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1905007286Washington: War Department Government Printing Office 1905. Two original publications from the War Office in Washington bound together in a modern green cloth binding. Photo by email on request. The first is the Boer War publication of 1905 243pp incl indexand 4 fold-out maps at rear. The second is the July 1901 publication "Reports on Military Operations in South Africa and China. This includes numerous fold out coloured maps including one very large map of South Africa at the rear. Apart from a small area of wear to one of the page edges the book and contents are in remarkably good condition. Very scarce. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. War Department Government Printing Office Hardcover
1902006647J J Keliher & Co 1902. xxpp 844pp illus photos of various topics taken from the war in South Africa many articles on the war in South Africa original green cloth with illus bugler on front board titles and page eges in gilt in very good condition - board edges rubbed - digital images available on request. Scarce. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. J J Keliher & Co Hardcover
305141Johannesburg South Africa: Brenthurst Press 2004. Copy E of 25 later 20 copies in full binding for Robert S. Pirie. Numerous colour illustrations. 5 vols. Large 4to. Full publisher's navy Nigerian Sokoto goatskin t.e.g. Bookplate of Robert S. Pirie. Loosely inserted engraved cards from "Mr Harry Oppenheimer Brenthurst Johannesburg" or compliments slip from Mary Slack Harry Oppenheimer's daughter. As new in leather backed folding box. Copy E of 25 later 20 copies in full binding for Robert S. Pirie. Numerous colour illustrations. 5 vols. Large 4to. Choice set of the third series of Brenthurst Library works on the history and natural history of South Africa in finely executed presentation bindings variously by John Mitchell Woking; Peter Carstens Johannesburg; and Roger and Ivy Bolton Warrington.<br /> Presented by Harry Oppenheimer and his librarian to the distnguished New York investment counselor and famed book collector Robert S. Pirie. Brenthurst Press unknown
1902H14290Paarl South Africa: D. F. Du Toit & Co 1902. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo 6.25 x 5 inches gray cloth good to very good light wear and soil to covers 276 pp 4 pp. ads some minor pencil notes on words to rear flyleaf very rare in commerce and only a handful of original copies in institutions according to OCLC. Very early Afrikaans dictionary if not the first such. D. F. Du Toit & Co hardcover
1880317093London: S. W. Silver & Co. Office of 'the Colonies and India' Cornhill 1880. Third Edition Revised. Folding panorama at p. X of Capetown and Table Mountain WITHOUT MAP which may never have been issued supposedly opposite title-page. x 576pp. Thick 12mo 7 x 4 5/8 inches. Publisher's brown pebbled cloth neatly recased. Bookplate of H.A. Bryden on front pastedown slight rubbing and foxing else Very Good. Third Edition Revised. Folding panorama at p. X of Capetown and Table Mountain WITHOUT MAP which may never have been issued supposedly opposite title-page. x 576pp. Thick 12mo 7 x 4 5/8 inches. Also Signned "H.A. Bryden/ 1883." on the title-page. S. W. Silver & Co. Office of 'the Colonies and India', Cornhill unknown
197348773London: International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa 1973. Small folio. 96 loose sheets - title map and introduction plus 79 photographic illustrations with 14 descriptive leaves. Held in the original folding box this with some light wear to extremities. London: International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa unknown
174721931-2. Two pages extracted from an autograph album c.17.5 x 11cm sl. grubby mainly good condition. One entitled in ink "North of Scotland v. Springboks. Aberdeen: 9th Jan.1932"; the other just headed by date so "10/1/31 32 in fact" There are eight 8 signatures of South African players on the first page described above and twenty-two 22 signatures on the second total 30. One name "S G Osler" is repeated on both pages. Given that a scrawled signature is liable to misinterpretation the following members of the touring party appear to have signed: First page total 8 signatures: a. initials Pienaar; b. initials Nicholls; c. undeciphered; d. W.F.R. Schreiner; e. J.D. Dallas f. initials Williamson; S.G. Osler; P.J. Mostert.Second Page total 22 signatures: a. undeciphered; b. W.F. Bergh prob.; c. initials Loew; d. Gerry Brand; e. undeciphered; e. D.H. Craven; f. M.G. Francis; g. P. de Villiers; h. S.G. Osler; i. Alb v d Merwe; j. undeciphered; k. S.R. du Toit; l. F.W. Waring; m. M.M. Ireland; n.J.C. van der Westhuizen; o. J. Nic Biermann; p. J.H. van der Westhuizen; q. J.A.J. Macdonald; r. H. Kipling; s. D.O. Williams; t. F.D. Venter; H.M. Forest. list in order of the Wikipedia entry on the tour:T.B. Pienaar; Gerry Brand; F.W. Waring; J.C. van der Westhuizen; J.H. van der Westhuizen;Danie Craven; M.G. Francis; P. de Villiers; W.F. Bergh; J.N. Bierman; H.M Forrest; H.G. Kipling J.A.J. McDonald; A.J. van der Merwe; P.J. Mostert; S.R. du Toit. WITH: S.G. Osler signed twice not on Wikipedia list and W.F.R. Schreiner not on Wikipedia List Other names or scrawled signatures look like the following: Dallas; Williamson; Ireland; Williams; Nichols W.F.R. Schreiner "Mr WFR 'Bill' Schreiner chairman of the Springbok selection committee for many years". "D. Williams" doesn't appear in the main list of the Touring Party Wikipedia but is listed as playing against Llanelli in the resumé of results. Images available. 1931-2 unknown
