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Maitland, William, The History of London from the Foundation to the Present Time, 2 vols, double-page engraved map of the area, 8 double-page and folding maps, and 117 engraved plates, a few double-page or folding lists of subscribers (a little light browning and spotting). Modern brown half Morocco, folio, London, 1775 (2) CONDITION REPORT: Please find condition report below as requested: images as requested. Overall staining and foxing. I believe the book has been rebound.

Seymour, Robert. A Survey of the Citizens of London and Westminster …. The Work being an Improvement of Mr Stow, 2 vols, large folding engraved map and 7 plates, 2 folding, contemporary calf, double gilt fillet round sides (of bracket) folio, London, 1734-35 (2)

R J. The Antiquities of St Peter's, or the Abbey Church of Westminster, 2 vols, 69 engraved plates, 2 folding, contemporary calf (somewhat rubbed) 8 vols, London, 1742. Patterson, Daniel, a New and Accurate Description of all the Direct Roads in Great Britain, 2 folding engraved maps (Eastern half of the map of England torn away), contemporary half calf (rather worn) 8 vols, 1799; and a later edition of Johnson's Dictionary (4)

Magna Brittania et Hibernia Antiqua et Nova, 6 vols, folding engraved map, folding frontispiece, 5 plates, 3 folding and 32 full page engravings in the text, contemporary calf (spines a little cracked and rubbed) 4 in total, London, 1720-3; and 2 others (8)

Two Kodak negative albums comprising views in India, various magic lantern slides of England and Italy, a collection of 48 black and white photographs depicting Far East various negative photos, four daguerreotypes, a canvas backed map and assorted cards and ephemera

A mid 20th century Perrier Water motor map

After Christopher Saxton - Engraved map of Essex, later hand-coloured, 30 x 37cm; and three other later maps to include County Map of England and Wales (4)

Historical DocumentsThe Peninsular Wars - Battle of Salamanca1812 hand-drawn map of the allied and French forces showing the areas of high ground and includes "Two hills called the two Arapiles. The one to the North formed the centre of the British Position - that to the South was the centre of the French Position" with and extensive and detailed key to the map. Also 1812 (2 June) letter from William Mordaunt in Lisbon to Sir Charles Stuart asking for help after he was imprisoned as a French spy and a later letter to Sir Charles Stuart. Other items include a long letter written in Portuguese written on 24 December 1812 which makes mention of Lord Wellington and Marshal Beresford (serving in the Portuguese army). An official letter in Portuguese from the secretariat of the junta. A letter in French referring to Marquis de Wellington. A very interesting group. Photo The Battle of Salamanca saw the Anglo-Portuguese army under the Duke of Wellington defeat Marshal Auguste Marmont's French forces among the hills around Arapiles, south of Salamanca, Spain on 22 July 1812. Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay (1779 – 1845).A British diplomat, between 1812 and 1828 he was known as Sir Charles Stuart. He served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Portugal and Brazil between 1810 and 1814.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

A Robert Morden map of South Wales - 35 x 42cm

[Reconnaissance Reports, Parts I & II] RECONNAISSANCE REPORTS ON LINES OF ADVANCE THROUGH THE ORANGE FREE STATE Part I. which is divided into two sections: Part I. By Majore E.A. Altham, The Royal Scots, Staff Captain, Intelligence Division, War Office. Part II. By Major M.F. Rimington, 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons. The Report comprises 68 pages, Key Map to illustrate Reconnaissance by Major Altham, 8vo (245 x 155 mm), printed card covers with blue cloth back. This is accompanied by 12 folding maps. The report and maps are contained in a dark blue pebble-grained cloth box with a printed title label on the upper cover. Intelligence Division, War Office, [A. 474], 1897. With: Part II. Bt Captain A.H. Wolley-Dod, R.A. The Report comprises 30 pages, 8vo (245 x 155 mm), printed light card covers. This is accompanied by 3 folding maps – 2 large maps and Index Map. The report and maps are contained in a dark blue pebble-grained cloth box with a printed title label on the upper cover. Intelligence Division, War Office, [A. 494], 1897. These reports show to what extent the British government anticipated a war against the Boer republics following the Jameson Raid at the end of 1895.These preparations only became apparent to the Transvaal and Free State governments after copies of these reports were captured after the Battle of Talana Hill in October 1899. 1897 Click here to view further details and to bid

Decle, Lionel Three years in Savage Africa (1898) With an Introduction by H. M. Stanley. Rebound in simulated leather with title in gilt on spine, new end-papers. Frontis of author with tissue guard + xxxi + pp. 594 + pp.40 advertisements, illustrated with numerous b&w photographs. Complete with 5 maps (one fold-out map of Africa), two maps have single tears without loss, library stamp on half title page, otherwise an attractive copy. A fascinating account of Decle`s trek from the Cape Colony through Bechuanaland, Rhodesia, Mozambique, Nyassaland, Uganda, Tanzania to Zanzibar. `My journey was performed at the most interesting period of the history pf Africa - just on the eve, or at the beginning of its transformation, while still in a primitive state, into European Colonies`. Very Good London Methuen & Co 1898 Click here to view further details and to bid

