Archive for January, 2009

Neuer Methodischer Leitsaden fur den gesamten Unterricht in der Zoologie einschliesslich Menschenrassen, Grundbegrisse der Tiergeographie und Unterweisungen uber die Gesundheitspflege. Fur Hohere Lehranstalten jeder Art wie zum Selbstunterrichte

Copiously illustrated with finely detailed woodcuts. Past owner’s name on front fep.

Mont Blanc / with a Preface By Geoffrey Winthrop Young

The Picture Guides series. Clean text and tight binding in slightly faded boards.

The Wayward Bus

Small ink deletion on front fep. Spine slightly faded.

Refugees and Exiles Challenge the Churches: Report of the Nineteenth Annual National Conference of the South African Council of Churches Held at St Barnabas College, Johannesburg, 29th June - 3rd July 1987


Some Notes on Cyaniding for the Rhodesian Small Worker

Printed and distributed by the Mines Department of Southern Rhodesia.

Rubber : a Footnote to Northern Rhodesian History

The Occasional Papers of the Rhodes-Livingstone Museum; no. 13. Browning to edges of covers.

The First and the Last: The Story of the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, 1939-1945: Compiled from the Regimental War Diary, Squadron Diaries, Personal Narratives, and the Unofficial Actions of the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards in France

Clean text and firm binding; some insect damage to edges of boards and to spine. Gilt decoration on front board still bright.

The Cockney : a Survey of London Life and Language

DW illustration by Edward Ardizzone. Past owner’s name on front endpaper. Clean whole copy in very slightly chipped dw.

Martin Pippin in the Apple-Orchard

One plate and front fep missing. Text clean and binding tight, boards a little edge worn and back hinge of spine split.

African Art in Metal = Metaalkuns van Afrika : South African National Gallery, Cape Town, December 1970 to February 1971

Illustrated catalogue of exhibition. Slight marking and wear to covers.

Rock Paintings of the Drakensberg, Natal and Griqualand East

Bookplate of Daantjie Saayman pasted on front endpaper. Light general wear to boards and dw.

Mapela’s Mountain : Mapeleng

Presentation inscription on front fep. Small nick to top of front board.

Stave og Laft i Norge = Early Wooden Architecture in Norway

Text in Norwegian with English summaries. Captions in Norwegian with parallel English translations. Presentation inscription on front fep. Front endpaper split at hinges. Otherwise a firmly bound copy in a clean dw; short closed tear at upper front corner.

It Happens in Russia : Seven Years Forced Labour in the Siberian Goldfields

Boards show general light wear with worn corners. Gilt lettering faded.

The Oysters of Locmariaquer

Past owner’s name on front endpaper.

French Regional Cooking

Past owner’s name on front fep and a few adhesive tape marks on endpapers.

Elizabeth Craig’s Enquire Within: a Book, Full of Simple, Lively and Up-To-date Information on Every Household Subject. Over 2,000 Hints to be Kept Ready to Hand

Useful and entertaining guide to all domestic and social activities.

My Eerste Neentig Jaar

The author relates his experiences during the Boer War, on St. Helena and elsewhere. Inscription on front fep. In a slightly worn dw. Text in Afrikaans

Mantissa

Slight graze to top edge of dw in an otherwise excellent copy.

The Log from the Sea of Cortez: The Narrative Portion of the Book ‘Sea of Cortez’ with a Profile About Ed Ricketts

Clean whole copy; spine sunned.