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Lot 438
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)
Lot 441
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
Lot 442
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
Lot 250
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
Lot 255
Schillings (C.G.) IN WILDEST AFRICA 8vo (245 x 165 mm) 2 volumes: I. xiv + 318. II.viii + (319) – 716 pages – continuously paginated, frontispiece portrait in volume I, 195 plates and numerous text illustrations, , original brown cloth with gilt titling on the spines and a vignette of the head of an elephant on the upper covers. Light spotting on the page edges, crease in the cloth at the top of the spine of volume I, some very light insect scarring, contents bright. A good set. Czech: An annotated Bibliography of African Big Game hunting Books, 1785 to 1999, pages 247/8. ‘In his second work on photographing and hunting game in East Africa, Schillings captures the essence of the African landscape and its peoples with his brilliant, early snapshots. The first volume concerns a general view of the region, with a brief history of the encroachment of civilisation on the African wild, and an interesting if oddly placed chapter on sport and nature in Germany. Volume two includes chapters on hunting elephant, rhinoceros and lion, with additional sport after leopard, eland and other antelope. There is a remarkable photograph of the extraordinary pair of elephant tusks wighing a combined 450 pounds!’ Good London Hutchinson and Co. 1907 Reserve: $75 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 257
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
Lot 270
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
Lot 286
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
Lot 306
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
Lot 307
Greaves, A. (ed.); Gillings, Ken David Rattray`s Guidebook To The Anglo-Zulu War Battlefields - (signed); PLUS Battles Of Kwa-Zulu Natal 8vo/4to The first being an excellent, full colour, illustrated guide, signed by Rattray on the title page, 216pp.; the second being a larger format, glossy, full colour overview of all the battles of Kwa-Zulu Natal (subtitled `A Pictorial Souvenir of the Battles of Kwa-Zulu Natal 1818-1906`), 56pp.Condition: both copies in excellent condition, corners lightly bumped, with light rubbing, and rear bottom edge creasing of first item. excellent Jhb/Dbn Jonathan Ball/ Art Publishers 2003/n.d.(c.2000) Reserve: $40 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 318
Blake (Col. J.Y.F.) A WEST POINTER WITH THE BOERS 8vo (210 x 150 mm) A Personal Narrative of the Commander of the Irish Brigade. 411 pages, frontispiece portrait, many illustrations, green cloth with a photograph of Blake mounted on a horse laid on upper cover, edges uncut. Front hinge has been simply repaired and is holding firmly, the cloth on the spine is bubbled, overall a good copy. Many of the Irish Brigade were, like the author of this memoir, Irish Americans who were both anti-English and anti-Imperial. Blake`s memoir covers the first part of the war in Natal and the subsequent guerrilla phase in the Transvaal. His account is, despite its extremism, one of the best written by a foreign volunteer serving with the Boers. Blake was, like De Villebois-Mareuil, a frustrated idealist who was in conflict with the temper of his age. He died in a hotel room in New York in 1907 and is thought by many to have committed suicide. Good Boston Angel Guardian Press 1903 Reserve: $100 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 349
Smithers, Reay H.N. The Mammals of the Southern African Sub-Region (Special Presentation Copy No. 1) 30,5x22cm Special Presentation Copy No. 1, issued to Prof. D.M. Jpubert, Principal of the University of Pretoria. The presentation certificate is pasted to first free leaf and signed by author and Joubert, who wrote the foreword. Full leather with gilt decorations to front and spine, 22.5x30cm. xxii + 736pp. Colour plates by Clare Abbott. A Very Good-Fine copy. Very Good Pretoria University of Pretoria 1983 Reserve: $400 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 354
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
Lot 358
Schoeman, Agatha Elizabeth Coenraad de Buys - the First Transvaler 14x20cm A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of master of arts in the Faculty of Arts, Iniversity of Pretoria. Hard cover, cloth, 106pp, previous owner`s name in ink on flep, pages slightly age toned. Good+ Pretoria J.H. de Bussy 1938 Reserve: $50 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 378
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter: Lot of 4 First Editions 8vo Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (VG), Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix (VG), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (VG), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Light wear to DJs and boards, the last title has an inscription on the flep. Very Good London Bloomsbury 2000/2003/2007/2005 Reserve: $70 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 379
