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Lot 39
George McCall Theal CHRONICLES OF CAPE COMMANDERS 1651-1691 238 x 155 x 30 mm Sub-titled `An abstract of original manuscripts in the Archives of the Cape Colony dating from 1651-1691, compared with Printed Accounts of the settlement by various Visitors during that time, also four short papers upon subjects connected with the East India Company`s Government at a later period, reprinted from Colonial periodicals and NOTES ON ENGLISH , DUTCH, AND FRENCH BOOKS published before 1796, containing references to South Africa. Four charts, or fold-out maps. The first chart has torn along some folds and has another tear near the centre. The chart is still readable. See photograph. Pages [i-iii]iv-xiv pp[1]2-428. Rebound in 1/2 leather with marbled boards. Very worn on edges with boards visible on corners and on the base edges. Leather spine with gilt titles in green panel and gilt decorative raised bands. Front free endpapers stamped by re-binders with Zendubind, Posbus 1450, Pretoria, in one corner. Although over 130 years old, the pages are clean and in very good condition and the binding holds together very well. Cape Town Printed by W.A. Richards 1882 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 44
Rev. C I. Latrobe JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA IN 1815-1816. Numbered facsimile edition 275 x 215 x 40 mm Facsimile Edition No. 323/1000, with new introduction by Frank R. Bradlow. Rev. C.I.Latrobe`s published journal has been described as an `important volume of travels, with illustrations, second only to that of Burchell.` This edition has a detailed biography and general history of great interest, covering his family history, missionary work, publications, and travel routes. Illustrations, colour reproductions of paintings, fold-out maps, frontispiece engraving of Latrobe. Pages [1]2-406. Brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on green panel on decorated spine, gilt frame on front cover. Cover, binding and book in Fine condition. Cape Town C. Struik 1969 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 123
Government draughtsmen Transvaal Ordinances 1905 and 1906; Wetten van de Transvaal 1909 245 x 165; weight 2.7 kg The volumes in this small selection of ordinances of the Transvaal under colonial government - the English version for two years and the Dutch version for the last of the chosen years - are not uniformly bound, the first being full-bound in brown pebbled cloth and the others being half-bound in tan calf and brown pebbled cloth. The first has rubbed black lettering on a cream paper panel, while the other two have gilt lettering on red leather panels - one torn at the head and the other torn for half its length. The volumes are ex-library. The endpapers of one volume are cracked. Otherwise the contents of all three volumes are attractively designed, well printed, sound, unmarked and undiscoloured. An average of 37 Acts a year saw the light in the first decade of the previous century, while two of the private ordinances in this selection established a constitution and rules for attorneys and architects. Good+ Pretoria Transvaal Government 1905-1909 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 231
Goldblatt (David) & Gordimer (Nadine) ON THE MINES 4to (300 x 240 mm) Unpaginated (15 pages of text + 56 full-page plates with captions opposite), grey cloth, a very good copy in the dust jacket which is lightly rubbed and worn along the edges and with a 25mm tear at the top of the upper panel. Signed by David Goldblatt on the half title page. Nadine Gordimer has contributed an introductory essay, `She describes an extraordinary scene now fast disappearing. She writes at first hand of the mining community, where black men put gold and power into the hands of white men.` `This book is an essay in the understanding of men and the style, grace and significance which inhabits their most mundane activities.` Editor`s note. Very good Cape Town C. Struik (Pty) Ltd. 1973 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 258
