Alexander (Sam). Photographic Scenery of South Africa, 1st edition, Sam Alexander, 1880, tinted lithographic title page with onlaid collotype photographic portrait of Sir Bartle Frere, 100 photographic plates mounted to thick card leaves, of which 93 are collotypes, 6 (numbers 1, 3, 4, 10, 54 are 96) are albumen prints (possibly pasted over original collotypes), and 1 (number 2) comprises a partially torn-away albumen print pasted over original collotype, tissue guards throughout, initial text leaves spotted and browned, pp. 7/8 torn and tape-repaired, mounts spotted and toned, one plate (62) scuffed, gilt edges, original maroon morocco, large pictorial block in gilt to front board and blind to rear, extremities rubbed, large 4to, together with: Mendelssohn (Sidney), South Africian Bibliography, 2 volumes, 3rd edition, Holland Press, 1968, original cloth, dust jackets, 4to; Kennedy (R. F.), Catalogue of Pictures in the Africana Museum, 7 volumes, 1st edition, Johannesburg: Africana Museum, 1966-72, photographic illustrations, scattered spotting, original cloth, slightly marked, 4to; Kennedy (R. F.), Catalogue of Prints in the Africana Museum and in Books in the Strange Collection of Africana in the Johannesburg Public Library up to 1870, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Johannesburg: Africana Museum, 1975, photographic illustrations, original cloth, folio; Mendelssohn II p. 345 for Alexander's work, which contains photographic prints of views in Mozambique and Zanzibar as well as South Africa, numerous 'types', and various sites associated with the Anglo-Zulu War. The third edition of Mendelssohn's South African Bibliography was limited to 350 copies. (12)