Lex-Patria Bantu ( Urban Areas ) Act and Regulations, Bantu ( Urban Areas ) Act and Regulations, 1965, Lex-Patria,, between vinyl covers, 210 x 255mm, condition:very good This act tightened influx controls, and was one of the follow-up laws to the Natives Urban Areas Act of 1923. This act also included the first version of the infamous Section 10. Section 10 states, ` No Bantu shall remain in a prescribed area for more than 72 hours.` very good South Africa Lex-patria 1965 Reserve: $35 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 380
Jeremy Baskin Striking Back, A History of Cosatu 140 x 210mm Inscribed by author to Jeremy Cronin, Striking Back, A History of Cosatu, Jeremy Baskin, Before Cosatu, The First Year, Year of Fire, Defence and Consolidation, Advancing, Into the 1990’s, 488 pages, 140 x 210mm, condition:very good.The author was National Co-ordinator of Cosatu and has been involved with the labour movement since the 1970’s. Jeremy Cronin is a member of the South African Communist Party, a member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress and is Deputy Minister of Public Works. very good South Africa Ravan Reserve: $35 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 2
Rev William C Holden The Past and Future of the Kaffir Races (First ed) xii, 516p, frontispiece, fold-out map, 11 plates. In three parts: Their history, their manners and customs, and the means needful for their preservation and improvement. Half leather, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Leather is slightly scuffed in parts. Some foxing. Good London Published for the author 1866 Reserve: $200 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 4
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
Lot 6
Aquinas (Thomas) SUPER QUARTO LIBRO SENTENTIARUM. (1481) Small folio (295 x 205 mm) 310 leaves including first blank with manuscript title, (a-z10, A-H10 (a1 blank, a2r text, H2v, printer`s device printed in red, H3r tabula, H10r quire register, H10v blank), 56 lines and headline, double column, initial spaces, unrubricated, printed in two columns in gothic type. Unbound but sewn to bands, the first blank is separated and the final gathering is nearly detached, there are stains, ink perhaps, penetrating the page, at the bottom of leaves e4, f4, f(8), i4, i(6), k2-k(9), m3, n2,n3, o1, o(6)-o(8), o(10),p1,p2. There is a separate blot on the text of leaf and a spot on the lower margin of F1 verso. There is also some, generally faint, water staining evident in the pages of the Tabula and Register, it has not affected the text or the written notes. There is a single narrow wormhole present in the lower margins of folios A(10) to D5, well clear of the printed areas.The final leaf has a fragment torn from the upper corner possibly as the result of an attempted repair and the margin is discoloured. There are manuscript notations in margin of the tabula. There is a solitary attempt at a pen and ink decorative capital on leaf b2. Page edges dyed light red. Overall a crisp copy. The Sententiae - Sentences of Peter Lombard was the standard theological reference work of its time. And Sentences were the considered judgments and opinions of experts on questions of faith and dogma, which Lombard had collected and classified in four parts – the fourth dealing with the sacraments. The individual topics - in each part were called and numbered as so many distinctions. This work was Aquinas` thesis for his master`s degree in theology, a discussion and evaluation of earlier opinions. British Library, Incunabula Short Title Catalogue: http://istc.bl.uk/search/search.html?operation=record&rsid=712435&q=9 Good Venice [Johannes Herbort, de Seligenstadt] for Johannes de Colonia, Jenson et Socii 1481 Reserve: $1250 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 11
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
Lot 12
Davies, William, and others (editors) Punch: 13-vol sampler collection (selections from 1848 to 1977) 8vo to large 4to Of possible interest to the newcomer to, especially, the earlier issue of `Punch`, this mini-collection includes two examples of older bindings as well as some relatively recent highlights volumes. (1) 1853 1 and 2. Vols 24/25 for the first and second halves of the year 1853, in two matching volumes half-bound in black calf, gilt to spine, and dark blue cloth. Condition: Good +. Vol 2 of this set (Punch Vol 25, September 3, 1953) includes a rare 4 pp fold-out (pp 97-100; see image). (2) 1848-1886 1-6. These six thick matching volumes, bound in heavy blue-cloth boards, include various Punch numbers, starting in 1848 (see image), continuing through the 1860s and 1870s, and ending in 1888. Condition: Good. (3) Pick of Punch: 1945 and 1953 (editor not stated, published by Chatto and Windus). Condition: Good +. 1970 (edited by William Davies, published by Punch Publications; and 1977 (edited by William Davies, published by Hutchinson). Condition: Very Good in Good + dustjackets. (4) Best Humour from Punch, 1955 (edited by William Cole; illustrated by Sprod; published by Neville Spearman). Condition: Good + in repaired dustjacket. Good to Very Good London Punch Office and others 1848- 1977 Reserve: $65 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 13
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
Lot 16
