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Lot 767
Frank H. Reynard, The Ninth (Queens Royal) Lancers, 1715-1903, London 1904, with presentation inscription, `Presented to Sergeant. R. Ballard., D.C.M. on his leaving the Regiment, March 28th 1927., In recognition of his services.` together with, cased bronze Royal Tournament medallion, awarded to the same gentleman, dated 1921, and black and white related photograph, (3)
Lot 895
Early 20th Century French figural mantel clock, R. Jay, Paris & London, having seated male figure studying, the white enamel dial with black arabic numerals, with paintewd floral decoration and gilt hands, twin train movement striking on a gong, raised on marble base with plaque reading `Etude`, 39cm wide
Lot 723
Williamson, H – "Salar The Salmon" 2nd impression, brown cloth binding, Cholmondeley – Pennell – "The Modern Practical Angler" 1870, green cloth binding, gilt text, frontis loose, light foxing otherwise good, Dunne, JW – "Sunshine And The Dry Fly" grey cloth binding, foxing to page edges and Walsingham, Lord & Payne Galway, Sir R – "Shooting" the Badminton library, cloth binding, good. (4)
Lot 733
Vossbark, A – "West Country Fly Fishing" 1st ed 1983, Hughes, R – "A Jerk On One End" 1st ed 1999, Aston, J – "A Dream Of Jewelled Fishers, Reflections On Angling" 1st ed 2007, Sosin & Clark – "Through The Fishes Eye" ed and intro by Fred J Taylor, 1976 1st ed and 4 x others by Evans, Stevens, Claypoole and Bingham. (8)
Lot 114
AN 18CT GOLD DIAMOND AND RED STONE RING having five stones, a central oval-cut red stone, two rose-cut diamonds and two round cut red stones, all in an elliptical setting and pierced surround, the shank marked 18, Birmingham 1887, ring size Q-R. 2grams Condition Report: Diamonds being cloudy, some bending to shank.
Lot 6
Correspondance adressée par (Sergueï) PLESCHEYEFF, à Christoph von Benckendorff. Pavlovskoe et St-Pétersbourg, 1790-1794. 4 l.a.s., 3 pp. in-4 et 10 pp. in-12, en français, une adresse au verso en russe. [ПЛЕЩЕЕВ, Сергей Иванович (1752-1802) -автограф] Четыре письма прозаика и переводчика, будущего вице-адмирала, состоявшего при цесаревиче Павле Петровиче С.И.Плещеева к Х.И. Бенкендорфу. На фр.яз. Между прочим Плещеев сообщает Бенкендорфу о рождении сына Константина и о том, что цесаревич думает оказать тому милость. Juillet 1790 : lettre de félicitations annonçant la naissance du dernier fils de Benckendorff, Constantin, et annonçant sa promotion auprès du Grand Duc sur la demande du Prince Potemkine ; Hier au soir, votre respectable et chère épouse a mis au monde très heureusement un enfant charmant. Vous avez actuellement dans votre famille les trois gâces (…) La mère et l’enfant, Dieu soit loué, se trouvent dans le meilleur état possible, soyez tranquile (…). Le Grand-Duc vient de me montrer la lettre qu’il a reçue du Pce Potemkine dans laquelle il est question de vous. Le Prince, sur la réquisition du Grand Duc, promet de vous donner une occasion sûre de vous distinguer (…). Il donne des nouvelles détaillées de sa famille. Août 1792 : Il lui rend compte de l’état de ses finances, attendant les sommes dûes du baron Stroganoff, avant de les placer entre les mains de la princesse Boriatinsky. Après cela, vous vous trouvez possesseur d’un capital de 27 mille R (oubles) (…). Votre dette à Demidoff sera payée (…). Etc. Novembre 1793 et février 1794 : sur l’achat de chevaux, concernant les meubles expédiés par Levenstern à Reval, dont l’envoi d’un billard, sur le séjour à Gatchina.