Skead, C J, and others Sunbirds of Southern Africa. Also Sugarbirds, White-Eyes and the Spotted Creeper (1969). . . 250 x 190 ` . . . With gramophone record. Prepared with the assistance of Cecily Niven (descriptions of species), J M Winterbottam (taxonomy and distribution) and Richard Liversidge (tongues)` This is a very well-preserved and lightly read copy of this celebrated 45-year-old book produced for the South African Bird Book Fund. There are almost imperceptible damp stains to the foot of the laminated unclipped (but unpriced) dustjacket (see image). The tan cloth-boards, gilt to the upper panel and the spine, are almost as new. The binding remains tight. The plain endpapers are unmarked and undiscoloured; a bookseller`s sticker is on the front free leaf. The 351 pp of text with b/w maps and other illustrations, appendixes and index + 10 inserted colour plates and 12 inserted monochrome plates are all unmarked and unfoxed. We have not been able to listen to the 13-minute 45 rpm extended play record of sunbird calls and songs edited by June Stannard, but it looks new. Very Good Not stated A A Balkema for the South African Bird Book Fund 1969 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 260
Layard, Arthur (editor and illustrator); with a preface by John Cameron Grant The Marvellous Adventures of Sir John Mandeville Kt . . . (1895) 215 x 150 ` . . . Being his Voyage and Travel which treateth of the Way to Jerusalem and of the Marvels of Ind with other Island and Countries` The maroon cloth-boards are gilt embossed to the upper panel and spine with elaborate designs and lettering, which remain bright and fresh. The spine has a small tear at the head and one of the four corners is lightly rubbed, with the other corners bumped only. The still-functional binding has loosened and the inner threads are broken, with cracks most noticeable between sections G and H and M, N and O. The dark green printed endpapers are intact and unmarked, save for a signature on the verso of the front free leaf. The xxx + 415 pp are unmarked and undiscoloured. They include preface, contents pages, text pages with frontispiece and 25 other full-page drawings and many other decorations in the text, and index. The copy is complete and and ready for the minor rebinding that would turn it into a fine copy of this famous (and first illustrated) version of Mandeville`s Adventures. Good+ Westminster Archibald Constable 1895 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 324
Ward, D (editor) British Bechuanaland Proclamations 1-185, 1885-1893 185 x 135 x 75 (See the note to Lot 322. This volume is stamped `House of Assembly, Cape of Good Hope` with `2/1/7` in pencil on the front free endpaper. This book was selected from a pile of surplus books - a fortunate find as these Bechuanaland volumes are now seldom seen outside copyright libraries and archives.) Two volumes are bound together. The full title-page of Vol I reads `British Bechuanaland Proclamations (Numbers 1 to 185) together with Appendixes containing certain Acts of the Cape Parliament and the more important Government Notices. Edited by D Ward MA LLD, Barrister-at-Law. 1885-1893. Printed by Authority. Grahamstown: J Slater, Printer &c, The Journal Office, 1893`. xxv + 622 pp. Vol II. This includes Proclamations 185-235 for the period 1893-1895, with the same editor. This volume was printed by the Cape Times in Cape Town. xxii + 235 pp. The beige vellum full binding, with gilt lettering on a red spine label, is well worn, with the upper panel loose from the binding, though two hinges remain attached. The lower panel is also cracked at the endpapers but all three hinges are attached. The binding has loosed but is still rounded and good. Both free endpapers are sunned, with possible damp stains on the paste-downs. The contents are complete, unmarked and undiscoloured. Good Vryburg Governor of British Bechuanaland 1893 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 341
Smiles, Samuel Lives of the Engineers. The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson (presentation binding; 1877) 185 x 130 St Aidan`s College prize binding: full tan calf with gilt decorations to all three faces, `Merenti` in gilt on the upper panel and gilt lettering on a red spine label. Marbled endpapers with St Aidan`s College label on the front paste-down. All edges gilt. Owner stamp on the flyleaf. There is a crack before the frontispiece but the binding remains tight. The frontispiece tissue guard is in place but torn. One of the full-page engravings is detached but present. xliv + 388 pp of b/w illustrated text plus inserted frontispiece and 2 other plates - all unmarked and undiscoloured. A very good and finely bound copy. Very Good London John Murray 1877 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 360