190029149South Africa 1900. Good overall. A night permit January 1900 special permit Nov. 1899 and £5 note permits made out to Frederico Gambini who was an Italian staying at Bungalow Pritchard Str profession: barhounder. All items adhered to scrap book page 8 x 9 3/4" toned. unknown
27391Very Good. A sepia-toned albumen paper photograph 180 × 240 mm unmounted with a contemporary press stamp printer's annotations and a mounted typed caption slip on the verso. One horizontal crease across the photograph a centimetre or more clear of the back row of figures; in excellent condition with the later inkstamp of the 'Davis Sporting Collection' on the verso. The caption is explicit: 'The South African Cricket Team photographed at Lord's today. They will play their first match this season tomorrow Saturday v. Derbyshire .'. Accordingly this photograph was taken on 3 May 1912. <p>To quote Wisden: 'The South Africans failed so dismally in the Test matches that although they won thirteen of their less important games their tour can only be regarded as a failure'. In the triangular tournament even the non-representative Australian team proved far too strong winning decisively their first two Tests but to put things into perspective after that second victory 'the Australians did not win a match the record for the rest of the tour coming out at four defeats twelve draws and one match abandoned'. The South African squad comprised Mitchell Captain Campbell Carter Cox Faulkner Hartigan Nourse Pegler Schwarz Snooke Stricker Tancred Taylor and Ward. unknown
1875211691875. Ephemera. Good -. A large important looking two story South African building behind what appear to be cyprus trees. Caption verso "Wyenberg nr Cape Town" Approx. 7 by 4.5" left lower corner missing only affects tree shadows. unknown
1890168731890. Slight warping plus clipping on one edge. Mounted on stiff board on a page from an album a view across the town from a hill toward Table Mountain labeled Cape Town South Africa. On the verso an exterior view of an ivy covered estate. Approx. 7 1/2 by 11 1/2. unknown
1880168621880. Very good condition. Albumen photo with black man standing nearby one in cart and driver in seat near Table Mountain at Capetown South Africa. Pencil caption on verso "Table Mountain Cape Town." Approx. 7 by 4" unknown
1880168711880. Very good condition. A light pencil note on the back states "Table Mountain Eastern slope". Approx 71/4 by 5 1/4" unknown
1875169981875. Constantia was one of the six wine regions around Capetown South Africa. Penciled caption on verso reads "Wine vaults Constantia Nr. Capetown." Note the man perhaps a traveling companion or guide standing on steps. <br /> <br /> The Constantia estate was established in 1685 by Governor of the Cape Simon van der Stel. By 1778 Constantia wines were made famous under Hendrik Cloete becoming the favorite of European rulers such as Frederic the Great and Napoleon who is said to have ordered it even in exile. Approx. 7 x 4 1/2" unknown
189520374London: G. W. Bacon & Co 1895. First printing. Very good overall. A second edition titled Bacon's New Large Scale Map of the South African Republic Transvaal Showing Orange Free State and Frontiers of British Territories was issued later 1899.<br /> <br /> This large color Second Boer War era map with five insets including the following: Map Showing the Routes from England and India to South Africa; Environs of Cape Town; untitled inset showing coast and Lorenco Marquez today Maputo capital of Mozambique; South Africa with surrounding countries: Bechuanaland to west Orange Free State and Cape Colony to the south; and Durban & Port Natal. The first inset shows routes from all parts of the British Empire including from Australia and New Zealand. The inset of Lorenco Marquez shows the railroad line built in 1895 connecting that Portuguese colonial city to Pretoria.<br /> <br /> Brown cloth and stiff paper wrappers with title printed in red and black. 'NO. 5' printed at upper left corner; price printed "two shillings on cloth in case 4s". Unfolded measures 35 x 26 3/4" high. Short splits at a few horizontal folds; longer split at horizontal fold just below where map attaches to stiff wrapper. Wrappers a bit dusty. OCLC 71591961. G. W. Bacon & Co hardcover
1900AQ29042Cape Town: Wood & Ortlepp 1900. Colour lithograph map. Scale 1:250 000. Linen backed. Original publisher's limp red cloth lettered in gilt. Rubbed and marked. Hinge exposed short tear to one fold. The fourth known copy of a map compiled for Field Intelligence Department Cape Town detailing the region of Bethulie South Africa showing farm boundaries and fences farm names divisional boundaries roads rivers telegraph lines and railways. OCLC records copies at only three locations Cape Town KwaZulu-Nata and Wellington. . Dimensions unfolded: 620 x 490 mm folded in cover: 110 x 179 mm. [Wood & Ortlepp] hardcover