Lot 16
Eudoxie ROSTOPCHINE. 1811-1858. Née Souchkova, écrivain poète, égérie d’Alexandre Dumas. Manuscrit « Journal de mon voyage de Pétersbourg à Rome ». 1845. Un volume in-12, gardes annotées, 184 pp. en français, quelques annotations et index in-fine en russe ; plein chagrin brun, dos lisse aux filets à froid, encadrement de filets à froid sur les plats, fers dorés au centre au chiffre « E.R. » couronné doré, fermoirs, tranches dorées (reliure de l’époque). Reliure un peu frottée avec léger manque au dos, plats détachés. Графиня Евдокия Петровна РОСТОПЧИНА (урожд. Сушкова, 1811 – 1858). Дневник моего путешествия из Петербурга в Рим: [Рукопись]. [Сентябрь – декабрь 1845 г.] - 184 с. ; 12о. – На фр.яз. В цельнокожаном переплете с тисненым золотом гербом и инициалами « E. R » среднике передней крышки. Золотой обрез. Застежки. Крышки отходят. Journal intime d’Eudoxie Rostopchina, née Souchkova, épouse d’André Rostopchine, fils cadet du fameux gouverneur général de Moscou sous l’Empire, dans lequel elle relate son voyage en Italie entre septembre et décembre 1845. Partie de St-Pétersbourg, avec ses enfants, elle traverse la Pologne, l’Autriche avec un petit séjour à Vienne, avant d’arriver en Italie pour y découvrir Venise, Padoue, Milan, Gêne, Nice, Pise, Florence. Elle y livre une description pittoresque et très précise de l’Autriche puis de l’Italie du milieu du XIXe siècle, avec d’intéressants et riches détails sur les monuments, et particulièrement sur les œuvres d’art des grands maitres de la peinture italienne, et sur les collections privées qu’elle a pu admirer dans les Palais à Venise, Milan et Florence. Parmi les grandes familles russes rencontrées au cours du périple, sont mentionnées celles des princes Galitzine, Dolgorowki, Schérémétieff, Troubetzkoy, Lebenstern, Diakoff, la duchesse Olga, la duchesse de Berry, Strogonoff, etc. Souvent mentionné par la famille au début du XXe siècle, en particulier par la fille d’Eudoxie, ce manuscrit semble inédit. Une note manuscrite sur une des gardes, indique que le journal fut offert par Alexandre Froloff, à la comtesse Rostopchine pour son voyage.
Lot 51
Aquatinte « Grand Entry of the Allied Sovereigns into Paris, on the 31, March 1814 ». Published by R. Bowyer, Pall Mall, 1815. «Торжественное вступление союзных государей в Париж 31 марта 1814 года ». Гравюра на медной доске цветной акватинтой с подкраской акварелью того времени. Издано Р. Бауэром, Лондон, 1815. Размер: 25,7х34 см (à vue). Рама (45х55 см.), паспарту. Временные пятна. На картинке изображен торжественный въезд союзных войск в Париж в момент прохождения через ворота Сен-Мартен. Часть конных казаков из Казачьего лейб-гвардии полка с пиками уже прошли (во время вступления в Париж весь лейб-казачий полк составлял конвой Е.И.В.). За ними въезжают Император Александр I (в зеленом преображенском мундире), кайзер Фридрих-Вильгельм Прусский и фельдмаршал Шарль Филипп Шварценберг от Австрии. Любопытно, что Александр I въезжает в побежденный Париж на белом коне по кличке Эклипс, подаренном Наполеоном после их свидания в Тильзите в 1807 году и подписания Тильзитского мира. Ровинский I, стлб. 174, 768
