverage, including the use of the endpapers, is particularly good. Our complete leather-bound set - all with certificates for Number 278 - came from the estate of a founder subscriber and has been only lightly read, with some copies probably not opened. The first two volumes in the series came without slipcases and with no gilt edges. The subsequent volumes have both slipcases and top edges gilt. In order of publication, the titles are as follows: #1. May 1985. General de Wet`s Three Years` War. Facsimile of Scribner`s 1902 edition. #2. November 1985. Carter`s Account of the [First] Boer War: its causes and results. Facsimile of third John Macqueen edition of 1900. #3. June 1986. Offical English translation by Colonels Waters and Du Cane of the German Official Account of the War in South Africa. Two parts in one volume; 18 maps bound separately. Facsimile of John Murray editions of 1904 and 1906. #4. June 1986. As told to H C Bedell and Piet Grobler. The Memoirs of Paul Kruger. Origination not stated. #5. December 1986. Brian Pottinger. The Foreign Volunteers. They Fought for the Boers, 1899-1902. Origination not stated. #6. April 1987. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Great Boer War. Origination not stated. #7. July 1987. Paul Butterfield. War and Peace in South Africa 1879-1881. A new book on the first Anglo-Boer, based on the letters and diaries of Philip Anstruther and Edward Essex. #8. October 1987. Howard C Hillegas. With the Boer Forces. Facsimile of Methuen`s third illustrated edition of 1900. #9. December 1987. Captains Slocum and Reichmann. Boer War Operations in South Africa. Facsimile of U S Government Printing Office edition of 1901. #10. April 1988. Michael Davitt. The Boer Fight for Freedom. [Davitt, who resigned as a British Member of Parliament in protest against Britain`s actions, came to South Africa as an observer of the war, and followed mainly General Philip Botha, to whose memory his book is dedicated.] Facsimile of third Funk and Wagnalls illustrated edition of 1902. #11. April 1989. Mario Lupini. Camillo Reichmann. Italian Boer War Hero. Newly written for the series. A fine and complete set. Fine Johannesburg Hans Strydom 1985-1989 Reserve: $400 Click here to view further details and to bid

Johnston, H H The River Congo from its Mouth to Bolobo. With a general history of the natural history and anthropology of its western basin (1895) 190 x 140 Bookplate of James G L Penderel-Brodhurst, Count de Boscobel, author and book-collector, on the front paste-down, and another owner signature on the title-page. Revised from the first edition of 1884 and with the author`s more than seventy original drawings, numbered with the text. The red cloth-boards, gilt lettered to the spine, include the words `Travel and Adventure`, as the author, who dedicated the book to Henry Moreland Stanley `in memory of great kindness shown to its author`, preferred to describe his work not as fresh exploration but as a guide-book. xv + 300 pp of illustrated text + a 32 pp list from one of the leading publishers of the time. The covers are lightly rubbed, the canvas between sections P and Q is visible, the binding is tight, the top edge is gilt, the endpapers and first and last leaves are foxed and some other pages are sunned towards the edges.   Good + London Sampson Low Marston 1895 Reserve: $40 Click here to view further details and to bid

Fouche, Leo (editor); (English translation by A C Paterson) The Diary of Adam Tas 1705-1706 (Dutch and English). With an enquiry into the complaints of the Colonists against the Governor, Willem Adriaan van der Stel (1914) 230 x 155 x 40 Adam Tas`s original diary is lost, but two partial copies exist. The first of these, which had been in the Government Archives in the Hague since 1706, covered the two months from 13 June to 14 August 1705. The second copy, which was found in Cape Town only three years before Fouche`s book was published, included a duplication of most of the Hague MS as well as most of December 1705 and January and February 1706. The Trustees of the South African Library, where the second copy was found, commissioned Professor Fouche to prepare an edition of the diary for the press. They agreed that a discussion of the troubles and disputes in which Tas was involved should also appear; this material, though included as an appendix, was longer than the transcript of the diary. In his Preface, Fouche notes: `It was the wish of the Trustees that the edition should include an English translation of the Diary, in the interests of those to whom the original must otherwise have remained a sealed book.` The translator of the diary, as well as the introduction and appendix, was Professor Patterson, a colleague of Fouche`s at the Transvaal University College, Pretoria. It says much for the quality of Fouche`s and Patterson`s work and the speed with which the job was completed - when every communication and proof had to travel by train or ship - that the editing, translation, printing and publishing was completed in less than three years, with the South African Library a thousand miles from the editor, and the printer and publisher another seven thousand miles away. All involved contributed to a great book on an inspiring chapter in the history of the Cape, when the power of Adam Tas`s pen - he was imprisoned for 13 months before being vindicated - led to the toppling of Willem Adriaan van der Stel. So important a part of early South African history was Tas`s diary considered that the Van Riebeeck Society selected it in 1970 to inaugurate its second series, when it was newly edited and translated. Red cloth-boards, blind embossed to the upper panel and gilt lettered to the spine; plain maroon endpapers; xlvii + 366 pp of introduction, text and index; Dutch on the left, English on the right; and two maps - a monochrome map as the frontispiece and a two-colour folding relief map at the back. The spine of this copy is lightly sunned and the top edges are soft. `Paarl Gymnasium` is gilt embossed on the upper panel and the remains of a Gymnasium label are on the front free endpaper. The binding is tight. The top page edge is foxed and there is a small brown stain near the front of the bottom page edge. With no other defects, this remains a handsome copy of a valuable book. Very Good London Longmans, Green 1914 Reserve: $50 Click here to view further details and to bid

