Robert (Sylvie), Degre (Alain) - Photography by. TIPPI - MY BOOK OF AFRICA 144pp. Pictorial snocover board cover with inner flaps. Beautifully compilation/portfolio of excellent colour photography throughout. Minimal shelf-wear, else very good indeed. Tippi is no ordinary child. She believes that she has the gift of talking to animals and that they are like brothers to her. I speak to them with my mind, or through my eyes, my heart or my soul, and I see that they understand and answer me. Tippi is the daughter of French filmmakers and wildlife photographers, Alain Degre and Sylvie Robert, who have captured her on film with some of Africas most beautiful and dangerous animals. Tippi shares her thoughts and wisdom on Africa, its people and the animals she has come to know and love. Often her wisdom is beyond her years, and her innocence and obvious rapport with the animals is both fascinating and charming. Condition: Very good Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: Struik Lifestyle Publication Date: 2009 Size: 239mm x 232mm x 11mm Reserve: $25 Click here to view further details and to bid
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Mandela, Nelson Long Walk to Freedom (First Edition) Hard cover, black boards, titles in gilt on spine, pp. 630, maps to the end-papers. Shelf worn, especially at spine ends, to DJ which is in protective brodart, small tears at spine ends. Internally fine. Condition: Very Good Publisher Place: Randburg Publisher: Macdonald Purnell Publication Date: 1994 Size: Royal Octavo Reserve: $80 Click here to view further details and to bid
Williams, Henry Smith (editor) Historians` History of the World (1908; complete in 25 vellum-bound volumes) . . . ` . . . A comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by the great writers of all ages . . . With the collaboration of many specialists and with contributions by [more than thirty academics and editors from around the world]` The volumes cover: I Egypt, Babylonia and Assyria; II Israel, Phoenicia, Asia Minor, Ancient India, Ancient Persia; III and IV Greece; V, VI and VII Rome; VIII Parthians, Arabs, Crusades, the Papacy; IX Italy; X Spain and Portugal; XI and XII France; XIII France, the Netherlands; XIV the Netherlands, the Germanic Empires; XV The Germanic Empires; XVI Scandinavia, Switzerland; XVII Switzerland, Russia; XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI The British Empire; XXII The British Empire, the United States; XXIII The United States, Spanish America; XXIV Poland, the Balkan States, Modern Greece, the Turkish Empire, China and Japan; XXV General, Bibliographical and Contributor Indexes. Although very different to today`s world histories - examples: Ireland, India, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada are all included in the British Empire; and very little on the rest of Africa and most modern Asian countries - these volumes remain both readable and instructive, especially with the help of the full volume of indexes. This is the full-bound white vellum or parchment edition, which features a different multi-colour-embossed design on each upper panel and spine (see images). The endpapers are plain. The set has more than 16,000 pages, including indexes; more than 150 plates and more than 2000 other illustrations in the text. There is a tissue-protected frontispiece in each volume, with all tissues undamaged and in place. The top page edges are gilt, the bottom edges untrimmed. The set is complete and without ownership or other marks. CONDITION NOTES. The binding is sound throughout, with most of the covers unmarked, unrubbed and unchipped. Although the binding material (vellum) has become brittle with age, there is little damage, although some volumes have spines chipped at the head or the back. There are a few cracks at the endpapers and between sections, but the hinges are firm. The endpapers are sunned and the early and late pages of nearly all the volumes are foxed. These are small reservations, however, and, as is clear from the next paragraph, the set remains attractive. IMAGES. Most of these show the volumes on bookshelves, the 25 front covers in one image, enlargements of the front cover embossed designs, one for each volume, the spines for 5 volumes at a time - 1-5, 6-10 etc - and the bottom edges. It is clear from these images that this set remains in nearly very good condition overall. Indeed, sets that are complete and unmarked and in a similar overall condition remain difficult to find. Condition: Near Very Good Publisher Place: London Publisher: The Times Publication Date: 1908 Size: 265 x 190; shelf space 1.5 m; weight 50 kg Reserve: $350 Click here to view further details and to bid