FitzPatrick, Sir J Percy South African Memories. Prepared for the press from the manuscript of the author by G H Wilson 240 x 165 x 45 [With binding error: see below.] In his Foreword, G H Wilson, who had been charged during FitzPatrick`s last illness with organising his `Scraps of History` (as he called them), writes that the book `. covers a very wide field of action, throwing much new light on the chequered history of the Transvaal in the period immediately before the South African War and thus supplementing Sir Percy`s brilliant volume, `The Transvaal from Within` [see Lot 15], which, in 1899, had so profound an effect on British public opinion in relation to South African affairs. Political questions, however, have, for the most part, been excluded from the present volume, which is mainly episodal in character.` The unattributed biographical introduction may also have been by Wilson. While the longest chapters are on the Battle of Colenso and Jock of the Bushveld, General de la Rey is the subject of two chapters, totalling 48 pp, while Rhodes features in three chapters.> Blue cloth-boards, gilt to the spine; top edge blue; plain endpapers; 320 pp of text and index + frontispiece of FitzPatrick and three other plates (Rhodes and Beit; President Kruger addressing a meeting at Krugersdorp - a rare 1896 photograph taken by FitzPatrick; and De la Rey in 1909 - this plate has been bound upside down). The covers are clean and the spine unfaded; without the blistering on all three cover faces, the condition would be better than Good; there is a binding crack at the back and the back cover has loosened. There is a small Grocott and Sherry label on the front paste-down, but the book is unmarked. The front and bottom page edges have medium foxing, as have the first twenty or so leaves. This is, nevertheless, a collectable copy - additionally, perhaps, for the binding error. Good London Cassell 1932 Reserve: $35 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 18
Lowie, Robert H Primitive Religion 225 x 150 x 45 `B A Pauw, 1943` (in ink on the front free endpaper) became one of South Africa`s leading anthropologists. Divided into three main parts: Synthetic Sketches; Critique of Theories; Historial and Psychological Aspects. The blue cloth-boards, gilt to the spine, are lightly rubbed at the extremities. The plain endpapers and xix + 346 pp of text, bibliography and index are otherwise unmarked and undiscoloured. No illustrations. A sound copy of an early standard work. [See Lot 17 for Lowie`s other major work, Primitive Society, first published in the U S in 1920] Very Good London George Routledge 1936 Reserve: $20 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 22
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
Lot 27
John Fairbairn Autograph letters signed, 8 items. various letter formats Autograph letters in his own hand and signed, to Benjamin Moodie in Swellendam. John Fairbairn emigrated to South Africa, following his friend Thomas Pringle to the Cape, in 1823. He is remembered today as the father of press freedom in South Africa as well as an educationalist and the founder and first Chairman of the Old Mutual (certain of their premium investments carry his name under the Fairbairn Trust). This collection of letters from his early years at the Cape to his friend Benjamin Moodie then living in Swellendam reflect early concerns with a free press, slavery, the strife with the autocratic Sir Charles Somerset, then governor of the Cape, and the problems of the Settlers. The letters are the originals as written in his own hand and were folded, sealed, and posted. The results of this are clearly visible. A few of the letters are extant as typed copies, probably copied from his own fair copy or letterbook. Some may be the only copies. These items are unique in the true sense of the word. 1. Letter postmarked June 10 1825. 3 sides of writing. Personal health & finance issues, a memorial concerning slavery at the Cape, fixing the rate of the Rixdollar & a petition in the Burgher Senate re same, handling of complaints from the Colony, financial issues & proposed new bank, state of alarm as 50,000 threaten the Frontier, request for articles, comments on various administrative figures, etc. Condition: complete with no major loss. several small holes at folds passing through front to back. Does not impair legibility. 2. Letter postmarked August 26 1825. 3 sides of writing. Problems arising with Greigs type which had been sold to Bridekirk rendering him unable to print and publish, further issues with the legality of printing the paper under the partisan handling of the issue by Lord Charles Somerset`s administration, plans to bring the arbitrary local government to the attention of Parliament in London, to have Lord Charles Somerset impeached or recalled, etc. Condition: bottom edges frittered but not seriously affecting legibility. side 3 has some loss. a 100mm x 30mm loss to text written on outer edge, a hole (the size of a South African R2.00 coin, or a nickel) in the middle of the text, and a comparable area at the bottom edge. 3. Letter postmarked September 9 1825. 2 sides of writing. A list of 27 suggested articles, comments upon the Commissioners, Lord Charles Somerset, Greig`s types. Condition: minor loss to side 3 not affecting any text. 4. Letter dated March 9 1826 (postmark not visible). 3 sides of writing. `Open war` on Greig, Atherstone on confidential footing (with Lord C?), Richard Bourke advises Greig to abide by his prospectus and eschew further open hostility to Somerset, no one will sign address to Lord Charles Somerset who leaves the colony - leaving his children behind to the disgust of the ladies. Condition: 4 areas of small loss to edges and one small hole. the letter fold is torn to about 1/3 of the height from the top. some text is missing but the letter loses little legibility. 