Lot 95
RECHBERG Charles de et George DEPPING. Les Peuples de la Russie, ou Description des mœurs, usages et costumes des diverses nations de l’empire de Russie. [Рехберг-и-Ретенлевен, Карл, граф (1775-1847), Деппинг, Жорж-Бернар. НАРОДЫ РОССИИ, или описание нравов, обычаев и костюмов различных народностей Империи Российской: В 2-х тт.] Paris, D. Colas, 1812-1813 ; 2 vol. grand in-folio, reliures vers 1900 en maroquin brun, armes de Napoléon Ier sur les plats, roulette en encadrement, dos lisses ornés, tranches dorées. F Bel ouvrage qui forme un hymne à la Russie, orné de 92 (sur 96) planches en couleurs gravées à l’aquatinte parfois rehaussées d’aquarelle. Les planches représentent des vues de villes et de paysages, des scènes pittoresques et des costumes locaux de Tartarie, de Mongolie, de Sibérie, du Kamtchatka, etc. Le tout est gravé par A. Manz, Scotnikoff, Melnikoff, Hesse et Gros d’après les dessins de KORNEEFF. Иллюстрации: 92 (из 96) картинок с ручной акварельной раскраской, выполненных по рисункам Емельяна Михайловича КОРНЕЕВА (1780-1839) в техниках акватинты, офорта и меццо-тинто В. Мельниковым, В. Осиповым, Е. Скотниковым, самим Корнеевым, А. Адамом, И. Гроссом, Э. Менцом. В 2-х цельнокожаных (коричневый марокен) переплетах кон. XIX - нач. XX вв. с тисненым золотом гербом Наполеона I в среднике передних крышек. Золотые обрезы. Дарственная надпись на фр.яз. (от 1912 г.) с намеком на 100-летие выхода в свет этого издания (а также и похода Наполеона в Россию). Voici ce que le géographe Malte-Brun disait du livre à sa parution : « D. Colas, imprimeur libraire à Paris, a mis en vente un ouvrage de luxe d’une rare beauté. L’auteur est M. le comte Charles de Rechberg, chambellan de S. M. le roi de Bavière. Il en a recueilli les matériaux pendant ses voyages. On y voit représentés les cérémonies religieuses, les jeux et les amusements, les costumes, etc. des Russes et des nations sauvages de la Russie ». Il manque les planches 18 et 48 dans le tome I, 11, 18 et 25 dans le tome II. On a en plus la planche non numérotée Montagne de Glace. La planche des Bains qui manque souvent est ici bien présente. Exemplaire relié vers 1900 aux armes de Napoléon Ier.- Olivier, Hermal et Roton, pl. 2652, fer 10. Ex-dono autographe de Georges Oulman à Alphonse Lazard daté de février 1912. Les charnières ont été restaurées mais demeurent faibles ; griffures sur les plats et insolation en bordure ; piqûres aux planches souvent cantonnées aux marges, plus accentuées sur le frontispice ; faux-titre lavé et restauré ; tache d’encre à la marge extérieure du tome II. Потертости переплетов, временные пятна на стр., реставрация шмуц-титула, чернильное пятно на полях (т.2), утрата четырех иллюстраций. «Роскошное издание с превосходными гравюрами. Редка » (Н.Соловьев). Russica, II, R 229. Colas, 2491. Соловьев, Кат. № 105 : Редкие книги, 334. Lipperheide, 1348. Brunet, IV, 582. Fekula, 3568. Губар, 1234-1235.