Rev. Colin Rae MALABOCH The Boer campaign of 1894 against the Chief Malaboch and the Johannesburg Crisis of 1896 227 x 145 x 39 mm A remarkable book, detailing the expedition against Chief Malaboch, of Blaauwberg, District Zoutpansberg, South African Republic, 1894. Includes a section on events in Johannesburg just before the start of the Boer War. Numerous photographs and illustrations, frontispiece of the author. Folding map. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles and embossed gilt head of Malaboch on the front cover. 19 prelim pages. Pp 1-248. Pages untrimmed. Small tear infolding map. Owner inscription on front free endpaper. Overall condition of cover, binding and book is Very Good. Cape Town and London J.C. Juta & Co, and Sampson Low, Marsden and Co. Ltd. 1898 Click here to view further details and to bid

H. C. V. Leibbrandt (Ed.) Keeper of the Archives THE REBELLION OF 1815 SLAGTERS NEK A complete collection of all the papers connected with the trial of the accused 240 x 155 x 50 mm Includes the history of the case of Frederick Bezuidenhout, letters written by the Governor, Landdrosts Cuyler and Stockenstrom and others, which illustrate the situation in the area at the time. Leibbrandt used the complete original documents relating to the Supreme Court trial of the accused, the late Mr Beelaerts van Blokland. Loose handwritten notes inserted in the front of the book may be of interest. Large folding map at the back. Pages [1]2-979. While the book was printed in 1902 by W.A. Richards, Cape Town, the date at the lower edge of the spine is 1903. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Some bumped corners, spine top and lower edges worn. Front free endpaper brittle and has a few small tears and one 50mm tear on front edge. General condition of the book is Very Good. Cape Town and London J.C. Juta & Co, and Sampson Low, Marsden and Co. Ltd. and P. S. King & Son 1902 Click here to view further details and to bid

H. C. V. Leibbrandt (Ed.) Keeper of the Archives DE REBELLIE VAN 1815 algemeen bekend als SLACHTERS NEK 245 x 155 x 55 mm Eene volledige Verzameling van al de Stukken in verband met de Terechtstelling der Beschuldigden; met vele Belangrijke bijlagen. This is the Dutch 1st edition of Leibbrandt`s book, which came out the following year, 1903. It also has the large folding map at the back. Pages [i-iii]iv pp [1]2-1013. Professionally re-cased green boards with original cover-sheet on front cover. Kaapstad en Londen J.C. Juta & Co, and P.S. King & Zoon 1903 Click here to view further details and to bid

Simon van der Stel. Edited by Gilbert Waterhouse SIMON VAN DER STEL`S JOURNAL OF HIS EXPEDITION TO NAMAQUALAND 1685-6 275 x 185 x 25 mm This is regarded as one of the first published versions of the Journal since it was compiled in 1685-86. This manuscript was lost in 1692 and re-discovered by this editor in Dublin in 1922. It took him 10 years to complete the book, which includes the Dutch text and the English translation, and a large number of illustrations of plants and animals found on the expedition. Many illustrations, attributed to Claudius, and map. Pages: [i-iii]iv-xxviii pp 1-183, plus 7 plates and Animals, birds and reptile Folios 733-783; Plants Folios 785-869. In appendix I and II, Waterhouse quotes from Valentijn, Tachard and Ovington for contemporary comments on Van der Stel. Dust Jacket cream coloured paper, which has become light brown and brittle, cracking at all the creases. The brittle DJ has been repaired and reinforced. Dark green cloth-covered blind-stamped boards, gilt titles and gilt crest of Dublin University Press. Overall, the book, covers and binding are Very Good. Dublin Hodges, Figgis & Co 1932 Click here to view further details and to bid

James, F L The Unknown Horn of Africa (second edition, 1890) 195 x 140 Copies of the important first edition, with includes a scientific appendix and colour plates, change hands for thousands of dollars. This shorter edition was published a year later and a few months after the author, a well-known adventurer, sportsman and natural scientist, was killed by an elephant on the West African coast. He was on another adventure on the opposite side of the subject of this book, the Horn of Africa, and he was then not yet forty. This version includes an obituary, written by two brothers. The olive-green cloth-boards, printed in black and pale-blue on the upper face and decorated in black with gilt lettering to the spine, are well preserved, with only light rubbing and bumping at the spine-joins and corners. The black endpapers are cracked but the hinges are undamaged. The book remains tightly bound. There is little left of the gilt on the top page edge. The contents - xx + 273 pp of b/w illustrated text, notes and index + tissue-guarded engraved signed portrait frontispiece, several inserted b/w plates, folding colour map at the back + 8 pp of publisher`s announcements - are complete, unmarked and undiscoloured. The tissue guard is foxed. This is a collectable copy. Very Good London and Liverpool George Philip & Son 1890 Click here to view further details and to bid

Skelton, R A (Superintendent of the Map Room of the British Museum) Explorers` Maps. Chapters in the Cartographic Record of Geographical Discovery (first edition, 1958) 250 x 195; weight 1.2 kg This ex-library copy of the first edition would benefit from rebinding as the mustard cloth-boards are rubbed and bumped, while the spine has been strengthened with clear archival tape. The binding has loosened and the once-gilt top edge has dulled to a dark blue-black. The contents, however, remain in near very good condition, despite the library spine label, stamps on the title-page and elsewhere, and sticker and pocket at the back. The plain endpapers are otherwise unmarked and sound, and the xi + 337 pp of b/w illustrated text and index and colour frontispiece, all on art paper, are unmarked and and bright. Featuring, as it does, well over two hundred maps, Skelton`s book offers many days` feasts for the armchair explorer. Good+ London Routledge and Kegan Paul 1958 Click here to view further details and to bid