Malherbe, D F du Toit Stamregister van die Suid-Afrikaanse Volk / Family Register of the South African Nation 250 x 165 x 55; weight 2 kg `This issue differs in many ways from the first two editions, which were published in 1959 and sold out in four months.` - from the preface. As well as enlarging the entries, the author has listed the sources for each entry, obtained permission to take information from other published and unpublished work and received a foreword from the State President, Dr Jansen, and a preface from the Prime Minister, Dr Verwoerd. Apart from library stamps and a bookplate on the front endpaper and a Dewey reference on the spine, this copy is fine throughout. Full-bound in handsome green simulated leather with gilt lettering to the upper panel and the spine, unsunned endpapers and unmarked bright text - xxvii + 1208 pp of bilingual text. After 48 years, this edition by still be South Africa`s most comprehensive one-volume genealogical reference. One Johannesburg bookseller notes: `extremely elusive: $250`. Fine Stellenbosch Tegniek 1966 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 361
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
Lot 380
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
Lot 25
Six pieces of Mauchline ware, comprising; a fern ware dark ground trefoil form pincushion, one side with photograph in wavy gilt line, church, untitled, 5.2cm, a disc form fern ware dark ground pincushion, applied scroll ""A Happy Christmas"", 3.2cm, a fern ware dark ground needlebook with bone crochet hook retainer, 8.5cm x 6cm, a black ground rectangular box lid with fishing boats and verse, internal lid label for Clark & Co., 8cm x 5.5cm, a black ground rectangular box, oval floral panel to lid, internal lid label ""Use Clark and Co`s ..."", 7cm x 5cm, and a whitewood rectangular box, autumn landscape, internal lid label ""James Chadwick and Bros. Ltd."", 9.5cm x 8cm. (6)
Lot 32
Two Mauchline ware reel boxes, both of cylinder form, comprising; a Chintz type example, oval ""Wish"" panel to domed lid, internal label for Clark & Co. Anchor Sewing Cottons, three bone side apertures, 8cm diameter, the other ivory leaves and flowers on a gold ground, pincushion lid, internal label for James Chadwick, slight chip to base rim, 7.5cm diameter. (2)
Lot 36
Two Mauchline ware reel boxes, comprising; a black ground rectangular example, rectangular bird print to lid with wavy gold line, internal label for ""James Chadwick and Bros."", 19cm, and a whitewood rectangular example with pansy panel lid over concave sides, script title to front ""J. & P. Coats, Sewing Cotton, Paisley"", six bone mounted numerical side apertures, internal label for ""J. & P. Coats ..."", 12.2cm. (2)
Lot 231
A Victorian coromandel wood sewing box of rectangular form, mother of pearl escutcheon and lid cartouche, the interior with letter compartment over a compartmentalised and lidded tray with seven variant mother of pearl top reel holders, four mother of pearl silk winders, mother of pearl top tape measure and emery, a thimble and four tools, tray and lid panel refurbished, 30.5cm x 22cm x 13cm.
Lot 302
Two knitting sticks, comprising; a 19th century curved mahogany example, the curve with a band of coloured geometric inlay to a glazed panel, with replacement name panel ""Eliza"", bone diamond inlays to side, 17cm, and a mahogany example with carved wooden chain to a lantern spike, 31cm. (2)
Lot 359
Two leather needle packet cases, one with sloping lid titled ""Needles"" within a tooled panel and over a further tooled panel, red morocco sides and back, the interior with needle packets, 5cm high and another, ""Patented Needle Preservers - Ask for Any Size to Refill"" in tooled red morocco, 5cm x 4cm. (2)
Lot 360
Three needle packet cases, comprising; a green leather example with a panel of gilt tooled and colour onlay decoration, 5cm, a gilt foil cardboard example for ""Queen Victoria`s Real Diamond Â… Rich. Wyers Manufacturer, Redditch"", 4.7cm, and a colour print example, the material covered lid applied with a scrap, 4.5cm. (3)
Lot 436
A mid 19th century Dutch silver chatelaine, the clip with scroll and filigree mount to a panel of six chains to six separate chains to a silver seal, a silver thimble case with hinged cover, decorated with flowers, with thimble, a silver basket weave tapering needlecase, a silver cylinder tape measure with complete printed tape, and two matching boteh decorated silver needlecases, 24cm max.
