Exploration and Travel
ITALY, WITH SKETCHES OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL, 1834
vi + 338, (ii) + 127 pages,8vo (210 x 135 mm), half calf with gilt decorated spine and green title lable, marbled boards, some light foxing on the preliminary pages, overall a very good copy
R1,500
THOMAS BOWLER IN MAURITIUS, 1970
64 pages, oblong 8vo (205 x 235 mm), map as frontispiece, 16 plates - 4 folding, white rexine back with brown paper-covered boards, titled gilt on the upper cover, a very good copy. Number 219 of ...
R800
ZANZIBAR; AND TWO MONTHS IN EAST AFRICA, 1858
[2],784 pages. The Burton articles pages 200-224, 276-290 & 572-589. Ex - John Rylands University Library of Manchester copy (basement reference stacks.) Contents very clean, bright and ...
R16,000
SIDE LIGHTS ON SOUTH AFRICA, 1900
Second edition: 74 pp., colour folding map, pages unopened, orig. red cloth slightly worn.
R750
JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA IN 1815 AND 1816, (1818) 1969
48 page introduction + 406 pages, 4to (277 x 222 mm), folding coloured map as frontispiece, 12 coloured plates and 4 uncoloured plates, brown cloth, light spotting on the page edges, a very good ...
R750
MATABELE LAND AND THE VICTORIA FALLS, (1881) 1971
383 pages, 8vo (225 x 145 mm), colour frontispiece, 4 folding maps, 15 colour and 2 black & white plates, numerous text illustrations, facsimile of a letter from Oates on endpapers, pictorial ...
R850
NARRATIVE OF FOUR JOURNEYS INTO THE COUNTRY OF THE HOTTENTOTS, 1789
vi, [ix]-xii, 171 pages followed by iii index, (i) errata and directions of placing of the plates, 17 engraved plates (14 of botanical subjects, 1 of a Camelopardalis (Giraffe) and two of Bushmen ...
R25,000
RAMBLES ON THE RIVIERA, 1906
444 pages, 8vo (235 x 160 mm),colour illustrations in the text, original pictorial green cloth, front hinge simply repaired with tape, binding sloping, one page loose and slightly soiled, top edge ...
R600
PETER PETROVICH SEMENOV, 1998
269 pages, 8vo (220 x 145 mm), colour illustrations, maps, blue cloth with gilt vignette on the upper cover, titled gilt on the spine, a very good copy in the dust jacket. The Hakluyt Society, ...
R250
SOUTH AFRICA, 1973
504 pages, 8vo (250 x 185 mm), sketch map of Trollope's route as frontispiece, paper covered boards and rexine back, a very good copy in the dust jacket
R400
SOUTH AFRICA, 1878
2 volumes: 317 +317 pages, edges uncut and top edges unopened, cream paper wrappers, front cover of volume 1 is detached, housed in a red cloth slipcase with dark beige paper sides. Tauchnitz edition
R3,000
WHALING VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD, In the Britannia and Speedy Transports, 2025
Transcribed and Edited by John Melville a descendant of Captain Thomas Melvill. lxxiv, 303 pages, 8vo (250 x 175 mm), illustrated throughout in colour, pictorial laminated boards, ...
R750
ZAMBESI EXPEDITION OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE, 1858-1863, 1956
2 volumes, 462 pages, 8vo (265 x 175 mm), colour frontispiece portrait, 16 colour plates, 2 folding maps, red buckram gilt, top edges gilt, light foxing on the uncut page edges and the dust ...
R1,500