The Rev.C.L.Latrobe A Journal of a Visit to South Africa,with some account of the Missionary Settlements of the United Brethren, near The Cape Of Good Hope 22.5 X 14.75 A Journal of a Visit to South Africa, With Some Account of the Missionary Settlements of the United Brethren, near The Cape of Good Hope.Second Edition.Published by L.B.Seeley-London 1821. 1/2 rich brown leather binding with matching marbled boards,marbled edges. Published May 1821 with copper engravings by S.Sprinasguth. Contemporary binding- xi plus folding map plus 580 pages text. includes four engraved plates with tissue guards. Odd spot. Very attractive clean copy. Very Good 169 Fleet Street, London L.B.Seeley 1821 Click here to view further details and to bid

Andersson (C.J.) NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF DAMARA LAND 8vo (230 x 145 mm) And the adjacent territories of South-West Africa. Arranged and edited by John Henry Gurney, with some additional notes by the editor, and an introductory chapter containing a sketch of the author`s life. 394 pages, map as frontispiece, 4 lithographic plates, original blue cloth gilt. Staining at the in the top margin of the 4 plates, bookplate on the front paste-down endpaper and a corresponding small stamp below the date on the title page, overall a very good copy. `On returning from an expedition to the Victoria Falls with James Chapman, in 1862, Thomas Baines stayed at the home of Charles John Andersson at Otjimbingwe, South-West Africa. Andersson was contemplating writing a bird book to be called `Avi-fauna of South-West Africa` and invited Baines to assist in illustrating the proposed work. Baines accepted the commission and remained with Andersson from August 1863 to October 1864, painting from the many sketches he had made and from bird-skins collected on his recent expedition. Andersson died before he could complete his magnum-opus on the birdlife of South-West Africa and it was only some years later that his notes were edited and published posthumously by the celebrated British ornithologist, John Henry Gurney. Baines` illustrations were not included in the new work no doubt due the high cost of reproducing the many coloured and tinted plates. It was estimated that more than £4000 would be required - a considerable sum at that time.` R.F. Kennedy in the preface to `The Birds of South Africa` painted by Thomas Baines. Very good London John van Voorst 1872 Click here to view further details and to bid

Boonzajer (F.J.) (Manuscript Atlas) ATLAS VAN DE KAAP DE GOEDE HOOP 8vo (120 x 140 mm) ESTANANDE UIT ALGEMEENE KAART, EN 42 AANEENSLUITENDE KAARTJES; GETEKEND DOOR F.T. BOONZAJER. 43 manuscript maps comprising a general map of the Cape of Good Hope and 42 maps of the Cape in sequence according to the key marked on the general map, hand coloured and annotated with place names, mountains and rivers. The maps are finely drawn within hand coloured borders showing latitude and longitude, each 232 x 183 mm with a central fold and bound into the album on hinges. Laid paper with what is thought to be the watermark of the Dutch papermaker De Erwen de Blauw but unfortunately the watermark is not complete on any of the pages. Contemporary quarter brown leather with a red title label on the spine, and brown paper sides, bookplate on the front paste-down endpaper and a corresponding small stamp on the manuscript title page. The maps are in excellent condition. The atlas is not dated but the general map is possibly a copy of the map in Barrow’s Travels (1801-1804) or Bouchenroeder’s Reize in de Binnenland van Zuid-Afrika,1803 (1806). Boonzajer mentions Colonel Gordon’s discovery of the Orange River. Worcester, which was established in 1819, does not appear. Although he has apparently used official survey maps of the time some of the notes do appear to be from actual observation. The maps include extensive notes on game, “De witte Rhinoceros, Springbokken, Hartebeesten en Elanden worden hier veel gevonden.” Also mentioned are vegetation, geology, rock art and farming. Very good No place No date (circa 1810?) Click here to view further details and to bid

Pringle (Thomas) AFRICAN SKETCHES Small 8vo (180 x 120 mm) Part I, Poems Illustrative of South Africa (including `The Bechuana Boy`) Part II, Narrative of a Residence in South Africa. 2 parts in 1, 528 pages, engraved frontispiece in part 1, `The Bechuana Boy` engraved by C. Landseer, engraved title page vignette, engraved map of the frontier district in part 2, original brown cloth rebacked preserving the original back strip, titled in gilt on the spine within floral border, bookplate on the front paste-down endpaper and a corresponding small stamp below the date on the title page. The frontispiece and title page are foxed but otherwise the contents are good. Mendelssohn (Sydney) South African Bibliography, volume 2, page 187. `This volume reproduces the South African poems published in `Ephemerides,` and others which appeared in various periodicals to which the author was an occasional contributor. The `Narrative of a Residence in Africa` is published for the first time, having been delayed owing to Mr Pringle`s duties as `Secretary to the Society for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Dominions.`` The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21). Volume XIV. The Victorian Age, Part Two. `...but the piece, perhaps, which more than any other marks this pious Scottish farmer`s son for a real literary artist, the brother at once of Burns and Scott and Livingstone, is The Bechuana Boy. This touching and beautiful piece, part fact, part fiction, truth arranged with art, was based on the story of a Bechuana orphan boy, who had been carried off from his native country by the mountain tribes, half-bred Hottentots, and who fell under Pringle`s protection. The touch of the pet springbok was suggested to Pringle by his seeing, a few days afterwards, a slave child playing with a fawn at a farmer`s residence. The real little African boy brought by Pringle and his wife to England became their devoted protégé and almost adopted child, but died, like many at that time, of an affection of the lungs.` Good London Edward Moxon 1834 Click here to view further details and to bid

