Charles L. Norris-Newman. IN ZULULAND WITH THE BRITISH. Throughout The War Of 1879. Gilt title on green rexine boards, library binding. xv + 343pp illustrated foldout maps, tipped-in sepia photograph of Sir Bartle Frere. 8vo. Front board embossed `Chelsea Public Libraries`. Gilt title & library number on spine. CPL bookplate to front pastedown and another of previous owner to ffep. Front joint has been carefully repaired at some time. The emulsion on the sepia photograph has cracked with some slight loss. All other maps and portraits present. CPL embossed logos here and there. The large canvas-backed military map at the rear is worn at fold crossings but is otherwise sound and complete. Generally a complete clean sound ex-library copy. Excellent basis for a custom rebind. Author was special correspondent to the British forces from the entry into Natal at the very start of 1878, through the battles from Isandhlwana to Ulundi in July 1879 and the subsequent winding up of the campaign after that victory. This is a detailed work and is the primary contemporary non-official version of events in the Zulu War. All examinations of the Zulu war must reference this work. Publisher Place: London Publisher: W.H. Allen & Co. Publication Date: 1880 Condition: G+ Size: 8vo Category: Africana Reserve: $200 Click here to view further details and images
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Churchill, W.S. Ian Hamilton`s March This is the second of two books that chronicle Churchill`s adventures during the Boer War, which included capture and confinement as a prisoner of war and a daring escape that helped launch his fame and political career. This volume of letters to the Morning Post continues on from Churchill`s earlier book `London to Ladysmith via Pretoria`. The contents set forth the march of Ian Hamilton`s column `on the flank of Lord Roberts` main army,` from Bloemfontein to Pretoria, and it is stated that this force `encountered and overcame the brunt of the Boer resistance,` and traversing 400 miles of the enemy`s country, fought ten general actions and fourteen smaller affairs, capturing five towns. There is an interesting account of the life of the captured officers in Pretoria, and the volume contains a portrait of General Ian Hamilton, and a number of maps and plans illustrating his march. This is the second, and best, edition, published only one month after the first, `and was heavily corrected... and contains four reports not previously published` [Ref: Woods, A5]; (409pp. excluding adverts and index). The contents of this copy contain sporadic spotting typically found in this edition, with heavier patches of spotting evident in the preliminaries and title page, continuing to page 14 (end of chapter one) with more spotting occurring toward the end of the book, from around p.354 to the end of the appendix at p.409, and continuing through the three leaves of advertising just after the fold-out map. One owner inscription at top of first preliminary (in pen) and another pencil note on verso of f.f.e-p. The original black end-papers are intact and in good condition, with the tissue-guard protecting the title page from the portrait frontispiece. The rear folding map is in very good condition. The red cloth binding is good, though the spine is showing wear and fading, with a two inch split to the cloth on the bottom hinge, a small ink stain on spine title, and some puckering at the spine ends. The binding is cracked between pp.144/145 and again at pp.160/161 and 384/385, however all gatherings are intact (no loose pages). The 32pp. of Longmans, Green catalogue (succeeding the adverts) are in very good condition. Publisher Place: London Publisher: Longmans, Green Publication Date: 1900 Condition: good Size: 8vo Category: Churchilliana Reserve: $150 Click here to view further details and images
Baden-Powell (Colonel R.S.S.) THE MATABELE CAMPAIGN 1896 Being a Narrative of the Campaign in Suppressing the Native Rising in Matabeleland and Mashonaland. 500 + 39 pages of the publisher’s catalogue at the end, frontispiece and many illustrations including a sketch map, edges uncut – some pages unopened, some light foxing on the preliminary pages, original green cloth with gilt titling on the spine and a vignette on the upper cover, overall a very good copy. Publisher Place: London Publisher: Methuen & Co. Publication Date: 1897 Condition: Very Good Size: 8vo (230 x 150 mm) Category: Africana Reserve: $200 Click here to view further details and images