5. Letter dated 24 March 1826. (postmark not visible) 3 sides of writing. Issues concerning local banking, comments on Lord Charles Somerset, Pringle to leave in the Lucia, new family [Bourke?] religious and ban Sunday music & dancing, Fairbairn in low spirits, restrictions on internal trade. Condition: Two areas of loss to side 3, a 30mm hole in the middle and a similar area at the edge. the former gives text loss, but the latter does not. 6.Letter dated October 5 1826. (postmark not visible). 3 sides of writing. Stamp to be levied on all newspapers, Stellenbosch recusants threatened with transportation, events onboard the Atlas between Brink & Shaw reported in the British press, letter from depressed Pringle in UK, complaints on the low literary level of current British writings, general dismay at state of world affairs. Condition: minor tear on edge of side 1 not affecting legibility, small loss (the size of a South African R2.00 coin, or a nickel) to the edge of side 3 not seriously affecting legibility. 7. Letter dated September 30 1828. 1 written side of 3. Complaint that the Commissioners failed to institute an enquiry into the conduct of Lord Charles Somerset, ideas of literary property, proposed new periodical. Condition: one small hole in front not affecting legibility. major loss to side 3 but there is no text to be affected there. 8. Letter dated Saturday morning, Grahamstown. 4 sides, incomplete. Not addressed to any one, nor signed, but likely his friend Moodie as usual. This does seem to be in the style of Fairbairn. Probably written at some date before the departure of Lord Charles Somerset, so maybe 1826. At the time of writing he was in the Eastern Cape. Condition: excellent, no loss or damage. As noted, the condition of these items varies. Some of them have pieces missing either from handling over the years or from opening them as were sealed for postage. A full set of scans are available on request for you to evaluate the overall condition of each item. We have transcribed the letters to the best of the ability and scholarship within the time constraints. These are available as pdf files on request. 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Lot 38
Kritzinger, P H, and R D McDonald In die Skaduwee van die Dood (1939) 210 x 160 This Afrikaans translation, by the son of the co-author of the English original, Ds [the Rev] R D McDonald, was published 35 years later [see Lot 37] and after the death of General Kritzinger. In his Foreword, R D McDonald notes that in the Anglo-Boer War he had been not only a `veld preacher` but a military secretary, first to General Kritzinger until he was injured, and then to General Louis Botha until the conclusion of the peace. On the cover and spine, `Ds R D McDonald` is credited with sole authorship, but on the title-page he is joined by `Generaal P H Kritzinger`. Compared with `In the Shadow of Death`, there is some additional material, including an extra plate. The light grey cloth-boards, with green and brown lettering and design to the upper board and green lettering to the spine, are stained (see image) and the head and foot of the spine are soft. The binding is shaken and there is a crack between two sections, but the tapes are secure. There are several names on the front free endpaper, including another member of the McDonald family (from which this copy came). The title-page, the next leaf and the bottom page edge are foxed but the text (vii + 246 pp) and illustrations are unmarked and undiscoloured. An interesting book, especially in conjunction with the original English title. Good Cape Town Nasionale Pers 1939 Reserve: $25 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 39
Woodward, R.B. & Woodward, J.D.S. Natal birds (Including the species belonging to Natal and the eastern districts of the Cape Colony 8vo The first specialised book on birds of the region. Original blue cloth. Pp. v,215, colour frontispiece. This book belonged to Henry Tryon, with his signature on the front paste-down & a neat inscription on title-page, concerning his brother Walter Tryon, who is mentioned on page 99 of this book, with reference to his observations of a bird in Ifafa. Henry Tryon surmises that Walter`s `tragic death` must be the explanation for no other of his observations being published in the book. Spine slightly frayed at head & foot, slightly marked, as is the front cover, end-papers browned, frontispiece & title-page loose. But a rather nice copy, with a Sawyers invoice dated 1970 for 27 pounds loosely inserted Good+ Pietermaritzburg P. Davis & Sons 1899 Reserve: $250 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 41