Lot 98
A journey to St. Petersburg and Moscow through Courland and Livonia. By Leitch Ritchie, Esq. With 25 splendid engravings, by the first artists. Illustrated with engravings taken from drawings by Alfred George Vickers, Esq. [РИЧИ, Лейч, эсквайр. Поездка в Санкт-Петербург и Москву через Курляндию и Ливонию: С 25 отменными гравюрами первейших художников по рисункам А.Дж. Викерса, эсквайра.] London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1836. – Грав. загл.л., IV, [4], 256 с., 1 фронт. (ил.), 23 л.ил. ; 8о (20,2 см). – (HEATH`S PICTURESQUE ANNUAL, for 1836. St. Petersburg and Moscow). – 1-ое издание. На англ.яз. Издание украшено 25 видами Петербурга и Москвы, рисованными Alfred Georges Vickers и гравированными по стали A. Radclyffe, H. Jorden, S. Fisher, J. T. Willmore, J. Turnbull, T. Higham, J. Appleton, R. Wallis, W. Chevalier, J. H. Kernot, J. Lewis и J. Carter. Картинки переложены защитными листами. В багряном владельческом цельнотканевом переплете того времени с растительным орнаментом, выполненным блинтовым тиснением по обеим крышкам и золототисненным названием книги на корешке. Тройной золотой обрез. Потертости переплета, редкие временные пятна, утрата нескольких защитных листов. Все картинки в комплекте. Russica 1210
Lot 138
MILTON, John. Paradise Lost and Regained (en russe). Traduit par A. Choulgovskaia. Avec 50 ill. de Gustave Doré. St. Pétersbourg, A. Marx, 1878. МИЛЬТОН, Джон (1608-1674). Потерянный и Возвращенный рай : С 50 картинами Густава ДОРЕ / Пер. с англ. [и биогр. очерк] А. Шульговской. С подстрочным англ. текстом. - 1-е изд. СПб. : А.Ф. Маркс, [1878]. - [14], 10, 316, [1] с., 50 л. ил. ; in-folio (41,7 см). – Доб. тит. л. на англ. яз. 50 картин выполнены Густавом Доре в технике торцовой гравюры на дереве. Все иллюстрации помещены на отдельных листах и проложены листами защитной бумаги с печатным текстом к каждой гравюре. Бумага для издания была изготовлена фабрикой «И.К. Френкель и Сын » в Таммерфорсе (Финляндия), специально разработанный шрифт был сделан в словолитни Флинша (Франкфурт-на-Майне) и О.И. Лемана (Санкт-Петербург), текст печатан в типографии В.Веллинга (С.-Петербург), а картины – в типографии Тейбнера (Лейпциг). Стамп для переплета рисовал И. Панов (С.-Петербург), гравировал на меди Гергольд (Лейпциг). Виньетки в начале и конце песен гравировали М.Рашевский и К.Вейерман в Петербурге. Великолепный составной переплет с богатым орнаментированным золотым и конгреневым тиснением по обеим крышкам и корешку (подписан: R. Gerhold / Leipzig). Форзацы из бумаги светло-соломенного цвета, имитирующей муар. Тройной золотой обрез. Художественная обложка изготовлена особым способом цветной печати (тиснение с золочением). В углу на форзаце бумажный ярлык переплетной мастерской К.В. Экгардт (С.-Петербург). На форзаце зачеркнутый рукописный экслибрис (в старой орфографии). На свободном листе перед титулом любопытнейшие владельческие записи в старой орфографии: «Этот том, при жизни моего отца, всегда лежал на свободном круглом столе в его кабинете. 1882 г.» и дарственная надпись на Пасху 1961 года. По словам А.Ф.Маркса, подготовка настоящего издания заняла более двух лет, при этом издатель, «не говоря уже об огромных затратах, не жалел ни труда, ни времени, чтобы придать знаменитому творению Мильтона, соединенному с превосходными рисунками Доре, то изящество и роскошь, какую имеют подобные издания за границей». В итоге А.Ф.Марксу удалось создать настоящий шедевр полиграфического искусства, на который ориентировались и другие знаменитые русские типографы. Свое роскошное творение издатель посвятил Ея Императорскому Высочеству Государыне Великой Княгине Цесаревне [Марии Федоровне]. Несуществен. потертости переплета, небольшие надрывы корешка в нижней и верхней частях корешка, редкие фоксинги. Первое Марксово издание Мильтона с гравюрами Доре встречается крайне редко. Даже у А.Венгерова в нюренбергском каталоге «Старая русская книга» представлено лишь более позднее издание 1895 года.