Baldwin (W.C.) AFRICAN HUNTING AND ADVENTURE FROM NATAL TO THE ZAMBESI Including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert, Etc., from 1852 to 1860. First Edition: 451 pages & 32 pages of publisher’s catalogue, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, 6 tinted lithographic plates by Wolf, 40 wood engraved plates and text illustrations, folding map, recent full brown calf gilt, edges sprinkled, contents bright, a very good copy. Dictionary of South African Bibliography, volume III, pages 42-3. ‘Baldwin arrived in Durban in 1851 having been attracted to South African by Cumming’s `Five Years of a Hunter’s Life` published in 1850. He made several hunting expeditions to Zululand, Marico, Matabeleland and Lake Ngami. In April 1860 he again left for Potchefstroom intent on reaching the Victoria Falls, which he succeeded in doing more by luck than good management on August 3rd. He was the second white man to see the falls, the first to have reached them from the east coast (Natal), and the first to describe them with exactness and give their true dimensions, the accuracy of which he vouched for to David Livingstone himself, when the great explorer arrived about 8th or 9th August.’ Publisher Place: London Publisher: Richard Bentley Publication Date: 1863 Condition: Very Good Size: 8vo (225 x 140 mm) Category: Hunting & Shooting Reserve: $250 Click here to view further details and images
Baines (T.) THE GOLD REGIONS OF SOUTH-EASTERN AFRICA 240 pages (including 51 pages of commercial advertisements), frontispiece portrait - a laid down photograph of Baines, title page vignette, large folding map in pocket in back cover, 3 plates, folding facsimile letter, engraved illustrations in the text, original pictorial dark green cloth with a gilt vignette of a galloping zebra on the upper cover, neatly recased – the cloth is dull and lightly stained, some light foxing throughout. Mendelssohn (Sydney) South African Bibliography, volume I, page 71. `The volume is a most important work, and contains full information of every description upon the subject of the gold discoveries in Matabeleland and Mashonaland ... The book also contains an account of the gold discoveries in the Transvaal...` An unusual variant in dark green cloth. Publisher Place: London & Cape Colony Publisher: Edward Stanford, J.W.J. Mackay, Port Elizabeth Publication Date: 1877 Condition: Good Size: 8vo (225 x 150mm) Category: Africana Reserve: $100 Click here to view further details and images
Cooley (William Desborough) INNER AFRICA LAID OPEN In an attempt to trace the chief lines of communication across that continent south of the Equator; with the routes to the Muropue and the Cazembe, Moenemoezi and Lake Nyassa; the journeys of the Rev. Dr. Krapf and the Rev. J. Rebmann on the eastern coast; and the discoveries of Messrs. Oswell and Livingstone in the heart of the continent. 149 pages, folding map, half brown calf with brown cloth sides, edges sprinkled brown, a very good copy. Publisher Place: London Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans Publication Date: 1852 Condition: Very Good Size: 8vo (220 x 135 mm) Category: Africana Reserve: $100 Click here to view further details and images
Geddie (John) THE LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICA A Record of Modern Discovery. 275 pages, engraved frontispiece portrait, 31 engraved plates, double-page map, prize binding in full red calf, titled and decorated gilt on the spine, ‘Church of Scotland Young Men’s Guild’ in gilt on the upper cover, marbled endpapers and edges, prize bookplate on the front paste-down endpaper, a very good copy. Publisher Place: London Publisher: T. Nelson and Sons Publication Date: 1883 Condition: Very Good Size: 8vo (180 x 120 mm) Category: Africana Reserve: $20 Click here to view further details and images