Kirby, Percival R A Source Book on. and The True Story of. the Wreck of the Grosvenor East Indiaman (two titles) 220 x 145; 225 x 150 These two complementary books were written by Percival Kirby, the authority on the loss of the Grosvenor in 1782 and the subsequent relief expeditions. They were first published in 1953 and 1960. (1) Original grey cloth-boards, blue to the upper panel and spine; plain endpapers, viii + 228 pp of text, appendixes, indexes and Van Riebeeck Society notes + 2 plates + folding map. An ownership stamp is on the front pastedown, the free endpapers are sunned and the top page edge is foxed. The book is otherwise very good. (2) Two-colour illustrated dustjacket; illustrated and lettered white cloth-boards; white-out-of-blue illustrated endpapers showing the design of an East Indiaman; xiv + 226 pp of text, bibliography and indexes + frontispiece + 11 pp of plates + sketch-map in the text + folding map at the back. The repaired unclipped (30 shillings) dustjacket is rubbed at the edges. The spine extremities of the covers are lightly sunned. There are no ownership or other marks, and the text, illustrations and map are pristine. Very Good; Very Good Cape Town; Cape Town Van Riebeeck Society; Oxford University Press 1953; 1960 Reserve: $40 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 59
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
Lot 71
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
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Lot 94
Kraus, Hans Peter The Cradle of Printing Part 2 [H P Kraus Catalogue 131; 1971] 355 x 250 The founder of the famous New York antiquarian bookseller H P Kraus was born in Austria in 1907. He died in 1988, but the firm he founded closed only recently, after publishing 204 catalogues. One of the most famous of these was Kraus`s own Catalogue 131, which lists 41 fifteenth century printed books from 25 presses in today`s Germany, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, England and the Netherlands - some of the books unique and others sought-after examples of a few surviving copies. The oldest item in the catalogue was `the largest paper copy of the Gutenberg Bible` (c 1455) - the emphasis being on `paper` as vellum copies were usually larger. In chronological order, other books were Ptolemy’s first atlas (1462), Caxton’s Reynard the Fox (1481), Dante’s La Commedia (1481), The Book of Hawking (1486; `the first English sporting book`), Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (1491), and Boccaccio`s Decameron (1492). Each item is illustrated and described over four pages. One or more colour plates illustrate a dozen of the books, while there are also 86 halftones and line-cuts. In a `personal postscript`, H P K, as he was known in the world`s antiquarian book trade, wrote: `Never before in this 20th century has so formidable an assemblage of great printed books been displayed and offered for sale in a catalogue; perhaps it never can be done again.` The binding is in blue silk, with a title label on the upper panel and the title gilt-embossed on the spine. The viii + 171 pp of illustrated and plates are printed on art paper. This copy is unmarked and includes the additional pasted-in plate showing one of the manuscript catchwords in the lower margin of the [Shuckburgh] Gutenberg Bible and missing in smaller (i e shorter) copies This copy is in exceptionally good condition. Near Fine New York H P Kraus 1971 Reserve: $75 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 99
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
Lot 100
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
Lot 112
Leakey,Mary Africa`s Vanishing Art-The Rock Paintings of Tanzania 27 X 33cm The Tanzanian rock paintings, perhaps initiated as far back as 29,000 years ago are clear and fascinating portrayals of human life in the Stone Age. The artists drew hunting scenes depicting lions and elephants, they showed rhinoceroses pursuing each other in courtship, people bathing, even tribesmen arguing over a young girl. Sadly, the art of the these Tanzanian rock shelters is vanishing fast. Rain and wind have taken their toll, aided by vandalism. But a lasting record remains, created by Mary Leakey who, with her husband Louis, in the early 1950`s, painstakingly traced the paintings of 186 rock shelters and then recreated the paintings in their original colours. A selection of these unique works of art is published here for the first time, with detailed captions by Mary Leakey, giving the background to each painting and exploring its significance in terms of our present knowledge of prehistoric man. Unclipped dustcover over origonal boards. Illustrated endpapers-128 pages text with supporting colour photographs etc.Very clean copy. No marks. Very Good London Hamish Hamilton/Rainbird 1983 Reserve: $30 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 121
J.R.R.Tolkien Bilbo`s Last Song 13 X 18.5cm Bilbo`s Last Song. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes. Bilbo`s Last Song is considered by many to be Tolkien`s epilogue to his classic work The Lord of the Rings. Pauline Baynes was Tolkien`s favourite illustrator. Her jewel like paintings for this book follow two routes: the larger illustrations depict the journey that brings the ring-bearers and the company of elves to the Grey Havens, and the beginning of the final voyage. Running concurrently is s sequence of vignettes showing scences from The Hobbit; so Bilbo remembers his first journey as he prepares for his last. Illustrated endpapers- 32 pages illustrations, text and notes on the pictures. Fine. Fine London Hutchinson 2002 Reserve: $20 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 136