Olive Schreiner Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland 150 x 205mm First Edition, T.Fisher Unwin, London,dedicated to Sir George Grey, 264 pages, Publishers list on Africa and Africans, frontispiece is `the hanging tree`, photograph with tissue guard, green cloth boards,emboss on a few(four)pages, 150 x 205mm, slight tear on lower edge of p.29, slight water stain on leading edge of frontispiece, otherwise the impression is that the book has never been opened,condition,good to very good. This allegorical novella became an instant cause célèbre, not least because it named Cecil Rhodes as the person directly, as well as morally, responsible for the genocidal policies enacted by troopers from the Chartered Company he and his associates controlled in Matabeleland and then Mashonaland. The book provides a useful means of thinking about the colonial and political presence in Southern Africa, having been published at a key “moment” of imperialism within what Mary Louise Pratt refers to as the “contact zone”.(Encountering the imperial and colonial past through Olive Schreiner`s Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland, Liz Stanley from the journal `Women`s Writing`.) The frontispiece is a photograph of the infamous `hanging tree` of Bulawayo where recalcitrant tribal leaders were dealt with. very good Paternoster Square T.Fisher Unwin 1897 Reserve: $25 Click here to view further details and to bid

Vinnicombe, Patricia People of the Eland 224mm x 271mm Copy number 289 of the first edition which was limited to 1,000 numbered copies.Original dust jacket. Original brown skivertex boards with gilt titling on the spine and the upper board. Map motif end papers. xx prelims, 388 pages, 5 maps, one of which is folded, 108 coloured and 245 black and white illustrations.CONDITION DETAILS: Internally clean. The dust jacket has some edge wear, and a few nicks on the under side. Good Pietermaritzburg University of Natal Press 1976 Reserve: $60 Click here to view further details and to bid

Cornwallis Harris, Capt.W. Portraits Of The Game And Wild Animals of Southern Africa 4to `First published in 1840 this famous work presented 30 magnificent animal `portraits`, the work of close and detailed observations by Harris, and inspired stone lithography by Frank Howard - a wonderful and greatly prized book. But it was also a huge and unmanageable book, too heavy to hold, and with a printed text that was scarcely legible. This reprint remedies the faults but preserves the virtues. Harris was an accomplished man - soldier, artist, author, engineer, diplomat, sportsman, naturalist and geographer. While on recuperative leave at the Cape he fully exploited his opportunities to travel and to hunt, to experience the strange and exciting African environment, to record his impressions and observations of the animal life and countryside. They are quaint and often shrewd, lively and tolerant,` [front flap notes]. Book condition: binding and contents faultless (previous owner inscription on front end-paper). Jacket: very good, but has been covered with sticky plastic laminate., 195pp. facsimile edition, with numerous full colour fold-out reproductions of Harris`s paintings, and also many black and white sketches and illustrations. very good Cape Town A.A.Balkema 1969 Reserve: $50 Click here to view further details and to bid

