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Click here to subscribeLeipoldt (C. Louis) STORIES VIE DIE KINDERS 8vo (215 x 170 mm) Geillustreer deur A.M. Luyt. 123 pages, colour frontispiece, full page and other illustrations, decorative chapter headpieces, original grey cloth printed in black and decorated in red. Light foxing on the title page, publisherÂ’s compliments stamp on the half title page, a good copy. Kaapstad Nasionale Pers, Beperk 1922
[Fourie (Jopie)] AUTOGRAPH LETTER 255 x 200 mm Autograph letter, 255 x 200 mm, on lined paper. The edges are frayed and there are two tape stains and foxing marks. This handwritten copy of Josepf Johannes `Jopie` Fourie`s letter to General Louis Botha is one of the early copies made to circulate among friends, family and supporters of the 1914 Rebellion. In a time of war, fratricide and suspicion, Afrikaners who supported Jopie Fourie kept his letters well hidden. The poet, Jan Celliers records that he kept his Jopie letters hidden in a flask buried in his garden. Later, typed versions of Jopie`s letters were secretly circulated, but this handwritten copy, along with a few other copies, must be considered as historical source documents as the original version has still not seen the light of day. Jopie Fourie addressed this letter to General Louis Botha in the mistaken belief that Botha, as Prime Minister, was responsible for ordering his execution by firing squad. The tragedy is that neither Botha nor the nation were aware that the then Minister of Defence, Gen. Jan Smuts, used his powers under Martial Law, without even consulting Botha, to rely on the legal technicality that since Jopie Fourie had not first resigned his commission as a citizen force officer in the Union Defence Force, he could be shot. He was arrested on 16 December 1914, and a few days later on the Sunday morning of 20 December he faced his killers without a blindfold singing a hymn for them. At the time, Gen. Louis Botha was not even in Pretoria, but on his farm and the first time that he heard of Jopie`s death was hours later in the evening of the 20th December. The main ring leaders of the rebellion, such as Generals De Wet and Kemp were fined and served short periods of their prison sentences. The majority of historians hold that General Koos de la Rey was accidentally shot on 15 September 1915. This is how Jopie Fourie became the first and most important martyr of the Afrikaner cause and led to the downfall of Gen. Smuts in the 1948 election. The drama of the letters written by a condemned man hours before his death has inspired Afrikaners ever since, and whether or not Gen. Botha would have stayed the execution had he received Jopie`s letter before the execution remains a moot point. The sentence in this letter: `Ik ga op reisen en......Oom Louis en u zendt mij` would only have made sense to Gen. Louis Botha if he had read Jopie`s letter to the Afrikaner nation, drafted a few minutes before, which describes Jopie`s `reisen`, or journey to his heavenly Father and eternity with his trusted leader and friend, Jesus. Sometimes the names of the recipients of the copies of the Jopie letters had their names written at the top, but usually in the same hand. What looks like `De Wet` written in a different hand on both the right and left hand margins of this document cannot be explained. This detailed research kindly provided by Arnaud Labuschagne of Gandolph`s Books, Kensington, Johannesburg.