Lot 445
Collectors Glossary of Antiques and Fine Arts, John R, together with Chats on Old Furniture, Arthur Hayden, Old English Furniture, M Harris, Charles Hayward English Furniture and Chrles Hayward English Rooms and their Decorations at a Glance, Vol 1 a nd Vol 2, Chats on Old Pewter, H J L J Masse, Natures Engraver - Life of Thos Bewick by Jenny Uglow, and British Furniture Makers, John Gloag, Second Edition, 1946
Lot 346
Hobson (N.K.) et al: VELD PLANTS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 4to (295 x 265 mm) By N.K. Hobson, assisted by J.P. Jessop. Illustrated by M.C. vd R. Ginn and Jane Kelly. Collectors’ Edition: 310 pages, frontispiece, 30 colour plates, numerous line drawings, full green leather gilt, light foxing on the top edge, a good copy. Number 40 of the Collectors’ Edition limited to 50 copies, signed by the author and artists. Good Johannesburg Macmillan South Africa 1975 Reserve: $50 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 386
Van Riebeeck Society (Various Authors) VAN RIEBEECK SOCIETY SECOND SERIES, The complete run: Volumes 1-44 22.5x16cm Van Riebeeck Society Second Series: 1. Dagboek van Adam Tas, 1705-1706, uitgegee deur Leo Fouché en hersien deur A.J. Böeseken met bykomende voetnote deur prof. A.M. Hugo. English translation by Dr J. Smuts; 2. Beschryvinge van Kaap der Goede Hoope, met de zaaken daar toe behoorende, door François Valentyn, 1726. Deel. I. Uitgegee en toegelig deur P. Serton, W.J. de Kock, R. Raven-Hart en E.H. Raidt. English translation by R. Raven-Hart and introduction by P. Serton; 3. Sir James Rose Innes: Selected Correspondence (1884-1902). Edited by Prof. Harrison M. Wright; 4. Beschryvinge van Kaap der Goede Hoope, met de zaaken daar toe behoorende, door François Valentyn, 1726. Deel. II. Uitgegee deur E.H. Raadt. English translation by Maj. R. Raven-Hart; 5. David Livingstone South African Papers (1849-1853). Edited by I. Schapera; 6. Anders Sparrman. Travels in the Cape 1772-1776 with introduction and editing by Prof. Vernon S. Forbes. Vol. I.; 7. Anders Sparrman. Travels in the Cape 1772-1776 with introduction and editing by Prof. Vernon S. Forbes. Vol. II; 8. Lawrence Richardson. Selected correspondence (1902-1903). Edited by Prof. Arthur M. Davey. 9. Selected Articles from the Cape Monthly Magazine (New Series 1870-76). Introduction and notes by A.M. Lewin Robinson; 10. William Somerville`s narrative of his journeys to the Eastern Cape frontier and to Lattakoe 1799-1802. Introduction and notes by Edna and Frank Bradlow; 11. Edward Ross: Diary of the siege of Mafeking, October 1899 to May 1900. Edited by Brian P. Willan; 12. Selections from the correspondence of Percy Alport Molteno 1892-1914. Edited by Vivian Solomon; 13. Briefwisseling van Hendrik Swellengrebel Jr. oor Kaapse Sake 1779-1792. Uitgegee met inleiding en aantekeninge deur dr. G.J. Schutte. With an English summary by Dr A.J. Böeseken assisted by Prof. H.M. Robertson; 14. The Letters of Jane Elizabeth Waterston 1866-1905. Edited by Lucy Bean and Elizabeth B. van Heyningen with an introduction by Elizabeth B. van Heyningen; 15. The Garrett Papers, edited with an introduction by Gerald Shaw; 16. Johannesburg Pioneer Journals 1888-1909, edited by Maryna Fraser; 17. Carl Peter Thunberg. Travels at the Cape of Good Hope 1772-1775, edited by Emeritus Prof. V.S. Forbes; 18. Breaker Morant and the Bushveldt Carbineers, edited, with commentary, by Arthur Davey; 19. The Frontier War Journal of Major John Crealock, edited and introduced by Chris Hummel; 20. The Last Voyage of the Guardian, Lieutenant Riou Commander, 1789-1791, edited with an introduction by M.D. Nash; 21. The Commissions of W.C. Palgrave Special Emissary to South West Africa, 1876-1885, edited and introduced by E.L.P. Stals; 22. Guillaume Chenu de Chalezac, the `French Boy`, edited and introduced by Randolph Vigne; 23. Johan August Wahlberg: Travel Journals and from letters, South Africa, Namibia and Botswana, 1838-1856, edited and introduced by Chris Hummel and Adrian Craig; 24. The Cape Journals of Lady Anne Barnard 1797-1798, edited by A.M. Lewin Robinson with Margaret Lenta and Dorothy Driver; 25. Griqua Records, the Philippolis