Roosevelt, Theodore The Wilderness Hunter 8vo `An Account Of The Big Game Of The United States And Its Chase With Horse, Hound, And Rifle.` US publisher Putnam`s original 1893 edition, 472pp., printed and bound by The Knickerbocker Press, New York; in good condition, binding good but cracked at pp.368/9, and some marking and spotting to text, water soil marks from about p.255 (chapter X111) at top of pages, continuing through to the end of the book, not affecting text in any great way. End-papers and portrait frontispiece tissue-guard foxed. Spine heavily faded. Owner inscription and dedication on f.f.e.p. reads: `Graham Hutchinson, Balgowan, from Dave A.Shaw, 23 September 1903`. Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was the 26th President of the United States(1901–1909). He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his `cowboy` persona and robust masculinity.[4] He was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the first incarnation of the short-lived Progressive (`Bull Moose`) Party of 1912. Before becoming President, he held offices at the city, state, and federal levels. Roosevelt`s achievements as a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any office he held as a politician. Roosevelt was 42 years old when sworn in as President of the United States in 1901, making him the youngest president ever. [source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt] good New York G.P.Putnam`s Sons 1893 Reserve: $180 Click here to view further details and to bid

Joubert, Salomon The Kruger National Park - A History 266mm x 187mm Three volume set. Original dust jackets. Original dark green laminated boards of the same design as the dust jackets. Decorated end papers. Each volume is profusely illustrated with historical photographs, tables, charts, excellent colour photographs and illustrations by Penny Noall. Volume one has xxix prelims and 416 pages. Volume two has xvii prelims and 603 pages. Volume three has vi prelims and 339 pages.Please be aware of postage costs as these books are unexpectedly heavy for their size, and when packed, over 6kg.This is the first hardback standard edition that did not come in a slip case. The 2012 paperback reprint edition is available on the internet.CONDITION DETAILS: Minor signs of use, such as light creases on the dust jackets. A clean + attractive set Johannesburg High Branching 2007 Reserve: $80 Click here to view further details and to bid

Lieut.-Col. J H Patterson In the Grip of the Nyika & The Man-eaters of Tsavo In the Grip of the Nyika: Further adventures in British East Africa. 1909 first edition with 389 pages, 92 illustrations and a 9 maps. A good copy with two pieces of tape in front and back. The Man-eaters of Tsavo and other East African Adventures. 1910 first edition with 346 pages, 113 illustrations and 1 map. A clean copy with tape in front and back. Fair London Macmillan & Co 1909 & 1910 Reserve: $60 Click here to view further details and to bid

Theal (George McCall) BASUTOLAND RECORDS 8vo (220 x 145 mm) Copies of Official Documents of Various Kinds, Accounts of Travellers, Etc., Collected and arranged by order of the Honourable J.W. Sauer, Esq., Secretary for Native Affairs, by Geo. M. Theal, First Clerk of the Native Affairs Department. Fascimile reprint of the 1883 edition: 3 volumes in 4, 637 + 611 + 894 pages, 5 folding maps - 4 coloured, dark blue vynide, a very good set. This facsimile edition limited to 300 copies, with a biographical sketch by R.F. M. Immelman, University Librarian, University of Cape Town, and a new index. Very Good Cape Town C. Struik (Pty.) Ltd. 1964 Reserve: $150 Click here to view further details and to bid