Paterson (Lieutenant William) A NARRATIVE OF FOUR JOURNEYS INTO THE COUNTRY OF THE HOTTENTOTS, AND CAFFRARIA IN THE YEARS 1777, 1778, 1779 4to (305 x 245 mm) Illustrated with a map and nineteen copper-plates. The Second Edition, Corrected: xii,175, (i directions for placing of the plates) pages, 19 hand coloured engraved plates (15 of botanical subjects and 4 of Bushmen habitations, Hottentots, Horned Snake and Camelopardalis), folding map, old half calf rebacked preserving the backstrip and red title labels, marbled paper sides, small book label of a previous owner on the front paste-down endpaper, contained in a later slip case in brown cloth with a leather lip. The edges and corners are worn, light foxing on the plates, contents are clean and bright, a good copy unusual with the hand coloured plates. It is uncertain how many copies with hand coloured plates were issued. None of the originals of the engravings in the two editions of Paterson’s Four Journeys are in the collection in the Brenthurst Library so the colouring cannot be compared but the colouring in this copy is botanically accurate. Paterson, William (1755-1810), traveller and lieutenant-governor of New South Wales, was born on 17 Aug. 1755. He entered the army at an early age, but not before he had developed a strong liking for natural history, especially botany. The interest and patronage of Lady Strathmore enabled him to gratify these tastes, and before entering upon active service he had made a series of exploring expeditions in the Hottentot country. He left England early in 1777, arrived at Capetown in May, and on 16 Oct., in company with Captain Gordon, made his first expedition, returning to Cape Town on 13 Jan. 1778. His second expedition lasted from May to 20 Nov. 1778. His third was into the district which he called Caffraria, and claimed as hitherto unknown, and it lasted from 23 Dec. 1778 to 23 March 1779. His fourth journey occupied him from 18 June to 21 Dec. the same year. He made several fresh contributions to science, and is credited with having brought to England the first giraffe-skin ever seen there. The French traveller Le Vaillant several times refers to his researches in high terms. Paterson published `A Narrative of Four Journeys into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffraria in the years 1777–8–9,` London, 1789, 4to. A second corrected edition and a French translation appeared in 1790. His botanical collections are in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paterson,_William_(1755-1810)_(DNB00) Mendelssohn (S.) South African Bibliography, volume 2, pages143-4, `Mr Paterson accompanied Colonel Gordon (Commander of the Troops of the Dutch East India Company in South Africa) and Jacob van Reenan in several trips to the interior. He remarked that he does not give a description of the Cape as he would be only repeating what Sparrman and Masson had already communicated in their publications. In the course of his travels the author penetrated as far as Namaqualand on the west, and the Great Fish River on the south-east. Although the principal feature of the work is the description of the botanical specimens collected and noted by Mr. Paterson, there are many interesting notes respecting the natives, with a few remarks on the Dutch Colonists.` Good London Printed for John Johnson 1790 Click here to view further details and to bid

Folding Map: BACON’S LARGE-PRINT , UP-TO-DATE MAP OF TRANSVAAL, CAPE COLONY, ETC. Printed on paper, 560 x 760 mm, outlined in red, insets of Ladysmith, Mafeking and Cape Town, folds into printed brown card covers. Short tears at some folds, back of the covers repaired with matching brown paper, stains on the upper cover. London G.WE. Bacon & Co., Ltd. No date (circa 1900) Click here to view further details and to bid

GILLMORE P Through Gasa Land 140 x 220 mm The author describes a hunting trip made by himself and two companions from Lourenco Marques northwards to the Sabi River, and thence onwards to the lands of the Mantatees and Mashonas. Much on elephant hunting, which made their trip a success, though one of his friends died of fever.. 349 pp with folding map, Covers a little ageworn, corners bare, slight fishmoth damage in margins of a few pages, some heavy foxing on folding map, otherwise the book is in good, clean condition. Good London Harrison & Sons 1890 Click here to view further details and to bid

Cary,Robert The Pioneer Corps 14.5 X 22cm On 5th July. 1890. fifty-seven men from `B` Troop of the Pioneer Corps crossed the Shashi River on the first stage of an historic adventure. That adventure did not end when the Pioneer Corps hoisted the Union Flag at Fort Salisbury, two months later. It has, in fact,gone on right up to the present day.(1975). Everything that happens to-day--economic, social, political--stems from that symbolic river crossing 85 years ago. And yet the men who formed part of that historic march have, for the most part, remained shadowy and unknown. At no time in the years since 1890 have their biographies been set-down so that future generations can tell what sort of men they were. At no time has anyone produced a definitive list which would show exactly who was there---and who merely claimed the honour at a alter date. Hardback with unclipped dustcover. Author`s Note and Foreword/Frontispiece Map- 142 pages text with supporting illustrations and data. Fine copy. Fine Salisbury-Rhodesia Galaxie Press 1975 Click here to view further details and to bid

