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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
SOUTHERN AFRICAN FERNS AND FERN ALLIES, 1990
359 pages, 4to (305 x 220 mm), double page colour map, 83 plates from line drawings and numerous colour illustrations and distribution maps in the text, green cloth, a very good copy in the dust ...
R3,500
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 crisp. Half ...
R16,000
WORKING LIFE 1886-1940, 1987
263 pages, 4to (300 x 210mm) numerous black and white photographs and illustrations, pictorial card wrappers - paperback, a very good copy
R1,500
ADAMASTOR, 1950
101 pages,4to (270 x 230mm), 7 black and white illustrations, foxing on the page edges, half leather with blue boards, titled gilt on upper cover and spine (the spine is lightly rubbed and worn at the ...
R3,500
COUNTERINSURGENCY IN AFRICA, 2005
216 pages, maps, illustrations, paperback
R850
GENERAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL FEATURESOF THE VEGETATION OF THE MORE ARID PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA" WITH NOTES ON THE CLIMATIC ENVIRONMENT, 1924
159 pages, 8vo (250 x 170 mm), 31 plates numerous maps and other illustrations" bound in light brown card wrappers" slightly soiled
R450
REPORT OF THE TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT OF THE COLONY FOR THE YEAR 1877, 1878
40 pages, 4to ( 300 x 200 mm), printed blue wrappers
R1,000
REPORT OF THE GENERAL INFIRMARY, ROBBEN ISLAND, FOR 1870, 1871
43 pages, folio (340 x 220mm). blue wrappers.
R750
EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS, 1982
13 pages, 8vo (210 x150mm), paper wrappers, a good copy
R150
THE CAPE TOWN GAZETTE AND AFRICAN ADVERTISER, 1822
In one volume in a simple but sound twentieth century half leather binding with marbled paper sides probably rebound from an earlier or the first binding for the publisher. The first blank pages seems ...
R6,400
PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN, 1967
280 pages folio (320 x220mm), numerous black and white illustrations, red cloth titled gilt on the spine, a fine copy in the dust jacket. First edition
R2,000
MY LIFE IN BASUTO LAND, 1889
First edition. 293 pages, original blue cloth gilt, titled gilt on the spine, patterned end papers, a very good copy. Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography volume 1 page 307, 'Mr. Casalis ...
R1,000
HEALTH: THE VOYAGE TO SOUTH AFRICA, 1891
78 pages, 8vo (210 x 140 mm), frontispiece, 7 illustrations, 2 maps - one large folding at the end, navy cloth, titled gilt on upper cover which is slightly insect scarred.
R1,500
ZULU WAR JOURNAL, 1978
88 pages, 8vo (217 x 150 mm), maps on endpapers, 20 plates, black cloth, a very good copy in the dust jacket now preserved in a Brodart protector
R750
COLOURED PEOPLE: EDUCATION AND STATUS, 1971
28 pages, 8vo (220 x140mm), blue card wrappers, a very good copy
R300
NATIVE LIFE IN WESTERN PONDOLAND (Important photographic record), (Circa 1940)
Privately issued by the author, album of 66 pages (33 leaves on buff coloured card including an extra leaf, pages 21A and 21B on grey card titled 'After the Thunderstorm!') with 339 numbered ...
R80,000