Letcher (Owen) BIG GAME HUNTING IN NORTH-EASTERN RHODESIA 266 pages, frontispiece portrait, 47 photographic plates, folding map at the end detached, original red cloth with gilt titling on spine - the cloth is faded and dull, inscription of a previous owner on the front free endpaper, contents good. Czech (Dr. Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999 (New edition 2011), page 164, ‘Letcher hunted in the Luangwa Valley for elephant, buffalo, lion, leopard, eland, and other game. After crossing the Muchinga Mountains, he bagged rhinoceros and elephant as well as roan. He continued his hunt in the swamplands near Lake Bangweulu, then returned to the Luangwa Valley for additional sport. Letcher also mentioned the chimpakwe, the “Brontosaurus” or similar prehistoric beast that natives described living near Lake Bangweulu. He concludes his book with descriptions of the types of game encountered in the area.’ Publisher Place: London Publisher: John Long, Limited Publication Date: 1911 Condition: Good Size: 8vo (225 x 145 mm) Category: Hunting & Shooting Reserve: $50 Click here to view further details and images
Maugham (R.C.F.) WILD GAME IN ZAMEZIA 376 pages, frontispiece, 29 illustrations, folding map, light blue cloth with a red leather title lable on the spine, the top of the spine is bumped and torn, the cloth is lightly insect scarred, the contents are clean but a fair copy only. Czech (Dr. Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999 (New edition 2011), pages 185/6, ‘The author, a renowned writer, sportsman and British diplomat, describes various types of game and hunting conditions in Mozambique primarily north of the Zambesi Rover. He included his own hunts after elephant, rhino, buffalo, lion, hippo and a variety fo antelope, with lengthy chapters on equipment, game preserve and the tsetse fly.’ Publisher Place: London Publisher: John Murray Publication Date: 1914 Condition: Fair Size: 8vo (225 x 140 mm) Category: Hunting & Shooting Reserve: $75 Click here to view further details and images
LEIBBRANDT H C V Die Rebellie van 1815 - Algemeen bekend as Slachters Nek Complete record of the trials of the accused rebels, together with many other relevant documents. Dutch text. An increasingly scarce important historical document. 1013 pp with fold-out map. Bound in green linen-covered boards, spine heavily sunned, but book is in very good, tight and clean condition in plastic protector. Ownership stamp on tp. Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: J C Juta Publication Date: 1903 Condition: Good Size: 245 x 160mm Category: Africana Reserve: $80 Click here to view further details and images
NORRIS-NEWMAN C L With the Boers in the Transvaal and Orange Free State A war correspondent reports on the first Anglo-Boer war. 395 pp with fold-out maps. Very good condition in original hardcovers, with a new map and the text of the convention of 1884. Publisher Place: London Publisher: Abbot Jones & Co Publication Date: 1882 Condition: Very good Size: 225 x 150mm Category: Anglo-Boer War Reserve: $80 Click here to view further details and images
PEARSE H H S Four Months Besieged The siege of Ladysmith in unpublished letters from the beleaguered town by the Special Correspondent of the Daily News. 244 pp with bw illustrations, maps and fold-out map. Very good condition in original tan covers, spine slightly darkened. Publisher Place: London Publisher: Macmillan Publication Date: 1900 Condition: Very good Size: 205 x 140 mm Category: Anglo-Boer War Reserve: $80 Click here to view further details and images
PEEL S Trooper 8008, IY The author chronicles the actions seen by a trooper in the regiment in the Northern Cape, Free State and later the Transvaal. 168 pp with bw plates and folding map, plus 24 pp ads at rear. Good condition in original covers, except for slight damage at top of spine, some isolated spots of foxing only, specially on edge of textblock. Publisher Place: London Publisher: Edward Arnold Publication Date: 1901 Condition: Good Size: 230 x 155 mm Category: Anglo-Boer War Reserve: $80 Click here to view further details and images
Spies (S.B.) Editor: A SOLDIER IN SOUTH AFRICA The Experiences of Eustace Abadie 1899 to 1902. The Brenthurst Press, Second Series, number 6: 207 pages, map, numerous illustrations from photographs and sketches throughout, original red cloth, a very good copy in the dust jacket. This edition is limited to one thousand copies of which 850 are bound in cloth. Publisher Place: Johannesburg Publisher: The Brenthurst Press Publication Date: 1989 Condition: Very good Size: 4to (305 x 245 mm) Category: Anglo-Boer War Reserve: $20 Click here to view further details and images