Ian Uys Delville Wood 17 X 24cm Delville Wood-July 1916. Delville Wood was the bloodiest battle ever fought by South Africans. Through this action other nations learnt to respect the fighting qualities of the man from the fledgling Union of South Africa. Erstwhile foes, Boer and Briton, fought shoulder to shoulder against the pride of the German army. They withstood waves of attcking infantrymen, were subjected to savage artillery fire which reached a crescendo of seven shells a second, pulverising the wood and obliterating the defences, then fought hand-to-hand until overrun, threw back the enemy and fought on with unbelievable tenacity. Hardback with Dustcover, illustrated endpapers- Map/Foreward xi plus 299 pages text with photographs,and supporting information and data.Fine condition. Fine Rensburg Uys Publishers 1983 Click here to view further details and to bid

Crozier, Brig.-Gen F.P. Angels on Horseback 204mm x 142mm Original dust jacket. Original cream coloured cloth boards with red titling on the spine. Top edge red. 286 pages, black and white photographic frontis, map of Northern Natal on page 20.CONDITION DETAILS: The dust jacket is worn and soiled - but scarce in any condition. There is a purple ownership stamp on the front paste down -its edge on the front flap of the dust jacket. Overall the book is internally clean, but the title page, frontis and contents page have heavy brown marks - see images. Reasonable London Jonathan Cape 1932 Click here to view further details and to bid

Farini (G.A.) THROUGH THE KALAHARI DESERT Size: 8vo (230 x 160 mm) A Narrative of a Journey With Gun, Camera, and Note-Book to Lake N`Gami and Back. 475 pages, 2 portraits as frontispieces, 44 full-page and other illustrations, folding plan of `The Hundred Falls of the Orange River`, folding map, original pictorial green cloth over bevelled boards, titled gilt on upper cover and spine, bookplate on the front paste-down endpaper. The cloth is rubbed along the edges and faded on the spine, the top and bottom of the spine are chipped, the front hinge is cracked, the gathering comprising pages 305-320 is loose, a few pencil notations in the margins. The bookplate is from the library of W.H. Coetzer who has added a note on the verso of the first frontispiece dismissive of Farini`s writings about the `Lost City` as well as about his observations concerning the `Boer people`. In contrast, Shane Peacock in his biography, `The Great Farini, The Hire-Wire Life of William Hunt` (1996) writes, `Farini was one of the more extraordinary African travellers. Born William Leonard Hunt in the backwoods of Ontario his life continued through many worldly adventures so numerous and unusual it seems incredible that one man experienced them all. He was the leader of the circus troup the Flying Farinis, the mastermind of the first human cannonball act, the inventor of folding theatre seats and the modern parachute, the creator of Africa`s great myth of the Lost City of the Kalahari and a renowned botanist and artist.` Good London Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington 1886 Click here to view further details and to bid

Cornell (F.C.) THE GLAMOUR OF PROSPECTING 8vo (220 x 145 mm) Wanderings of a South African Prospector in Search of Copper, Gold, Emeralds, and Diamonds. 334 pages, frontispiece portrait, folding map, 37 illustrations, original red cloth gilt, stamped in blind on upper cover. The spine is a little faded and there is some insect scarring on both the front and back covers, contents crisp. Good London T. Fisher Unwin Ltd. 1920 Click here to view further details and to bid

Viljoen, General Ben My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War 220mm x 143mm Copy Number 39 of 50 de luxe copies in the Africana Collectanea Series (44th volume in the series)which had a total print run of 1,000 copies of which numbers 1 to 50 were bound in leather.Original brown leather spine and corners with a green title label on the spine with gilt titling and the publisher`s device on the upper board.Although this is stated to be the `Third Edition` it follows the format of the 1903 Hood, Douglas & Howard, London edition, with 332 pages, black and white illustrations and a fold out map section at the rear with 8 maps.CONDITION DETAILS: The titling on the spine is a bit faded, there is a bookseller`s label on the front paste down, some of the illustrations are age toned, otherwise a lightly used copy. Good Cape Town C. Struik (Pty.) Ltd. 1973 Click here to view further details and to bid

Saxton, Christophorus; Kip, Wilhelmus FLINT Comitatus quem Ordovices Olim Incoluerunt Plate size: 265 x 321 mm; Paper size: 315 x 375 mm; Copper engraved map with later hand colour. Name of map: FLINT Comitatus quem ORDOVICES olim Incoluerunt, Christophorus Saxton descripsit, Wilhelmus Kip Sculpsit. This is from an edition of William Camden’s `Britannia` first published in 1586. It was the last to be published in his lifetime and the first to be illustrated with county maps although this had been contemplated since at least 1589. Shows Chester clearly and other towns in Cheshire and Denbighshire. Camden (1551-1623) was an antiquary and historian. An academic by profession he would become the headmaster of Westminster School in 1593. He spent much of his time travelling and collecting material for his highly respected `Britannia`. This is engraved by William Kip and is from the first fully illustrated edition of William Camden`s classic work, this example from the preferred second edition without text to the verso. Condition: the paper is in good condition with the expected yellowing due to its age, the two pages neatly joined (join visible on the rear); the map is uniformly spotted/foxed, the paper is wrinkled, and the edges are chipped. The engravings are crisp and the hand-colouring is of a very high quality - providing a very good example of the art of map printing of the early 17th century. good London Camden, William 1610 Click here to view further details and to bid