Campbell (John) TRAVELS IN SOUTH AFRICA 8vo (240 x 155 mm) Undertaken at the request of the London Missionary Society; being a narrative of a second journey in the interior of that country. 2 volumes, 322 + 384 pages, hand coloured aquatint frontispiece in each volume, 10 hand coloured aquatint plates, folding map coloured in outline, advertisement leaf bound in opposite the title page of volume I,old half calf neatly rebacked, marbled paper sides worn, some offsetting of the plates, contents crisp, a good tall copy. ‘Upon the death of Dr J.T. van der Kemp the London Mission Society sent Campbell to South Africa to visit and report on their mission stations. Campbell was the first missionary traveller to undertake a long journey into the interior, visiting far-flung missions. From Bethalsdorp he went to Graaff Reinet where he met the traveller W.J. Burchell. Finally after crossing the Orange River he reached Klaarwater mission station and advanced to Lattakoo and beyond, north-west of Malapeetze. When he was returning from this first journey of 4,800 kilometres, Campbell followed the South Bank of the Orange River for 960 kilometres, 480 kilometres on foot, in a region little known to Europeans. Having reached Pella he turned south via Silwerfontein where Cornelius Kok lived and where he received valuable information about Namaqualand, Damaraland and the Bushmen. He also brought back natural history and geological specimens for the L.M.S, museum. In November 1818 Campbell, accompanied Dr John Philip aboard the Westmoreland, made his second voyage to Cape Town. He, Philip and Robert Moffat visited the eastern part of the Colony until halted by the Fifth Frontier War (1818-19). He then set out on his second journey into and beyond the known interior, proceeding further north than in 1812 via the Orange River to Griqua Town and Lattakoo. He returned to Cape Town where he remained for several months before returning to England in November 1820. Dictionary of South African Biography, volume 3, pages 127-8. Good London Printed for the Society 1822 Reserve: $400 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 151
Cape Colonial Government Rules & Regulations for the Cape Mounted Riflemen 163mm x 123mm This 18 page booklet was issued to Cape Mounted Riflemen from 1892 onwards. It contains much of interest such as pay scales, equipment, rations, illness, horses, discharges, burials, rules of behaviour from drunkeness to gambling, etc.CONDITION DETAILS: A well used copy which has wear and soiling throughout, but is complete. Many of the pages are no longer being held by the original staples which are rusty. The outer wrapper, with the first and last pages, has split along the fold. Worn + Torn Cape Colonial Forces Reserve: $20 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 155
Stevenson-Hamilton, J. Job-Lot of Three Titles 220mm x 151mm The three titles in this job-lot are listed in date order:1) `The Low-Veld: Its Wild Life and its People`, 16 prelims, 288 pages, 17 black and white plates with 33 illustrations, 1929.2) `South African Eden - From Sabie Game Reserve to Kruger National Park`, xxi prelims, 311 pages, 23 illustrations, 1937.3) `Wild Life in South Africa`, 364 pages, 1947.CONDITION DETAILS: There is a bookplate in the first volume and a pen gift inscription in the second book, otherwise internally clean. The bindings have some wear and soiling. Reasonable London Cassell and Company 1929, 1937 + 1947 Reserve: $30 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 157
G.E. Cory The Rise of South Africa (6 volumes) A history of the origin of South African colonisation and of its development towards the east from the earliest times to 1857. Vols 1-6 are facsimiles published by Struik 1965. From `The Archives Yearbook for South African History`: `It was at first Sir George`s intention to conclude his history in four volumes, with the year 1846; but he subsequently extended his work to cover the year 1857 and expanded the text to six volumes.` Vols 1-2 have: `In four volumes` on title page. Vols 3-5 have: `In six volumes` on title page. Vol. 6 (ch. 1-6) was published by the Archives of the Union of South Africa in 1940. Vol 1. From the earliest times to 1820: xxi + 403pp + fold-out map `South Africa, to illustrate history to 1820. Contents: Introductory; Early troubles in Graaff Reinet; The influence of revolution in Europe; Continued struggle for existence; The Eastern Province under Batavian rule; The Eastern Province struggles for existence; Influence of Bethelsdorp in moulding Eastern Province history; The struggle for the Zuurveld; The new system of land tenure; Continued trouble with Kaffirland; Slagter`s Nek; Combined movement against Kaffir chiefs - The battle of Grahamstown. Vol.2. 1820-1834: xvi + 463pp + fold-out map of `the Eastern Province of the Cape Colony`. Contents: British colonisation of the Cape; The first year of the settlement; Developments, difficulties and discouragement; Lord Charles Somerset and the Settlers; Per Aspera Ad Astra; Need for reform in the Cape Judicature; The trials of Lord Charles Somerset; The administration of Major-General Bourke; Tantaene animus caelestibus irae; In the shadow of the storm. Vol.3. 1834-1840: xiv + 447pp + fold-out map of Albany, Victoria & Somerset and the Province of Queen Adelaide. Contents: Slavery at the Cape; The first week of the Kaffir War of 1835; From the Colonist`s point of view; The campaign in Kaffirland; Kaffirland (continued); The aftermath; South African affairs in England; Stockenstrom`s policy; Storm and struggle in the Eastern Province; The end of the Stockenstrom regime. Vol.4. 