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__________________________________________________________________________________________ ARCHAEOLOGY (1-3) CAPE (4-15) EASTERN CAPE (16-23) LITERATURE & FOLKLORE (24-30) MILITARY HISTORY (31-37) MINING (38-40) MODERN AFRICA (41-42) NATURAL HISTORY (43-47) SCIENCE & INDUSTRY (48-50) SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY & POLITICS (51-61) SPORT (62-66) TRAVEL & EXPLORATION (67-82) ARCHAEOLOGY

1. Londt, J. G. H.: Annals of the Natal Museum. Volume 27 Part 2. December 1986 (Pietermaritzburg: The Natal Museum Council, 1986) 246 x 170 mm; card wrappers; pp. (viii) + [357-720]. Spine sunned. Very good condition. This issue is devoted to Archaeology and Natural Science, and includes the following articles: Mazel, A. D. - Mgede Shelter: a mid- and late Holocene observation in the western Biggarsberg, Thukela Basin, Natal, South Africa; Mazel, A. D. - Mbabane Shelter and eSinhlonhlweni Shelter: the last two thousand years of

hunter-gatherer settlement in the central Thukela Basin, Natal, South Africa; Maggs, T., Oswald, D., Hall, M. and Rüther, H. - Spatial parameters of Late Iron Age settlements in the upper Thukela Valley; Maggs, T. - Hloma Mathonsi, the Zulu blacksmith: a record by the Reverend H. F. O. Dedekind in 1929; Cunningham, A. B. and Gwala, B. R. - Building methods and plant species used in Tembe-Thonga hut construction; Londt, J. G. H. - Afrotropical Asilidae (Diptera) 13. The genus Neolophonotus Engel, 1925. Part 2. The suillus species-group (Asilinae: Asilini); Herbert, D. G. - A revision of the southern African Scissurellidae (Mollusca; Gastropoda: Prosobranchia); Kilburn, R. N. - Turridae (Molusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 3. Subfamily Borsoniinae. £15.00 / R240

2. Pager, Harald: Ndedema. A documentation of the rock paintings of the Ndedema Gorge (Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1971) Folio; original coarse, flecked cloth, with lettering to spine and rock painting device to upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper (housed in removable protector); pp. xiii + (i) + 375, incl. index; sumptuously illustrated with photographs of the paintings, including four-page, folding colour spreads, plus line drawings, diagrams, tables, graphs, photographs of the surrounding landscape. Dustwrapper a touch rippled, with skillful tissue repairs to slightly worn top and bottom edges; earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper. A beautiful copy of this work, surely the most celebrated monograph on a single

locality in the entire catalogue of Rock Art literature. Raymond A. Dart states: "Pager's patient discovering, exact photographing, scrupulous copying and precise reproduction of every recognisable detail in Ndedema's treasure trove of seventeen rock shelters has already broken all records in the recovery of Africa's prehistoric art and set new standards by wedding the totality of its collection with a critical exactitude of analysis. He has thus also succeeded in combining the aesthetic beauty and multitudinous bounty of Africa's faunal past as found on these rocks with his policy of preserving it in its entirety. His competence in focusing such maximal illumination upon this single but central valley ... will enthrall scientist, connoisseur and collector of Africana alike ... " £295.00 / R4720

3. Saitowitz, Sharma, & Ethleen Lastovica: Rediscovering the Cape Glass Company at Glencairn. History and archaeology of an industrial enterprise 1902-1906 (Germiston: Consol, 1998) Signed on the title page by one of the authors. 235 x 152 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. xii + 107, incl. index; plates; diagrams; tables; maps. Near fine condition. "In 1902 the Cape Glass Company located at Glencairn near Simon's Town was conceived as one of the most modern glass factories of its time. Misfortunes beset this ambitious venture on the

south-western tip of Africa and within a few years the factory was abandoned. Over the decades, windblown sand reclaimed the site, until in 1983 the glass tank containing a slab of glass was the only visible monument of what had been an extensive factory site. Two intensive periods of archaeological excavation took place on site in 1983 and 1992-3. The aim was to expose the buried buildings and equipment in an attempt to piece together the story of what might have become a major industry at the Cape." £30.00 / R480

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4. Cullinan, Patrick: Robert Jacob Gordon 1743-1795. The Man and his Travels at the Cape (Cape Town: Struik Winchester, 1992) Author's presentation inscription to title page. 4to; original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; laminated pictorial dustwrapper and matching laminated pictorial slipcase; pp. 215 + (i), incl. index; maps; lavishly illustrated with contemporary artwork, largely in full colour. Near fine condition. "This is the first full-length biography, in any language, of the remarkable eighteenth-century soldier, scientist and explorer Robert Jacob Gordon (1743-1795). It examines his early life, his explorations in southern Africa, his military service at the Cape, and concludes with his tragic suicide

after the surrender of the Cape to the British 1795. Though of Scottish descent, he was first and foremost a Dutchman, serving initially in the elite Scots Brigade and later with the Dutch East India Company, in whose service he rose to the rank of colonel and commanded the Cape garrison from 1780 to 1795. ... Quoting extensively from his own translation of Gordon's papers and journals, as well as from numerous contemporary sources, the author skilfully reveals a man of discipline, integrity and humanity, whose

resourceful and enquiring mind was indefatigable in its pursuit of knowledge." £60.00 / R960

5. Leighton, Stanley (author and illustrator), and A.M. Lewin Robinson (editor): Notes on a

visit to South Africa. February - March - April 1889. With thirty pencil sketches by the author (Cape Town: A.A. Balkema for the Friends of the South African Library, 1975) 4to; pale rexine-backed papered boards, lettered in gilt on spine and with publisher's gilt device to upper cover; pp. vii + (i) + 103, incl. index; illustrations in text. Top fore-corners slightly rubbed; spotting to top edge; earlier owner's name signed on front pastedown. Very good condition. "Leighton, with his wife and her maid Mardel, sailed for Cape Town in R.M.S. Drummond Castle from Dartmouth on 18 January 1889. ... The intention of Leighton's visit was clearly to see as much of the country as possible and to meet and converse with as many as possible of the people that mattered in all walks of life. The knowledge thus gained must have been most valuable to the Government (Salisbury's second administration) on his return home. ... The sketches ... are usually dated and with the help of these and the contemporary press we are able to draw up his approximate itinerary ... By 15 May Leighton was back in the House of Commons as he was speaking on the Welsh Education Bill on that date." £12.50 / R200

6. Marincowitz, Helena: Swartberg Pass. Masterpiece of a brilliant Road Engineer

(Oudtshoorn: the author, 2004) 210 x 210 mm; saddle-stitched pictorial wraps; pp. 24; monochrome illustrations; maps. Some creasing; a little rubbed. Good condition. "The Swartberg Pass between Prince Albert and Oudtshoorn, is undoubtedly one of the most spectacular and best known mountain passes in South Africa. The pass is the masterpiece of that remarkable and brilliant engineer and road builder, Thomas Charles Bain (1830 - 1893). This is also the last of the seventeen passes built by Bain in the Cape Province. To the motorist, crossing the Swartberg Pass

remains an unforgettable experience. Delightful surprises wait around each bend as beautiful scenery is revealed. On entering the gorge from the Prince Albert side, one is overwhelmed by a feeling of insignificance as one travels between towering, rugged, sheer cliffs." £8.50 / R136

7. Péringuey, L.: Inscriptions left by Early European Navigators on their way to the

East ([Cape Town]: South African Museum, 1913) Reprinted from the "Annals of the South African Museum," Vol. XIII, as Guide Leaflet No 1. 210 x 135 mm; saddle-stitched card wrappers; pp. 40; photographic illustrations in text. Wrappers a bit worn, with small bleed stain to upper cover; archival tape strengthening to spine; corners a little curled, and a few leaves with short tears to fore-edge. Good. (SABIB 3, p. 654) "Péringuey's monograph on Cape Town's 'post-office stones', entitled Inscriptions left by early European navigators on their way to the East (Cape Town, 1913; 3rd edition, 1950), first appeared in the Annals of the South African Museum, and is still in use as one of the directories for visitors to the museum, although many of the facts have become outdated." - DSAB II, p. 538 £10.00 / R160

8. Simons, Phillida Brooke (editor): John Blades Currey 1850 to 1900: Fifty Years in the

Cape Colony (Johannesburg: The Brenthurst Press, 1986) Brenthurst Second Series, number 2. Standard edition limited to 850 copies. Large 4to; original crimson cloth; laminated pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; tinted top edge; silk markers; pp. 275 + (i), incl. index; several reproductions of contemporary illustrations, in monochrome and full colour. Earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper. A few fox

spots to fore-edge, else fine. "The name of John Blades Currey (1829-1904) is seldom mentioned in histories of southern Africa. Indeed, the young Englishman who arrived at the Cape in 1850 made little direct impact on its story. He was nonetheless to become a profound influence on some of the Cape's most famous men and an astute chronicler of the political and social events of his time. His memoirs, published here for the first time, cover half a century of Cape history, from 1850 to 1900. Soldiering, farming, copper-mining - Currey tried all these; then, on the advice of governor Sir George Grey he joined the Cape civil service. While in its employ in the late 1860s he was entrusted with the task of introducing to a sceptical Europe southern

Africa's first diamond, the 'Eureka'. Later, as secretary to the government of Griqualand West, he chose the new name of 'Kimberley' for the burgeoning diamond-fields town of New Rush. But in 1875 Currey was blamed for the diggers' rebellion there, and this led to his dismissal from office and blighted his subsequent public career. While he was in Kimbeley Currey befriended two young fortune-hunters, both of whom were to become renowned premiers of the Cape: Cecil John Rhodes and John X. Merriman. To both of them Currey was to remain a lifelong friend and counsellor. ... He is revealed in the account not as a politician but as a man who helped to shape politicians, not as a man who made history but rather as one who was passionately part of it. The manuscript forms part of The Brenthurst Collection, as do the majority of the contemporary illustrations which complement the text." £45.00 / R720

9. Smith, Anna H.: Cape Views and Costumes. Water-colours by H. C. de Meillon in the Brenthurst Collection, Johannesburg (Johannesburg: The Brenthurst Press, 1978) Number 115 of 125 copies bound in half leather, from a total printing of one thousand copies. The third volume in the Brenthust first series. 4to; original green half morocco with marbled boards and matching marbled slipcase; spine tooled in compartments, with gilt-on-red lettering-piece to second compartment; t.e.g.; pp. 134; full-colour plates. Slipcase somewhat rubbed and partially sunned; spine very slightly sunned. A near fine copy in a rubbed slipcase. A charming visual document of life at the Cape of Good Hope as it was nearly two hundred years ago. Although

comparatively little is known about Henry Clifford de Meillon, Anna H. Smith, in her chapter 'The artist: his life and work', pieces together the facts that have survived, and remarks that De Meillon's "pictures are today a most valuable record of the peoples and places of the Cape in the early nineteenth century." £175.00 / R2800