CORNER William 34th Company Imperial Yeomanry 22 cm by 14 cm The Story of the 34th Company (Middlesex) Imperial Yeomanry from the point of view of Private No 6243. xix and 540 pages. 46 plates, 16 text maps, folding map of Orange River Colony. Publisher`s cloth. Please note postage will be added at $15 (UK), $20 (EEC) or $30 (worldwide). The Middlesex IY was raised as the Uxbridge Hussars in 1830 and was designated Middlesex Yeomanry Cavalry in 1838. It provided three companies of IY in South Africa. In 1908 it was redesignated 1st County of London Yeomanry. good London T Fisher Unwin 1902 Click here to view further details and to bid

Lord Cranworth A Colony In The Making (British East Africa) 8vo Or, `Sport And Profit In British East Africa`. `Less than a generation ago East Africa was not even a name. Twelve years since, even, the Protectorate was held generally to be some sort of an appendage of South Africa to which portion of the continent indeed letters were generally addressed. The British East African Protectorate is a huge tract of healthy highlands extending from Mombasa to Lake Victoria Nyanza. It is kept as a game reserve for lions and such-like, which millionaires and Americans get shot for them, and write about afterwards. There are some settlers who stone their Governors and shoot natives.`; 359pp. Condition: green boards are decorated on front by a hunter in gilt, the boards being fairly heavily worn, with corners bumped, mottling and discolouration, edge wear; while the contents are in good to very good condition (sadly marred by the missing fold-out map at rear). This is a well-read copy with even foxing throughout and occasional finger smudges, and a still firm binding. good (map missing) London Macmillan 1912 Click here to view further details and to bid

Steevens, G.W. From Capetown To Ladysmith - An Unfinished Record of the South African War 8vo A lively and interesting diary account of the first few months of the Anglo-Boer War, commencing on October 10th to December 6th 1899, in 15 chapters, and with two maps, one of the area around Ladysmith and the other a large fold-out `Map of the Seat of the War in South Africa` with a detailed view of the area around Newcastle, Dundee, Ladysmith and Colenso; 180pp., plus catalogue of Blackwood & Sons Publications (32pp.). Condition: linen boards in a fairly worn state with frayed corners and faded/rubbed spine; small owner inscription on f.p.e.p. (William E.Hughes, 12 March 1900), and stamp of Nottinghamshire T.A. & A.F.Association on half-title and title page. Contents are good, though the binding is cracked at pp.48/9 and 144/5. good Edinburgh & London William Blackwood 1900 Click here to view further details and to bid

Mitford, Bertram; David Clammer Through the Zulu Country. Its battlefields and its people (limited 1975 facsimile reprint); with The Zulu War 220 x 150; 225 x 145 (1) Through the Zulu Country. Copy 48 of the limited facsimile edition of 1000 copies, with additional illustrations, reproduced from a copy of Kegan Paul, Trench & Co`s original edition of 1883. Chipped and rubbed dustjacket, xvi + 325 pp, very good tan Skivertex-boards, plan endpapers - all unmarked and undiscoloured. (2) The Zulu War. Very good laminated dustjacket, very good red paper-boards, gilt to spine, and binding. Endpapers and contents - 239 pp of illustrated text, map, appendix and index + 16 pp of inserted b/w plates - all very good, unmarked and undiscoloured. Very Good; Very Good Durban; Cape Town T W Griggs; Purnell 1975; 1973 Click here to view further details and to bid

Wood & Ortlepp BRITON & BOER MAP 100 x 65 cm `Special map of the late Boer Republics, Natal and Invaded portions of the Cape Colony.` `Absolutely the best War Map published!` Folding map in faded and worn linen covers, 100 x 65 cm in size - panels backed onto linen. Condition fair to good, but panels have separated slightly unevenly. Fair to good London & Johannesburg Wood & Ortlepp Mar-00 Click here to view further details and to bid

Wolhuter, Harry MEMORIES OF A GAME-RANGER; illustrations by C.T. Astley-Maberley 23,5 x 15,5 cm 313 pages, [17] leaves of plates: illustrations, portrait as frontispiece, map on endpapers. Pictorial cloth with gilding. Very good Johannesburg Wild Life Protection Society of South Africa 1967 Click here to view further details and to bid

Elmslie, W A (medical missionary), with an introduction by Lord Overtoun Among the Wild Ngoni. Being some chapters in the history of the Livingstonia Mission in British Central Africa (1901) 200 x 135 `The sphere chosen by the Livingstonia Mission [named after Dr Livingstone] was the west shore of Lake Nyasa, an inland sea some 400 miles long, discovered by Livingstone and Dr Stewart, and in 1875 the `Ilala`, bearing the pioneers of the mission, Dr Laws and his helpers, steamed into the Lake and took possession for Christ.` Beige cloth-boards, black and gilt to the upper panel and the spine, which is detached from the upper panel, though with the binding remaining firm. The front free endpaper has ownership and library stamps. The contents are unmarked and unfoxed - title-page, present but detached + 319 pp of text and index + frontispiece and 13 further inserted plates + 1 p of pubisher`s announcements (there is a further page of these announcements on the verso of the title-page). The `map at back` referred to in the list of illustrations, is missing, though with no sign of its having been deliberatey removed. First (1899) editions are understandably more valuable but even this second edition is comparatively rare. Good+ Edinburgh and London Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier 1901 Click here to view further details and to bid

