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Above: 7 Staples: Mills of Southern Africa. Water, wind and horse Front page illustration: 81 Davids: The Afrikaans of the Cape Muslims from 1815 to 1915

ANTIQUES & COLLECTING (1-5) ARCHITECTURE (6-7) CAPE (8-27) EASTERN CAPE (28-29) GEOLOGY & MINING (30-34) HUNTING (35-40) MEDICINE (41-42) MILITARY HISTORY (43-45) MISSION HISTORY (46-50) NAMIBIA (51-54) NATURAL HISTORY (55-69) NORTHERN CAPE (70-74) RAILWAYS (75-77) ROCK ART (78-80) SOCIAL & CULTURAL HISTORY (81-86) SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY & POLITICS (87-95) SPORT (96-97) TRANSVAAL (98-107) TRAVEL & VOYAGES (108-114) ANTIQUES & COLLECTING 1. Baraitser, Michael, and Anton Obholzer: Town Furniture of the Cape (Cape

Town: Struik, 1987) 4to; original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 224, incl. index; profusely illustrated, incl. a section in full-colour. A little foxing to edges and endpapers. Very good condition. Landmark work on this subject. "While the text examines the background of

styles and individual pieces such as the Cape armoire, rusbanke, bureaux, tables and chairs, and discusses the influences that various European styles had on Cape furniture designs, the emphasis of this book rests on the visual. Over 900 black and white photographs as well as 30 colour plates have been reproduced to give collectors and historians an outstanding record of the furniture of this period. Town Furniture of the Cape is the most comprehensive work on the subject to date and is without doubt a major contribution to

South Africa's cultural heritage." £30.00 / R480 2. Christison, Grant: Book Collecting in South Africa (Pietermaritzburg: the

author, 1996) 8vo; original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (vi) + 169; text illustrations; colour plates. Edition of

200 numbered copies. Dustwrapper sunned on spine panel. Very good condition. "Few South Africans have discovered the pleasure of book collecting. This little guide is designed to sharpen local interest in book collecting and to provide practical tips on how to begin. South Africa has inspired some of the finest travel books ever penned. We have a rich literature in all fields. Many of our older

books are still priced well within the reach of the average collector. Book Collecting in South Africa looks at why we should collect, at books in the home, the care of books, the sourcing of books and much, much more." £11.00 / R176

3. Herd, Norman: Killie's Africa. The achievements of Dr. Killie Campbell

(Pietermaritzburg: Blue Crane Books, 1982) 8vo; green rexine over boards; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (viii) + 200; frontispiece portrait; black-and-white photographs and illustrations. Dustwrapper lightly rubbed; some tape marks and foxing to endpapers. Very good condition.

"It seems true of Killie Campbell that she was one of the best-known and least-known of all South African women. And in recording in detail her splendid achievements the author has sought to explain the influences behind her passionate strivings for exalted goals, emphasising the hereditary factors which were strong indeed. So the story goes back to the settler William Campbell, an outstanding personality in Colonial Natal, and Killie's father, Marshall Campbell, one of the great liberal 'voices'

in the nation's political affairs. From there it winds an enchanting course towards the climax in the construction of the Muckleneuk library, patterned on Killie's vision, so rarely understood, of an Africa renewed in the spirit, finding a new strength and a new peace in a reverence for things unseen." £15.00 / R240

4. McDonald, Ian: The Boer War in Postcards (Durban: Bok Books, 1990) 8vo;

original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xii + 179; liberally illustrated, incl. full-colour plates. Earlier owner's name and hand-stamp to front free endpaper; very occasional minor foxing. Very good condition.

"The Boer War in Postcards provides a unique record of the way in which the war was perceived by the people and countries involved in the conflict of 1899-1902. Postcards had only recently come into general use, particularly in Britain, and they caught the public imagination as a means of expressing their opinions on the situation as it unfolded before them. The cards mirror the events of the war; the British ones full of patriotic fervour and popular enthusiasm being in marked contrast with those produced on the

Continent, where French, German and Dutch publishers strongly supported the stand of Kruger and his Boers against British 'imperialism'. ... Postcards dating from the Boer War were among the first British cards to be mass-produced and, as such, they are not only of particular interest to postcard collectors, but stand as valid historical documents in their own right." £12.50 / R200

5. Smith, Anna H. (editor): Africana Byways (Johannesburg: Ad.

Donker, 1976) 8vo; original green boards; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 189, incl. index; monochrome illustrations. Dustwrapper very slightly edgeworn, and sunned on spine panel and adjacent portion of lower panel; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; trace of foxing to top edge and outermost leaves, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition.