Captaincy, 1825-1861, compiled and edited by Karel Schoeman; 26. The war memoirs of Commandant Ludwig Krause 1899-1900, edited by Jerold Taitz with Ken Gillings and Arthur Davey; 27. Norwegian missionaries in Natal and Zululand: selected correspondence (1844-1900), edited by Frederick Hale; 28. The Journal of Gustav de Vylder, naturalist in South-Western Africa 1873-1875, translated from the original Swedish and edited by Ione & Jalmar Rudner; 29. The Cape Diaries of Lady Anne Barnard 1799-1800, edited by Margaret Lenta and Basil le Cordeur. Vol. I; 30. The Cape Diaries of Lady Anne Barnard 1799-1800, edited by Margaret Lenta and Basil le Cordeur. Vol. II; 31. A Canadian mounted rifleman at war, 1899-1902. The reminiscences of A.E. Hilder. Edited and annotated by A.G. Morris; 32. The war diary of Burgher Jack Lane 16 November 1899 to 27 February 1900. Edited by William Lane; 33. Sir Graham Bower`s Secret History of the Jameson Raid and the South African Crisis, 1895-1902. Edited by Deryck Schreuder and Jeffrey Butler; 34. Hendrik Cloete, Groot Constantia and the VOC, 1788-1799. Documents from the Swellengrebel Archive, edited and introduced by G J Schutte. English translation by N O van Gylswyk and D.Sleigh; 35. Moravians in the Eastern Cape 128-1928. Translated by F.R. Baudert, edited by T. Keegan; 36. Trials of Slavery. Selected Documents Concerning Slaves from the Criminal Records of the Council of Justice at the Cape of Good Hope, 1705-1794. Edited by Nigel Worden and Gerald Groenewald; 37. Words of Batswana: Letters to Mahoko a Becwana, 1883-1896. Translated and edited by Part T. Mgadla and Stephen C. Volz; 38. Francois le Vaillant: Travels into the interior of Africa via the Cape of Good Hope. Vol I. Translated and edited by Ian Glenn with the assistance of Catherine Lauga du Plessis and Ian Farlam; 39. Isaac Williams Wauchope: Selected Writings 1874-1916, edited and translated by Jeff Opland and Abner Nyamende with an introduction and notes by Jeff Opland; 40. Alan Paton Selected Letters; edited and with an introduction by Peter Alexander; 41. Friendship and Union. The South African Letters of Patrick Duncan and Maud Selborne 1907–1943. Edited and introduced by Deborah Lavin; 42. The South African Letters of Thomas Pringle. Edited and introduced by Randolph Vigne; 43. AB Xuma. Autobiography and Selected Works. Edited by Peter Limb; 44. Into the hitherto Unknown. Ensign Beutler`s Expedition to the Eastern Cape, 1752. Translated by Thea Toussaint van Hove and Michael Wilson. Edited and Introduced by Hazel Crampton, Jeff Peires and Carl Vernon. Original brown cloth gilt, maps and illustrations. Volumes 1-18 without dust jackets (1-16 as issued), volumes 19-44 with jackets. Volumes are in good to fine condition. A Good+ set Cape Town The Van Riebeeck Society 1970-2013 Reserve: $500 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 37
Kritzinger, P H, and R D McDonald In the Shadow of Death (1904) 220 x 145 [See the next lot for a later Afrikaans translation of this famous title] Although the spine is sunned and the boards are lightly rubbed and bumped, this copy is in very good overall condition: tight binding; endpapers sunned but no text, plate or tissue-guard foxing. A few unobtrusive pencil markings are in the text. There is an unrecognised owner signature and the words `Victoria West 15/12/04` in ink on the front free endpaper. vii + 178 pp of text + frontispiece and seven plates: two of the authors; `an interesting group` [of 10] including Commandant Wessels and Lieutenant Troskie; General de Wet; ex-President Steyn; and two of Commandants Theron and Fouche. Very Good London Printed for Private Circulation 1904 Reserve: $50 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 38