Fouche, Leo (editor); English translation: A C Paterson The Diary of Adam Tas 1705-1706 . . . (opposite pages in Nederlands and English) (1914) 235 x 155 ` . . . with an enquiry into the complaints of the Colonists against the Governor, Willem Adriaan van der Stel. With two maps` This is the hundredth anniversary of the publication that inspired the formation of the Van Riebeeck Society, whose long and distinguished series of historical volumes included, much later, a newly edited and translated version of the Adam Tas Diary, whose revelations of complaints by Free Burghers against the administration of the Cape eventually led to the dismissal of Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel. Despite the power of Adam Tas`s pen, he was imprisoned for 13 months before being vindicated. The original diary was lost, but two partial copies survived - one in the Government Archives in the Hague since 1706, covering the period 13 June to 14 August 1705, while the second of which, found in the South African Library in Cape Town at the end of 1911, made publication of the diary possible as it duplicated most of the Hague MS and additionally covered most of December 1705 and January and February 1706. The South African Library appointed Fouche as editor and agreed that in addition to the diary there should be a discussion of the troubles and disputes in which Tas was involved. This additional material forms the appendix, which is longer than the transcript of the diary. Our copy has damage to the upper panel, the top of the spine and the top edge of the lower panel. (See some of the images.) The copy is tightly bound. The top page edge shows the remnants of gilding; the bottom edge was untrimmed. The plain endpapers are unmarked, though lightly sunned and with a bookseller sticker on the front paste-down. The contents remain near-fine after a hundred years, complete, unmarked and undiscoloured - xlvii + 367 pp of introduction, diary, appendix and index + two maps (monochrome frontispiece and 2-colour folding map at the back), making this a very good copy of a historically important diary. Very Good London etc Longmans, Green and Co 1914 Click here to view further details and to bid

Hixon (Ellis) DRIE VOORNAAME ZEE-TOGTEN VAN FRANCISCUS DRAAK, Folio (400 x 255 mm) na America, door de Suyd-zee en vervolgens rond-om den geheelen Aard-kloot gedaan, In`t Jaar 1592. en vervolgens. Behelfende een Naauwkeurige Beschrijving der Kusten van die Gewesten, veele bysondere voor-vallen, en aanmerkelijke saaken. Op ordre van den Admiraal beschreeven, door Ellis Hixon, een sijner Reys-gesellen; Nu alder-eerst uyt het Engels vertaald, met Konst-Printen, en noodig Register verrijkt. Part 1: Eerste Scheeps-Togt van Franciscus Draak Engels Ridder, Gedaan door de Suyd-Zee, en Vervolgens om den Gantsen Aard-Kloot. (ii), 28 columns, (i register), pages, engraved title page vignette, 5 engraved plates in the text, folding map of the South Seas and the America (F. Draakx schip-vaart door de straat en Zuyd Zee) lacks the second map of Brazil (P. Carders zee een land reyse na Brazil, Rio de la Plata en de Zuyd Zee), bound in recent sprinkled paper-covered boards. Good Leyden By Pieter Vander Aa, boekverkoper No date (circa 1706) Click here to view further details and to bid

Framed and glazed lithographic print of The Great Bear London Transport Underground Map - 58 x 71cm

A map of Middlesex by Hogg c 1786, a 1914-1918 WWI medal attributed to 40893 Pte S. Goldstein North N.R. and a whisky stopper in the form of Churchill

Three pieces of Mauchline ware comprising: A rectangular glove box (lid photographic/Stonebyres Falls - front engravings Stonebyres Falls/Scotts Old Mortality), corded blue jasper lining, 25cm, a box, the lid decorated with crest titled ""Prince Llewewllyn"", 12cm, and a rectangular box, the lid with map of ""Darbyshire"", 14.2cm. (3)

Map of Guildford in glazed mahogany case

Charcoal drawing, house by the river, early print court scene, map of Guildford, 19th century gentleman, four prints after Paul Tribe (7)

A George III needlework sampler, `The Map of England and Wales By Leatitia West, Old Ford, Novmb th 29th 1786`, showing counties and towns within a silkwork floral border, approx 52cm x 43cm, within a verre églomisé mount and an ebonized frame.

Various pictures, including a folder of prints, Morden map of Hertfordshire, Ware property sale poster, a Diane Monk oil of Snape, etc

(x) Bermuda Monetary Authority, a group of the 1988-95 Issues, all mature portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, wearing Grand Duchess Vladimir's tiara, at centre right, comprising $5 (2), 20 February 1989, with silver foil under signature, 12 November 1992, prefixes B/1 and B/2, both red, purple and green, reverse Saint David's lighthouse; $10, 4 January 1993, serial number B/1 600236, blue, purple and multicoloured, reverse Bermuda petrel; also $50 (2), 12 October 1992, 25 March 1995, serial numbers C/1 000194 and C/1 103710, grey-blue, yellow, red and brown, reverse scuba divers, wreck and map(Pick 35a, 35b, 42a, 44a, 44b), the $10 about uncirculated, the remainder about uncirculated to uncirculated (5) Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

(x) British Caribbean Territories, Currency Board, colour trial $10, ND (1955), blue and orange, Elizabeth II at right, map of the Territories low left, value top centre and at each corner, reverse blue and white, arms(Pick 10bct), perforated, red SPECIMEN overprint, about uncirculated, rare and attractive Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