Fleming, Ian Goldfinger 8vo Book condition: the black cloth boards are in very good condition, skull motif on front board, and spine title in gilt. The page edges and end-papers are lightly spotted, with previous owner`s name and book seller price in pencil on front end-papers. The light spotting continues sporadically throughout the text, with occasional finger-stains; the binding is still firm; 318pp. Dust-cover condition: chipped, rubbed, and creased at the edges and folds, with small patches of loss at the spine ends, spine faded, price-clipped. The front edge fold being more heavily worn, with loss. The cover is now housed in a Brodart protective sleeve. good London Jonathan Cape 1959
Fleming, Ian The Spy Who Loved Me 8vo Book condition: the brown cloth boards are in very good condition, silver dagger motif on front board, and spine title in silver. The spine ends are lightly worn, with a small split at the head. The page edges and preliminaries are lightly spotted (end-papers are bright red, clean, no inscriptions). The light spotting continues sporadically throughout the text, with occasional finger-stains; the binding is still firm; 221pp. Dust-cover condition: a good jacket (second-state, with price 16s. net), with rubbing and marking especially visible on the rear panel, spine faded, some wear to author`s name at top of spine with letters `Fl` missing. The jacket is now housed in a Brodart protective sleeve. good London Jonathan Cape 1962
Fleming, Ian Thunderball 8vo Book condition: the brown cloth boards are in good condition, skeletal hand motif blind-stamped on front board, and spine title in gilt. The page edges and end-papers are lightly spotted, with previous owner`s name written twice on front end-papers. The text is very clean, with occasional very light spotting/marking; 254pp. The binding is firm. Dust-cover condition: patches of loss on the front panel due to moth activity, the front edge fold being more heavily worn, with loss and two patches of loss on rear panel; book-seller sticker pasted over original price. The cover is now housed in a Brodart protective sleeve. good London Jonathan Cape 1961
Willcox, A.R. Rock Paintings of the Drakensberg, Natal and Griqualand East 285mm x 203mm Copy number 29 of 275 signed copies in a de luxe binding.Original binding with a brown leather spine and brown boards with a gilt decorative device on the upper board. Light grey coloured end papers. 14 prelims, 96 pages, 76 full colour plates. CONDITION DETAILS: The gilt lettering on the spine has worn off. There is a previous owner`s name in pen on the front paste down. Acceptable Cape Town C. Struik 1973
Sir David Young Cameron (1865-1945) - Oil on panel - Sunset In The Firth, signed with initials, verso with hand written personal note from Cameron ‘Golden Light from the West Country for the Golden Wedding of two very dear friends D.Y.C., F.R., G.W.R. - Aug.4.1947’, 15.5cm x 22.5cm A.R. ** General condition consistent with age
After S. De Koster (18th/19th Century) - Stipple engraving with watercolour - The Prince Regent, Humbly Dedicated to the Officers Commanding the 10th Light Hussars, by their Humble & Obedient Servants. J. Jenkins. Proof. Published Nov 12, 1814 by J. Jenkins, 48 Strand, 43cm x 33cm ** General condition consistent with age
Royal Worcester cabinet cup and saucer by Harry Ayrton and Edward Townsend, typically decorated with fruit, the cup signed H. Ayrton and with date code for 1928, the saucer signed E. Townsend and with date code for 1926, height of cup 6cm, diameter of saucer 11.5cm Some light scratching across much of the surface of the cup and more pronounced in the saucer around the well - ** General condition consistent with age
19th Century baby’s blue and white transfer printed feeding bottle decorated with a rural scene with a lady standing at the banks of a river, 17.75cm long Some light scratching to the underside, one rough spot to the left of the scene beside a tree - ** General condition consistent with age
George III brass bound rosewood apothecary’s box, the hinged cover opening to reveal a fitted interior with sixteen bottles, some with printed Bristol labels, drawer below opening to reveal a fitted interior with six further bottles, sliding compartment enclosing mortar and pestle and glass jars, 27cm wide Cover with some light lifting of the veneers and some splits, some of the bottles with slight nibbling to the rims, one has obviously been ground down along one rim edge, overall in very good order - ** General condition consistent with age
Model Railway - Hornby Dublo - Three Tank locomotives comprising: British Rail 0-6-2 (EDL17), British Rail Standard 2-6-4 (EDL18) and British Rail 2-6-4 (3218), all boxed 3218 play worn and box worn, the remaining two little used, box with light wear - ** General condition consistent with age
French 1822 pattern light cavalry sword, curved, single edged blade 97cm, brass grip with knuckle-bow and three sidebars, brass pommel and leather bound grip in steel scabbard Some light rusting of the blade, the handle lacking the wire winding, the scabbard pitted and rusted - ** General condition consistent with age
A quantity of miscellaneous books including L. M. Stretch`s The Beauties of History; or, Pictures of Virtue and Vice, Drawn from Real Life; Designed for the Instruction and Entertainment of Youth (London, 1802, 11th ed.), Lance Thackeray`s The Light Side of Egypt (London, 1928, coloured plates) and Manfred Curry`s The Beauty of Flight (London, [c. 1930], photographed illustrations). Sold not subject to return. (qty)
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