Kritzinger, P H, and R D McDonald In die Skaduwee van die Dood (1939) 210 x 160 This Afrikaans translation, by the son of the co-author of the English original, Ds [the Rev] R D McDonald, was published 35 years later [see Lot 37] and after the death of General Kritzinger. In his Foreword, R D McDonald notes that in the Anglo-Boer War he had been not only a `veld preacher` but a military secretary, first to General Kritzinger until he was injured, and then to General Louis Botha until the conclusion of the peace. On the cover and spine, `Ds R D McDonald` is credited with sole authorship, but on the title-page he is joined by `Generaal P H Kritzinger`. Compared with `In the Shadow of Death`, there is some additional material, including an extra plate. The light grey cloth-boards, with green and brown lettering and design to the upper board and green lettering to the spine, are stained (see image) and the head and foot of the spine are soft. The binding is shaken and there is a crack between two sections, but the tapes are secure. There are several names on the front free endpaper, including another member of the McDonald family (from which this copy came). The title-page, the next leaf and the bottom page edge are foxed but the text (vii + 246 pp) and illustrations are unmarked and undiscoloured. An interesting book, especially in conjunction with the original English title. Good Cape Town Nasionale Pers 1939 Reserve: $25 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 41
Kirby, Percival R A Source Book on. and The True Story of. the Wreck of the Grosvenor East Indiaman (two titles) 220 x 145; 225 x 150 These two complementary books were written by Percival Kirby, the authority on the loss of the Grosvenor in 1782 and the subsequent relief expeditions. They were first published in 1953 and 1960. (1) Original grey cloth-boards, blue to the upper panel and spine; plain endpapers, viii + 228 pp of text, appendixes, indexes and Van Riebeeck Society notes + 2 plates + folding map. An ownership stamp is on the front pastedown, the free endpapers are sunned and the top page edge is foxed. The book is otherwise very good. (2) Two-colour illustrated dustjacket; illustrated and lettered white cloth-boards; white-out-of-blue illustrated endpapers showing the design of an East Indiaman; xiv + 226 pp of text, bibliography and indexes + frontispiece + 11 pp of plates + sketch-map in the text + folding map at the back. The repaired unclipped (30 shillings) dustjacket is rubbed at the edges. The spine extremities of the covers are lightly sunned. There are no ownership or other marks, and the text, illustrations and map are pristine. Very Good; Very Good Cape Town; Cape Town Van Riebeeck Society; Oxford University Press 1953; 1960 Reserve: $40 Click here to view further details and to bid
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Lot 44
Van der Linden, Johannes Regtsgeleerd, Practicaal en Koopmans Handboek ([1806]) 210 x 140 Although we have not traced any other copies of this now rare early 19th century Roman-Dutch law treatise, `print on demand` copies of a similar title, by `Joannes` van der Linden and Johannes Allart, are listed on the AbeBooks website. From the signature on the half-title page and the initials on the top page edge, this copy is likely to have been in the ownership of the J E R de Villiers who was a former judge-president of the Orange Free State and an Acting Appeal Court judge, and who referred to it in some of his judgments. The title-page has been lost and, with it, the name of the publisher, but this copy seems to have been published in Amsterdam in 1806. Johannes van der Linden’s “Regtsgeleerd, Practicaal en Koopmans Handboek” is referred to in R W Lee’s “Introduction to Roman-Dutch Law” (Oxford, 1931) as both one of the last authorities on “the old [Roman-Dutch] law” and the earliest on “the new law”. When this copy was found, in an auction job-lot, the covers were badly damaged, but the contents were sufficiently valuable to justify rebinding. This has been done in brown goatskin with an abbreviation of the title gilt lettered on a spine panel, new red-and-green head and tail bands, new endpapers and a new marker ribbon. The contents of lxxiv + 588 pp include an introduction, text divided into four books, and an index. The introduction includes a 30 pp annotated bibliography of Roman and Roman-Dutch law, including three of Van der Linden’s other titles, published in Leiden between 1794 and 1803. In addition to the missing title-page, part of the half-title and half of the last leaf of the index have been lost and a small section of pp 101/102 has been cut out. There are a few brief marginal notes in ink, probably by the same previous owner. There are brown stains not affecting the text on some twenty early leaves, but the pages are not foxed and the text is otherwise bright and undiscoloured. Already intrinsically rare, this book is unique in its present form. Good [Amsterdam] Unknown [1806] Reserve: $150 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 46