Mackenzie (John) AUSTRAL AFRICA, LOSING IT OR RULING IT Being Incidents and Experiences in Bechuanaland, Cape Colony, and England. 2 volumes: 515 + 525 pages, frontispiece portrait in each volume, 30 plates, 2 folding colour maps, original brown cloth title gilt and with a map of Southern Africa stamped in black on the upper covers. There is foxing on the title pages caused by the tissue guards and some scattered foxing elsewhere in the text, spotting on the uncut page edges, book plate on each front paste-down endpapers, whilst the spines are slightly faded the cloth is in very good condition and the bindings firm and tight. Mendelssohn (Sydney) South African Bibliography, volume 1, page 850, ‘This work affords the best detailed historical account of the events which led to the inclusion of Bechuanaland amongst the colonies of South Africa – the first step towards the retention of the hinterland of the Cape for the Empire….. The work is of voluminous nature, and it divided into six books which discuss native life in Bechuanaland, the European expansion, the proceedings of the Dutch freebooters, and the foundation and suppression of their republic, the Imperial and Colonial policies with regard to the country, Sir Charles Warren’s expedition, and many other local and colonial matters. The volumes contain a large number of illustrations, a map, and a copious index. Publisher Place: London Publisher: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington Publication Date: 1887 Condition: Good Size: 8vo (225 x 145 mm) Category: Africana Reserve: $300 Click here to view further details and images
Various, as listed Lot of Four- Books about Cecil Rhodes..... Four books about the life of Cecil Rhodes in Southern Africa as listed below. Cecil Rhodes & The Princess by Brian Roberts. Hardcover with clipped dustcover. Published by Hamish Hamilton-London-Reprinted July 1969. ISBN 0241 01603 7. Frontispiece, map and numerous illustrations with 405 pages text. 15 X 22cm. Very clean copy. The Founder-Cecil Rhodes and The Pursuit of Power, by Robert I. Rotberg. Large paperback format- 16 X 23.5cm. Published by Jonathan Ball-Johannesburg-2002 ISBN 1 86842 136 8. xxxviii plus map and 800 pages of text with illustrations and supporting data. As New. Cecil Rhodes and the Cape Afrikaners-The Imperial Colossus and the Colonial Parish Pump, by Mordechai Tamarkin. Hardcover with dustcover. Published by Jonathan Ball-Johannsburg-1996 ISBN 1 86842 032 9. x plus 339 pages text with supporting data. 16 X 24cm.As New. Cecil Rhodes-Makers of the Nineteenth Century, by Basil Williams. Original hardcover without dustcover. Published by Constable and Company-London-Second Impression March 1921.Frontispiece plus xi and 353 pages of text with folding map. Many pages uncut.15 X 35.25cm. Very clean copy. ***Due to annual holidays, despatch will be from 10th August 2013. Various shipping options are available. Publisher Place: As Listed Publisher: As Listed Publication Date: As Listed Condition: Very Good Size: As Listed Category: Africana Reserve: $40 Click here to view further details and images
Burrows (J.E.) SOUTHERN AFRICAN FERNS AND FERN ALLIES Collectors’ Edition: 359 pages, double page colour map, 83 plates from line drawings and numerous colour illustrations and distribution maps in the text, full dark green leather gilt, contained in a matching slip case, a very good copy. This Collectors’ Edition is limited to 35 copies signed by the Authors of which this copy in number 25. Publisher Place: Sandton, Johannesburg Publisher: Fransden Publishers Publication Date: 1990 Condition: Very Good Size: 4to (300 x 215 mm) Category: Botanical Reserve: $75 Click here to view further details and images
Ray Nestor; R.F.mayer Two books on Kenya: An African Sketchbook; Kenya Camera Studies AN AFRICAN SKETCHBOOK: Ray Nestor travelled to Kenya to work as a surveyor two years before the First World War began. He returned to Kenya after enlisting and being seriously injured in the first Battle of the Somme. 111 pages detailed text and delightful book, illustrated by the author. Dustcover is not clipped, small closed tears at head of spine front and back hinge has caused a bit of curling of the top edges. KENYA CAMERA STUDIES: Mustard colour softcover wraps are rubbed and edges frittered. Map to inside of wraps. BEP heavily nibbled. Slip tipped in at fep denoting that 12 pages have been withdrawn from circulation. Stubs remain bound in where these pages have been removed, and hence pagination is not consecutive. xvi pp of preliminary text followed by 128pp of monochrome plates (less 12 as stated above). Publisher Place: England; Nairobi Publisher: Fountain Press; The east african Standard Publication Date: 1988; 1934 Condition: Very Good Size: Quarto Category: Art & Art Reference Reserve: $20 Click here to view further details and images
