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Aethiopia inferior vel exterior, c. 1640
50cm x 38cm. Willem Blaeu's famous map of Southern Africa which was the standard map of the region in the 17th century; it went into many editions [Loosely translated title: Aethiopia Inferior or ...
R12,000
COMPARATIVE GRAMMAR OF SOUTH AFRICAN LANGUAGES, 1862
92 pages, 8vo (220 x140mm), brown paper wrappers, back cover detached.
R10,000
INDEX ALTER PLANTARUM QUAE IN HORTO ACADEMICO LUGDUNO-BATAVO ALUNTUR, 1727
First Edition, second issue: 2 volumes: I. (34), (vi), 320. II. 270, (xviii index), pages, titles printed in red and black, engraved vignettes on the title pages, folding engraved plan of the ...
R40,000
ELEMENTARY LESSONS IN SYSTEMATIC BOTANY, No date (circa 1919)
96 pages, 8vo (185 x 125 mm), illustrations, grey card wrappers
R400
MAFEKING ROAD, 1947
133 pages, 8vo (220 x 145 mm), original grey cloth titled in black on the upper cover and spine - the spine is faded and slightly stained , the front and back covers are spotted, otherwise the ...
R450
NATAL REBELLION OF 1906, 1907
222 pages, 8vo (193 x 135 mm), folding frontispiece, folding map, 6 plans, 21 illustrations, red cloth titled gilt on the spine, a very good copy
R2,500
PLACE NAMES, No date (circa 1926)
186 pages, 8vo (190 x 130 mm), folding map, brown cloth, some foxing on preliminary pages and page edges
R350
PAINTERS OF SOUTH AFRICA, (Circa 1948)
133 pages of text, 4to (330 x250mm), coloured frontispiece by Pierneef laid down, numerous black and white illustrations, 12 coloured plates laid down, brown cloth gilt in a dust jacket which is ...
R750
THOMAS BOWLER OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 1955
248 pages, 4to (270 x220mm), colour frontispiece of Bowler tipped in, 11 full colour plates tipped in, numerous black and white plates and illustrations, dark blue cloth titled gilt on the spine, a ...
R750
AFRICANA BOOKS AND PICTURES, 1975
136 pages, 8vo (255 x 185 mm), numerous illustrations, quarter brown leather gilt, marbled boards, dust jacket. No. 67 of the de luxe edition limited to 100 copies signed by the author
R750
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 an ...
R800
BEYOND THE BOUNDS OF HISTORY, 1949
100 pages, small 4to (250 x 190 mm), frontispiece, 11 black & white and 31 colour illustrations, original cloth, slightly worn dust jacket now preserved in a Broadrt protector
R250
OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE, 2002
311 pages, 8vo (200 x 130 mm), pictorial card covers -paperback, a very good copy
R350
WHIRLWIND BEFORE THE STORM, 1980
368 pages, 8vo (210 x150mm), pictorial stiff card wrappers - paperback, a good copy
R750
PROGRESS OF THE BANTU, 1928
14 pages, 8vo (220 x140mm) brown card wrappers
R250
HUGUENOT HERITAGE, 1987
72 pages, 8vo (285 x 220 mm), many colour and other illustrations and maps, pictorial laminated boards (hardback)
R350
SECURE THE SHADOW, 1970
291 pages, 8vo (250 x 190 mm), frontispiece, 139 illustrations, slight foxing on the page edges, brown cloth boards, titled gilt on the spine, a good copy in the dust jacket.
R750
NATAL CAMPAIGN, 1900
418 pages, 8vo (210 x 150 mm), frontispiece portrait, 12 plates, 3 folding maps, pictorial blue cloth, fore-edge and bottom edge uncut with slight foxing on these edges, a good copy. Bell's Indian and ...
R2,500
STRANGE SHIPWRECKS OF THE SOUTHERN SEAS, 1968
186 pages, 4to (245 x 185 mm), frontispiece, 4 maps, 15 illustrations, blue cloth, dust jacket
R750
OVERBERG OUTSPAN, 1988
310 pages, 8vo (235 x 155 mm), frontispiece, maps on endpapers, numerous illustrations, line drawings, grey cloth covers, a good copy in a slightly worn dust jacket
R500