10. Stellenbosch Fynproewersgilde: The Way We Eat in Stellenbosch

(Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1979) 4to; original white boards, lettered in black on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 56, incl. index; line drawings. Dustwrapper rubbed, sunned and a bit edgeworn; occasional fox spot. Very good condition, in a good dustwrapper. "The Stellenbosch Fynproewersgilde aims at establishing and fostering a distinctly Stellenbosch food and wine culture. In this third centennial year of Stellenbosch it gives the Fynproewersgilde great pleasure in dedicating this book to everyone who is interested in good food, which has always been closely associated with our traditional hospitality." £4.00 / R64

11. Strassberger, Elfriede: The Rhenish Mission Society in South Africa, 1830-1950 (Cape Town: Struik, 1969) 4to; original blue rexine, lettered in gilt on spine, and with gilt publisher's device to upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xv + (iii) + 109, incl. index; plates; tables. Dustwrapper somewhat foxed, a little edgeworn, and sunned on spine panel; some foxing to endpapers, occasionally elsewhere; earlier owner's name signed on front pastedown. Good condition. "In the first

part of this book the author gives the development of the mission's work in South Africa to the beginning of the work of the Rhenish Mission Society and tells why South Africa was chosen as the first mission field of the R.M.S. In the second part she gives an historical picture of the mission stations at: Amandelboom, Concordia, Komaggas, Out Posts, Richtersveld, Stellenbosch, Steinkopf, Tulbagh, and Worcester, and of the Institutions Evenhaezer and Wupperthal." £15.00 / R240

12. Tapson, Winifred: Timber and Tides. The Story of Knysna and Plettenberg Bay

(Cape Town: Juta, 1973) 8vo; original boards; pictorial dustwrapper; earlier owner's book label and signature to half-title; endpaper map; pp. xiv + (ii) + 199, incl. index; plates; line drawings; folding genealogical table. Dustwrapper edgeworn, partially sunned, and somewhat fishmothed to reverse; lower corners turned; edges browned; occasional fox spot; one fold of table partially nibbled, with archival tape repair. Good. "For its size, Knysna is probably the best-known place in South Africa. ... Plettenberg Bay, now the playground of tourists, was the

precursor of Knysna as a port for shipping much-needed timber from the forests to Cape Town." £7.50 / R120

13. van Rensburg, Chris (compiler): Springbok ... Namaqualand

(Springbok: Muncipality of Springbok, 1984) 250 x 200 mm; saddle-stitched pictorial card wrappers; unpaginated (but pp. 28); photographs; adverts. Crease to lower cover; wrappers very slightly rubbed and foxed; a little foxing. Very good condition. Bilingual text (Afrikaans / English) Overview of this Northern Cape town. £10.00 / R160

14. Various authors: Heart of a City. Some of the lectures given on this theme at the

University of Cape Town's Public Summer School. January - February, 1972 (Cape Town: Board of Extra-Mural Studies, University of Cape Town, 1972) Bookplate of Ruth and Walter Middelmann inside upper cover in each case. 2 volumes; each 297 x 208 mm; side-stitched wrappers with tape spines; pp. (ii) + 9 + (i) + 17 + (i) + 12 + 11 + (i) + 14, (ii) + 26 + (ii) + 18 + (i) + 20. Occasional fox spot; tape peeling from spines slightly. Good to very good condition. Contents: Some Metropolitan Growth Impressions, by L. Anthony Barac; The Culture of a City, by N. Dubow; Metropolitan Civic Government: Why and How, by W. J. B. Slater; The Economics of Cities, by Peter Penny; Urban Noise, by J. F. Burger; The

Municipal Government of Cape Town, by H. G. Heugh; Pollution in the City, by V. L. Granger; The City of the Future, by Revel Fox. £17.50 / R280

15. Waterhouse, Gilbert (introduction) and others (transcription & translation): Simon van

der Stel's Journey to Namaqualand in 1685 (Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1979) Numbered 'H' of an edition limited to 750 copies. Folio; original brown-flecked cloth, lettered in dark brown on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 431; full-colour illustrations. Dustwrapper slightly curled to edges, and sunned on spine panel; light foxing to edges and outermost leaves, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition. Complete facsimile of the original manuscript, including the Claudius illustrations in full colour; followed by a transcription of the text, with a new translation to the facing pages. Even more uncommon that Waterhouse's version, this large-format production is a great improvement, particularly in providing the illustrations in colour. 'Since the discovery in 1922 of the long lost manuscript of Simon van der Stel's journal of his expedition to Namaqualand by the late Professor Gilbert Waterhouse, former Professor of German at the University of Dublin and the Queen's

University, Belfast, it had been hoped that the drawings accompanying the manuscript and attributed to Heinrich Claudius could be published in full colour. However, when Professor Waterhouse published his edition of the Journal in 1932 (Simon van der Stel's Journal of his Expedition to Namaqualand, 1685-6) only monochrome plates in reduced size could be accommodated. Professor Waterhouse himself abandoned "all hope of a revised and enlarged second edition, with the plates in colour" by 1953 when he published his Supplement: Addenda et Corrigenda to the original edition. This new edition of the Journal contains, for the first time, the 71 surviving drawings in full colour as well as facsimile reproductions of the entire manuscript. In addition, the original introduction by Professor Waterhouse, as revised by him before his death in 1977, could be included in this edition. A new transcription and English translation of the Journal, respectively by Dr. G. C. de Wet, Chief Archivist, Cape Archives Depot, and Professor R. H. Pheiffer, Professor of Afrikaans en Nederlands, University of Cape Town, are published for the first time in this edition.' £125.00 / R2000

EASTERN CAPE 16. Great Britain, Parliament: Cape Colony. Correspondence respecting the Affairs of

Pondoland. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. August 1885. (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1885, 1887, 1888) TO SELL WITH: 'Cape Colony. Correspondence respecting the Affairs of Pondoland. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. (In continuation of [C.-4590] of August 1885.)' AND 'South Africa. Further Correspondence respecting the Affairs of Pondoland. (In continuation of [C.-5022] of March 1887.)' Three imperial blue books C.-4590, C.-

5022, and C.-5410. New blue card wrappers, with title label to upper cover in each case; 325 x 210 mm; pp. iv + 25, xi + (i) + 187, iv + 19; coloured maps in second and third volumes. Fore-corners a little bumped; discreet hand-stamp to title page, and light marginal browning in each case. Very good condition. (Mendelssohn II, p. 667: All three items listed) "Bordered by a covetous Natal to the north, and lying between the Mtamvuna and Mtata rivers, Pondoland managed to retain its independence long after most African states had been occupied by whites and

annexed. It was divided by the Mzimvubu River into the two chiefdoms of eastern and western Pondoland, in both of which a number of whites - most of them of dubious character - established themselves as 'advisers' and traders. The move to end independence by annexation to the Cape gained momentum in the late 1880s, when a co-ordinated and uniform 'African policy' was required to ensure a smooth response to the ever-increasing demand for labour." - Christopher Saunders, et al: Illustrated History of South Africa: The Real Story, p. 220. The first paper (C.-4590) appears to represent

an attempt to undermine the authority of Mqikela (Umquikela), paramount chief of the Mpondo, and, through creating a series of minor alarms, to suggest infringements of the treaty granting British protection over the coast. The "infringement of the Pondo Xesibe boundary by a Pondo named Tunga" is reported, as is the landing of a cargo at Port Grosvenor, and much attention is given to the concession granted to German Emil Nagel over land on the east bank of the Mzimvubu, with copies of despatches to the German government. Mendelssohn summarises the additional two volumes thus: C.-5022: "Suggested German Protectorate. Herr Nagel's Claims. Annexation of Xesibe Country.

Relations with Natal, &c." C.-5410: "Claims of Herr Nagel and Herr Einwald." A British expeditionary force finally acted to annex Pondoland to the crown during the 1890s. £120.00 / R1920

17. Great Britain, Parliament: German Emigration (Cape of Good Hope). Copies or

Extracts of any Despatches concerning German Emigration to the Cape of Good Hope, from the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the Governor of the Cape of

Good Hope (London: House of Commons, 1858) Imperial Blue-Book Code: 389. Title continues: from December 1856 up to the present Date; And, of any such Despatches since those last presented concerning the German Military Settlers at the Cape of Good Hope, up to the present Date. New blue card wrappers, with title label to upper cover; 330 x 210 mm; pp. iv + 50. Fore-

corners a little bumped; contemporary penned page-numbering to top fore-corners of recto's, suggestive of item's removal from a compilation of parliamentary papers; occasional minor fox spot. Very good condition. (Mendelssohn II, p. 662) A very important document in the history of the Border region (Kaffraria) of the Eastern Cape, relating much about the settlement of German soldiers in the area following the Crimean War. Today, East London and its hinterland are filled with families whose German surnames originate in the scheme for settling members of the Anglo-German legion, and the ensuing settlement of German civilian families. "Meanwhile [Sir George] Grey had arranged for German members of the Anglo-German legion, which had been recruited for the Crimean War, to be sent to the Cape; during the crisis they arrived at the right moment to strengthen his military position in the frontier districts. They were followed by German civilian immigrants, whom he settled in British Kaffraria. But this displeased the British government and Grey was forced to abandon his scheme halfway through." - DSAB I, p. 328. £50.00 / R800

18. [Grey High School]: Old Greys' Union Centenary 1893 - 1993 (Port Elizabeth: The Grey Institute Development Trust, 1993) 297 x 210 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 96; numerous illustrations. Very good condition. "The Old Greys' Union is celebrating its centenary and it is our privilege as Heads of the respective Schools to be associated with the Grey and its Alumni. The Union's objective has been to produce a brochure that will interest and maintain a connection between someone who was at Grey in 1920 and the boy who matriculated in 1992. The

Grey has a fascinating history and a network of alumni that makes this Institution the dynamic one it is." - From the Foreword £10.00 / R160

19. Logie, Bartle: Governor's Travels. A journey along the Kouga/Tsitsikamma Coast

(Port Elizabeth: Bluecliff Publishing, 1999) Signed by author on title page. 200 x 146 mm; side-stitched pictorial wrappers with later additional lamination; pp. 164; monochrome illustrations in text; folding map at rear. Very good condition. Fascinating local history in which "many previously untold stories unfold about ... this almost forgotten corner of South Africa. Included are shipwrecks, and the building of the roads, railway and bridges. The early Khoekhoe, the farming community and natural features are not overlooked." £12.50 / R200

20. Pitman, Norah Massey, and C G Henning: Graaff-Reinet 200 [Lantern. July 1986.

Volume 35. No 2] (Pretoria: Foundation for Education, Science and Technology, 1986) 297 x 210 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 160; profusely illustrated with historical and

modern photographs, artwork and maps, including some colour. Wrappers very slightly rubbed. Very good condition. English and Afrikaans contributions. "On the occasion of Graaff-Reinet's bicentenary LANTERN asked Mrs Norah Pitman to write about the town's history; her manuscript was lengthy. It appeared that passages from Dr C G Henning's Graaff-Reinet - A Cultural History (1786-1886) brought up to date to cover the town's second century, would make a fine survey complete. Dr Henning accepted the challenge at short

notice, and the two manuscripts have grown into a special issue. ... Mrs Pitman explains her approach as an effort to see things, as far as possible, from the viewpoint of each ethnic group, and from the grass-roots level, rather than from the top of the hierarchy." £17.50 / R280