Levyns, Margaret R. The genus Muraltia 4to A monograph on an endemic South African plant genus. ``The Journal of South African Botany` Supplementary volume no. 2. Original cloth, pp. 247, 1 plate, line-drawing, tables, maps. Some light browning Very good Kirstenbosch National Botanic Gardens 1954 Reserve: $50 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 66
Townley Johnson, R. + Maggs, Tim (Editor) Major Rock Paintings of South Africa 332mm x 343mm Copy number 37 of the de luxe edition limited to 50 copies.R. Townley Johnson produced the facsimile reproductions of Bushman paintings.Original brown leather and cloth boards with gilt titling on the spine. Brown end papers. 95 pages, map with localities of paintings, 106 numbered illustrations.CONDITION DETAILS: A few signs of minor use. Good Cape Town David Philip 1979 Reserve: $40 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 88
John Hutchinson A BOTANIST IN SOUTHERN AFRICA 252 x 160 x 40 mm An account of the author`s botanical expeditions to various parts of Africa. Hutchinson`s background as a botanical specialist from Kew was well known, and in South Africa he was given a very friendly reception by eminent South African botanists. But it was his association with General Smuts, who was also a botanist of note, that makes this book so interesting. Smuts accompanied him in the Northern Transvaal and across the Limpopo to Zimbabwe, and in Tanganyika (Tanzania). Pages i-xii pp 1-686. Frontispiece portrait of General Smuts. Copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs, sketches, line drawings of botanical details. Folding maps. Full page maps to indicate regional distributions and the regions visited by the author. Dark green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. Slightly scuffed at base of spine. Illustrated Dust jacket has cracked on folds but has been neatly repaired with brown and white paper reinforcements. Front and back endpapers are browned but the rest of the book has no apparent foxing. This is an unusually interesting book in Very Good condition. London P R Gawthorn 1946 Reserve: $50 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 131
Hutcheson (Francis) A SYSTEM OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY 4to (280 x 220 mm) In Three Books; written by the late Francis Hutcheson, L.L.D., Professor of Philosophy in the University of Glasgow. Published from the original manuscript by his son Francis Hutcheson, M.D. To which is prefixed some account of the life, writings, and character of the author, by the Reverend William Leechman, D.D., Professor of Divinity in the same university. 2 volumes: I. (x),xlviii,358. II. (ix), 380 pages, contemporary sprinkled calf, spines decorated gilt in panels and with red and dark green title labels, marbled endpapers, page edges dyed light red. Neat repairs to the top and bottoms of the spines and hinges. The bottom corners of all pages in volume II are damp stained otherwise the contents are crisp. Hutcheson’s intellectual legacy was considerable. He influenced the concepts later propounded so effectively by Adam Smith, one of his pupils, who was later to occupy the same Chair at Glasgow University. Smith’s name appears in the list of subscribers in volume 1 (for 2 sets). Good London R. and A. Foulis 1755 Reserve: $300 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 126
A King`s South Africa Medal 1901 - 02 to 2769 Pte R Brownlow, S Stafford Reg with two clasps with copy of recipients service papers, enlisted in 1890 aged 18 served in South Africa from 17.3.1900, entitled to a Q S A , three clasps, Wittenberg, Cape Colony and Transvaal discharged 25.3.1902 after 12 years service with the colours
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