(x) British Caribbean Territories, Currency Board, colour trial $20, ND (1955), green and lilac, Elizabeth II at right, map of the Territories low left, value top centre and at each corner, reverse green and white, arms(Pick 11bct), perforated, red SPECIMEN overprint, uncirculated, rare and attractive Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

(†) Government of Cyprus, printer's archival specimen £5, 1 June 1955, serial run A/1 000001 to A/2 200000, green on multicoloured underprint, portrait of Queen Elizabeth II wearing King George IV's state diadem at right, map at lower right, reverse value at left, arms at right, perforated SPECIMEN(Pick 36s), mounting traces, ink date '2/ 9/ 54' and annotation in top margin, excess ink smudges, otherwise extremely fine, rare Subject to 20% VAT on both Hammer Price and Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

(†) Government of Cyprus, printer's archival specimen £5, 1 February 1956, serial run A/3 000001 to A/4 250000, green on multicoloured underprint, portrait of Queen Elizabeth II wearing King George IV's state diadem at right, map at lower right, reverse value at left, arms at right, perforated SPECIMEN(Pick 36s), mounting traces, ink date '7/ 12/ 55' and annotation in top margin, minor ink smudges, otherwise extremely fine, rare Subject to 20% VAT on both Hammer Price and Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

(†) Government of Cyprus, printer's archival specimen £5, 15 March 1958, serial run A/6 000001 to A/7 250000, green on multicoloured underprint, portrait of Queen Elizabeth II wearing King George IV's state diadem at right, map at lower right, reverse value at left, arms at right, perforated SPECIMEN(Pick 36s), mounting traces, ink date '18/3/ 58' and annotation in reverse top margin, minor ink smudges, otherwise extremely fine, rare Subject to 20% VAT on both Hammer Price and Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

(x) East Caribbean Currency Authority, specimen $100, ND (1968), serial number A1 000000, black, red and multicoloured, Elizabeth II at right, map of the islands at left, signature 5, Theophilus, Smith and two unknown signatures(Pick 16cs, ECCA B5s), ink annotation in top margin, mounting traces, perforated SPECIMEN, otherwise about uncirculated, rare Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Banque de la Guadeloupe, 5 francs, ND (1945), serial number P22-020, black and orange, Columbus at centre, Boudin signature, reverse maroon, value, 25 francs, ND (1944), serial number T2-836, black and green, map of Guadeloupe at left, Devineau signature, reverse blue, maiden(Pick 21b, 22a Kolsky 115b, 116a), original very fine, scarce, Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

(†) Central Bank of Libya, specimen colour trial 5 Dinars, ND (1972), serial number 1B/4 000000, blue on multicoloured underprint, shield, cog and map of North Africa and Middle East at left, with Arabic inscription at lower right, reverse walled fortress, value in each corner, overprinted SPECIMEN in red on obverse and reverse, one punch hole(Pick 36bct), good extremely fine, very scarce Subject to 20% VAT on both Hammer Price and Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

(†) Bank Centrali ta' Malta, obverse and reverse composite essay on card for a 5 Liri, Law of 1967 (August 1983), serial number A/1 000000, space for signature at lower centre, blue on multicoloured underprint, portrait of Agatha Barbara at right, dove at upper left, map and sailing ship at upper centre, two horizontal lines for the blind at lower right, reverse yachts in harbour, one man and a woman mending nets, gondola in circle at top left, value at lower left and upper right(Pick 38 for type), hand-signed by the Deputy Governor on obverse and reverse, otherwise about uncirculated, unique (2) Subject to 20% VAT on both Hammer Price and Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

(†) Bank Centrali ta' Malta, obverse and reverse composite essay on card for a 5 Zekkini, Law of 1967 (1985), serial number A/1 000000, signature at lower centre, blue on multicoloured underprint, portrait of Agatha Barbara at right, sailing ship and map at upper centre, dove at upper left, two horizontal lines for the blind at lower right, reverse yachts in harbour, one man and a woman mending nets, gondola in circle at top left, value 'Z5' at lower left and figure '5' at upper right(Pick unrecorded), about uncirculated, and a fascinating proposed reuse of the Venetian zecchino in circulation as a Maltese gold coin during the 18th century, unique (2) Subject to 20% VAT on both Hammer Price and Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

(†) Central Bank of Malta, obverse and reverse composite essay on card for a 20 Zekkin, Law of 1967, (1985), brown and red-brown on multicoloured underprint, serial number A/1 000000, signature at lower centre, portrait of Agatha Barbara at right, sailing ship and map at upper centre, dove at upper left, four horizontal lines for the blind at lower right, reverse Auberge de Castille at left, Workers' Monument at centre, gondola in circle at upper left, value at lower left and upper right(Pick unrecorded), about uncirculated and a fascinating proposed reuse of the Venetian zecchino in circulation as a Maltese gold coin during the 18th century, unique (2) Subject to 20% VAT on both Hammer Price and Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Government of Cyprus, 250 mils, 1 February 1956, serial number A/7 158727, blue on multicolour underprint, Elizabeth II at right, map of Cyprus below, also £1, 1955, brown(Pick 33a, 35a), first fresh and original about uncirculated with good embossing on the serial numbers, a lovely note, second very good (2) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.