Archive for January, 2009

The Architecture of Denmark

Dust jacket well worn and repaired with tape. Binding slightly loose. Black and white illustrations and photos

The Archer Boy Sung By Miss Love in the Historical Play the Partizans.


The Alps from End to End

3rd edition. Cover is worn and bumped. Foxing to endpapers with slight foxing throughout. Previous owners inscription on half title page.

The Alpine Regions of Switzerland and the Neighbouring Countries

Spine is quite damaged. Torn all along back seam so that back cover is unattached, with fraying to head and tail. Bumped corners, slightly frayed. Foxing to first 5 or so pages, and last 2 pages.

Springboks … Past and Present : a Record of Men and Women Who Have Represented South Africa in International Amateur Sport, 1888-1947.

No dust jacket. Green illustrated cloth covers in firm condition displaying wear and staining, with a discoloured and edge worn spine. A preliminary page has come loose. No place or date of publication indicated, although the ”Preface is dated 1947

South African Sports

1897. First Edition. Original red cloth, cover is worn with water staining spots.Binding is loose and advertising pages are discoloured. The first book devoted to South African sports, and a mine of information relating to late 19th century activity in the sports covered.

Solange Ich Liebe

Dust jacket in good conditon with small loss on the spine. Poetry by Martthias Reuss, Photography by Martthias Reuss, Wibke Riemann, Rolas Simulis.In German

Snowcaps on the Equator : The Fabled Mountains of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zaire

Dust jacket has some tearing and creasing. Good firm copy .

Schwarze Menschen-Weike Berge

In German .

From the Far West: Carpets and Textiles of Morocco

Previous owner’s signature on pastedown endpaper. Dust jacket very worn at edges, with large tear at tail of cover, and some small tears and folding at edges. Bumped upper corners.

Freshwater Fishing in South Africa

Chris Van Rensberg Publications 1986. No dust jacket .Cover is slightly worn with corners bumped. Good firm copy.

Fibre Ropes for Fishing Gear

Fishing News Books 1983. No dust jacket. Cover very slightly worn. Excellent condition

Famous Diamonds

Dust jacket in good condition. Very slight foxing to endpapers. Good firm copy. With forward by Harry Oppenheimer.

European and American Carpets and Rugs

Slight scuff marks to fore-edge. Black and white and colour illustrations and photography.

Epistles, Odes, Etc Written on Several Subjects with Translation of Longinus’s Treatise on the Sublime.

Some browning to the pages. Previous owner’s name and dated 1728 on fep. Fep has come unattached, as has the front cover.

English Delftware Pottery in the Robert Hall Warren Collection Ashmolean Museum Oxford

Dust jacket soiled with a large tear to head of front.

English Brown Stoneware 1670-1900

Price clipped. Some lines under plastic of dust jacket caused by air.

Encyclopaedia of Big Game Animals in Africa


Edward Seago. Painter in the English Tradition

Previous owner’s name on fep. Tape stains to front and back fep. Previous owner inscribed in ink under publication date first edition. Lovely colour plates.

Edward Seago. a Review of the Years 1953-1964

Tape stains to front and back endpapers, as well as inside flaps of dust jacket.