21. Redgrave, J. J.: The Collegiate School for Girls, Port Elizabeth 1874-1974 (Port Elizabeth: The Collegiate School for Girls, 1974) 8vo; original blue rexine with silver gilt lettering to spine and emblem to upper board; dustwrapper; pp. xii + 224, incl. index; plates; line drawings in text. Dustwrapper ever so slightly edgeworn; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; some moderate foxing to endpapers. Very good condition. Centenary history of an Eastern Cape institution, the Collegiate School for Girls in Port Elizabeth. £12.50 / R200

22. Shaw, William: Never a Young Man. Extracts from the letters and journals of the

Rev. William Shaw (Cape Town: HAUM, 1967) Compiled by Celia Sadler. 8vo; original grey boards; pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. 189; plates. Dustwrapper a little foxed and very slightly edgeworn; occasional fox spot. Good to very good condition. 'At the age of nineteen he married Ann Maw and two years later he was ordained as a Methodist minister and appointed chaplain to Sephton's party, and came with his wife and baby daughter on the Aurora to South Africa under the British Settler scheme of 1820. For most young men so great a responsibility in a strange and hostile country would have been overwhelming, but in the words of his friend, William Boyce, "though young in years ... he was never, strictly speaking, a young man." This account of the life and work of the Rev. William Shaw has been compiled of extracts from his letters and journals. It provides a vivid, first hand account of the conditions in which the settlers found themselves in the land of their adoption, and it tells of Shaw's meeting with the Dutch Trekkers, the African tribesmen, the government officials, the slaves, the Hottentots and the many other peoples in this broad corner of the continent. The events in themselves might be of interest, but it is the character and personality of Shaw himself which illuminates the record for he brought to everything he did a sober judgement, a human warmth, and an invincible faith in God's providence.' £6.00 / R96

23. Stirk, Doris (compiler), and Michael Cooke (editor): Kasouga Sands (Port Alfred: the

compiler, 1991) Cover title: 'Kasouga Sands. The story of the Eastern Cape's first seaside resort.' 170 x 140 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 142; photographs; line drawings; map. Upper cover very slightly sunned. Very good condition. Eastern Cape local history, devoted to a little-known but much-loved coastal retreat. "To regular visitors and permanent residents, the name of Kasouga brings to mind a beautiful expanse of rolling sand hills

with many-hued waves breaking on the lovely flat beaches ... the shallow river which is so safe for children to bathe in ... New Year's Hill which the younger generation climb every New Year's Eve to light a bonfire ... and the neat array of cottages nestling on the park-like hillside. ... There are not many of its holidaymakers who can remember the

days where there were no Land Rovers of Jeeps or beach buggies ... when the old and young used to travel down to the beach from their various cottages by ox wagon or horse-drawn buggy for the early morning swim ... " £7.50 / R120

LITERATURE & FOLKLORE 24. Adey, David, and others (compilers): Companion to South African

English Literature (Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, 1989) 8vo; original orange boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 220; photographic portraits. School reference library handstamp to pastedowns and title page; trace of spotting to edges. Very good condition. "The Companion is the latest and most complete reference work on South African literature and covers a period of almost two hundred years, from 1795 to 1986. The Companion includes articles on over 450 authors, journals, important works and composite articles on the following: African-language Literature; Africana; Afrikaans Literature; Anthologies; Awards and Prizes; Banned Books; Biography; Black Consciousness; Black Theatre; Boer War Writing; British Settlers of 1820; Censorship; Criticism; Dictionaries; Education; Expatriate Literature; Exploration; History; Humour and Satire; Libraries and Museums; New Black Poetry; Periodicals; Popular Literature; Press and Publishing; Prose Commentary; Short Stories; Translations and Zimbabwean Literature. The Companion will be an invaluable reference for academics, scholars, librarians and the serious reader of South African Literature." £15.00 / R240

25. Greaves, Nick (author), and Rod Clement (illustrator): When Lion Could Fly. And other Tales from Africa (Johannesburg: Southern, 1999) 220 x 170 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 144; illustrations in colour and monochrome; distribution maps. Trace of spotting to edges. Near fine condition. "This book complements When Hippo Was Hairy. It hopes to show that the rich heritage of African folklore involves the small creatures as well as the great and that we are all part of the great diversity of life that is now at stake. It is hoped

that some of you who read these and other similar books will care enough when it is your time to run things to bring this period of ignorance and greed to an end; to make amends with Mother Nature and to heal the wounds made by previous generations." £6.50 / R104

26. Hauptfleisch, Temple, and Ian Steadman (editors): South African

Theatre. Four plays and and introduction (Pretoria: HAUM, 1984) 8vo; lacquered pictorial boards; pp. (vi) + 250. Corners a bit scuffed; boards slightly rubbed; trace of spotting to edges. Good condition. Besides the featured plays (Christine, by Bartho Smit; Hello and Goodbye, by Athol Fugard; The Hungry Earth, by Maishe Maponya; Cincinatti - Scenes from City Life, by Barney Simon), this book includes an introduction to each work, and history of 'Theatre and socio-political events1887 to 1983.' £5.00 / R80

27. Pasternak, Boris: The Poems of Doctor Zhivago (London: Roger Schlesinger, 1969) Translated from the Russian by Eugene M. Kayden. With Drawings by Bill Greer. 12mo; pictorial boards; pictorial dustwrapper; decorative endpapers; pp. 61 + (i); illustrations. Dustwrapper a bit rubbed, and slightly edgeworn; gift inscription to half-title; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. "Within the framework of his magnificent novel DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, Boris Pasternak created these evocative poems attributed to his title character. As an integral part of the book, Pasternak's poems

illustrate Zhivago's view of the world. Apart from the novel, they are moving thoughts

from the heart of a man in love with life. The translation of DOCTOR ZHIVAGO in 1957 ended 25 years of literary exile for Boris Pasternak. Although most of the Zhivago poems had been published in Russian journals, under the Stalinist regime Russia's outstanding poet of the century was forced to devote himself to translating foreign poets rather than creating original works. Despite these privations, Boris Pasternak's international reputation continued to grow. In 1958 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but was unable to accept the Prize because to do so would have required him to leave his beloved country for the remainder of his life. He died May 30, 1960, in the Soviet Union." £5.00 / R80

28. Scully, William Charles: Scopalomine in Africa: or Pharmacy and Politics (Kimberley:

the author, [1938]) 215 x 142 mm; saddle-stitched wrappers; pp. 31. Quite foxed. Good condition. Uncommon work by the self-educated polymath W C Scully. "His particular literary merit lies in the integrity with which he recorded the contemporary scene. A lifetime spent in the Cape civil service gave him an intimate knowledge of South Africa and its peoples; the extent to which his books reflect this knowledge makes them a source of valuable information for the historian and sociologist. His main publications are the following: The wreck of the 'Grosvenor and other South African poems (Lovedale, 1886, anon.); ... Scopalomine in Africa: or Pharmacy and politics [a fantasy] (Kimberley, 1938) ..." - DSAB I, p. 705 £25.00 / R400

29. West, Rebecca (author), and Bonnie Kime Scott (editor): Selected Letters of Rebecca West (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000) 8vo; original biscuit-coloured cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xlvi + (ii) + 497, incl. index; photographs. Dustwrapper ever so slightly rubbed; trace of fishmothing to edges of cloth; binding a little slack; occasional fox spot. Good to very good condition. "The letters include correpondence with West's famous lover H. G. Wells and with [George Bernard] Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Emma

Goldman, J. B. Priestley, Noel Coward and many others. They offer pronouncements on such personalities as Norman Mailer, Margaret Thatcher, Kenneth Tynan, Victoria Glendinning, Nadine Gordimer, Lawrence Durrell and William Burroughs; and provide new insights into her battles against misogyny, fascism and communism. Rebecca West deliberately fashions her own biography through this intensely personal correspondence, challenging rival accounts of her groundbreaking professional career, her frustrating love life and her tormented family relations. Engrossing to read, the collection sheds new light on this important figure and her social and literary milieu." £5.00 / R80

30. White, Edmund: Rimbaud. The Double Life of a Rebel (London: Atlantic Books, 2008) 8vo; original dark green boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (viii) + 192. Very good condition. "Poet and prodigy Arthur Rimbaud led a life that was startlingly short, yet dramatically eventful and accomplished. His long poem Une saison en enfer and his collection Illuminations are central to the modern canon. Having sworn off writing at the age of twenty-one, Rimbaud drifted around the world from scheme to scheme, ultimately dying from an

infection contracted while gun-running in Africa. He was thirty-seven." £4.00 / R64 MILITARY HISTORY 31. Berkovitch, B. M., and others (editorial committee): The Journal of the Historical

Firearms Society of South Africa / Die Tydskrif van die Historiese Vuurwapenvereniging van Suid-Afrika. Vol. 5 No. 6. December 1971 (Cape Town: Historical Firearms Society of South Africa, 1971) 216 x 137 mm; saddle-stitched

wrappers; pp. 32; illustrations. Trace of fishmothing to wrappers. Very good condition. Contents: South African Gunsmiths and Dealers before 1900; Introducing the John Adams family of Revolvers; Book Review; Correspondence; Notes. £12.50 / R200

32. Berkovitch, B. M., and others (executive committee): The Journal of the Historical

Firearms Society of South Africa / Die Tydskrif van die Historiese Vuurwapenvereniging van Suid-Afrika. Vol. 6 No. 1. June 1972 (Cape Town: Historical Firearms Society of South Africa, 1972) 216 x 137 mm; saddle-stitched wrappers; pp. 32; illustrations. A little foxing. Very good condition. Contents: Whitworth's Muzzle-loading Rifles; A 'Trade Gun' from 1820; Portuguese Rifles in South Africa; South African War Wounds; De La Rey's Carbine; South African Gunsmiths & Dealers before 1900 (continuation); Quantities of Guns imported into South Africa; The Krag-

Jorgensen Rifle in South Africa; Extracts from 'Tit Bits' 1885 and 1891; Book Review; Correspondence; Notes: Field Weapons of the 'Anglo Boer War'. £12.50 / R200

33. Blake, Cameron: Troepie: From Call-up to Camps (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2009) 230 x 150 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 306, incl. index. Earlier owner's name inside upper cover; few fox spots to edges. Very good condition. "For over half a million white South African males conscripted before 1994, National Service was a compulsory, demanding and intense experience that had a powerful impact on them. This book is a compilation of recollections by more than forty former conscripts about their time in the South African Defence Force. The

chapters take you through the sequence of a National Serviceman's career: receiving call-up papers, klaaring in, Basics, keuring, bush phase, second-phase training, general service, the Border, Angola, the townships, klaaring out and camps. Taking in the humour and the hardship, these accounts provide a variety of perspectives on inspections, drill, guard duty, Border patrols, contact, and everyday life in the SADF. Also included are official documents such as call-up papers, extracts from a Basic Training manual, and a clearing-out certificate. Appendices give additional information on the history of National Service, the context of the Border War and other matters. Troepie: From Call-up to Camps is a must-read for everyone who went through National Service or who knows someone who did. It is a vivid and fascinating record of what conscripts actually experienced." £15.00 / R240

