Archive for January, 2009

Thunder on the Blaauwberg

Dust jacket in excellent condition. Good firm copy

Three Years with Lobengula: And Experiences in South Africa

Rhodesia reprint library volume 1. Dust jacket is worn with losses at spine.Water staining to botton of pages. Minor foxing and staining to endpapers. With fold out maps.

The Way to Divine Knowledge

Cover is missing spine and leather is marked with some creasing and staining. Endpapers loose and browned with slight insect damage. Owners inscription in ink. Page 9 of grounds and reasons has a huge chip affecting the text

The Water Supply of Cities and Towns

Leather binding, with gilt title. Cover is worn , especially on edges and has a small tear on the spine. Marginalia in pencil. Wonderful illustrations of waterworks.

The Visitation of Berkshire in 1566 By William Harvey

Inscribed by previous owner on cover. Fraying around edges

The Stone Age Cultures of Northern Rhodesia

South African Archeological Society. Forward states date as 1950. Dust jacket has some insect damage , with minor discolouration. Bookplate pasted into free endpaper. Newsclippings tipped in.

The Springboks History of the Tour 1906.7

No Jacket. First Edition. Illustrated. Covers are marked, damaged, grubby and water stained. Spine is detaching and missing a peice. Pages are discoloured. Sunday school stamps on endpapers. A poor but readable copy.

The South African Tunas

No dust jacket. Grey cover is worn and slightly sunned on the spine. Discolouration to endpapers. Firm copy

The Smaller English House of the Later Renaissance 1660-1830

Fraying corners, tear to head of spine. A patch of bad fishmothing to tail of spine. Endpapers foxed

The Sick African

A clinical study book by Michael Gelfand, the consulting physician, Salisbury African hospital (Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland).Blue cloth cover, worn on edges.