1838-1846: xviii + 514pp. Contents: The Boer Trek; Establishment of the Dutch Republic in Natal; Boer versus Briton in Natal; Annexation of Natal; Developments of the period 1838 to 1846; The beginning of the Orange Free State; The aftermatch of the Trek; Increasing Kaffir trouble in the East; Beginning of the war of 1846; The Kaffir War of 1846. Vol.5. 1847-1853: xiv + 492pp. Contents: The reign of Sir Henry Pottinger; East versus West; The establishment of British Kaffraria; The Sovereignty Rebellion; The convict agitation; Representative government for Cape Colony; Outbreak of the Kaffir War of 1850-53; The Hottentot Rebellion; The Kaffir War continued; Further trouble in the Orange River Sovereignty; The war brought to an end vol.6 1854-1857. Vol.6. 1853-1857, 321pp. George Grey`s policy towards adjacent native territories and independent republics, German Immigrants in British Kaffraria, Vicissitudes of British Kaffraria as a Crown Colony, the abandonment of the sovereignty and after, The Orange River sovereignty and the First Basuto War, traffic in native children, conflicts with the Church of England. Six volumes all in leather, all in good condition and each has the name of previous owner in front. Very good Cape Town Struik 1965 Reserve: $120 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 159
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
Lot 162
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
Lot 181
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
Lot 186
Clarke (S.) ZULULAND AT WAR 1879 Square 4to (270 x 270 mm) The conduct of the Anglo-Zulu War. First Series, number 10: 300 pages, frontispiece, 4 maps, 70 plates - some in colour, blue cloth, a very good copy in the dust jacket. `Inadequacies of the British Army had been revealed in the Crimean War and reforms had supposedly been introduced to remedy the defects, but the Anglo-Zulu War showed clearly that many shortcomings still remained, especially in the sphere of transport and supply. The letters in this volume, all previously unpublished, reveal this struggle for change and the opposing conservative and reforming elements within the army. Written mostly by officers serving in Zululand, the texts are freely expressed, without fear of censorship. Most are addressed to the chief of the intelligence department; others are by members of the British Royal Familiy to the governor of the Cape Colony, Sir Bartle Frere. New facts emerge in these frank and often highly critical letters, while also published are the proceedings of the court martial which took place as a result of the death of the Prince Imperial and which were subject to an embargo for a hundred years.` Editor’s note. Very Good Johannesburg The Brenthurst Press 1984 Reserve: $70 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 194
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
Lot 212
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
Lot 215
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
Lot 216
Wilson, H.W. With the Flag to Pretoria (2vols) and After Pretoria: The Guerilla War (2vols) 26x33cm With the Flag to Pretoria (2volumes) and After Pretoria: the Guerilla War (2volumes supplementary to the first two. London: Harmsworth Brothers and Amalgamated Press, 1900 (Vol. 1), 8 preliminary and 364 pages of text, 1901 (Vol. 2) 8 preliminary and pages 365 to 716 of text, including vocabulary, list of casualties and index; 1902 (Vol. 3) 8 preliminary and 528 pages of text, 1902 (Vol 4) 9 preliminary and pages 529 to 1008 of text, including military statistics, Roll of Honour and index. The volumes are large quarto (257x330mm) half bound in leather over dark maroon decorative cloth, gilt titles to spines and a gilt flag vignette with title on the front boards; each volume liberally illustrated with photographs, artwork and maps. Good condition but the corners and page edges show signs of wear. The text is clean throughout and the bindings are tight. Volumes 1 and 2 each have a large foldout map bound in at the front. A comprehensive record of the Anglo-Boer War, with the first two volumes recounting events from the outbreak of war to the departure of President Kruger to Europe. The second two volumes record events of the guerilla war up to the signing of the Peace Treaty at Vereeniging. A heavy set weighing 10.55kg before packing. Good London Harmsworth Brothers and Amalgamated Press 1900 to 1902 Reserve: $150 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 217
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK) Map of South Africa, 1834 Printed area measures 31.5x39cm A map of South Africa, as it was known in 1834, with Fort Beaufort, Fort Willshire and Fredericksburg being shown as the easternmost outposts of British influence. It is the earliest map I have seen on which the military village of Fredericksburg is shown. The borders of the administrative districts were outlined in colour by hand. The areas around Grahamstown, George, and the Cape of Good Hope are shown enlarged at the top of the map and a large scale map of Cape Town is inserted at the bottom right. The map was published by Baldwin & Cradock, under direction of the SDUK. The details were obtained from various sources, which are fully acknowledged on the map. Printed by gravure, there is a small flaw from