William Browne, M.D. Dr. Gregory`s Elements of Catoptrics and Dioptrics (1735) 12cm x 20cm (Catoptrics: the branch of optics that deals with reflection. Dioptrics: the branch of optics that deals with refraction.) 2nd Edition, 1735. LONDON, Printed for E. Curll, in Rose-Street, Covent Garden. [Price Five Shillings] 12cm x 20cm; 288 pp plus 6 pp preface to second edition, 2 pp preface, 15 pp preface and introduction, then 2 pp Errata & Corrigenda at rear. Also at rear, 4 folding plates of b/w engravings. Bound in old, unlettered paper-covered boards. A VERY RARE COPY. ONLY TWO COPIES HAVE BEEN TRACED AT AUCTION OVER THE LAST 35 YEARS. Title page notes: Tranflated from the Latin Original, With a large SUPPLEMENT By William Browne, M.D. The Second Edition. To which is added, An APPENDIX By J. T. Desaguliers, LL.D.F.r.S. CONTAINING, An Account of the REFLECTING TELESCOPES; and of the Inventors, Improvers, and Imitators of them, till they were brought to Perfection by JOHN HADLEY, Efq; Vice-Prefident of the Royal Society. With Original LETTERS which paffed between Sir ISAAC NEWTON and Dr. JAMES GREGORY, relating thereunto. NOW FIRST PUBLISHED. This is an adaptation of Dr David Gregory`s (Savilian Professor at Oxford) lectures which he delivered at the University of Edinburgh. He explains that though he has “likewise demonstrated from higher principles, why spheres and conoids observe the same Laws, both in reflecting and refracting light; yet those who are sollicitous only about the Properties of Plane and Spherical Surfaces, may, without the least inconveniency, pass over all that. These last are what we have more especially considered, as also such Optical Instruments as are made by a combination of them; that is, whose Effects arise either from a single Lens or Speculum, or from several combined together.” In the Addenda Browne works out a series of corollaries and problems based on the principles set forth by Gregory. He also explains the construction of different types of telescopes and microscopes and the theories of Huygens on their working. Sir William Browne was born in 1692, the son of a physician. In 1721 he obtained his MD from Cambridge and was incorporated at Oxford. He was known to be an eccentric, and it has been said that `his egotism and garrulity were so great as to rivet the attention of his contemporaries` (Munk`s Roll, vol II, p.95). In 1725 he was admitted a candidate at the Royal College of Physicians, and the following year was made a Fellow. In March 1738/9 Browne was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was knighted, through the interest of the Duke of Montagu, in 1748. A poet and the author of many medical publications, Browne died in 1774 at his house in Queens Square, at the age of 82. He was buried at Hillington, Norfolk, where there stands a monument to his memory, written by him. Condition: It appears that some alteration has been made to the original covers by the pasting of a sheet of paper over the original paper boards (front and rear), on which has been drawn a thin ink line border. Binding tight but paper peeling slightly at two edges on the back board, inside and out. Minute nick on title page. Please note that this book will be posted from the UK. Very Good London E. Curll, in Rose-Street, Covent Garden. 1735 Reserve: $100 Click here to view further details and to bid

Hamann, Hilton Days of the Generals 17.5x21.5cm The untold story of South Africa’s apartheid era military generals; Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2001 (first edition). A large octavo softcover book (174 x 245mm) in a thin card pictorial cover with printed flaps; in Good condition with slight shelf wear to bottom of cover and slight signs of shelf rubbing. 17 preliminary and 242 pages of text, including index; 16 pages of black& white photographic illustrations. Based on interviews with former generals of the South African Defence Force, by a former conscript who served in Angola, the book looks in detail at South Africa`s intervention in Angola, Namibia and Mozambique. It examines the armed struggle of the ANC and the war by South Africa against the liberation movements and various other top secret issues. Good+ Cape Town Zebra 2001 Reserve: $20 Click here to view further details and to bid

Smith, Ian Bitter Harvest 15.5x23.5cm A second edition (first South African) of the book which was first published in England, in 1997. An Octavo (154 x 234mm) paperback book in a thin pictorial cover which shows signs of wear, with several pages as well as the front cover being slightly crumpled. Fourteen preliminary pages and 434 pages of text, including the index; map frontispiece and 10 pages of black & white photographs and cartoons; a written remark on the title page. Overall in good to fair condition. The autobiography of Ian Smith, the last Prime Minister of Rhodesia, remembers in this book events from his early life and recounts how he tried to keep Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) on the path to democracy when the West was trying to decolonise Africa. He tells the story behind the signing of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence and of the evolution of the Mugabe dictatorship of today. God Johannesburg Jonathan Ball 2001 Reserve: $25 Click here to view further details and to bid

Codd, L.E. The South African species of Kniphofia 4to Monograph on the Kniphofia genus, with 27 colour plates by Cythna Letty and others. `Bothalia`, vol. 9, parts 3 & 4. Pretoria, Botanical Research Institute, 1968. First edition. 4to. Card covers. Pp. (iii), 363 - 513, 27 colour plates, photos, maps. Some slight creasing at corners Very good Pretoria Botanical Research Institute 1968 Reserve: $20 Click here to view further details and to bid

