Afrique

No Neutral Ground

197362105New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co 1973. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 23.5cm. Beige cloth in cream dust jacket printed in red and black; xii382pp; black and white illustrations. Straight and sound with minor sunning to board edges: Very Good or better. Inscribed on front flyleaf by author: "Wayne I am honored to know you. Joel March / 73." Jacket unclipped priced $8.95 toned at spine minor marks to rear panel else clean: Very Good. Memoir of Joel Carlson 1926-2001 a white South African lawyer who spent the 1960s and 1970s fighting against apartheid and championing cases of Black South Africans including Winnie Mandela. This copy inscribed to J. Wayne Fredericks US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1961-67. 62105. Thomas Y. Crowell Co unknown

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[South Africa] [Fiction] Mitford, Bertram; Amedee ForestierBiblio.com

Ravenshaw of Rietholme

191067670London Melbourne and Toronto: Ward Lock & Co. Limited 1910. First edition. Hardcover. 320pp. Duodecimo 19.5 cm Black cloth over boards with an illustrated paper label on the front board. With four illustrated plates by Amedee Forestier. Moderate rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Foxing to the preliminary leaves and rear endpaper. Bookseller's very discreet ticket on front pastedown. With no distinctive John Ruyle markings but the book fits all of his collecting criteria. Bertram Mitford 1855-1914 a contemporary of H. Rider Haggard wrote over 40 novels most of which are set in South Africa. An odd mystery novel set in Africa and England in which the main character inherits a haunted house. The novel also involves a vendetta and romance. Scarce. Ward, Lock & Co., Limited hardcover

Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA · États-Unis500,00 $US≈ 423,05 €

[SOUTH AFRICA] PHILIP, Rev JohnBiblio.com

Researches in South Africa; Illustrating the Civil Moral and Religious Condition of the Native Tribes.

182860771London: James Duncan 1828. First Edition. Octavo 21cm. Brown calf with gilt rules to outer perimeter of boards rebacked titled in gilt on black and brown spine labels all edges sprinkled red; plain renewed endpapers; I: xxxvi4031pp; II: viii4502pp; one-page publisher's ad to rear of vol. II; frontispiece to vol. I 2 maps 1 folding in vol. II. Tight and straight but rebacked edgeworn heavily foxed two or three leaves with short tears reinforced with archival tape title page in vol. I partly detached: complete and just Very Good. John Philip 1775-1851 supervised the activities of the London Missionary Society in South Africa. He traveled widely and advocated for the better treatment of both indigenous South Africans and settlers. In this work "he exposed the various abuses perpetrated in Cape Colony and expounded the benefits of missions.he was able to persuade the colonial secretary Sir George Murray to remove all civil disabilities on 'free persons of colour' at the Cape and indeed throughout the British empire.he was fêted as a hero by the Khnoekhnoen but vilified by the settlers and officials" ODNB. THEAL p.234. MENDELSSOHN II p.160-1. James Duncan unknown

Lorne Bair Rare Books · États-Unis750,00 $US≈ 634,57 €

[SOUTH AFRICA] [AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS] MATTHEWS, Joe and MP Naicker (eds) M PBiblio.com

Sechaba: the official organ of the African National Congress South Africa. Vol 3 no 10 Oct 1969

196982942London: African National Congress 1969. Single quarto issue. Staple-bound wrappers; 24pp; illus. Bright clean Near FIne copy. This issue with contributions by Barry Feinberg Tennyson Makiwane Dennis Brutus a profile of Lee Evans Alex La Guma others. "Sechaba" the ANC's revolutionary and theoretical organ was among the key documents of the South African liberation movement remaining in print through the 1980s. Early issues are infrequently seen. African National Congress unknown

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[SOUTH AFRICA] BENSON, MaryBiblio.com

The African Patriots: The Story of the African National Congress of South Africa

196362108London: Faber and Faber 1963. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 22.5cm. Green cloth stamped in red and gilt in white dust jacket printed in black and yellow; 310pp; publisher's ads to dust jacket rear panel. Signed by author on title page; ownership inscription of J. W. Fredericks on front free endpaper. Sound lower front corner heavily bumped spine sunned: Very Good. Jacket unclipped priced 36s net but rubbed at edges and toned on spine with creases at lower front corners and small chip at base of spine: Very Good. First general history of the ANC based on personal interviews with key party figures. The ANC was banned in 1960; in 1962 just after Benson completed her research the Sabotage Act granted the apartheid government greater powers to suppress opposition. This copy from the collection of J. Wayne Fredericks 1917-2004 US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1961-67. 62108. Faber and Faber unknown