Painted by Olive H Coates Palgrave Text by Keith Coates Palgrave TREES OF CENTRAL AFRICA Signed by Keith Coates Palgrave. A collection of paintings of 110 indigenous trees of Central Africa done over a period of 28 years by Olive Coates Palgrave. A botanical book of iconic importance. Area map. Pages [i-vi]vii-xvii pp 1-466. Dust Jacket has some corner and edge wear and a small stain on lower front edge. Light orange cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Boards clean, small bumps on front corners and spine top and bottom edge. Sellotape marks on front and back endpapers. Book condition Very Good. Publisher Place: Salisbury Rhodesia Publisher: National Publications Trust Publication Date: 1956 Size: 316 x 246 x 38 mm Category: Botanical Reserve: $100 Click here to view further details and images
Alice Blanche Balfour TWELVE HUNDRED MILES IN A WAGGON A collection of letters describing a leisurely journey from Cape Town by train to Kimberley and then by wagon for 1200 miles through Matabeleland and Mashonaland in the early 1890s. Alice Balfour was a sister of James Balfour who later became prime minister of England. Limited Printing No. 38 of the 140 Collectors Edition, Heritage Series Vol II, 1970. Facsimile reprint of the 1895 Edition. Route map of front and back endpapers. 4 colour prints, numerous black and white sketches, all by the author. Fold-out route map. Pages [i-ix]x-xix [1]2-265. Binding quarter leather. Blue cloth-covered boards with top edge gilt. Tan leather band with silver titles on spine, colour frontispiece with tissue guard. Blue slipcase with gilt waggon design, slightly worn on edges. Overall condition Very Good. Publisher Place: Salisbury Rhodesia Publisher: The Pioneer Head Publication Date: 1970 Size: 223 x 144 x 36 mm Category: Travel & Exploration Reserve: $65 Click here to view further details and images
Drummond, W.H. The Large Game And Natural History of South and South-East Africa Heritage Series, Volume IV, facsimile reprint of the original 1875 edition, this being copy #737 of 1000 Limited Edition reprints. Book condition: green boards excellent, gilt spine title and front cover design, bottom edge uncut . Jacket condition: good plus - chipping and creasing along edges, spine faded, flap folds worn, and top and bottom edges crudely reinforced on the inside; [429pp. including appendix and colour map.] Publisher Place: Salisbury Publisher: The Pioneer Head Publication Date: 1972 Condition: book excellent, jacket vg Size: 8vo Category: Hunting & Shooting Reserve: $60 Click here to view further details and images
Hone, Percy F. Southern Rhodesia `A record of the administrative and industrial development of Southern Rhodesia since its occupation by the British South Africa Company, ...the greater portion of the chapters on gold mining has already appeared in a series of articles in the Economist of January 30th 1909 and subsequent dates.` This book consists of four parts and 31 chapters (406pp.) with folding map housed between rear e-p`s. Book condition: contents good, boards worn (especially spine), corners bumped, fore and bottom edges uncut, end-papers grubby and bearing signs of water soiling, first few pages foxed, first and last gatherings loose, ownership stamp on front end-papers of Molly Ewing, Glen Athol Estates, Banket, S.Rhodesia. Despite the very worn looking boards, the contents are clean and unmarked/unfoxed, offering an above average reading copy. Publisher Place: London Publisher: George Bell and Sons Publication Date: 1909 Condition: contents good, boards worn Size: 8vo Category: Rhodesiana Reserve: $20 Click here to view further details and images