"Africana Byways edited by Anna H. Smith is a sequel to Africana Curiosities which was published in 1973. In eight chapters a similar amount of topics is dealt with, all subjects of interest to the Africana collector. Topics are: history of photographs and their place in South African history; pictures by some South African churchmen of the nineteenth century; reprints of Africana books; botanical illustration of South African flowers; Johannesburg newspapers and periodicals during the years 1887 to 1899; book-plates; arts and crafts of the Transvaal Ndebele; and early South African cartoons. There are over thirty illustrations to the text as well as an index." £7.50 / R120

ARCHITECTURE 6. De Bosdari, C.: Cape Dutch Houses and Farms. Their Architecture and

History Together With a Note on the Role of Cecil John Rhodes in Their Preservation. And a Chapter on the Outlying Districts by Hans Fransen (Cape Town: A A Balkema, 1971, 3rd edition) 8vo; limp laminated pictorial boards; pp. (vi) + 122 + (86); 12 maps; 101 black-and-white plates. Spine sunned; old tape marks to endpapers; some browning to edges; occasional fox spot. Very good condition.

"Another seven years have passed, and once again Cape Dutch Houses and Farms is out of print. It is a tribute to the value of Mr De Bosdari's work and to the ever-increasing public interest in his subject that a third edition is badly overdue. It is now as much as eighteen years since this book first appeared, and time has not stood still. Other publications on the same subject have been written, new insights gained, more material discovered. But all this work has leaned very heavily on Cape Dutch Houses and Farms

and, what is more, the book itself after all these years has lost none of its usefulness as a concise handbook and guide to all but those few who want to acquaint themselves more thoroughly with the latest material." £7.50 / R120

A truly beautiful book (see our illustration on second page)

7. Staples, Chester O.: Mills of Southern Africa. Water, wind and horse (Pretoria: Umdaus Press, 2006) 4to; original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover, and with gilt watermill device to upper cover; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; decorative endpapers; pp. viii + 228, incl. index; sumptuously illustrated in full colour with photographs of numerous mills and their workings, maps, and some architectural drawings. Fine condition. A truly beautiful book. "Since the mid-1600s, mills have played a significant role in our cultural and historical development, which has gone largely unrecognised. The stories of the people who built them, worked them, lived and died in them - now fading into patchy memories year by year - have still to be told. These mills, many located in spectacular settings in the South African countryside, are crumbling away, their function in South African history forgotten or ignored. Apart from the technical publications of the late James Walton, whose book about South African mills was published 32 years ago in 1974, there have been no publications since. ... [The author] has spent six years researching the subject of mills, during which time he has travelled some 25000 kilometres, recording,

visiting and photographing mills around the southern African countryside." £70.00 / R1120

CAPE 8. Dallas, David: The Father of Woodstock. The life and times of WE

Moore, Lawyer, Politician, Benefactor (Victoria, Australia: the author, 2014) 240 x 180 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. (ii) + vi + 218, incl. index; liberally illustrated with contemporary photographs, artwork and facsimiles; map. Near-fine condition.

"William Edward Moore was expected to follow his father into military service but his life turned upside down at the age of nine when his father died. He was taken under the wing of the Chief Justice of the Cape, Sir John Wylde, who encouraged the young boy to pursue a careeer in law. Moore repaid the generosity of his benefactor by having an outstanding legal career that was to last for sixty-four years. Having settled in the tiny hamlet of Papendorp, he became passionately involved in its welfare and

development. He was the driving force that saw Papendorp later become the municipality of Woodstock and he was its first mayor. ... The Father of Woodstock traces the settlement of the Cape from its 17th century beginnings under Dutch rule through the 19th century when the British assumed power and into the early 20th century. The story of WE Moore, his activities, achievements and busy life are set within the context of the ever-changing and fascinating history of the new colony." £30.00 / R480