34. Hymns, G. T. (honorary editor): The Journal of the South African Muzzle Loaders Association / Die Tydskrif van die Suid-Afrikaanse Voorlaaiersvereniging. Vol. 2 No. 3 (Cape Town: South African Muzzle Loaders Association, 1961) 216 x 140 mm; saddle-stitched wrappers; pp. 32; illustrations. Light foxing throughout. Good condition. Contents: The Arms of the Cape Mounted Riflemen, by M. G. Hibbard; Swivel Guns, Elephant Guns and Large Bores, by G. Tylden; Hunting with a Westley Richards Double Rifle, by B. M. Berkovitch; The

Problem of Barrel Fouling, by G. Tylden; More on the Westley Richards Carbine, by W. D. Binns and P. A. Bedford; Association News, by C. F. C. Sedgwick; Shooting Fixtures 1962; Notes; Correspondence. £12.50 / R200

35. Langdon-Davies, John (compiler and editor): The Crimean War: A collection of

contemporary documents (Jackdaw No. 11) (London: Jonathan Cape, 1964) 228 x 342 mm; printed green folder housing fifteen facsimiles, maps and information sheets relating to the Crimean War; accompanying summary of contents, set of questions and reading list. Folder a little browned and worn; some fox spots and trace of fishmothing. Good condition. Missing the broadsheet 'Florence Nightingale'. £7.50 / R120

36. Nasson, Bill: WWI and the People of South Africa [World War 1 and the People of South Africa] (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2014) 212 x 137 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 224, incl. index; plates, incl. full-colour. Crease to top fore-corner of lower cover, else fine. "Although World War One did not bring Zeppelin airships to threaten South African skies, or invading foreign soldiers to march through its towns, its inhabitants were also drawn into one of the most bloody and shattering global conflicts of the 20th century. Renowned historian Bill Nasson

explores how the complex dynamics of the crisis of war shaped the character of South African politics and the life of its fragmented and frequently turbulent society. His gripping account provides a vivid illustration of the richly varied manner in which the Union's people understood the war, experienced its pressures, responded to its opportunities, and dealt with its burdens. The consequences of the country's entry into war were often fraught and far-reaching, including the shock of a domestic Afrikaner rebellion, the swallowing of German South West Africa, decisive economic change, and wartime habits of violence which lingered on after 1918. Thoughtful, lively and witty, this is an evocative portrait of South African society in its own world of war." £15.00 / R240

37. Simpson, Thula: Umkhonto we Sizwe: The ANC's Armed Struggle (Cape Town: Penguin Random House, 2016) Large 8vo; original charcoal boards, lettered in white on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (xii) + 591, incl. index; plates. Fine condition. "The armed struggle waged by the ANC's military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), was the longest sustained insurgency in South African history. This book offers the first full account of the rebellion in its entirety, from its early days in the 1950s to the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as South

African president in 1994. Vast in scope, this story traverses every corner of South Africa and extends throughout southern Africa, where MK's largest campaigns and heaviest engagements occurred, as well as to the solidarity networks that the rebellion mobilised around the world. Drawing principally from previously unpublished writings and testimonies by the men and women who fought the armed struggle, this book recreates the drama, heroism and tragedy of their experiences. ... Written in a fresh, immediate style, Umkhonto we Sizwe is an honest account of the armed struggle and a fascinating chronicle of events that changed South African history." £20.00 / R320

MINING

38. Cornell, Fred C.: The Glamour of Prospecting. Wanderings of a South African Prospector in Search of Copper, Gold, Emeralds, and Diamonds (New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1920) 8vo; maroon cloth, re-backed, with original backstrip laid down; new endpapers; pp. xiv + 334, incl. index; plates; folding map. Extremities a trifle rubbed; earlier owner's bookplate pasted largely over earlier stamp and codes; discreet repairs to bottom fore-corner of some initial leaves, and junction of folds in map; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. (Hosken, p. 50, SABIB 1, p. 629 [both 1st UK edition, also 1920]) The later David Philip reprint carries this summary of the book's appeal: "Cornell's autobiography will carry readers

into remote areas of the north-western Cape, the Kalahari and South-West Africa as Cornell knew them in his twenty years of wandering at the beginning of the century. Today Cornellsberg and Cornellskop bear his name as permanent memorials on the map of the Richtersveld." £75.00 / R1200

39. Hocking, Anthony: Randfontein Estates. The First Hundred Years (Bethulie: Hollard,

1986) 8vo; laminated pictorial boards; pictorial endpapers; pp. 280, incl. index; plates,

line drawings and diagrams. Earlier owner's inscription to title page; some foxing; pages somewhat damp-rippled. Good condition. "Early in 1886 two itinerant miners, George Harrison and George Walker, arrived on Langlaagte looking for casual work. Both had dug for gold in Australia and it seems likely that they were on their way to rich alluvial goldfields discovered in the Eastern Transvaal. ... Within a few weeks, excited prospectors traced evidence of banket over a distance of nearly 50 kilometres from east to west - all the way to Randfontein and its neighbours at the Rand's furthest extremity." £5.00 / R80

40. Williams, Gardner F.: The Diamond Mines of South Africa (New York: B. F. Buck & Company, 1906) Two royal 8vo volumes; red half morocco with cloth sides; spines tooled in compartments, gilt-ruled and gilt-lettered; new endpapers; pp. xvii + (i) + 359, xv + (i) + 353, incl. index; copiously illustrated with photogravure plates and captioned tissue-guards, numerous photographs, line drawings and diagrams in text. Merest suggestion of foxing to corners of some leaves. A fabulous set of the two-volume, enlarged and revised edition. (Mendelssohn II, p. 614; Hosken, p. 217) "Williams served as general manager of De Beers for eighteen and a half years. During this time he was responsible for the planning and

introduction of a vastly-improved underground mining system as well as for many improvements in the methods of extracting diamond-bearing rock. By 1892 underground shifts had been reduced from twelve to eight hours on his initiative and under his supervision De Beers gained the reputation of being one of the foremost mining companies in the world. Judged by his contemporaries to be an outstanding mining engineer, Williams commanded the complete confidence of the great financial houses in Europe and America. ... His authoritative work, Diamond mines of South Africa, first published in 1902, is still a standard reference work. The Royal Academy of Science in Sweden awarded him their silver medal in 1905 and the University of California an honorary doctorate of Law in 1910." - DSAB IV, p. 785. £350.00 / R5600

MODERN AFRICA

41. Hills, Denis: The White Pumpkin (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1975) 8vo; original black boards, lettered in white on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; tinted top edge; pp. 341; map; plates. Dustwrapper a little edgeworn, and sunned on spine panel; top fore-corner clipped from front free endpaper; a little foxing. Good condition. "Denis Hills has been a lecturer in English in Kampala since 1964. In this book he continues the account of his experiences in Uganda, the first part of which, up to 1969, he described in Man with a Lobelia Flute ... As one of the dwindling

number of British residents in Uganda, Denis Hills has observed events there since General Amin seized power. He has well-informed chapters on Amin himself, on the spread of violence, the exodus of Asians, expatriates, education, as well as descriptions of journeys he made among the remoter tribal people including the little known Teuso (Ik)." £5.00 / R80

42. Swift, Jon (text), with Vicky Alhadeff, Alf Kumalo and others (photographers): Alexandra,

I Love You. A Record of Seventy Years (Johannesburg: Alexandra Liaison Committee, 1983) 4to; original red boards, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 93 + (ii); numerous, largely monochrome, photographs. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. "Alexandra Township lies to the north of Johannesburg between the old Pretoria Main Road and the much newer Eastern Bypass. On the map the area is a rectangle

comprising twenty two avenues in parallel grid formation. From the air, the mainly dirt roads are not as neat as the map suggests but the uniformity comes from the monochrome pattern of matchbox dwellings, covering almost two square kilometres of rough, undulating ground. The biggest surprise of all is the situation of Alexandra. It is one of the few black townships to be completely hemmed in by white suburbs. ... There are few community facilities. A recent count revealed 49 churches, one clinic, one cinema, two beerhalls, two discos, three soccer fields and four tennis courts. Mere statistics give little idea of a community. After seventy years Alexandra has a history of survival and achievements and a unique group identity. What follows in this book is an attempt to capture in words and pictures something of the grief and glory that was and is Alexandra Township." £15.00 / R240

NATURAL HISTORY

43. Gunn, Mary, and Enid du Plessis: The Flora Capensis of Jakob and Johann Philipp Breyne (Johannesburg: Ad. Donker for The Brenthurst Press, 1978) Brenthurst First Series, number 4. Standard edition limited to 850 copies. 4to; original brown cloth, with gilt-on-black title to spine; pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; tinted top edge; pp. 218; ninety plates, largely full-colour, with descriptions to facing verso in each case. Very light stippling to top edges of boards; occasional fox spot. Near fine condition. "Jakob Breyne (1637—1697) and his son Johann Philipp (1680—1764) were wealthy merchants of Danzig who collected rare and exotic plants. In 1724 Johann Philipp had 86

watercolour drawings of plants from the Cape of Good Hope bound in an album. All the drawings are unsigned and were executed by several artists. The Cape is well known for its profusion of indigenous wild flowers, and these centuries-old paintings are here reproduced for the first time, together with an introduction, and notes on each plant depicted." £105.00 / R1680

44. Gunn, Mary, and L. E. Codd: Botanical Exploration of Southern Africa (Cape Town:

A.A. Balkema, 1981) Title continues: An illustrated history of early botanical literature on the Cape flora. Biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times. 4to; original turquoise cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, and with gilt device to upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; frontis. illustration tipped in; pp. xiv + (ii) + 400, incl. index; profusely illustrated; map. Partial light sunning to dustwrapper's upper panel. Fine condition. "The story of plant collecting and early illustrations of our flora and, bound up with it, the emergence of the science of botany up to about the 1750's is told in part one, lavishly illustrated with 81 reproductions of old botanical pictures and maps. In part two there is a wealth of information on the often colourful and adventurous travellers, soldiers, missionaries, VOC officials and master gardeners, naturalists and professional collectors attracted to this fascinating country of exceptional floral diversity awaiting exploration. With its 3 300 odd entries, about half of which are provided with biographical notes, and with 440 portraits, contemporary illustrations and handwriting of the more illustrious collectors, and those who have followed them up to the present day, this is a permanent source of reference, not only for botanists, but for historians and Africana collectors as well. … A valuable reference work but at the same time a pleasant and fascinating book for browsing, full of surprises, for all those interested in the exploration of Southern Africa in general over a period of more than three centuries. A lifetime's study, gathering information which has not been brought together anywhere else, is offered to you in this book." £195.00 / R3120