Hotten (John Camden) ABYSSINIA DESCRIBED OR THE LAND OF PRESTER JOHN 384pp plus 8pp. Original blue marbled cloth, gilt title to spine. Small advertisement slip tipped-in before the first blank. Hand-coloured frontispiece, large folding lithographic map of Abyssinia and seven hand-coloured plates by Vignaud and Barrat. Spine dulled with minimal wear at the head and foot and slight cracking to front hinge. Ex Essex Institute Library paste-down to front fixed EP and blind embossed logo to title page. `A great deal of nonsense has of late been written about the appalling dangers of Abyssinia, and the extreme difficulties of travelling there under any and all circumstances, and one object of this volume was to show with what comparative ease (all things considered) several travelers - some very indifferently equipped - have passed through almost every part of the country` (Preface). Written at the height of the concern over the British captives in Abyssinia who were freed from King Theodore by British troops in the year of publication of this volume. Includes: I. The country as seen by early and recent travelers; II. Consul Plowden`s description of Abyssinia, 1852-5; III. The story of the British captives in Abyssinia. 1863-4 / by the Rev. Geo. Percy Badger. Continuation . November, 1864, to July, 1867 / by the editor; IV. Suggestions for an expedition, with routes; V. Bibliography of all the known works relating to Abyssinia. Vignaud`s illustrations were drawn those in Thophile Lefebvre`s Voyage en Abyssinie execute pendant les annees 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843. Legends of Prester John have persisted since the 12th-century. Believed to be a Christian patriarch with a kingdom at the heart of the Muslim world, tales of his fabled earthly paradise have inspired explorers, missionaries, scholars, and treasure hunters for several hundred years to look for him in India, Central Asia, and eventually by the Dutch in Ethiopia. Publisher Place: London Publisher: John Camden Hotten Publication Date: 1868 Condition: Good Size: 195mm x 145mm x 34mm Category: Travel & Exploration Reserve: $50 Click here to view further details and images
Ellis (Rev. William) ELLIS`S THREE VISITS TO MADAGASCAR THREE VISITS TO MADAGASCAR DURING THE YEARS 1853-1854-1856, INCLUDING A JOURNEY TO THE CAPITAL. With notices of the natural history of the country and of the present civilization of the people. xiv + 426pp + 6pp. Original Embossed Pictorial Cloth with gilt titled spine. No Date, 1885 (? ) ; Reprint of Original Edition, Preface Dated 1858 (Not Updated)Illustrated by woodcuts from photographs. No Map and Frontis as called for but most likely never bound-in as there is no evidence of such ever being detached. Research on other available copies of this particular publication all indicate the same. Presentation note to prelim, dated 1889. Some Edgewear and scuffing to covers with light blistering to front cover cloth. Internally very good. Ellis was sent to Madagascar three times to investigate whether Christians were being maltreated. That investigation was not productive, as he was denied access to the capital, but it was the first widely read account of the island, and a thorough description of the society, customs, religion and natural history. In 1852 the affairs of Madagascar had reached such a crisis that Ellis (1794-1872), a missionary, was requested to visit the island, in order to ascertain and improve the condition of the christians. (DNB). He visited the Cape in 1854 on which he gives an interesting account of many places together with botanical notes and information respecting the natives.Grandidier 1633; Mendelssohn I, p.518; SAB II, p.185. Publisher Place: Philadelphia Publisher: John E. Potter and Company Publication Date: c1885 Condition: Good Size: 193mm x 138mm x 35mm Category: Travel & Exploration Reserve: $30 Click here to view further details and images
Arnot (Frederick Stanley) GERANGANZE; OR SEVEN YEARS` PIONEER MISSION WORK IN CENTRAL AFRICA vvi plus frontis plus 276pp plus fold-out map. Original illustated cloth bevelled boards. Twenty woodcut illustrations. Light fraying to spine ends, wear to board edges and corners. Previous owner`s name is penned to front free EP and title page. Light foxing to first and last pages. Internally clean and tight. CLASSIC WORK of Victorian area discovery and exploration during the opening of Africa. `This (is the) story of seven years of pioneer mission work in the heart of the Dark Continent. It is a son’s letter to his mother and the home group; and it is a story of strictly pioneer work, for he undertook to cross the continent by foot. The journey, undertaken in an apostolic spirit, was marked by that savour of the supernatural which is so sweet to the believer. The book is a revelation of passion for the soul.` Publisher Place: London Publisher: James E. Hawkins Publication Date: 1889 Condition: Good Size: 221mm x 145mm x 19mm Category: Travel & Exploration Reserve: $75 Click here to view further details and images