Creswicke, Louis South Africa and the Transvaal War (8 volumes) This is the complete 8-vol Caxton edition. (The T C and E C Jack edition, published in Edinburgh, was limited to the first 6 vols, with Caxton responsible for the last 2 vols.) Ours is the red cloth set, matched for the 8 vols. The upper panels and the spines are gilt. The spines are evenly, but only slightly, faded. Apart from the endpapers, which are sunned (see the last image), this set, which has no ownership or other markings, remains bright and undiscoloured. The first and last volumes deal with the situation before and after the war, with the middle six volumes covering the chronology of the war itself. Creswicke authored the first seven volumes and edited the last - `South Africa and its Future`, most of the contributors to which were well-known figures of the day. Each of the volumes has 200+ text pages, or a total of 1716 for the series, plus colour and other plates and fold-out and other maps. The frontispieces of all the volumes are showed in the images. In his authoritative `South African War Books` (1994), R G Hackett describes the set as `an attractive and informative work`. Condition: Very Good Publisher Place: London Publisher: Caxton Publishing Company Publication Date: No dates [1900-1902/3] Size: 250 x 185; shelf space 25 cm Reserve: $175 Click here to view further details and to bid
Oosthuizen, S P R, and other editors Suid-Afrikaanse Argiefstukke. Oranje-Vrystaat (7 vols, 1952-1990) . . . ` . . . Notule van de Volksraad van die Oranje-Vrystaat (volledig met alle bylae daarby). 1854-1863` This collection was in the library of the Free State student of history Andre Oosthuizen, whose marker labels remain where they were. An outline description of the volumes follows: Deel I 1854-55. J H Breytenbach and W B van der Vyver (eds). xli + 404 pp Deel II 1856-57. J H Breytenbach and W B van der Vyver (eds). xxi + 579 pp Deel III 1858. D C Joubert (ed). xx + 576 pp Deel IV 1859. P F van der Schyff (ed). xxii + 401 pp Deel V 1860-61. S P R Oosthuizen (ed). xxi + 437 pp Deel VI 1862. S P R Oosthuizen (ed). xxxv + 448 pp. This is the only volume of the seven not to have been typeset but to have been reproduced from justified typewriter camera-ready copy. Deel VII 1863. S P R Oosthuizen (ed). xviii + 346 pp The volumes are bound in various shades of brown cloth-boards, gilt-lettered to the spine. The plain endpapers + 3369 pp of documents, commentary and notes + several fold-out appendixes are unmarked and undiscoloured. The binding condition varies from very good, with light corner bumping, for the first four volumes to fine for the remaining three volumes. Because the Orange Free State Republic`s constitution and parliament (Volksraad) were acknowledged to have been ahead of their time, this set, which covers the first ten years of the work of the Volksraad, is a valuable South African political history reference source. The original material is reproduced in High Dutch, while the commentary and notes are in Afrikaans. Condition: Very Good to Fine Publisher Place: Pretoria Publisher: Government Printer Publication Date: 1952-1990 Size: 275 x 185 (vols I-IV); 265 x 215 (vols V-VII); shelf space 30 cm; weight 7.5 kg Reserve: $75 Click here to view further details and to bid
Frazer, Sir James George (arranged and edited by Robert Angus Downie) The Native Races of Africa and Madagascar Frazer was 36 when he wrote `The Golden Bough` (variously referred to as `A Study in Comparative Religion` or `A Study in Magic and Religion`), which was said have influenced the work of writers as different as Jung, the Swiss philosopher; T S Eliot, the English/American poet; and James Joyce, the Irish writer. However, it was not until 47 years later, when he was 83, that Frazer decided to publish selections from his forty or so thick quarto notebooks on the anthropological writings of others. A year later, in 1938, `The Native Races of Africa and Madagascar` was published as the first of the series - `Anthologia Anthropologica`. The result was `A Copious Selection of Passages for the Study of Social Anthropology from the Manuscript Notebooks of [J G Frazer] Arranged and Edited