45. Gunn, Mary, and L. E. Codd: Botanical Exploration of Southern Africa (Cape Town: A.A. Balkema, 1981) Title continues: An illustrated history of early botanical literature on the Cape flora. Biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times. 4to; original turquoise cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, and with gilt device to upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; frontis. illustration tipped in; pp. xiv + (ii) + 400, incl. index; profusely illustrated; map. Dustwrapper partially sunned and soiled, edgeworn, with some loss, and earlier owner's tape and paper repairs; earlier owner's bookplate to front pastedown; few fox spots to edges. Very good condition. £135.00 / R2160

46. Von Breitenbach, Jutta: The Wild Figs of Southern Africa.

Monograph No. 2 (Johannesburg: The Tree Society of Southern Africa, [1974]) 247 x 184 mm; saddle-stitched wrappers; pp. 28; photographs; line drawings; distribution maps; table. Very good condition. 'Most fig species ... are found only in the wild state. These, the true wild figs, are not "useful" trees and shrubs. ... As a rule, the wild fig trees are also quite unfit as garden subjects. Yet it is their very wildness, their incredible vitality, their grotesque and giant growth forms that make them attractive to the admirer of untamed nature.' £7.50 / R120

47. Warner, Brian, and John Rourke: Flora Herscheliana: Sir John and Lady Herschel at

the Cape, 1834 to 1838 (Johannesburg: The Brenthurst Press, 1996) Brenthurst Third Series, Number 2. The standard edition, limited to 850 copies. Quarto; original tan cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; ribbon marker; pp. 295, incl. index; lavishly illustrated with reproductions of contemporary portraits, botanical and topographical illustrations, largely in full colour. Fine condition. "A visit to the Cape of Good Hope from 1834 to 1838 to survey the southern skies exposed Herschel to another great natural wonder - the beauty and diversity of the Cape Flora. The profound impact this encounter had on both John and his wife Margaret resulted in a magnificent portfolio of botanical drawings, outlined by John using a camera lucida for scientific accuracy, and painted in watercolours by Margaret.

Herschel's restless, analytical mind also led him to consider deeper issues, among them the morphology of bulbs, the diversity of species, and botanical scents and perfumes. The Brenthurst Press has once again drawn on the resources of The Brenthurst Library, the private Africana collection of Mr H.F. Oppenheimer, and other relevant material (much of it unpublished and in private collections) to produce 'Flora Herscheliana: Sir John and Lady Herschel at the Cape, 1834 to 1838', by Brian Warner and John Rourke. The book ... is a celebration of the Herschels' fascination with the abundant beauty they discovered on the doorstep of Feldhausen, their home at the Cape." £125.00 / R2000

SCIENCE & INDUSTRY 48. Hanekom, A. J.: The South African Wool Industry (Pretoria: South African Wool

Board, [ca 1962]) 12mo; original blue boards, lettered in black to upper cover; endpaper maps; pp. 205; several photographs. Cover partially tanned and mottled; bottom fore-corner of lower board turned; merest trace of spotting. Good condition. "The four booklets in the Wool Board's Educational Series, first published separately, are now combined in this volume, which covers the whole of the South African wool industry." The four parts are: Bearer of the Golden Fleece, On the Veld and Farm, From Shearing to Shipment, and, From Fleece to Fabric. £15.00 / R240

49. McKenzie, Ronnie: Meteorites. A southern African perspective (Cape Town: Struik

Nature, 2014) 210 x 147 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 120, incl. index; profusely

illustrated in full colour; maps. Fine condition. "Meteorites are the remnants of meteors from outer space that have survived the fiery journey through Earth's atmosphere and landed on our planet. Relatively rare, and bearing secrets about the formation of our universe, these 'treasures from space' have fascinated people ever since they were first identified as extraterrestrials. This richly illustrated book introduces the topic in straightforward language, discussing where meteorites come from, how to identify them, the many different types, and how to set about collecting them. It also dispels some of the myths about these enigmatic stones, and presents some infamous meteorite scams. A handy basic guide for those new to the topic, and for anyone interested in entering the field of meteorite collecting." £15.00 / R240

50. Walton, James: Portable Corn-mills in South Africa. A study in Industrial

Archaeology (no place: the author, 1991) Signed by the author on the title page. 210 x 150 mm; saddle-stitched pictorial wrappers; pp. 30; photographs; contemporary artwork; diagrams. Wrappers a little rubbed. Very good condition. "During the second half of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the present century several manufacturers of agricultural machinery in east and south England and in Germany produced complete corn-milling units which they exported to many countries in the world, including South Africa. The most prominent of such exporters of portable mills to South Africa were Ransomes of Ipswich and Clayton

and Shuttleworth of Lincoln, both of whom had agents in the country." This booklet explores the manufacturers, their machinery, the South African customers and agents. £10.00 / R160

SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY & POLITICS 51. Hunt, John (author), and Heather-Ann Campbell (editor): Dutch South Africa. Early

Settlers at the Cape 1652 to 1708 (Leicester: Matador, 2005) 215 x 138 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 192, incl. bibliography; plates, and other illustrations, in colour and monochrome. Fine condition. "This book provides a fascinating insight into the lives of the first Dutch settlers in Table Bay and is packed full of contemporary plans, maps and paintings. ... In 1652, the first Dutch settlers arrived on the shores of Table Bay, having survived the hazardous journey from the Netherlands. The site, which later became known as Cape Town, had a climate in which European crops could flourish. It was here that Jan van Riebeeck was instructed by the Dutch East India company to found a new community.

His diaries and other contemporary records have preserved the details for posterity." £25.00 / R400

52. Isaacs, Nathaniel: Travels and Adventures in Eastern Africa descriptive

of the Zoolus, Their Manners, Customs, with A Sketch of Natal (Cape Town: Struik, 1970) Title continues: 'Newly revised and edited, in one volume, with a biography of the Author, Notes and Appendices, by Louis Herman and Percival R. Kirby.' Number 526 of an edition limited to 1500 numbered copies. 4to; original green cloth; spine gilt; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xxxii + 349, incl. index; 5 colour plates after G. F. Angas, a further 10 monochrome plates (various artists), and a folding map. Dustwrapper a bit rubbed, with earlier owner's tape reinforcing to edges; earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper; a few tape marks to free endpapers; a little minor spotting to edges. Very good condition. (Mendelssohn I, pp. 760-1 [1st edition]) “Isaacs left his home in Kent as a boy of 14 to join his uncle, Saul Solomon, in

St. Helena. Three years later he makes friends with a passing sea captain, Lieut. King, and accompanies him on a voyage to the Cape when King designs to sail for Natal in search of his friends, Lieut. Farewell and Francis Fynn, lost to civilisation in the unknown interior. They are ship-wrecked in Natal Bay, and while the crew set to work to build another ship, Isaacs proceeds inland to visit Chaka's royal kraal. His personal dealings with that tyrant and with his successor, Dingaan, his observations on the country, the Zulu people, their daily life and customs, their condition under Chaka's rule, the situation of the handful of English hunters and ship-wrecked mariners that constitute the European population, and his account of remarkable and often horrifying events during the next five years make up the principal materials of a work of absorbing interest.” £50.00 / R800

53. Leibbrandt, H. C. V.: Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope. Requesten (Memorials) 1715-1806 (Cape Town: Cape Times, 1905) Two demy 8vo volumes; original brown pebbled cloth, lettered in gilt on spines; flecked edges; pp. v + (i) + 440, (ii) + [441-879]. A little wear to cloth, with trace of lower board of first volume, and upper board of second volume having slightly adhered at some point; armorial bookplate to front pastedowns; light browning; a little foxing to endpapers and outermost leaves. Good to very good condition. (Mendelssohn I, p. 882) The first volume covers surnames starting with the letters A - E, and the second continues the series up to the letter O. "These volumes form a section to the

Annexures to the Minutes of the Council of Policy, and will be found to contain much of permanent historical interest. ... When I commenced this work some years ago, my principal object was to comply with the expressed wish of many, to frame as complete a list as possible of the earlier colonists and their birthplaces, but the reader will also find, besides, most important portions of our Colonial History imbedded in many of these memorials, which now see the light of day for the first time." - From the author's Preface, as quoted by Mendelssohn £125.00 / R2000

54. Levine, Elias: The Coinage and Counterfeits of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (Cape Town: Purnell, 1974) 8vo; original black rexine, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pp. viii + (ii) + 127; photographs, incl. some colour; tables. Dustwrapper somewhat rubbed and edgeworn; earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper; pastedown endpapers a little discoloured; a little foxing to edges and reverse of dustwrapper; a little penned underlining, annotation (pp. 10, 13). Good to very good

condition. "Coin-collectors, particularly ZAR enthusiasts, will welcome the publication of this detailed study of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek coinage. Chapters include collecting for beginners, coin care and grading, examination of the regular ZAR series as well as rarities, and of interest to all numismatists, the most comprehensive information on forgeries yet published and some exciting new facts on the legendary Kruger millions. Investors are advised on investing profitably in the 'new Kruger millions', the Krugerrands, as well as ZAR coins, of which there is a catalogue included of current valuations. The foreword to this commemorative volume is by Mrs F. B. Lang, President Burgers' grand-daughter and owner of two Burgers Staatsponde." £30.00 / R480

55. Malherbe, E. G.: Hoernlé Memorial Lecture 1946. Race Attitudes and

Education (Johannesburg: S.A. Institute of Race Relations, 1946 Author's presentation inscription to flap of upper wrapper. 208 x 140 mm; saddle-stitched wrappers, with printed dustwrapper bound in; pp. (ii) + 29. Cover a little sunned and foxed; some browning. Good condition. £10.00 / R160

56. Nel, Eben: Van Blomfontein na Papkuilsfontein tot Sewefontein: Jacobus Hendrik Louw Nel, 8-8-1888 - 11-12-1967 (no place: the author, [ca 1990]) Title taken from upper cover. 293 x 207 mm; pictorial wrappers; unusual pagination: pp. (viii) + 8 + (i) + 8

+ (vi) + 21 + (iv) + 106 + (xiv) + 15 + (iii) + 36 + (iv) + 13 + (v) + 11 + (iii) + 5 + (v); photographs and facsimiles. Signed by the author on the first page; earlier owner's bookplate inside upper cover; few fox spots to edges. Very good condition. Afrikaans text. "Die boek voer ons terug na die laat sestiende eeu toe die eerste Nel, Steenkamp, Louw en later die Brynard stamvaders wat in die agtiende eeu na die Kaap as Franse Hugenote, Duitsers en Hollanders gekom het. Dit beskryf waar hulle eers geboer het, dan hulle afstammelinge wat na Calvinia getrek het.