193262706London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1932. 8vo. 221 1 pp. Photo frontisp. 11 photo plates. Blue publisher’s cloth black lettering on spine occasional light foxing w/ d.j. vivid Art Deco cover art of Mounted Policeman on horseback VG/NF copy. Second printing of this rousing memoir of the author’s experiences on Rhodes’s exploratory and military expedition through the Kimberley Diamond-Fields hunting lions and hippos fighting in Mashonaland and Bulawayo and dealing with Lobengula Chief of the Matabele from 1889-1892. George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., hardcover
1900SKU1034401Globe Bible Publishing Co. 1900-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Globe Bible Publishing Co.; Philadelphia 1900. Hardcover. A Very Good blue cloth binding with black and red lettering and illustration on front board illustration and tan lettering on spine binding a bit shaky starting hinges some age spotting to boards age toning to text block edges and pages spine buckram separating from backing material three tears to front free endpaper sunning to pastedown/endpaper margins mild stress crease to spine some rubbing to board and spine edges bit of crimping to spine edges mild scattered foxing to text block edges fold-out map in front without Dust wrapper. A nice clean and unmarked copy. 8vooctavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches. 496pp. b&w illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scans are available for any item please inquire. Globe Bible Publishing Co., hardcover
1900AQ29039Cape Town & Johannesburg: Wood & Ortlepp 1900. Colour lithograph map. Scale 1:250 000. Linen backed. Original publisher's buff printed cloth. Lightly rubbed and marked faded ownership inscriptions to covers. The fourth known copy of a map compiled for Field Intelligence Department Cape Town detailing the region of Rouxville South Africa showing farm boundaries and fences farm names divisional boundaries roads rivers telegraph lines and railways. OCLC records copies at only three locations Cape Town Stellenbosch and Wellington. . First edition. Dimensions unfolded: 620 x 490 mm folded in cover: 110 x 179 mm. Wood & Ortlepp hardcover
1920248201920. Very good condition. Guide to Kimberley South Africa with large folding map on verso listing places of interest focussing on the local diamond industry: the De Beers Pulsator the Compound and the Direct Treatment Crusher diamonds on view in De Beers' Head Office the S. A. Diamond Cutting Organisation and the Kimberley Diamond Cutting Co.<br /> <br /> Many local Kimberley business advertisements including: Vanderheim & Slosberg Opticians 57 Dutoitspan Road; R. H. Henderson leading store for ladies' wear; Blacklaws' Shoes 35 Dutoitspan Rd; and John Orr & Co. ladies' hosiery 26 Jones Street.<br /> <br /> Folds to 4 x 6". Not found in OCLC. unknown
68675c.1890. . Albumen print. Fair tonal range and in fair condition pasted on original card.<br /> <br /> [c.1890]. unknown
68665c.1890. . Albumen print. Fair tonal range and in fair condition pasted on original card.<br /> <br /> [c.1890]. unknown
189079156No Place: No Publisher 1890. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. No Place No Publisher circa 1890s but possibly Sallo Epstein & Co. Durban. Oblong octavo 164 × 221 mm 16 full-page captioned photogravures with blind-embossed borders printed rectos only. Card covers lightly marked and rubbed; minimal scattered light foxing a little heavier on the second plate; an excellent copy. Some of the captions are 'Chief Tshingwayo and his Adjutants'; 'A Zulu on Trial - Explaining the Charge'; 'A Council of War'; 'Zulu Warriors'; 'A Young Zulu Brave and his Bride'; 'A War Dance'; and 'Zulu Women at Work'. No Publisher paperback
12414Very Good. Ephemera. Unspoilt Africa has wear to spine with up to 1" loss at spine ends; some soil & light stain to back cover. Good thus. Johannesburg S. A. Metropolis with some foxing bottom edge front cover; Pocket Guide in white wrappers shows a bit of soil/foxing on spine and edges. All others in fine condition. ; All soft-cover; all illustrated including black & white & color photographs; drawings; maps charts. Three of the five booklets have front & rear covers of folding color maps. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . unknown
190329109Durban South Africa 1903. Five photographs of Zulu people that are numbered and captioned in white at the bottom. <br /> Titles include: A Zulu Man with his Wives; Zulu Children - the Younger enjoying a Mealie; An Eligible Zulu Girl; A Challenge; the last image is of 3 men and 3 women caption is faded but has something to do with Zulu attire. Photographers are Bradley J Wallace J.E.M. and Middlebrook. <br /> <br /> 5 photos 5 7/8 x 8" evidence of glue on verso o/w vgc. unknown