from the MSS by Robert Angus Downie`. In his own introduction, Downie describes how he went about his work (see also one of the images), sorting, arranging and copying the extracts according to continent (Africa first), and then region and race. Frazer lived to see the full series published - after Africa, Australia, followed by Asia and Europe, and, finally, America, with the last three all published 1939 - all under Downie`s editorship and in a uniform edition from the same publisher. [A reasonable set of the four first edition volumes is quoted on the internet at about $750.] The current book reproduces 234 extracts, some very long and some much shorter, and mainly, but not only, in English. The book is substantial: xiv + 571 pp of double-column text and index + frontispiece + one of Frazer`s manuscript pages in facsimile + seven maps showing the languages, races and tribes of Africa and Madagascar. The book is also comprehensive: it deals with Bushmen, Hottentots and a dozen other races in Southern Africa, and almost another one hundred races in the rest of the continent. Full references to the sources of the extracts are given at the end of each entry. The dustjacket of our copy (few of the available copies have dustjackets, in any condition) has been repaired and is now Good. The original turquoise cloth-boards, gilt to the spine, are marred only by two small nicks at the head of the spine and an early sign of shelf-wear at the foot of the spine. The plain endpapers are Fine: there is a small green sticker of a Pretoria bookseller on the front paste-down and an owner`s signature and date on the front free endpaper.(*) The text and illustrations are all present, unmarked and unfoxed or otherwise discoloured. The page edges are uniformly sunned. In other words, the overall description `Very Good` is conservative. (*)The first owner, and the only one with his name in the book, was `D Ziervogel, UP, 28-8-1940`. Ziervogel bought the book when he was an M A student at the University of Pretoria. He went on to become one of South Africa`s leading writers on anthropology. Condition: Very Good Publisher Place: London Publisher: Percy Lund Humphries Publication Date: 1938 Size: 375 x 220 x 60; weight 1.7 kg Reserve: $75 Click here to view further details and to bid
Fry, C Hilary, Stuart Keith and Emil K Urban (series editors) Birds of Africa (Seven volumes, 1982-2004) One of the finest series of bird books to have been published in recent times, this 7-vol set took a quarter of a century to plan and produce, with many of the world`s leading authorities working under the three series editors. The bird artist responsible for most of the 232 full-page colour plates was Martin Woodcock, with credit for most of the line illustrations in the text going to Ian Wallis. Although the set runs to a total of 4700 pp, good indexing and cross-referencing make it easy to use. This series of first editions is in fine overall condition, with no ownership names or other markings. Departures from what would otherwise be `as new` condition are light thumbing, indicating how little this set (from the estate of one of Johannesburg`s leading bird book collectors) was used; as well as the minor blemishes noted in the following summary of the volumes - bound in matching brown cloth, gilt to the front and spine, and with laminated dustjackets. Vol I. xiii + 521 pp. Small chip to the dustjacket at the rear top fold. Vol II. xvi + 552 pp. Headband soft. Vol III. xvi + 611 pp. Small black horizontal stain at upper middle of front dustjacket. Vol IV. xv + 609 pp. Small crease to the top front of dustjacket. Vol V. xix + 669 pp. The last 18 leaves, including some blanks, are lightly rippled at the middle of the outer edge, with no effect on the text. Vol VI. xvii + 724 pp. Headband soft; 3 cm stain at upper left of front of dustjacket. Vol VII. xxi + 666 pp. Front top of dustjacket and 6 cm of front upper board and top of spine lightly rubbed. Condition: Fine Publisher Place: London; London Publisher: Academic Press (first 6 volumes); Christopher Helm (last volume) Publication Date: 1984-2004 Size: 315 x 215; shelf space 35 cm; weight 22 kg Reserve: $350 Click here to view further details and to bid