Daar word 'n goeie beskrywing gegee waar hierdie families plase in die Bokkeveld, Hantam, Roggeveld en Karoo aangelê het. Elke hoofstuk word met verskeie familie- en ander foto's toegelig. Hierdie boek beskryf ons die geskiedenisfeite wat ten eerste met die baanbrekersjare plaasgevind het. Soos die ware feite oor die Groot Toren Moord en van die legendariese komdt. Jacobus Nel. Ten tweede wat gedurende die Tweede vryheids- en Eerste Wêreldoorlog afgespeel het te Calvinia distrik. Dit vertel ons van die Kaapse rebelle, hulle wapenneerlegging te Soetwater, hul verhore en lys van Kaapse rebelle se name asook die monumentgraf te Calvinia. Daar is verskeie grappige-; spook-; oorlog; skool en kinderstories wat saam met ware verhale van moord en ontvoering stories tussen gemengde genealogiese navorsing geplaas word. Ten slotte vertel die skrywer ons van sy wêreld wat hy lief het, en hy noem die Bokkeveld, Hantam, Roggeveld en Karoo sy kontrei-koninkryk en gee vir die leser 'n goeie reisbeskrywing van hierdie mooi wêrelddeel." £20.00 / R320

57. Raven-Hart, R.: Before Van Riebeeck. Callers at South Africa from 1488 to 1652

(Cape Town: Struik, 1967) 8vo; original khaki cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; no dustwrapper; pp. (viii) + 216, incl. index; plates; a few illustrations in text. Some fishmothing to cloth; very occasional light foxing. Good condition. "Major Raven-Hart has made a special study of 'Callers at South Africa from 1488 to 1652', and in this book one finds the results of that study. Many of the 'unpublished documents' of the Archives in Cape Town and The Hague, of the British Museum and the India Office (Marine Records) have been brought together, while further material, taken from Dutch German, Danish, French, English, Italian and Portuguese travel narratives has been added. There are over a hundred and fifty entries, some of which cover only a few lines, while others fill one or more pages with a complete account of the experiences of the visitor while at the Cape." £15.00 / R240

58. Schoonraad, Murray and Elsabé: Companion to South African Cartoonists

(Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, 1989) Large 8vo; original blue boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 398; cartoon illustrations in text. Dustwrapper very slightly rubbed and edgeworn; some foxing to edges, endpapers and reverse of dustwrapper, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good to very good condition. "It took the authors nineteen years of research to collect information on the more than 500 cartoonists discussed in this publication. The book is unique because it provides, for the first time in English, information about 'the men behind the drawings' - press artists, the graphic journalists, pictorial hecklers and leg-pullers

whose wit, humour and mockery the man-in-the-street is exposed to daily. This authoritative book lists cartoonists who have worked in South Africa since the first illustrated newspapers were published here during the nineteenth century, and including artists like Frederick I'Ons, Heinrich Egersdörfer, W.H. Shröder, A.W. Lloyd, Anton van Wouw, D.C. Boonzaier, T.O. Honiball, Quip, Evo, John Jackson, David Marais, Bob Connolly, Len Lindeque, Len Sak, Dov Fedler, and Keith and Lorna Stevens. ... The

informative text is illustrated with self-caricatures of most of the cartoonists as well as about 700 different examples of their work." £17.50 / R280

59. Transvaal / South African Republic: De Locale Wetten der Zuid-Afrikaansche

Republiek. 1887-1890 (Johannesburg: W. E. Burmester, 1891) Demy 8vo; original black quarter leather, with matching pebbled cloth sides, lettered in gilt on spine (which gives the period as 1888-1890); pp. lxviii + 30 + 2 + xxvi + 64 + xxi, incl. index; blank note sheets, bound in, are not reckoned in the pagination; a brief index, in contemporary manuscript, is also bound in following the title page. Cover a bit rubbed, and corners turned; head of spine slightly worn; hand-stamps of 'Charles Leonard, Attorney at Law, Johannesburg S.A.R' and of 'Tennant & Jacobsohn, Solicitors & Notaries Etc., Johannesburg', some including '1891', to endpapers, and occasionally elsewhere; occasional foxing and contemporary annotations. Good to very good condition. Text in Dutch. SABIB 4 (p. 527) notes similar titles for volumes overlapping the period covered by this compilation, with the observation "Title and compilers vary." OCLC finds only the British Library and University of Pretoria copies. Exceedingly important compilation of Z.A.R. laws in the decade preceding the Second Anglo-Boer War. Given the importance of gold to the economy of the republic , and its part in the conflict that was to follow, among the laws itemised in the penned index are "Gold Law, 9-1888" and "Gold Law, 8-1890." These are entitled "Wet op het delven van en handeldrijven in edele metalen en edelgesteenten in de Z. A. Republiek", the second version running to forty-six pages. £125.00 / R2000

60. Vernon, Ken: Penpricks. The Drawing of South Africa's Political Battlelines (Cape Town: Spearhead, 2000) 260 x 210 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 200, incl. index; several cartoon illustrations. Light crease to bottom fore-corner of upper cover. Near fine condition. "In Penpricks - The Drawing of South Africa's Political Battlelines, Ken Vernon has produced not only a fascinating and informative look at the world of South Africa's political cartoons, but also at South African politics and journalism - a world cartoons portray

in a way words cannot. Every day most major newspapers carry a cartoon comment on some topical subject or event - mostly of a political nature. The reader's reaction to this supposedly humorous comment may vary from a wry smile to an agreeable belly laugh, from outrage to righteous indignation. What the reactions have in common is that they are emotional rather than reasoned responses that mask the messages hidden in the cartoons. In Penpricks not only are the messages revealed, but at the same time the reader will glimpse South African politics from the other side of the mirror that the South African press holds up to its unique society." £17.50 / R280

61. Walker and Robertson (original printers): The Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser August 16, 1800 - October 19, 1801 / Kaapsche Stads Courant en Afrikaansche Berigter 16 Augustus 1800 - 19 Oktober 1801 (Cape Town: The South African Library, 1982) South African Library Reprint Series 10. Folio; original brown half rexine, with cream rexine sides, over bevelled boards; lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover. Earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper. Fine condition. Over sixty facsimile issues, with a new introduction in English and Afrikaans by A. M. Lewin Robinson, and an index. "The Cape Town Gazette is of great interest to us from two points of view. Firstly of course it is the first newspaper and

advertising medium published at the Cape and hence one of the earliest products of the printing press in this part of the world, while secondly - and of wider appeal - it is an invaluable source of information about all aspects of Cape life, both public and private. ... The first issue of the Gazette appeared on Saturday August 16, 1800 and it continued

weekly, in English and Dutch versions, until No. 61, October 10, 1801. The place of printing was No. 35 Plein Street, Cape Town (today Nos. 24-26), a site occupied for many years by Messrs. Spracklens (Pty.) Ltd. ... This facsimile contains these first 61 issues only - those printed by Messrs. Walker and Robertson." £40.00 / R640

SPORT 62. Craven, Danie: Ons Toetsprestasies (Johannesburg: Afrikaanse Pers-

Boekhandel, 1955) 8vo; original light green cloth, lettered in black on spine and upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (vi) + 166; plates. Dustwrapper slightly tanned, and edgeworn, with a little loss to head and tail of spine panel (archival tape reinforcing to reverse); cloth a little mottled and worn; earlier owner's inscription to front free endpaper; old tape marks to pastedowns; binding a bit slack; occasional foxing. Good condition. Afrikaans text. "Dit is seker die intiemste, eerlikste en interessantste boek oor rugby wat nog ooit verskyn het. Die toetswedstryde strek van die reeks van Bennie Osler se 1931-32-span wat Brittanje getoer het tot by die afsluiting van die reeks teen John Solomon se Australiese span in 1953. Maar wat die boek veral laat lewe, is die beskrywing van die menslike voorvalle tydens hierdie wedstryde - ernstig, luimig en hartroerend - waarvan die toeskouer gewoonlik heeltemal onbewus bly. Dan kom die man Craven te voorskyn met sy lewenslus en ongeruimdheid. ONS TOETSPRESTASIES is 'n vereiste vir alle sportliefhebbers en is 'n ontsaglike bydrae tot ons sportliteratuur." £17.50 / R280

63. Kamfer, Dirk: Die All Blacks trap ons vas (Cape Town: Nasionale Boekhandel, 1956) 8vo; original mustard-coloured boards, lettered in black on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. vi + 224; plates. Dustwrapper a bit soiled and ragged, with some loss; earlier owner's inscription to front free endpaper; a little foxing. Good condition. Afrikaans text. ' "Die rampspoedigste toer wat ons nog beleef het." "Ons span was briljant, maar ongelukkig." … So het die menings uiteengeloop ná die Springbokke se 1956-toer na Australië en Nieu-Seeland. Juis

omdat Suid-Afrika verloor het en die rugbykroon aan sy tradisionele "vyand" moes afstaan, is dit 'n gedenkwaardige toer. Die All Blacks het ons vasgetrap en in die bladsye van hierdie boek kan u die verhaal van daardie vastrapping lees. Dirk Kamfer het die toer meegemaak as spesiale verteenwoordiger van Die Huisgenoot en almal wat sy gewilde artikels in daardie blad gelees het, sal weet wat om van dié boek te verwag.' £15.00 / R240

64. Leck, Neville: HO. A Biography of Courage (Cape Town: Don Nelson, 1977) 8vo; original black boards; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 227; black-and-white plates. Dustwrapper rubbed and edgeworn, with some archival tape repairs to reverse; spine cocked; edges and top fore-corner of rear free endpaper fishmothed; earlier owner's name on front pastedown; some foxing to edges. Good. "Handsome, charismatic, brave and daring - these were some of the qualities that made HO de Villiers the world's most exciting rugby fullback in the late 1960s, but if

there was one special quality above all others that made him South Africa's most talked about rugby player of his era, it was almost certainly his genius for succeeding gloriously by defying the traditionalists and doing precisely what they said he shouldn't be doing." £12.50 / R200

65. van Rooyen, Quintus: Springbok-Triomf. Die merkwaardige Flappie Lochner en sy

aandeel in ons rugby (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1972) 8vo; original dark boards, lettered in white on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 110; photographs. Dustwrapper very slightly

edgeworn; earlier owner's name signed on front pastedown; tape marks to endpapers; occasional foxing. Good condition. Afrikaans text. "Springbok-Triomf: Die merkwaardige Flappie Lochner en sy aandeel in ons rugby, is die verhaal van 'n baie talentvolle rugbyspeler, 'n begaafde keurder en 'n besonderse mens. Terselfdertyd is dit 'n rykgeskakeerde vertelling oor Springbokrugby wat strek oor 'n tydperk van bykans vier dekades aan weerskante van die Tweede Wêreldoorlog. Lochner, 'n Springbok-senter van meer as dertig jaar gelede, se naam is onherroeplik

verbind aan die triomfjare, 1967-1970, toe ons rugby homself herstel het na 'n vorige tydperk van swaarmoed en nederlae, ná die swart jaar van 1965 toe 7 uit 8 toetse verloor is. Die onoorwinlikheid van die Springbokke was toe 'n illusie. Wie is die man wat die feniks weer laat herrys het, wat met 'n totaal nuwe benadering gekom het ten opsigte van span kies, van die verhouding keurder-speler, van afrigting, van 'n vyfjaarplan? Flappie se naam staan hier groot geskryf." £10.00 / R160

66. Viviers, Gerhard: Rugby agter doringdraad (Pretoria: J.P. van der Walt en Seun, 1970) Dustwrapper subtitle reads: Agter die skerms saam met die 1969/70-Springbokke in Engeland. 8vo; original light green boards, lettered in black on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 143; plates. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn; slight bump to top fore-corner of lower board; old tape marks to endpapers and flaps; scattered foxing; rear free endpaper creased. Good condition. Afrikaans text. "Die skrywer, Gerhard Viviers, 'n bekende radiokommentator wat saam met die