Churchill,Sir Winston The Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill. Centenary Limited Edition- Volume III THE RIVER WAR 16 X 24cm This is the third volume of the Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill, published by the Library of Imperial History, London, to mark the centenary of his birth, November 30, 1874. The Collection is issued as a limited edition and contains all 50 of Churchill`s published titles, arranged in 34 volumes. Only 2000 sets have been authorised for the British Empire and Commonwealth, excluding Canada, and a further 1000 sets for the United States and Canada. The River War was originally published on 6th November 1899. The River War remains one of Churchill`s best books. Tersely written, shot through with insight and intuitive understanding, totally competent in its appreciation of military considerations and demonstrating a warm humanity, it stands as a classic of war reporting. No one who reads his description of the last cavalry charge- in which he took part- will ever forget his sharp vision and brightness of phrase. The River War-An Historical Account of The Reconquest of the Soudan. Introduction and extract from the first edition- 343 pages text with maps,some foldings and illustrations. Full vellum with gilt vignette to front cover-spine-marbled end papers, gilt edges and reading ribbon. With original dark green slipcase with gilt vignette. Fine condition. Fine-Boxed London Library of Imperial History in Association with the Hamlyn Group Limited 1974- ISBN 0 903988 03 8 Reserve: $150 Click here to view further details and to bid

J.D.Fage with William Todoff A History of Africa in Two Volumes-FOLIO SOCIETY 17.5 X 25cm Weight 2.2kgs A History of Africa in Two Volumes A History of Africa was first published by Hutchinson in a single volume in 1988, and updated again for the fourth edition, published by Routledge in 2002. Thsi two-volume Folio Society edition follows th text of the 2002 edition with minor emendations and a new Afterword by William Tordoff. Maps have been redrawn by John Gilkes. The slipcase: ha an ivory mask, Edo peoples, probably 16th century from Benin, Nigeria. Volume 1- Author`s Notes xv- 324pp with maps and illustrations. Volume II- xi plus continued from 325-702 pp with further maps, and illustrations and index. Fine set. Slipcase has little wear. Fine London The Folio Society 2008 Reserve: $40 Click here to view further details and to bid

John Guille Millais GAME BIRDS AND SHOOTING SKETCHES: ILLUSTRATING THE HABITS, MODES OF CAPTURE, STAGES OF PLUMAGE AND THE HYBRIDS AND VARIETIES WHICH OCCUR AMONST THEM. 17.5 x 23.5 cm 2nd Edition 1894 (1892), Henry Sotheran & Co., London. Octavo, xiii, 185 pp + 16 pp advertisements. Original light brown pictorial boards with black titles to front and facsimile of Millais’ signature. Uncut edges. Frontispiece of Thomas Bewick by Sir John Everett Millais. Illustrated with 18 full page plates, and 38 in text by the author (listed). John Guille `Johnny` Millais (24 March 1865 – 24 March 1931), was the fourth son and seventh child of Sir John Everett Millais, the Pre-Raphaelite painter. He was a British artist, naturalist, gardener and travel writer who specialised in wildlife and flower portraiture. He travelled extensively around the world in the late Victorian period detailing wildlife often for the first time. He is noted for illustrations that are of a particularly exact nature. In 1903 Millais co-founded the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire (SPWFE). Clearly a clubbable and convivial man, in 1909 Millais was a founder member of the Shikar Club, a sportsclub where like-minded associates could dine and discuss their passion for hunting especially big game hunting. Millais was passionate about hunting and fellow members included the famous hunters Frederick Selous (the brother of ornithologist Edmund Selous), African game hunter Arthur Henry Neumann, and explorer and hunter Frank Wallace. The club still survives and includes the Duke of Edinburgh amongst its members. Millais is one of the most respected of British ornithologists and bird artists, producing between 1890 and 1914 a series of books on birds and other natural history subjects. In the study of ornithology he was renowned for his portraiture of wildfowl and game birds. Condition: Lacks spine (clean edges with no fraying). Boards gently faded and or darkened. Text block firm, print bright, plates unaged. Age toning to endpapers. Previous owner`s name to fep. Book protected by cellophane wrap. Very Good London Henry Sotheran & Co. 1894 Reserve: $40 Click here to view further details and to bid