Lot 437
Two chatelaines, comprising; a continental example stamped ""800"" and ""FB"", pierced cherub mount to two pierced chains to a silver frame pincushion engraved and pierced with thistles and leaves, Birmingham, 1904, and a silver plated floral decorated notelet, 19.5cm max, and a silver plated chatelaine mount, elaborately pierced with a flowerhead, scrolls and birds, with five panel form chains, 21cm. (2)
Lot 604
Two Valentine cards and a selection of Bristol card, comprising; a pressed paper three dimensional Valentine ""Accept These My Sweet"", Lilies of the Valley, dated 1860, 19cm x 13cm, another with painted panel of flowers, in cut and pressed paper surround, dated 1859, 17cm x 11.5cm, a Bristol card panel ""Home Sweet Home"", a bookmark, a pack of ""Perforated Card Board For Needlework ..."" and various pieces. (qty)
Lot 666
Two early 20th century tortoiseshell hair combs, comprising; a 3 point example with pierced and carved decoration, with a 9ct gold mount set with five amethyst coloured stones, maker`s mark ""B.H.J."", 17cm x 10.2cm, and a 3 prong example below a white metal pierced panel of scrolling flowers, 11cm x 5.5cm. (2)
Lot 697
Seven various bookmarks, comprising; a Tartan ware (M`pherson), a Mauchline ware example (Convalescent Home, Eastbourne), a tortoiseshell example with silver mount and enamelled kingfisher, Birmingham, 1924, by G. W. L. & Co., an ivory example with floral guilloche panel, a white metal example, possibly as a cricket bat with green agate handle, a trowel form example with agate handle, and an ivorine example for Mudies Bookselling Department, largest 13cm. (7)
Lot 1224
A low 19th century French kitchen table of rectangular form with central frieze drawer raised on square tapered column supports together with a Victorian mahogany loo table base, an Art Deco style open armchair, a late 19th century cast iron garden table base with swept tripod supports, tubular steel framed chair, painted window shutter with partial louvre panel, two deckchairs, mirror and two paintings, etc
Lot 1466
An 17th century English walnut longcase clock, the full length door and lower panel and hood with arabesque inlay detail, the hood with tapering column supports and enclosing an 11 inch square brass dial with applied spandrels and silver chapter ring, the 8 day striking movement with secondary dial and calendar aperture, Thomas Bridge, London
Lot 225
An Art Deco diamond and emerald panel brooch, designed as a row of rectangular cut emeralds channel set within openwork pave set old cut diamond arched and geometric surround, the base of the brooch with seventeen graduated millegrain set old cut diamonds, all set in white metal, not stamped, within original fitted box, 60mm wide, weight 8.5gms
Lot 451
Henry Silkstone Hopwood R.W.S.,R.B.C (1860-1914) 'Dancing -Girl, Biskra', signed and inscribed with the title verso, also inscribed, 'Montreuil sur Mer, France', oil on panel, 13.5cm x 17.5cm Provenance: Bonhams Yorkshire Sale, 19th November 2002, Lot 116, also with T.B. & R.Jordan, "Staithes Group Centenary Exhibition at the Pavilions Harrogate, October 2003, No54. Born in Markfield near Leicester, he studied at Manchester School of Art, as well as training with a firm of lithographers. He travelled the world as a deckhand on a tall ship. His subject matter is extremely diverse. He was also taught by Bouguereau at the Academie Julian in Paris where he met his fellow "Staithes" member Arthur E. Friedenson, he was also good friends with Fred Mayor, and Spence Ingall and all of them spent their Summers painting around Runswick Bay and Staithes, during the Winter they retreated to the South of France and North Africa where Ingall had a house.
Lot 140
Allan Gwynne-Jones - `Study for a Lost Painting of Apple Tree in an Orchard`, oil on panel, circa 1928, signed note from the artist and titled Sally Hunter Fine Art label verso, approx 23.5cm x 34cm, within a painted and gilt frame. Provenance: Emily Gwynne-Jones (No. 46 in the Gwynne-Jones Family Exhibition, September 1997).
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