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
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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
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
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
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)
Two 18th Century wine glasses, the first having a round funnel bowl with engraved and facet cut decoration and standing on an hexagonal faceted stem with conical foot, 12.25cm high, the other having a conical bowl with engraved decoration and standing on a diamond faceted stem and conical foot, 12cm high Rim chip to rim of conical bowl approximately 4mm x 2mm, the other glass with foot rim chip and flake approximately 5mm diameter with a further chip alongside - ** General condition consistent with age
Two 18th Century wine glasses, the first having a drawn trumpet bowl and standing on a multi series airtwist stem with folded conical foot, 17.5cm high, the second with bell bowl and standing on a multi series airtwist stem and conical foot, 18cm high One glass has firing fault to interior of bowl just below the rim approximately 4mm in diameter, there is a further flaw in the top of the foot rim approximately 6mm diameter and a flake/chip to the underside of foot rim approximately 8mm x 5mm - ** Gener
Two 19th Century wine glasses, the first with engraved bulrushes to the bowl and standing on a facet cut stem and circular foot, 18cm high, the second with alternating plain and diamond cut panels, standing on a facet cut stem and circular star cut foot, 15.5cm high ** General condition consistent with age
Three Chinese cloisonné shallow bowls, the first with polychrome dragon decoration, the second and third with similar decoration in black and blue, 20cm diameter Polychrome bowl has been filled a little around the outside of the base, blue bowl is a little pitted to the interior, as is the black bowl - ** General condition consistent with age
George III toleware aide-memoire, the japanned covers with foliate decoration on a black ground, six ivory pages, the first with script ‘Presented to me in remembrance of my dear worthy and lamented friend and cousin Mrs Marianna Warden, Obt Feb 12 1795’, 10cm high Decoration has crazing across the whole together with chips and missing areas to the edges, the first ivory page has writing as described in the catalogue, the second ivory panel has a missing area to the edge - ** General condition consistent with age
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
Richmal Crompton-A collection of seven William first editions, comprising: William The Superman, William And The Pop Singers, William And The Witch, William’s Treasure Trove, William The Explorer, William’s Television Show and William The Tramp, all with dust wrappers 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
World - Swaziland, five coin silver year set - 1968, Barbados, silver and base metal Proof year set - 1973, E.E.C. Medallic First Day Cover - 1973, Great Britain, silver medal 'Silver Wedding Anniversary Of The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh', Panama, Silver Proof Twenty Balboas - 1973 and other coin presentation sets
Medallion - Great Britain - First World War medal struck in bronze, by Ernest Gillick (1874 - 1951), presented to members of the 'Inns of Court' (British Law Courts), who fought during the First World War, obverse depicting image of 'Pegasus' the symbol of the Inner Temple, reverse 'The Inner Temple To Members Of The Inn Who Fought For Their Country - 1914 - 1918'. The Inns of Court had their own British Army Regiment which dated back to 1584. From 1909 and throughout the First World War it served as an Officer Training Corps which consisted of men mainly connected with the Law Courts. Nice light brown patination, in a turned wood box (1 coin)
Interesting First World War Army Chaplain's Gallantry group comprising Military Cross (unnamed), War and Victory, named - Rev. J. Scannell and French Croix de Guerre. Sold with In Memoriam card and research which states that Right Rev. Mgr. J. Scannell was ordained in 1904 and became Chaplain to the Irish Guards 1914 - 18, Chaplain to the Irish Provisional Government (Irish Free State) 1922 - 23 - Military Cross, London Gazette 21st July 1919 'The Reverend Joseph Scannell, M.C., Temporary Chaplain to the Forces, 3rd Class'. Croix de Guerre, France, London Gazette 8th March 1918 'Rev. Joseph Scannell, T. / C.F., 4th Army Chapl. Dept'. He died 25th February 1961
Interesting First World War group comprising trio including Mons Star with clasp and rosette, named - 8793 Sgt. H. G. Faulkner Bedf. R., National Fire Brigade Association Long Service medal, named - 11149. Horace G. Faulkner, Princess Mary gift tin, soldiers' small book, photographs of the recipient and various related ephemera
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