Archive for December, 2009

Album Historico Fotografico Constituciones De Cuba 1868-1901-19450

Binding is firm but worn, with some discolouration to the spine. Tropical worm damage,this consists mainly of small holes, about 8 to a page with about 1-2 mm diameter, they have the apperance of small ink spots. Cloth binding with embossed title.

The Record, or a Series of Official Papers Relative to the Condition and Treatment of the Native Tribes of South Africa

Blue cloth cover, very frayed at edges. Slight foxing to endpapers, and booksellers number in ink. Good firm copy

The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, Across the Gobi Desert, Through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral 1884-1894

Green cloth with gilt titles and decoration with very slight wear to edges. End papers have some discolouration and previous owners inscription. Includes 3 fold out maps. Good firm copy.

Washed By four Seas: An English Officer’s Travels in the Near East

Blue cloth cover with some wear to edges. Bookplate to the cavalry club. A comprehensive bibliography has been written, in ink, to the endpapers. Uncut paper. Black and white photographs and fold out map.

A Taste of South-Easter

Dust jacket has some wear and slight creasing .Previous owners inscription to endpaper. Good firm copy.

The Matabele Mission: A Selection from the Correspondence of John and Emily Moffat, David Livingstone and Others 1858-1878

Government archives of Southern Rhodesia, Oppenheimer series number 2. Red cloth cover with gilt title and emblem, small mark to back cover. With fold out map.

The Arcturus Adventure

Green cloth cover, with freying to edges. Glue marks to endpapers (where bookplate was removed) Good firm copy, with photographs.

Birds of the South Western Cape

Dust jacket has slight wear to edges , and a small tear to the spine. Good firm copy, full colour photographs

High Endeavour

Blue cloth covers, with some staining and bumping to corners. Bookplate and previous owners inscription to endpapers. Black and white illustrations.

The Cape Peninsula: Pen and Colour Sketches

Blue cloth cover with gilt titles. Sporadic foxing (not to illustrated pages). Good firm copy.

From Cape Town to Ladismith : An Unfinished Record of the South African War

Cloth cover, with very slight edge wear. Sporadic foxing throughout . Good firm copy, with 2 maps included.

Wherries and Waterways: The Story of The Norfolk and Suffolk Wherry and Waterways on Which it Sailed

Dust jacket has a small tear to spine edge, otherwise in very good condition. Good firm copy.

Paintings By Felix Kelly

“Introduction by Herbert Read Felix Kellly is a young New Zealander who came to England a few years before the war. He joined the RAF in 1940 and in 1943 gave his first exhibition of paintings at the Lefevre Galleries”". Dust jacket is in good condition “

Fauvism: Origins and Development

In slipcase. Dust jacket in excellent condition . Bright full coloured illustrations

The Little World of an Indian District Officer

Red cloth cover, well worn on edges. Insect damage, from cover to first set of endpapers. Very slight foxing on rough cut fore -edge. Apart from the cover and endpapers being in bad repair , the book is in good firm condition. Fold out map of the Province of Bengal 1874- 1903

The Book of Sports, Athletic Exercises, and Amusement

Green cloth cover, re-cased, original embossed cloth cover retained -water damaged. Some water staining to bottom edge of book. Dark discolouration of pages with illustrations. One plate is handcoloured. The book is dedicated to the the Boys of Great Britain and has delightful commentary on the motion of marbles.

Zambezi, Journey of a River


A History of West Indies Cricket

Ex library copy with stamp to free end paper.

Goals in the Sun

Dust jacket is well worn with creasing and chipping to the lower spine. Some discolouration of endpapers due to newsclippings. Good firm copy.

Fregatten Eugenies Resa Omkring Jorden

2 volumes in one. Leather spine, with wear on edges. Previous owners stamp to end papers. Text in Swedish, with colour illustrations and fold out maps. Waterstaining to top and bottom of pages.