Welcome to Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
Founded in 1958, Clarke's deals in Antiquarian books specialising in Africana, prints, maps and ephemera concentrating mainly on Africa south of the Sahara. Books are mailed worldwide and payment by credit card is preferred. To view books on all subjects visit our listings on AntiquarianAuctions.com
Featured Items
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Layard (E.L.) & Sharpe (R.B.)
BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA
890 pages, pages 856-867 missing as usual (probably never published), 8vo (250 x 165 mm), 12 hand coloured plates by Keulemans (including frontispiece), original publisher's… Full details
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[Payne (Malcolm) Editor]
FACE VALUE
A visual, archaeological and historical reading of the Lydenburg Heads, edited by Malcolm Payne. Fourteen original hand-printed monochrome etchings and seven original hand-printed etched renderings… Full details
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Dronsfield (John)
FIFTY AFRICAN IMPROVISATIONS
1 page letterpress and 50 plates, 4to (305 x 260 mm), light blue paper-covered boards with paper title label on the upper cover, the back… Full details
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Fitzsimons (V.F.)
LIZARDS OF SOUTH AFRICA
528 pages, 8vo (250 x 165 mm), 24 plates, folding map in pocket in back cover, 384 text figures, blue cloth titled gilt on upper… Full details
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Cape Town and Green Point Tramway Company
OFFICIAL COMPANY ALBUM
large 4to album (360 x 220 mm), containing over 100 leaves onto which are pasted tickets, timetables, annual reports, newspaper cuttings, etc., recently rebound in… Full details
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South African Archaeological Society
SOUTH AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL BULLETIN
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Cricket
SOUTH AFRICAN CRICKET REVIEW
18 issues, small 4to (248 x 190 mm), variously from 24 to 48 pages each issue, many photographs, bound together in green skivertex and titled… Full details
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[Holtom (Ernest Charles)]
TWO YEARS' CAPTIVITY IN GERMAN EAST AFRICA
239 pages, 8vo (190 x 125 mm), map of German East Africa as frontispiece, orginal brown cloth a little dull, ownership signature on the front… Full details
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De Meillon (Henry Clifford)
UNUSUAL PANORAMA OF TABLE MOUNTAIN, LION'S HEAD AND SIGNAL HILL
The hinge between the two pages has been expertly strengthened and the backs lined with Japanese tissue. Each 226 x 295 mm with the painted… Full details
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De Meillon (Henry Clifford)
VIEW OF CAPE TOWN AND TABLE BAY
26 x 295, the painted area 160 x 239 mm, signed by artist De Meillon del. 45 mm tear in the margin at the bottom… Full details