Thomas E. Dexter’s Portable Museum Of Natural Substances, being a mid 19th Century mahogany table top cabinet fitted two panelled doors enclosing six drawers containing Manufactured Articles including buttons, wood, materials etc, Animal Substances including bees wax, horn, ivory, tortoiseshell etc, Vegetable Productions including tapioca, tea, cloves etc and Minerals & Metals including chalk, marble, gypsum etc, the inside of the doors with printed labels bearing the script ‘patronized by Her Majesty. Portable Museum Of Natural Substances, raw and manufactured, from the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms. Illustrative of the Imports, Exports, Productions & Manufactures of Great Britain and her Colonies. Compiled and arranged by Thomas.E. Dexter, Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea.’, height of cabinet 44cm. The Royal Military Asylum in Chelsea was created in 1803, originally as a means to educate the children of destitute military families. It is seen as the country’s first large scale attempt to educate working class children. In 1892 the R.M.A. was renamed The Duke Of York’s Royal Military School which exists to this day as a state boarding school still maintaining its military traditions. It appears that Thomas.E. Dexter started his teaching career at the age of 16 at an infant school on the Millmead Estate in Guildford before succeeding his father at the Holy Trinity National School. He is listed in the Royal Military Asylum census of 1851 as an infant school teacher and his Portable Museum Of Natural Substances was to be exhibit 189 at the 11th Annual Exhibition Of Inventions held at The Society Of Arts, Adelphi during the spring of 1859. This extract from the April 29th 1859 edition of The Engineer magazine covering the exhibition, praises the piece. ‘Thomas E. Dexter of the Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea, exhibits a Portable Museum Of Natural Substances. This is a most meritorious occasion of common sense to educational purposes. Nothing can well be more dry and uninteresting to read about the qualities of natural substances, whilst seeing and handling them is at once a source of pleasure and instruction. Even pictures of things or diagrams are inferior to the articles themselves’. It is not known whether his ‘invention’ which was clearly devised as a teaching aide during his time at the Royal Military Asylum had any great success in subsequent years, although, if true, the claim that it was ‘patronized by Her Majesty’ may suggest that there were indeed some takers for his charming ‘museum’. The interior labels are stained, four of the six drawers have cardboard protectors in them, some of the cardboard mounts are stained - ** General condition consistent with age

Roald Dahl-Danny The Champion Of The World, illustrated by Jill Bennett, published by Jonathan Cape, first edition 1975, signed by the author Please telephone department for further details

Laurie Lee-Four books, each signed by the author and comprising: I Can’t Stay Long, published by Andre Deutsch, first edition 1975, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, published by Andre Deutsch, 3rd edition 1971, A Rose For Winter, published by The Hogarth Press, 6th edition 1973 and Cider With Rosie, published by the Hogarth Press, 13th edition 1978 (4) Please telephone department for further details

Hofer, The Blue Roofs of Japan, First Edition, 1986, poetry, limited edition by Barbarian Press, signed and numbered 14/150

ERNST TOLLER: MASSES AND MAN, Trans Vera Mendel, The Nonesuch Press 1923, 1st UK edn, ownership sig of Desmond Harmsworth, 2nd Baron Harmsworth (1903-1990), orig bds + HARVEY O’HIGGINS: ALIAS WALT WHITMAN, 1930, (200), orig cl bkd bds + NORMAN DOUGLAS: NERINDA, 1929 (475), numbered and sigd, orig cl + GERARD DE NERVAL: DREAMS AND LIFE, Trans Vyvyan Holland, L and Devon, The First Edition Club and Boar’s Head Press, 1933, limited edn (450), numbered, orig cl bkd watered silk bds + JEAN GIRAUDOUX: RACINE, Trans P Mansell Jones, 1938, limited edn (1000), sigd by translator, orig cl gt, d/w + ERIC LINKLATER: PRIVATE ANGELO, 1957, limited edn (2000), ptd for Sir Allen and Richard Lane, sigd Christmas presentation publication notelet loosely inserted, TL from J L Nevinson to Sir Allen Lane thanking him for the copy of Private Angelo loosely inserted, orig bds + JOHN O’HARA: SERMONS AND SODA-WATER, 1961, limited edn (525) numbered and sigd to vol 1, orig qtr vell gt, s-c (9)

The Story of Naughty Kildeen, by Marie, Queen of Roumania, illustrated by Job, one of 30 copies printed on paper from the Imperial factories of Japan by A. Mame and Sons (some wear and first blank page cut and drawn on); various other children books including Three Little Ducklings by Alec Buckels; The Grey Rabbit, by May Gladwin; and the Old, Old, Tales Retold Volland Edition (fairly worn)