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[SOUTH AFRICA] SCHAPERA, IBiblio.com

The Bantu-Speaking Tribes of South Africa: An Ethnographical Survey

194661379London: George Routledge & Sons 1946. Reprint. Octavo 24.5cm. Red cloth titled in gilt on spine; xvi4531pp; 24 halftone plates double-page map at rear. From the collection of J. Wayne Fredericks Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations with his ink ownership inscription to f.f.e.p. Sound but spine-sunned worn at corners and spine ends internally clean: Very Good. 61379. George Routledge & Sons unknown

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[SOUTH AFRICA] DU CANE, Hubert (trans)Biblio.com

The German Official Account of the War in South Africa. March 1900 to September 1900. The War in South Africa: The Advance to Pretoria After Paardeberg the Upper Tugela Campaign Etc. Prepared in the Historical Section of the Great General Staff Berlin

190662775London: John Murray 1906. First Edition. Octavo 23cm. Green cloth stamped in gilt; x374pp; 9 folding maps 6 plates. Sound and straight through lightly rubbed with puncture to cloth over spine: Very Good. German Official Account of the War in South Africa March to September 1900. MENDELSSOHN I p.490. John Murray unknown

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[SOUTH AFRICA] OBERHOLSTER, J J; B D Malan (trans)Biblio.com

The Historical Monuments of South Africa

197261124Cape Town: Rembrandt van Rijn Foundation for Culture / National Monuments Council 1972. First English Language Edition. Quarto 29cm. Tan burlap in pictorial dust jacket; taupe endpapers; xxii354pp; color and black and white illustrations. Inscribed to Wayne Fredericks by South African businessman Anton Rupert . A sound clean copy with crease to title page and following leaf else Very Good or better. Jacket rubbed with minor dirt at edges overall Very Good. The inscribee is J. Wayne Fredericks 1917-2004 distinguished Africanist Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations later Director of Africa programs for the Ford Foundation and Director of the Foreign Policy Association 1994-2004. Fredericks' work on behalf of Black South Africans was sufficiently well-known and significant that Desmond Tutu spoke at his memorial service in 2004. Rembrandt van Rijn Foundation for Culture / National Monuments Council unknown

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[SOUTH AFRICA] STEVENSON-HAMILTON, JBiblio.com

The Low-Veld: Its Wild Life and Its People

192961163London: Cassell & Company Limited 1929. First Edition. Octavo 22.5cm. Brown cloth titled in gilt on spine; cartographic endpapers; xiv288pp; 16 halftone plates. Bookseller's ticket of Foyles London to front pastedown. Ownership inscription of J. Wayne Fredericks 1957 to front flyleaf. Clean and straight but rear board heavily bumped with board and final two leaves crumpled: Good. Natural history and anthropology of South Africa. Cassell & Company Limited unknown

Lorne Bair Rare Books · États-Unis60,00 $US≈ 50,77 €

[SOUTH AFRICA] [UNITED PARTY]Biblio.com

The Native and Coloured Peoples' Policy of the United Party. A Re-Statement of Policy B The Policy Explained C The Constitutional Position

194826521Johannesburg: Rostra Printers n.d. ca. 1948. First Edition. 12mo 17.25cm.; original white printed staplebound card wrappers; 15pp. Extremities sunned textblock uniformly toned and brittle due to poor paperstock tiny loss to lower fore-edge corner of first few leaves and upper wrapper. Still Very Good. Anti-apartheid policy of South Africa's leading political party from 1934 to 1948 when it was supplanted by the National Party. Only a handful of copies located in OCLC; Boston U. only in the United States as of May 2015. Rostra Printers unknown

Lorne Bair Rare Books · États-Unis50,00 $US≈ 42,31 €

[SOUTH AFRICA] HOLDEN, William CBiblio.com

The Past and Future of the Kaffir Races. In Three Parts. I. Their History. II. Their Manners and Customs. III. The Means Needful for Their Preservation and Improvement

186661161London: Published for the Author 1866. An early impression but likely not the first lacking decorative gilt tooling to spine. Octavo 22cm. Green cloth boards blindstamped titled in gilt on spine; chocolate brown endpapers; xii516pp; prospectus for the author's "History of the Colony of Natal" tipped in at front; tinted lithographic frontispiece and 7 plates one black and white lithograph folding map with touches of hand color and 4 relief full-page plates. Bookplate of Arthur Wakefield Chapman. Lightly rubbed but generally sound and clean: Very Good. History and contemporary account of what is now South Africa by a Wesleyan missionary who had been in South Africa for 27 years. Theal noted in 1812 that "the first part of this book is fairly accurate the second part is correct to a letter" though the third section had become obsolete. THEAL p.141. MENDELSSOHN I p.725. 61161. Published for the Author unknown

