Inscription from die Kerkraad on the fep.

This is the second installment of the series that tells the tale of the Groot Trek of the boers in South Africa in the 1830’s.

Price – $10.00 (ZAR-70.00)

Signed by the author on title page. Text is clean and clear with full colour frontis piece and black-and-white plates throughout. Boards and DW show slight general wear.

Price – $22.00 (ZAR-180.00)

Past owners’ names on the front fep of a very clean and tightly bound copy. Price clipped.

The author farmed at Vredendal in the Olifants River valley from 1970 onwards. This book describes his struggle to understand his coloured workers. Text in Afrikaans.

Price – $20.00 (ZAR-220.00)

In Dutch, with an illustration of Oom Gijsbert van Graan. Previous owner’s bookplate to front pastedown.

Price – $36.00 (ZAR-360.00)

Booklet dealing with the mission at Witzieshoek. Blue cloth boards with darker blue titles to spine, titles and device to front board. Illustrated throughout in b/w. Ink scrawl to front paste down. Leaves are browned, especially prelims. Some pen markings to text.

Price – $20.00 (ZAR-250.00)

First issue. Clean whole copy. Some pencil answers in crossword puzzles. Page 41 has small tear at lower edge. Slight browning at edges of pages. Back board has slight chip.

Afrikaans verse about the Cape Malays. Du Plessis was head of the Institute of Malay Studies at the Cape Town University and from 1953 to 1963 he served as commissioner and later secretary and adviser for Coloured Affairs. Each poem is illustrated.

Price – $25 (ZAR-280)

Paperback exhibition catalogue for the National gallery. Some damp staining.

Story of the Portuguese merchant ship Sao Goncalo, debris from the wreckage of which was found in Plettenberg Bay.With numerous b/w and colour illustrations.

Price – $30.00 (ZAR-350.00)

East London & Port Elizabeth. 170pp, illustrated catalogue of furniture and household goods. No date, presumably late 19th century or early 20th century.

Price – $120 (ZAR-1200)

A Historical and Topographical Account of the City

340pp, the history and present day, with poems by the author. Some foxing and minor insect damage.

Price – $195.00 (ZAR-1800.00)

A journey done by the author, when he was a child, through the Cape Midlands, eastern Karoo and the lower Albany district.

Price – $14.00 (ZAR-100.00)

A tale from the Orange Free-State during the time of President Brand. This book is part of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Historie Bibliotheek series.

Price – $16.00 (ZAR-140.00)

The unwritten story of ships and men in South African waters, and some of the forgotten adventures and mysteries of the wide oceans that wash the shores of Africa and break on the lonely isles.

Price – $15.00 (ZAR-180.00)

The story of ships and men in South African waters, and some of their forgotten adventures and mysteries.

Price – $15.00 (ZAR-130.00)

The story of ships and men in South African waters, and some of their forgotten adventures and mysteries.

Price – $18.00 (ZAR-160.00)

Introductory history of South-West Africa. With 5 maps in b/w. Text in German.

Price – $50.00 (ZAR-550.00)

57pp, some uncut. Bound with cotton thread, has remains of white stickers on 2 pages, a reference number and a pencil annotation on front cover.

Price – $17 (ZAR-180)

A treating of the history, aborigines, myths and jungle mysteries of Ceylon; modern day Sri-Lanka. Bound in blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. 65 b/w illustrations throughout. Some rubbing to boards and sunning to spine. Edges and leaves are browned, but overall a good – very good copy.

Price – $25.00 (ZAR-280.00)

A German book about the rock art of the Cape Province. Includes black and white plates.

Price – $78.00 (ZAR-750.00)

Selective local history of the Fish Hoek area. Perfect bound in pictorial card wraps with titles to front wrap and spine. Very good, some creasing to front wrap.

Price – $30.00 (ZAR-350.00)

An illustrated depiction of the life of the fisherman of the Cape.

Price – $30 (ZAR-280)