South Africa 1964/2010 South Africa. Possibly the biggest lot of signed memorabilia of the former President Nelson Mandela. Some of the items co-signed by other celebrities, personalities. From Signed covers to documents, books and other memorabilia. Most items come with certificate of authenticity. Some of the items included are: The Historical speech of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela at the Rivonia Trial as delivered from the dock on 20th April 1964. Published by Learn & Teach Publication JHB. Black & White original picture published on 12 Feb 1997 of Muhammad Ali preparing for `The Rumble in the Jungle` against George Foreman in Zaire with both signatures. Nelson Mandela`s Original 70th Birthday Tribute at Wembley Stadium, 11th June 1988 with Signature (Numbered D 005668) Entrance Ticket. A3 Colour Original Press Photo of Nelson and Winnie Mandela entering the stadium walking hand in hand and been cheered by the crowd. Nelson Mandela`s Original Inaugural Address, May 10 1994 (Re-typed) with Signature (Only one that exists apart from handwritten original). 1994 South Africa, Presidential Inauguration First Day Cover with 1 postage stamp and R5 Inauguration coin, Signature and dated 10-5-1994. `LONG WALK TO FREEDOM` an autobiography of Nelson Mandela, FIRST EDITION, published by Little, Brown Company and signed and dated 2.5.2003. Rugby World Cup Photo Mandela and Pienaar Framed with both Signatures. Rugby World Cup Cap, signed with N.MANDELA 2003). The 46664 Concert Honouring Nelson Mandela at 90, London June 27, consisting of : Staff Pass belonging to Mickey McHale from the Company Stage Miracles Standing Complimentary ticket numbered EHD 2706 with Signature, 46664 MANDELA concert peak cap with signature, Concert Booklet with Signature, Cabernet Sauvignon 2005 (750ml) bottle reads `Happy 90th Birthday and 10th Wedding Anniversary Madiba` with signature, Concert Staff T-Shirt with signatures of Nelson Mandela, Will Smith and Amy Winehouse. 1964/2010

George Staunton - An authentic account of An Embassy From the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China with notices of Tristan d`Acuna, Amsterdam, Java, Sumatra, Cochin-China, the Atlas Folio Volume, issued 12th April 1796 by G. Nicol (first and only edition), paper size 43.5cm x 57.2cm in original boards, complete with 44 plates in VERY good condition *The first British Embassy to China, which was to lead to the foundation of Hong Kong as a British trading post. The plates are of special interest due to their depiction of subjects that very few Europeans had recorded or seen and the observations they gave the considerable technical, artistic and organisational advancement of the Chinese civilisation

Sir Alfred Munnings; "An Artist`s Life", first edition, 1950; two volumes from The Masters of Painting series and one other similar book.

A A Milne; "Now we are Six", first edition, published 1927, in red and gilt boards.

John B Penfold THE CLOCKMAKERS OF CUMBERLAND, first edition book number 424, published by Brant Wright Associates Limited 1977, copy signed by author, dust jacket lacking. Condition Reports: Generally good condition, dust jacket lacking with home made replacement.

WANG GAI (17TH CENTURY) A FOUR-VOLUME SET OF THE MUSTARD SEED GARDEN PAINTING MANUAL "China, dated 1782. 25.5 x 17 cm. Jiezi yuan huazhuan erji. "Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual, Second Series". Second edition, published in Suzhou in 1782; the first edition was published in Nanjing in 1701. Provenance: collection of Josef Hejzlar, purchased in Beijing in 1952. Published: Josef Hejzlar - "Alte Chinesische Graphik", Prague, Artia, 1972.

Harry Kernoff RHA (1900-1974) PORTRAIT OF A LADY, 1928 chalk pastel on buff-coloured paper; (1); woodcuts; (2) signed and dated lower left 21 by 15in., 52.5 by 37.5cm. P Also with this lot are two woodcuts by Harry Kernoff, Breacadh an Lae or Dawn, 1929 and Profile of a Man in Shirt and Tie, 1931. Each signed and dated in the lower margin. Folio size of each title: 11.25 by 9in. and 8.5 by 6in., respectively.Breacadh an Lae or Dawn is illustrated in two books, the first, Woodcuts, Harry Kernoff, RHA a limited edition book (220 copies) published in Dublin, 1942 by Cahill and Company Ltd. The second title, Cap with Bells, Woodcuts by Harry Kernoff and Ink Washes by Noel Sheridan, by Coburn Britton, The Dolmen Press, Dublin 1959 (320 copies, illustrated p.26).

James Herriot, 'Vet in a Spin' hardback first edition, signed by author and 'James Herriots Yorkshire' hardback signed by author

A First Edition copy of 'The Warlock of Love, ' 1969 printed by Latimer Trend and Co Plymouth, By Marc Bolan with original dust jacket.