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[SOUTH AFRICA] WATERS, W H H (trans)Biblio.com

The War in South Africa Prepared in the Historical Section of the Great General Staff Berlin

190761083London: John Murray 1907. Reprint. Octavo 23cm. Green cloth stamped in gilt on front and spine; plain endpapers; xii280pp; 9 folding maps and 2 halftone plates. A tight copy lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners browning to free endpapers but generally Very Good. German Official Account of the War in South Africa October 1899 to February 1900. See MENDELSSOHN II p.590. John Murray unknown

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[SOUTH AFRICA] SCHREINER, OliveBiblio.com

Thoughts on South Africa

192361115London: T. Fisher Unwin 1923. Octavo 23cm. Red cloth titled in gilt on spine; 3982pp; portrait frontispiece. Ticket of the Times Book Club to rear pastedown. A firm copy spine faded edges rubbed corners bumped generally internally clean: around Very Good. Schreiner was a feminist novelist from South Africa known for her bestselling novel The Story of An African Farm. This work contains articles written while Schreiner was involving herself in local Cape Town politics in the late 1880s. Only one was published at the time; the rest were published posthumously. 61115. T. Fisher Unwin unknown

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[South African Railways and Harbours]Biblio.com

TRAVEL IN SOUTH AFRICA

192118006Johannesburg: South African Railways and Harbours. 1921. Softcover. Very Good. Small corner missing on front board. ; A detailed and profusely illustrated description of the country. Wraps with blindstamped title and shield. Rare; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 306 pages . South African Railways and Harbours paperback

Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore · États-Unis175,00 $US≈ 148,07 €

[SOUTH AFRICA] KAY, StephenBiblio.com

Travels and Researches in Caffraria: Describing the Character Customs and Moral Condition of the Tribes Inhabiting That Portion of Southern Africa.

183460678New York: Harper and Brothers 1834. First American Edition. First printing. 12mo 20cm. Glazed pale red cloth titled on printed paper spine label; 4284pp; 4pp publisher's ads at rear; folding map and four plates. Bookseller's ticket of Moore & Payne to front pastedown. Ownership inscriptions of Wm. M. Holland 1836 and W. Barratt 1849 to f.f.e.p. Straight and sound minor stains to cloth light fading to spine minor foxing throughout but generally Very Good. Narrative of travels in the Eastern Cape of South Africa by a Methodist missionary. Theal acknowledged that the book was informative about the "Bantu tribes and the Wesleyan missions" but criticized it for calling out the cruelties of colonization p.158. Mendelssohn meanwhile called Theal's criticisms "drastic" and the work itself "interesting and instructive.especially with regard to the natural and political history of the country and its topography and ethnology" p.805. The term for this region used in the work's title was derived from a racial slur and is no longer in use. THEAL p.158. MENDELSSOHN I p.805. Harper and Brothers unknown

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[Surfing; Women; South Africa] Turner, Charles EBiblio.com

Riding the Surf; A Universal Pastime on the South African Coast

1930228171930. Very good overall. From the original painting by C.E. Turner. Color lithograph of lady surfers standing on surfboards some large square surf boards with a rope at the front and man surfing on the back of the board. Ladies wearing thigh high skirted suits with swim caps men wearing sleeveless full body suits. Surf boards were used in Muizenberg as early as 1904 built by a local boat builder. This item dated c. 1930 due to its reproduction on the cover of "The South African Series of Jig Saw Puzzles". Artist Charles E. Turner 1893-1965 was born in Lancaster but based in Liverpool an artist who specialized in landscape and marine views. Turner fought in both the First and Second World Wars as a captain Fleet Air Arm combining active service with service as a war artist signing his work C.E. Turner. His best known works of naval combat date from this era. Between wars Turner had developed a series of illustrations for Thomas Forman and Cunard becoming a 'series of excellent postcards' and additionally designed for Churchill Cigar Boxes along with many other paintings. He exhibited at the Royal Academy of London Manchester and Liverpool. 15 1/8 x 9 1/8" laid down on the original captioned brown card. Sml. closed tear in margin of card barely visible. Very good condition with corners of the mat board slightly bumped. hardcover

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[Thos Cook & Son]Biblio.com

THE TRAVELLER'S HANDBOOK FOR ALGERIA AND TUNISIA

19134827London: Thos. Cook & Son Ltd. 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Front endpaper a bit soiled; 29 photos 4 folding maps on japon paper; 12mo - 7" to 7½" tall; 416 pages . Thos. Cook & Son, Ltd hardcover