1969/70-Springbokke die veelbesproke toer deur Engeland meegemaak het om die leser 'n kykie agter die skerms te gee onder watter omstandighede Suid-Afrika se rugbyspelers daar in die vreemde moes speel. Hierdie is 'n werk wat nie net statistiek verstrek nie, maar 'n vinger na die gevare wys wat vir internasionale sport voor die deur staan. Daar het nog nooit voorheen so 'n boek oor 'n rugbytoer verskyn nie, want daar was nog nooit so 'n toer soos dié van 1969/70 nie." £7.50 / R120

TRAVEL & EXPLORATION

67. Backhouse, James: A Narrative of a Visit to the Mauritius and South Africa (London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1844) Demy 8vo; half calf with marbled boards; spine tooled in compartments, with gilt-ruled bands; lettering-pieces to second and fourth compartments; new endpapers; tinted edges; pp. xvi + 648 + lvi; two folding maps; 16 etchings, wood-cuts in text. Spine lettering dull; sporadic moderate foxing and light soiling; some repairs to reverse of large South Africa map. A very good copy, tastefully rebound. (Mendelssohn I, p. 62; Hosken, p. 9) "The book is in the form of a diary, and the author seems to have traversed every part of South Africa where there was a Mission Station or a missionary. In this

way he appears to have met almost every prominent man connected with Mission work in South Africa at this time. ... Mr. Backhouse had evidently a good knowledge of botany, and throughout the volume there are ample descriptions of the flora of the country. ... There is a good description of Kaffraria, and of the Basuto, Griqua, and Bechuana countries, and the account of the Cape Colony affords valuable information concerning the first part of the nineteenth century." (Mendelssohn I, p. 62) £225.00 / R3600

68. Ballantyne, R. M.: Six Months at the Cape, or, Letters to Periwinkle from

South Africa (London: James Nisbet, 1879) First edition. Crown 8vo; later green half morocco, with red cloth sides; new endpapers; pp. vii + (i) + 256 + publisher's catalogue; plates. Extremities slightly rubbed; earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper; scattered, moderate foxing. Good condition.

(Mendelssohn I, p. 75; Czech [2011], p. 17) 'Mr. Ballantyne was invited (in the year 1876) to pay a visit to a farm in the Karroo, and he evidently made a study of the habits of the ostrich farmers at this period. He seems to have enjoyed the country life, the shooting, and the open air of the veld, and he soon became familiar with South African agriculture. He maintains that if there had not

been "years of misgovernment, misapprehension, injustice, and sometimes pure oppression ... we should never have heard of the rebellion of the frontier Boers" or the "emigration of the Dutch farmers." He visited Port Elizabeth, then a flourishing seaport with a population of 15,000, and here he saw a quantity of diamonds which had been sent from Kimberley. He was much impressed with the Cape Town Library, which he describes as "one of the noted libraries of the world." ' - Mendelssohn £50.00 / R800

69. Barrow, John: An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa (London: T.

Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1801 and 1804) Title of first volume continues: "in the years 1797 and 1798; including cursory observations on the geology and geography of the southern part of that continent; the natural history of such objects as occurred in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms; and sketches of the physical and moral characters of the various tribes of inhabitants surrounding the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope. To which is annexed, a description of the present state, population, and produce of that extensive colony; with a map constructed entirely from actual observations made in the course of the Travels." Two 4to volumes; later half calf and marbled boards; decorative gilt-ruled raised bands and lettering to spines; new endpapers; pp. viii + 419 + (i), incl. index, xi + (i) + 452, incl. index; large, folding map with hand-coloured route to first volume; folding frontis., a further six folding map engravings, with some contemporary colouring, to second volume. Toning and moderate foxing throughout; trace of damp-stain to top fore-corner of some leaves in second volume. A very attractive set of the first editions. (Mendelssohn I, p. 87; Hosken, p. 11) 'Mr. (afterwards Sir John) Barrow was attached to the staff of the Earl of Macartney, one of the Governors of the Cape Colony during the first occupation of the British. ... Mr. Barrow accompanied an expedition from Cape Town to Graaff-Reinet, and another to Namaqualand, and he gives an excellent description of the country traversed, particularly with regard to the botany and zoology of these regions. Algoa Bay was visited, and observations taken of the bay and the coast, together with the "circumjacent" country, mention being made of the discovery of lead at Van Staaden's River. Significant evidence is afforded with regard to the alleged brutality of the Boers to their slaves and their Hottentot servants, and there is a description of the characteristics, habits and customs of the various native races. The author and his companions had an interview with ... Gaika, and he remarks, "We were surprised to find so much good sense and prudence in a very young man ..." Among the districts visited was the Bushman country; the expedition proceeding later on to Plettenberg Bay. The second volume contains detailed accounts of the various divisions of the Cape Colony, together with much

information concerning the inhabitants, and the importance of the country from a military and commercial point of view.' - Mendelssohn. £1450.00 / R23200

70. Betz, Richard L.: The Mapping of Africa. A Cartobibliography of Printed Maps of the African Continent to 1700 (Utrecht: Hes & De Graaf Publishers, 2007) Signed by the author on the title page. Folio; original brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; laminated pictorial dustwrapper (housed in removable protector); pp. 540; three hundred illustrations in full colour. Earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper. Fine condition. "The Mapping of Africa systematically categorizes and provides an overview of all printed maps showing the entire African continent published from 1508 to 1700. The author has undertaken a review of the literature, conducted an exhaustive investigation in many major libraries and

private collections, analyzed these findings, and then compiled information on 174 distinctly different maps of the African continent. The Introduction contains information about the mapping of Africa before 1508, important world maps which include Africa, and a presentation of the major cartographic models developed for this book." £135.00 / R2160

71. Bradlow, Frank R.: Thomas Bowler. His life and work (Cape Town: A. A. Balkema,

1967) Number 476 of one thousand copies, numbered and signed by the author. 4to; original pale blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and with gilt publisher's device to upper cover; dustwrapper (housed in removable protector); pp. 318, incl. index; full-page colour reproductions of twenty-eight Bowler paintings; folding full-colour illustration, prepared for this work, mounted to rear pastedown; numerous monochrome illustrations; some line drawings, and two portraits of the artist, prepared for this work, tipped in. Dustwrapper, edges, and outermost leaves a little foxed, occasional light foxing elsewhere; edges of boards a little rubbed; upper hinge very slightly tender; loosely inserted prospectus for a Thomas Bowler exhibition. Very good condition. "The emphasis in this book is on Bowler's work: there is an

exhaustive and definitive catalogue of all his known paintings, with detailed notes on authenticity, provenance, ownership, size and condition; 193 of these are illustrated in monochrome; there are 29 full-page plates in colour - probably as ambitious a coverage as has ever been accorded to a South African artist; and a full introduction on his style, media and way of work. There is also a complete catalogue of the group of fine lithographs that are known to the general public as the 'Bowler prints', all but three of which are illustrated. An introduction to this in the form of a technical and historical study of contemporary lithographs is an invaluable reference for the collector, especially as all the known information on the prints has been corrected and brought up to date." £65.00 / R1040

72. Burchell, William J.: Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa (Cape Town: Struik,

1967) Number 641 of an edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. Text facsimile of the 1822-4 edition published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, with a new introduction by A. Gordon-Brown. Two 4to volumes; original brown cloth gilt; pp. 47 + (i) + viii + 582, (vi) + 648; frontis. porlrait in first volume; several full-colour plates, incl. folding, after the engravings in the original edition; numerous vignettes in text; loosely inserted folding map in facsimile. Cloth very slightly rubbed; some spotting to edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition. Concerning the first edition, of which this is a facsimile, Mendelssohn writes: 'The most valuable and accurate work on South Africa published up to the first quarter of the nineteenth century, and embracing a description of a large part of the Cape Colony and Bechuanaland at this period. Theal

("History of South Africa, 1795-1834") remarks that the author was "a man of talent, an easy writer, and scrupulously exact in his descriptions," and according to Sclater he was "a most skillful and well-trained zoologist and botanist, and his observations are all accurate and methodical." Burchell penetrated as far as "Lattakoo" (afterwards known as Kuruman), and during his explorations, which extended over a period of four years, made important collections of the fauna, flora, and curiosities of the country, together with a large number of drawings. ... The illustrations in the volumes are characterised by great beauty and accuracy, and it is stated in the Preface that, "in order to ensure greater correctness in the vignettes, the author has made all these drawings upon the blocks themselves" ... ' - Mendelssohn I, p. 224 £250.00 / R4000

73. Campbell, Harry: Whatever Happened to Tanganyika? The Place Names that History Left Behind (London: Portico, 2007) 8vo; original black boards, lettered in metallic red to spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xvii + (i) + 158, incl. index; line drawings. Fine condition. "Is it Burma or Myanmar, Madras or Chennai, Derry or Londonderry? In this fascinating trawl through the atlas of yesteryear, Harry Campbell explains how and why names of countries, cities and counties have changed over time, and tells the extraordinary tales behind

places from Rangoon to Rutland and Affpiddle to Zaire." - From the blurb. "In this marvellous and intriguing book, Harry Campbell has achieved something that most scholars would give anything to achieve. He has created a whole new discipline - one which we may perhaps call nostalgic geography." - Alexander McCall Smith £6.50 / R104

74. Cumming, R. Gordon: A Hunter's Life in South Africa (London: John Murray, 1850)

The two-volume John Murray printing, issued in the same year as the first publication, with the book labels of the Rt Hon Lord Ashbrook, The Castle, Durrow, Abbeyleix, to the front pastedowns. Two crown 8vo volumes; contemporary red half calf with boards, endpapers, and edges marbled in each case; spines ornately tooled in gilt, with lettering-pieces to the second compartments; pp. xv + (i) + 388, (x) + 381; plates, with tissue-guards, and route map in first volume. Re-backed; neat lower re-hinging of first volume; edges of boards somewhat chafed; hinges a little fragile; contemporary ownership inscription to half-title of first volume; sporadic, moderate foxing; pencilled leaf tallying Cumming's game haul inserted between pages 262 and 263. Good to very good condition. (Czech [2011], p. 71, 1st ed.; Mendelssohn I, p. 398; Hosken, p. 53)

"After several years in the military, Cumming decided to penetrate the interior of South Africa and try his hand at sport. Near the Great Fish River he discovered vast herds of springbok, wildebeest, gemsbok, and the like, and enjoyed considerable hunting. Approaching the Vaal River, he bagged roan and kudu. He met Dr. David Livingstone in the bush, then proceeded to hunt buffalo, rhinoceros and eland. In the Bamangwato Mountains, he collected numerous elephants. Near the Moslakose Fountain, he hunted lion and rhino, with additional elephants, lions, and buffalo, as well as hippopotamus, bagged near the Limpopo River. One of the classics of African big game hunting and exploration that recounts the seemingly limitless herds of game of that era." - Kenneth Czech: An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999 £195.00 / R3120

