A History of Cape Silver : signed by the author on title page. Illustrations showing, Cape silversmiths’ marks, decorations, examples of silverware produced between 1700 and 1870, etc. throughout.
Further Researches in Cape Silver : First Edition 1953. With various black-and-white illustrations.
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Price – $480.00 (ZAR-4500.00)
Autumn 2007, Catalogue No. 11. Price – $14.00 (ZAR-140.00)
Die verhaal van die Oostelike Transvaalse Kooperasie Beperk, 1923-1973.
20 Lithographic plates of buildings and views of The Hague with descriptions in Dutch. Red cloth boards with gilt embellishment: detached. Most leaves loosed. 2 small booksellers labels to front paste down. Tissue guards browned, soiling and browning through the leaves. Published c. 1859
Price – $200.00 (ZAR-2200.00)
Topics covered: Common sharpers and their tricks; Reflectors; Game of Faro; Dice; High Ball Poker, etc. Sunning with marks to spine and a few abrasions to front cover.
Price – $110.00 (ZAR-750.00)
A-Z of animals of Southern Africa as the Bushmen saw and thought them and as the camera sees them today. “The author has combined the Busman folklore about animals and their pictorial records on the rocks with photographs of actual animals for comparison.” Price – $36.00 (ZAR-420.00)
Author and illustrator, Kathleen Ainslie was active in the years 1900-1911. She is best-known for her series of children’s books based on jointed Dutch peg dolls which were popular during the 19th and early-20th centuries. The color illustrations are bright and cheerful, appearing on every other page, opposite hand-lettered text. Double page illustration in the centre.
Price – $45.00 (ZAR-450.00)
History, geography, the Boer War and 4 ballads commemorating historical highlights. Index and a map in rear sleeve.
Price – $58 (ZAR-600)
Delightful illustrations each accompanied with a famous quote from Shakespeare’s plays. The author and illustrator, Kathleen Ainslie, was active in the years 1900-1911. She is best-known for her series of children’s books based on jointed Dutch peg dolls which were popular during the 19th and early-20th centuries.
Price – $40.00 (ZAR-450.00)
Author and illustrator, Kathleen Ainslie was active in the years 1900-1911. She is best-known for her series of children’s books based on jointed Dutch peg dolls which were popular during the 19th and early-20th centuries. The color illustrations are bright and cheerful, appearing on every other page, opposite hand-lettered text. Double page illustration in the centre.
Price – $60.00 (ZAR-650.00)
A set of 5 volumes exploring the meaning of beauty from prehistory, antiquity through to the future.
Price – $250.00 (ZAR-2800.00)
Volume of b/w glamour photography. Black cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Light soiling to front endpapers, otherwise a VG, neat, clean copy. DW good, price clipped with some chips and closed tears to edges.
Price – $76.00 (ZAR-950.00)
An evocative series of black white photographs of people and places in South Africa circa 1960s. Light edge-wear. Contents clean and tightly bound.
Price – $14.00 (ZAR-140.00)
Browning to top, fore- and lower edges with some discolouration and light foxing to prelims (front and rear). Contents clean and tightly bound.
Price – $34.00 (ZAR-400.00)
No published date. Probably between 1915 – 1918.
Price – $50.00 (ZAR-420.00)
Price – $140.00 (ZAR-950.00)
A little-known incident involving the safe passage of 7000 Zulus back to their home in Zululand (Natal) by John S Marwick. Mild foxing to the verso of the rear cover. Ex Libris stamp on title page. Contents clean and tightly bound.
Price – $12.00 (ZAR-140.00)
William Eggleston would occasionally use a two and one quarter inch format for photographs. These are collected and published here for the first time.
Price – $50.00 (ZAR-600.00)
Autobiographical account of the author’s time in South Africa, where he formed a Boer Commando and was wounded in the battle of Elandslaagte in the Anglo-Boer war. Illustrated throughout in b/w. Includes fold out maps. Text in German set in Gothic script.
Price – $80.00 (ZAR-900.00)
25 full size, colour reproductions with descriptive text.
Price – $13.00 (ZAR-150.00)
An album page containing 2 photographs taken at the Refugee Camp at De Jagersdrift. ‘…a depressing little camp guarding the main crossing point of the Buffalo River astride the Natal-Transvaal Frontier.’ (Packenham). The third image is of an unidentified man (possibly Buller) arriving at a train station with a number of children in attendance.
Price – $70.00 (ZAR-800.00)
Artistic nude photographs. Text in Dutch. Clean sound copy. Dust jacket has repair to top edge.
Price – $24.00 (ZAR-200.00)
Black and white illustrations. Minor wear and tear to the pictorial covers. Book plate sticker to front cover.
Price – $18.00 (ZAR-180.00)
English: ‘Art in Mozambique’. Translated by Joaquim Da Silva Godinho. Inscribed by the author to Admiral Biermann of the South African Navy, July 1976. National emblem tipped in on title page protected by a flimsy.
Price – $195.00 (ZAR-2500.00)
Edited by John Ryan.
