Archive for January, 2009

‘n Gids tot Kaaps-Hollandse Huise

Struik 1987. No dust jacket. Cover slightly worn. Text pages in good condition.

Myth of Iron, Shaka in History

No dust jacket . Card cover in excellent condition.

Mountain Memories. A Pilgrimage of Romance

Some fraying to head and tail of spine. Minor foxing throughout, esp. to prelims. Browning to front and back feps. previous owner’s inscription on fep. With 16 b/w plates.

Mount Kenya

“Card covers. Introduction and end chapter missing, starts on page 7 . Mount Kenya read at the meeting of the society 7 Februry 1921″

Mount Everest : The Reconnaisance 1921

Blue cloth cover, worn on edges. Discolouration and foxing to endpapers. Previous owners inscription in pencil. Pen scribbles on page 18 and 210. Some foxing throughout .First edition. Illustrated with 3 fold-out maps and 35 photographic plates. Story of the first British expedition to Mount Everest in 1921.

Modern Photography 1939 -1940

No dust jacket. Cover has some wear on the spine, and cover is sunned. Endpapers foxed. Illustrations in good condition.

Medulla Historiae Anglicanae, The Ancient and Present State of England, Being a Compendious History of All Its Monarchs from the Time of Julius Caesar

 Hardcover. Eleventh edition, “illustrated with Sculptures.” Full calf binding, red & gilt label on spine. Front board detached some tape reair marks. Engraved frontispiece, +12 plates, fold-out engraved table of the Royal Family .Margins of endpapers darkened (from leather dressing)and some creasing.

Mannliche Impotenz

“Manliche Impotenz und deren radicale Heilung durch ein rationell-combinirtes Naturheilverfahren”" in German. Paper covered cloth boards “

Life in the Sandwhich Islands or the Heart of the Pacific, as it Was and is.

With stamps of library. Title page has 2500 written on it in large blue pencil crayon. Endpapers badly foxed but rest of book is fine.

Life at the Cape a Hundred Years Ago

Reprint of 1963 edition.

Lettres Ecrites a Un Provincial

Front cover detached. Previous owner’s name on endpaper. Rather badly foxed in places.From page 477 damage to top of pages.

Kampf Um Den Himalaja

Foxing stains to cover, tear all along back of spine. In German

John Leech a Biographical Sketch

Falling apart, frayed and torn.

J.F. Victorin’s Travel in the Cape : The Years 1853-1855

Hunting and nature pictures from the late naturalists letters and diaries. Dust jacket is worn with part missing on the spine, and some chipping to edges. Endpapers have slight discolouration.Good firm copy.

International Exhibition 1862

Volume 2 . Leather spine,  marble boards well worn. this volume is a list of exhibitors at the exhibition of 1862, and starts with a list of “philosophical instruments,photography, horological instuments, musical instuments, surgical instuments, textiles, saddlery,stationary, furrniture, iron an general hardware, steel cutlery and travel” .Minor foxing to endpapers. Good firm copy with many black and white illustrations.

In Journeyings Oft

Gospel work among the lepers. The closing scenes of Robben Island. Paper covered card bound book. Cover is worn with some small tears. Binding loose and foxing to some pages. firm copy.

Hogarths Works

The complete works of William Hogarth in a series of one hundred aand fifty steel engravings

Hotel Planning and Outfitting Commercial Residential Recreational.

A compilation of authorative information on problems of hotel economics

Het Ontstaan, De Ontwikkeling En De Geboorte Van Den Mensch

“No dust jacket. Illustrated green cloth covers in firm condition displaying edge wear and staining. The spine is sunned and cracked along the inside edges. Pencil inscription on front endpaper. Previous owner’s name inscribed on added title page. No date of publication indicated, although Introduction”" dated 1909. “”Populair geschetst en voorzien van circa 280 toelichtende illustraties”". “”"

George Cruikshank Artist and Humorist with Numerous Illusrtations and a Bank Note Not to be Imitated.

Foxed. Binding quite loose