the coast between Cape St Francis and Plettenberg Bay, extending upwards but destroying very little detail. The map was mounted, in about 1975, on thick card with no apparent ill effects The `Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge` (SDUK) was an organization, founded in 1828, at the instigation of the idealistic Scot, Henry Peter Brougham. He became Lord Chancellor in 1830, in the government of Earl Grey, and was later raised to the peerage as the first Baron Brougham and Vaux. The admirable goal of the Society, was to distribute useful information via a series of publications to the English working and middle classes. The Society failed to achieve many of its lofty goals and closed its doors in 1848, but managed to publish several extraordinary atlases of impressive detail and sophistication. The maps remain among the most impressive examples of mid-19th century English mass market cartographic publishing available. Good London Baldwin and Cradock Reserve: $80 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 219
Compiled and edited by the Cape Times Sports and Sportsmen South Africa (No 389 of 500 copies) 370 x 280 x 50 Two versions of this book were published in the 1920s. This, the first, limited to South Africa, is undated but probably appeared late in 1925 or early in 1926. The second version contained additional pages on Rhodesia. C W H Kohler contribues the opening chapter on the development of South Africa (including a discussion of the National Convention of 1909 - see image). This is followed by chapters on horse-racing and horse-breeding, the Wanderers Club, cricket, the universities, rugby and soccer, followed a bay by some three hundred pages on individual sportsmen. Full-bound in heavy red morocco, gilt to upper panel and spine; maroon and gold marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; xiii + 525 pp of illustrated text and index on art paper + inserted single-sided frontispiece and 7 other photogravures on matt paper with tissue guards - all unmarked except for the copy number. The binding is tight and the copy is in very good overall (but see the following condition note). CONDITION NOTE. Material from the bottom margin of this copy some 13 cm long by a depth varying from 1 cm at the front increasing to a maximum of 2.5 cm at the back has been lost to water damage. The book-block is now fully dry and unciscoloured (see image), and a third of gilding of the bottom page edge is intact. The material loss represents a maximum of half the depth of the lower margin and readability is not affected. The same damage has discoloured the bottom of the endpapers, with some flaking at the back and slight damage to the lower back corner. This remains an attractive copy and the damage has been discounted in the reserve. Good + Cape Town Atkinson & Partners [1926] Reserve: $50 Click here to view further details and to bid
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Opperman, Rudolf W J, and Lappe Laubscher Africa`s First Olympians. The story of the Olympic movement in South Africa 1907-1987 310 x 220 The story began before there was a South African Olympic Committee. In 1904, the third modern Olympiad was held in St Louis, U S A (`. almost the last[as they were] arranged as a side-show to the World Trade Fair`). Eventually, from outside the United States, `Germany, Greece, Hungary, Canada, Australia, Cuba, Ireland, Zululand and the Transvaal participated`. The three contestants from the last two `countries` were among the 31 in the Marathon, with the best southern African finisher coming ninth. Later chapters take us through the Olympics of 1904 to 1960, which was South Africa`s last until readmission, which was after the publication of this book. The two-colour dustjacket is intact and good, though rubbed at the back. The brown Skivertex boards, gilt to the upper panel, the binding, the plain endpapers and the 70 pp of illustrated text and appendix are unmarked, undiscoloured and in better than very good condition. Very Good Johannesburg Sanoc 1987 Reserve: $25 Click here to view further details and to bid
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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
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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
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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
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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
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AN ITALIAN RECTANGULAR TABLE with tarsia top of flowers and border motifs in light woods, on ebonised ball-turned supports with iron bracing bars Label on the bottom relating the item to Hampton & Sons` "Farnborough Hill, Farnborough, Hants. Catalogue of English and French Furniture (formerly the home of H.I.M. the late Empress Eugenie, Widow of Napoleon III) Lot 254 Provenance: The Princess Eugenié(Widow of Napoleon III), Sale of Farnborough Hill, Lot 254, Monday July 18th 1927 According to the Auction`s Summary, Lots 1-338 were to be auctioned on the First Day`s Sale (i.e. Monday, July 18th, 1927). Lot 254 is listed on Page 20 of the Catalogue, amongst the furniture from "The Princess` Sitting Room" on the First Floor (i.e. Lots 248-314)
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