Christiaan Rudolf de Wet Three Years War (October 1899 -June 1902) 520p. Frontispiece, fold-out map. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Some foxing to endpapers and edges, ex-libris bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. The Boer War as recorded by De Wet. Publisher Place: London Publisher: Archibald Constable & Co Publication Date: 1902 Condition: Good Category: Africana Reserve: $60 Click here to view further details and images
Burrows (John and Sandra) FIGS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA & SOUTH CENTRAL AFRICA viii + 379. Cloth Boards with DW. Profusely illustrated throughout. As new. A detailed, fully illustrated and authoritative guide to 88 fig species of southern and central Africa. Introductory chapters give a general background to the family Moraceae and figs in the African sub-continent. Each indigenous species has a distribtion map, a detailed black and white illustration by Sandie Burrows and photographs depicting habitat, bark, leaves and fruit. A key to the indigenous species of figs in Southern Africa is provided. This book is the result of more than 70 000 km of traveling and research. In addition to the excellent photographs the book also offers the exquisite line art by one of the authors. Comprehensive text on all species, contributions by experts on the relationship with birds, wasps and other wildlife. Publisher Place: Hatfield, South Africa Publisher: Umdaus Press Publication Date: 2003 Condition: As new Size: 316 x 236 x 33 Category: Botanical Reserve: $75 Click here to view further details and images
A small collection of various car badges. Most chrome and enamelled examples- ‘Bentley Drivers Club’ as a 2 winged wheel spinner. 1950’s AA badge with winged wheel to top and yellow enamel within design. RAC with Kings crown and bright blue background. Royal Artillery with Queen’s crown and laurel leaves with blue and red enamel background. BARC (British Automobile Racing Club) light blue shield with chequered flag and red griffin with yellow wording. Plus ‘The Vintage Sports Car Club’ dark blue and chrome circular badge. GC-VGC some wear/pickling plus small loss of enamel to BARC example. Also in lot two 1920’s road maps. AA ‘The Automobile Association Touring Map of England & Wales’, plus a ‘No 5 Michelin Map of Great Britain’. Some age wear to both.
A 17c antique coloured plan of London by Richard Blome, dedicated to the Honorable Sir Robert London Alderman and to Vyner of the city of and baronet, the map surrounded by coat of arms shows the River Thames with Suffolk to the south and Westminster to the north west, framed and glazed, 7" x 11.5".
A John Speed antique coloured map of Herefordshire by John Speede, with an inset map of Hereford and sketch of the battle between Ludlow and Little Hereford. It is framed with a rear window to view the listing of hundreds in Herefordshire and the geographical and location of towns and persons, being book one chapter twenty five, framed and glazed, 15" x 20.5".
A box containing assorted cigarette cards and albums to include Players, Wills, Brooke Bond Tea cards, etc, a collection of assorted mainly 20th Century stamps, together with a Cromwell's World Stamp Album and a stamp hobby album, a collection of mainly mid 20th Century British coinage, a collection of knives, a map reading board and a tambour fronted desk top box containing various ephemera to include greetings cards, receipts, a Royal Airforce Service and Release book, etc CONDITION REPORTS An interesting and varied lot containing a large assortment of items. All items in used and worn condition, including stains, foxing, some damage and losses. Includes coinage, medallions etc, to include a silver Oxfordshire football association medallion, a hallmarked silver cross medallion inscribed "CPG"(?), etc. The cigarette card albums contain various quantities of cards, and some albums are empty.
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