75. Drummond, Henry: Tropical Africa (London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1889]) Second Edition, completing Fifteenth Thousand. 8vo; original red cloth, skillfully re-backed, with gilt insect emblem to upper cover, and lettered in gilt on spine; new black endpapers; pp. x + (ii) + 228; plates; line drawings in text; six folding colour maps on five sheets. Discreet repairs to corners; light wear to cloth; reinforcing to several map

folds; very occasional minor fox spot. Very good condition. The author travelled extensively in the region of present-day Malawi and Tanzania. His work touches on all manner of subjects, ranging from tropical disease and entomology, to descriptions of the country and its peoples. £20.00 / R320

76. Latrobe, C[hristian] I[gnatius]: Journal of a Visit to South Africa, in 1815, and 1816.

With Some Account of the Missionary Settlements of the United Brethren, near the Cape of Good Hope (Cape Town: Struik, 1969) Number 218 of an edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. Text facsimile of the 1818 edition published by Seeley, with a new introduction by Frank R. Bradlow. 4to; original brown cloth gilt; ribbon marker; pp. (ii) + 44 + (iv) + vii + (i) + 406 + (ii); frontis. porlrait, with tissue-guard; large, folding route map; 16 plates after the originals, including the 12 lovely aquatints. Slight bump to bottom fore-corner; earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper; frontis. tissue-guard has worked loose, but is present; merest trace of foxing to top edge and endpapers. Very good to near fine condition. (Original edition: Mendelssohn I, pp. 866-7; SABIB 3, p. 59; Hosken, p. 120) "Latrobe's impressions of his Cape visit are recorded in his well-known book, Journal of a visit to South Africa in 1815 and 1816, first published in England in 1818. An accurate and observant piece of work, it gives an impartial view of conditions at the Cape. Of the twelve aquatint illustrations, ten are after drawings by Latrobe and two after Melville." - DSAB III, p. 499. £60.00 / R960

77. Norwich, Oscar I.: Maps of Southern Africa (Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, 1993) Folio; original brown boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. 88, incl. index; lavish full-colour reproductions of the maps; several other monochrome illustrations. A few fox spots to reverse of dustwrapper, half-title and edges; earlier owner's bookplate to half-title. Near-fine condition. "The delight of antique maps is as much in their beauty as in their historical and rarity value. Sought-after and jealously guarded by collectors and museums, they are seldom exposed to public view. This book contains a selection of about thirty of the most splendid maps in the renowned collection of Dr Oscar Norwich, chosen to illustrate the development of the art and science of map-making over the last half a millennium, since the days of the Renaissance

explorers. The discovery and exploration of southern Africa is revealed in these maps, each individually reproduced and with its own cartobibliography." £30.00 / R480

78. Park, Mungo: Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed in the Years 1795,

1796, and 1797. With an Account of a Subsequent Mission to That Country in 1805. To which is added An Account of the Life of Mr. Park. A New Edition. In Two Volumes (London: John Murray, 1816) Two demy 8vo volumes; contemporary gilt-ruled calf, recornered and rebacked in morocco; decorative gilt-ruled raised bands and lettering to spines; pp. xx + 551, xvi + cviii + 301; large, folding map, with routes in colours, in second volume, and two sketch maps and a diagram. Light wear to extremities; short, marginal tear to folding map, which is a little creased; occasional fox spot; bookplates of Aldenham House, Hertfordshire, to each pastedown; signed by George Henry Gibbs, with the date 1826, on the first blank in each case. Very early octavo edition, in contemporary bindings. The explorer was killed on his second expedition to trace the flow of the Niger, when, with the last survivors of his party, he was ambushed at Bussah. The events of this second journey are related from Park's journals and other sources in Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, here in the 1816 first octavo edition, the first, large-

format, edition having appeared in the previous year. 'The memory of this red-bearded stranger, firing so desperately from his fast moving boat, haunted the inhabitants of the villages along the great bend of the river. Fifty years later Heinrich Barth, the first traveller to explore that stretch of the Niger in detail, heard stories of his fate which "proved what an immense excitement the mysterious appearance of this European traveller, in his solitary boat, had caused among the surrounding tribes."' - Christopher Lloyd, The Search for the Niger. £650.00 / R10400

79. Quinton, J. C., with A. M. Lewin Robinson (General Editors): François le Vaillant. Traveller in South Africa 1781-1784, and his collection of 165 water-colour paintings (Cape Town: Library of Parliament, 1973) Number 455 of an edition limited to 2500 copies. Two large 4to volumes; original blue cloth, with gilt lettering to spine and upper covers; pictorial endpapers; pp. xx + 172; lavish reproductions in full-colour of 165 Le Vaillant paintings (excluding paintings 48-51, which, though listed, were not considered suitable for publication), some of which with captioned tissue-guards, plus further plates in colour and monochrome, and two large, folding route-maps. A little foxing to outermost leaves, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good to near fine condition. "François le Vaillant was born of French parents in Paramaribo

in Dutch Guiana in 1753 and saw France for the first time only at the age of ten. His interest in ornithology was early aroused, and as a young man in his mid-twenties he determined to travel and collect specimens in foreign parts. He sailed for the Cape of Good Hope from the Texel in December 1780, arriving in Table Bay on the 14th of April in the following year. The story of his two journeys, the first eastward and the second northward from the Cape, is told in his two works of travel and is discussed by Professor V. S. Forbes in the present volume. Le Vaillant has acquired a reputation for a certain degree of romantic exaggeration, and some of his descriptions of the countryside, notably in connection with his claim to have crossed the Orange River, have been seriously questioned, but the recently acquired paintings have in many cases shown how accurate these descriptions generally were. His celebrity has in the past rested to a considerable extent upon his magnificent large books on birds, particularly his Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique, but from the South African point of view the discovery of the 165 paintings will tend to shift the focus of attention to his importance as a traveller." £145.00 / R2320

80. Selous, Frederick Courteney: Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa. Being the

Narrative of the Last Eleven Years spent by the Author on the Zambesi and its Tributaries; With an Account of the Colonisation of Mashunaland and the Progress of the Gold Industry in that Country (London: Rowland Ward and Co., 1893) Third

edition, published in the same year as the first. 8vo; recent half-calf and marbled boards; spine with raised bands, and gilt lettering to second and fourth compartments, and ornaments blocked in black to remaining compartments; new endpapers; pp. xviii + 503, incl. index, plus publisher's catalogue; plates; text illustrations; folding colour map. Earlier owner's name to half-title; occasional fox spot; short tear to junction of one fold at margin of folding map, repaired to reverse with archival tape. Very good condition. An attractive copy. (Mendelssohn II, p. 300; Czech, p. 145; Hosken, p. 180) 'After a short visit to England in 1881, Selous returned to South Africa in order to make collections of specimens of some South African fauna for the British Museum and the South African Museum, &c. He was thus engaged from 1882 to 1887, and the first nine chapters of

this volume are devoted to a narrative of his experiences with the Boers and the natives while engaged in his hunting expeditions, together with some account of the native wars and the raids of the Matabeles. Other chapters give particulars of journeys amongst the

Mashikolumbwe and Barotsi people, the pioneer expeditions of the British South Africa Company, and the condition of Mashonaland, with notes on its previous history, the gold-mining industry in Rhodesia at this period, and reminiscences of hunting and adventure extending over a lengthy period. There are many interesting passages referring to the author's intercourse with Mr. Frank Mandy, C. J. Rhodes, Dr. Jameson, Sam Edwards, Montague Kerr, Lobengula, Khama, and many other celebrated South African personages and pioneers, and an excellent account of the Chartered Company's expedition to Mashonaland, in which Mr. Selous took prominent part, together with some details respecting the disputes with the Portuguese officials.' - Mendelssohn £115.00 / R1840

81. Smith, Andrew (author), and William F. Lye (editor): Andrew Smith's Journal of his expedition into the interior of South Africa / 1834 - 36 (Cape Town: A.A. Balkema, for the South African Museum, 1975) Subtitle reads: An authentic narrative of travels and discoveries, the manners and customs of the Native tribes, and the physical nature of the country. Edited with an introduction and notes by William F. Lye. With contemporary illustrations by Charles Davidson Bell. 4to; original brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, with gilt publisher's device to upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pp. xii + 323, incl. index; full-colour plates; map; monochrome illustrations in text. Dustwrapper very slightly spotted and rubbed; earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper; some browning and small trace of tipped-in clipping to

rear endpaper. Very good condition. 'This is a record of one of the most significant accounts of African exploration to have been written in the nineteenth century: it is not only of great potential value to researchers in the fields of the natural sciences, ethnography and history, but is packed with the kind of detail that is sought by Africana collectors and by non-specialist readers who are hungry for the factual story of our past. Smith was trained as a doctor; after some experience in overseas assignments, the British Army sent him to South Africa in 1821, posted to a regiment on the eastern frontier. He remained in South Africa until 1837, performing a variety of medical and scientific assignments, mostly work of a pioneering character - including an appointment as the first Superintendent of the newly-established South African Museum. ... By 1832 the South African Literary and Scientific Institution had begun seriously to plan and develop the idea of a properly-organised expedition, which culminated in the establishment of the Expedition to Central Africa, under the directorship of Smith. ... Supported by a party of some 40 members, of whom six were Europeans, Smith set forth from Graaff-Reinet in August 1834: and returned in January 1836. The reaction of the then Governor was that "Dr Smith fulfilled this trust with great judgement and ability ... " ' £60.00 / R960

82. Wallis, J.P.R.: Thomas Baines. His life and explorations in South Africa, Rhodesia and Australia 1820-1875 (Cape Town: A.A. Balkema, 1976) 4to; original brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, with gilt publisher's device to upper cover; dustwrapper; pp. xx + 235, incl. index; maps; many illustrations after the artist's original works, including some in full colour. Dustwrapper a little spotted, and partially sunned; merest trace of foxing to endpapers and top edge. Near fine condition, in a very good dustwrapper. "Baines was much more than an artist: he was also a successful and enterprising explorer and cartographer whose entire life was spent in travelling, investigating, searching and - wherever he went and in whatever circumstances - making pictures. He was also a scientific researcher (no less than 18 plants are named

after him). This book is the definitive biography of an outstanding personality. Of the several ambitious journeys-of-exploration into the interior, the following are noteworthy:

to the Orange and Vaal Rivers during 1848-53; with Dr Livingstone to the Zambesi in 1860; with James Chapman through South West Africa to Victoria Falls in 1861; and to Matabeleland in 1869-72. He also made an important journey of exploration in Australia and the surrounding seas with A.C. Gregory. ... It is an exciting story: what emerges is a fine and courageous character, restless and energetic, of integrity and kindness - and his contacts with Livingstone, Chapman, Andersson, Hartley, Lobengula and many others make a lively story of interesting personalities. ... Almost 170 monochrome and eight colour reproductions of Baines' drawings and water-colours ... are included; these illustrations have been chosen so as to relate to the text, either by directly illustrating an incident or person, or by providing visual background and atmosphere: the result is a pictorial treat, and a fine survey of Baines' non-formal work." £35.00 / R560