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THE K***RS ILLUSTRATED, 1974
A facsimile reprint of the large folio of hand coloured lithographs published in 1849, with an introduction and notes by Dr. Frank Bradlow. 133 pages, 35 subjects mounted on 30 leaves with ...
R5,200
MEMORABILIA, c. 1900 -1902
7 items housed in an orange folder
R2,500
PROCLAMATIONS ISSUED BY FIELD-MARSHAL LORD ROBERTS IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1900
23 pages, folio (330 x 220mm) cover title, no wrappers, bound with thread preserved in a Brodart protector
R350
TIME OF OUR LIVES, 1982
96 pages, 8vo (190 x130mm), pictorial card wrappers - paperback, a very good copy
R250
STORY OF THE ZULU CAMPAIGN., 1880
408 pages,8vo (215 x 140 mm), folding map neatly repaired at the first fold, recent half dark blue morocco, marbled paper sides, all edges gilt, a very good copy.
R11,500
THE STORY OF THE ZULU CAMPAIGN, 1898
408 + 10 pages (new index), 8vo (215 x 145 mm), folding map, brown cloth boards, new in the dust jacket
R450
AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL CONTINGENT, 1900, No date (1900)
32 pages ? 4 pages of letterpress followed by photographic portraits and illustrations interspersed with commercial advertisement, oblong 8vo (160 x 245 mm), recently rebound in half green cloth ...
R7,500
SCENERY AND EVENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1977
A facsimile reprint of the 1852 edition of hand coloured lithographs with an introduction and descriptive notes by F.R. Bradlow. 7 pages of letterpress, folio (607 x 455 mm), 6 colour plates with ...
R2,600
ERICAS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA, No date (1967)
180 pages, colour photographic frontispiece - Erica Tumida growing at 5,000 ft on a mountain in the Cold Bokkeveld north of Ceres, 167 colour plates, 2 further colour plates reproduced from Bauer's ...
R875
SOUTHERN AFRICAN EPIPHYTIC ORCHIDS, 1978
248 pages, colour frontispiece, 102 colour plates each with descriptive text and a distribution map opposite, 25 colour illustrations from photographs, folding key to the genera, red rexine, titled ...
R1,500
CAPE COUNTRY FURNITURE, 1971
286 pages, 4to (285 x 205 mm), 891 black & white illustrations, brown cloth title gilt on the spine, a good copy in a slightly frayed dust jacket
R1,250
THE COMING REVOLUTION IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1985
198 pages, 8vo ( 220 x130mm), pictorial card wrappers, paperback, a very good copy
R500
SLOGGING OVER AFRICA, 2002
176 pages, 8vo (250 x 190 mm), profusely illustrated in black and white, maps, pictorial card covers - paperback, a find copy
R600
FLOWERS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA, 1988
Limited edition: 401 pages, 100 colour plates. Original dark green simulated leather boards, gilt on spine. Illustrated dust jacket protected in plastic slip cover. A very good copy. This is copy ...
R1,750
PHONETICS OF THE HOTTENTOT LANGUAGE, 1938
329 pages, small 4to (250 x 190 mm), map as frontispiece, 12 plates, 22 text figures, folding plan of kymographic tracings and numerous tonetic transcriptions, red buckram gilt, back slightly faded, ...
R2,500
GLIMPSES OF THE LIVES AND TIMES OF THE EARLY TASMANIAN GOVERNORS, No date (Preface dated 1905
46 pages, 8vo (230 x 150 mm), 48 plates ? 2 folding ? including 2 maps, original green cloth titled gilt within a blind stamped border on the title page ? the cloth is insect damaged on the spine ...
R500
SONGS & LYRICS FROM THE PLAYS OF BEAUMONT & FLETCHER, 1928
72 pages,4to (300 x200 mm), quarter vellum, white cloth sides, decorated gilt on upper cover and titled gilt along the spine, blemish in the vellum at the base of the spine - appears to be due to ...
R1,750
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
HIDDEN TREASURES : IRMA STERN, 2000
First Edition, 56 pages, 8vo (250 x180 mm), frontispiece portrait of Irma Stern, 21 plates chiefly in colour of her ex-libris paintings, other colour illustrations of book covers, black and white ...
R1,500
STORY OF SOUTH AFRICAN PAINTING, 1975
256 pages, 4to (280 x 205 mm), illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, quarter leather with marbled boards, titled gilt on the spine, a very good copy in the dust jacket.. First edition
R1,500