Breytenbach, Colonel Jan D. They Live By The Sword Large octavo (175x250mm) hard backed book in the original publisher’s green cloth binding in Good condition; in a coloured pictorial dust wrapper, in Good+ condition. There are slight signs of shelf wear on the bottom of the boards and what appears as slight insect damage to the top back of the boards and a small patch on the front bottom end-paper; 272 pages, including the index, of which the first ten are of a preliminary nature; 6 pages of black and white photographic plates bound into the text after page 128; maps on the end-papers. The author, Colonel Jan Breytenbach, who was the founding commander, remains a military leader respected internationally. The unit and its activities was shrouded in secrecy and, as a result, became the most controversial unit in the South African Army. The story of the Battalion was the story of the Angolan/Namibian border war. It was mainly composed of black troops and NCOs, originating from virtually every tribe in Angola, led by white South African officers and senior NCOs. No form of racism ever appeared in the unit, which was highly successful in overcoming FAPLA, SWAPO and the Cubans, together with their Soviets advisors, in the thick Angolan bush throughout the years of border war. Condition: Good Publisher Place: Alberton, Gauteng Publisher: Lemur Publication Date: 1990 Size: 17.5x25cm Reserve: $60 Click here to view further details and to bid
A strong steel lined gun cabinet disguised as a Wellington Chest, height 55” x 22½” x 12½” depth, outwardly showing 7 draw faces (with secret lock) the interior green baize lined, provision for 3 longarms (possibly5), interior lockable cupboard with shelf (4 large loose bolts inside for attachment to wall). Good Condition (slight chipping to veneer to rear top edge). Plate 77
A pair of Regency mahogany and ebony strung dining room pedestals, in the manner of T & G Seddon, of gently tapered rectangular form, each with a platform top over a mahogany-lined panelled frieze drawer, a panelled cupboard door below, flanked by reeded tapered columns, on four lion paw feet, one interior retaining its original tin lining and mahogany bottle divisions, the other with a shelf, 63cm wide 50cm deep 93.5cm high (2) CONDITION REPORT: One fillet of wood replaced to underside of the top of one cabinet, otherwise no obvious major faults.
A Biedermeier mahogany centre table, c.1840, the oval top formed with four-figured mahogany planks, with a satinwood-lined long frieze drawer, on two turned end supports, each support standing on a demi-lune plinth, joined by a sunken rectangular shelf, 131cm wide 67cm deep 78cm high CONDITION REPORT: No obvious major faults.
A painted softwood bookcase, Victorian and later, in cream with red detailing, the crenulated cornice over a pair of four pane doors enclosing shelves, a pair of drawers and a panelled cupboard below, on a plain plinth, 168.5cm wide 32cm deep 256cm high CONDITION REPORT: Well painted; cornice and central shelf ends are tacked on and loose.
A Victorian Aesthetic painted bedroom suite, each piece painted in tones of green with flowers, foliage and storks, comprising: a pair of matched single beds, 92cm, a pot cupboard, with a shelf above a cupboard, 38cm, a dressing table, the rectangular mirror flanked by trinket drawers and a pair of drawers below, 107cm wide, two painted chairs, a washstand with a tile back and marble top over two drawers, 107cm wide, and a compactum wardrobe, with a shaped pediment, a mirrored door, a cupboard and an arrangement of four drawers, 126cm wide 219cm high (8) The bedheads were painted by Campbell Smith and Co. Ltd., to replicate the decoration on the other pieces and to complete the suite. CONDITION REPORT: Wardrobe 56cm deep. Dressing table 54cm deep. Washstand 56cm deep.
A superb William IV mahogany floor standing corner Cabinet with moulded cornice above the elegant opposing glazed pair of six pane doors with applied moulding and wooden glazing bars, revealing three shaped shelves, the base having opposing a pair of single, well figured arch panels revealing singled shaped shelf, on shaped apron and bracket feet, 44'' wide x 88'' high.
An excellent quality Edwardian occasional Cabinet with pierced upstand with oval bevel plate mirror, moulded top over single door with bevel plate mirror and lower inlaid geometric pattern panel, flanked by intricately inlaid panels, the sides with opening purdonium style panels with internal document racks, lower shaped shelf, standing on elegant tapering square legs terminating in spade feet, 30½'' wide x 55½'' high
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