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[TRAVEL - AFRICA]Biblio.com

Uganda: The Pearl of Africa

193863475London: H.M. Eastern African Trade and Information Office 1938. Reissue. Octavo 20.5cm. Yellow pictorial paper wrappers; 112pp; ads throughout; folding map at rear black and white illustrations throughout. Sound but lightly rubbed with mild external soil and cracking to cover over spine: Very Good. Travel guide to British colonial Uganda for wealthy British tourists and hunters reissued from the 1935 "Publicity" handbook. 63475. H.M. Eastern African Trade and Information Office unknown

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[TROPICAL MEDICINE - WEST AFRICA] STRONG, Richard P[earson], edBiblio.com

The African Republic of Liberia and the Belgian Congo. Based on the Observations Made and Material Collected Curing the Harvard African Expedition 1926-1927 Inscribed Presentation Copy

193052156Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1930. First Edition. Inscribed on front endpaper of first volume: "Mr. Malcolm B. Stone / with much appreciation of his interest in the work in tropical medicine / from Richard P. Strong" dated in year of publication. First printings. Two large octavo volumes 27cm; publisher's maroon cloth boards lettered in gilt on spines and front covers; xxvi1-568; ix569-1064pp; illus. Mild lean to text block of second volume else a tight Near Fine set lacking the dustwrappers. A major work in the history of public medicine. Strong 1872-1948 was the first professor of Tropical Medicine at Harvard and the foremost American authority on the subject. This important two-year expedition to Liberia and the Congo led by Strong in the company of seven fellow Harvard scientists was the first full-scale attempt to document the etiology of a variety of tropical diseases as well as documenting existing sanitary conditions in Liberia and colonial West Africa. The mission also collected a wealth of zoological and anthropological data that would inform various fields of Africa Studies for decades. Harvard University Press unknown

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[UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA] RAATS, JI (ed) J IBiblio.com

Official Year Book of the Union of South Africa and of Basutoland Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland; no. 28 1954-55

195532530Pretoria: The Government Printer 1955. 28th volume in the series covering the years 1954-55. Thick octavo; printed paper-covered boards; xvi 866pp. Covers tanned at board edges; mild external rubbing; very slight age-toning to text paper; a solid Very Good copy. Official statistics structure of government diary of laws descriptions of geography natural resources etc. A well-preserved copy uncommon thus. The Government Printer unknown

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[UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA] RAATS, JI (ed) J IBiblio.com

Official Year Book of the Union of South Africa and of Basutoland Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland; No. 27 1952-53

195428950Pretoria: Government Printer 1954. First Edition. Large thick octavo 25cm.; original blue printed paper-covered boards; viii1364pp.; folding color map plates folding brochure titled "History of the Kruger National Park" bound in between pp. 54 & 55. Spine slightly sunned else Very Good or better. Government Printer unknown

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[West Africa].Biblio.com

African chief with harem.

74962c.1880. . Albumen print. Good tonal range and in good condition. [c.1880]. unknown

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[West Africa] Bellin, NicolasBiblio.com

Carte de la Coste Occidentale d'Afrique Depuis le XII degre

177521526Paris 1775. Very good condition. Detailed copper engraved map of the west coast of Africa from Sierra Leone and the Gulf of Guinee or St. Thomas down to Angola. Many coastal cities and rivers named; the countries and regions named include: Coste de Grain Coste d'Ivoire Coste d'Or Coste des Esclaves Benin Biafara Maiumbo Loango Congo and Angola. From Prevost's "L'Histoire Generale des Voyages". Bellin 1703 - 1772 one of the most noted French mapmakers of the 18th century was named the hydrographer chief cartographer to the French Navy and later the Official Hydrographer to the French King. With compass rose. Folding 10 x 8 1/8" with ample margins. Strong impression very clean. unknown

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[West Africa] Bellin, NicolasBiblio.com

Carte des Royaumes de Congo Angola et Benguela

177521531Paris 1775. Very good condition. Detailed copper engraved map of the west coast of Africa from Gabon "ou Pongo" down to Cap Negro in Benguela modern day Angola. Many coastal and interior cities and rivers named with various kingdoms marked. From Prevost's "L'Histoire Generale des Voyages". Bellin 1703 - 1772 one of the most noted French mapmakers of the 18th century was named the hydrographer chief cartographer to the French Navy and later the Official Hydrographer to the French King. Folding 12 1/4 x 10" with ample margins. Strong impression very clean. unknown

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