9. Du Plessis, I. D.: Tales from the Malay Quarter (Cape Town: Maskew Miller,

1945, 1st edition) Author's presentation inscription, signed with date, to half-title. English translation by Bernard and Elize D. Lewis. 4to; original grey cloth, blocked in red; upper panel and flap of original dustwrapper loosely inserted (as is a paper from 'Bantu Studies' relating to the Cape Malays); decorative endpapers; pp. 202, incl. glossary; full-colour frontis.; charming decorations and full-page illustrations by Nerine Desmond. Cloth partially sunned; some browning. Very good.

"Some of the themes may be indigenous. Some are from the East, others from Europe; but all have a local colour which makes them a specific contribution to the world's dwindling stock of folk-tales. These stories have been recorded by a South African poet and author, winner of an Academy award for Poetry in 1937. ... Nerine Desmond, born in Cape Town and one of the Union's leading artists, ... has brought out strongly their link with the East." £25.00 / R400

10. Evans, David S., and others: Herschel at the Cape. Diaries &

Correspondence of Sir John Herschel, 1834 -1838 (Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, 1969) Large 8vo; original leatherette-backed papered boards, with gilt publisher's device to upper cover and spine lettered in gilt; dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pp. xxxv + (iii) + 398, incl. index; plates; maps; illustrations in text. Endpapers a little browned. Very good condition.

"Sir John Herschel, one of the founders of Southern Hemisphere astronomy, was a man of extraordinary wide interests. He made contributions to botany, geology, and ornithology, as well as to astronomy, chemistry, and mathematics. Throughout his scientific career he kept a diary, recording his public and private life. The diaries from 1834 to 1838, years spent making astronomical observations at the Cape of Good Hope, are reproduced in this book and prove to be much more than an ordinary scientist's

logbook. They present personal and social history, literary commentaries, the results of close observations of nature and numerous scientific experiments, the excitement of travel, political intrigues, gossip, and philosophical reflections - all interpreted through an alert and versatile mind. In the present transcription, the material has been enriched with selected correspondence of Sir John and Lady Herschel." £22.50 / R360

11. Fortune, Linda: The House in Tyne Street. Childhood Memories of

District Six (Cape Town: Kwela Books, 1996) 222 x 154 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. (viii) + 132; photographs. Earlier owner's bookplate to first page. Fine condition.

"The writing is simple and compassionate, the humour generous, even when writing of adversity. Her father's death; the overnight disappearance of her friend Lindiwe Mtwa show parents were required to carry pass books; the German immigrant who fixed primus stoves to earn a living and very reluctantly left District Six; the unceremonious eviction of the Jeewa brothers, the best barbers in town, are particularly poignantly described because they are seen through the eyes of a young girl. An excellent memoir that

can be enjoyed by all, whether they lived in District Six or not." £5.00 / R80 12. Golightly, T. S.: Reminiscences of a South African School Inspector

(Paarl: Paarl Printing Company, 1923) Author's presentation inscription to front free endpaper. 12mo; original grey cloth, with black lettering to upper cover; pp. 90. Cloth somewhat worn, with trace of soiling; earlier owner's bookplate to front pastedown; a little foxing. Good. (SABIB 2, p. 368)

"This little book purports to be nothing more than a plain chronicle of the everyday life of a School Inspector in the Cape Province, and it has been written in the hope that it may afford interest and amusement to the general South African public. It is also hoped that it may be welcomed as a relief from the war literature of the past five years, and as affording some evidence of a return to happier times." £10.00 / R160

13. Golovnin, V. M.: Detained in Simon's Bay. The Story of the Detention of the Imperial Russian Sloop Diana from April 1808 to May 1809 (Cape Town: Friends of the South African Library, 1964) Translated from the Russian by Mrs. Lisa Millner. Edited with additional notes and index, by O. H. Spohr. 237 x 168 mm; cloth-backed card wrappers; pp. (iv) + vi + 90, incl.

index; frontis. portrait; map. Cover a little rubbed. Very good condition. Along with Goncharov's 'The Voyage of the Frigate Pallada', this work provides one of the very few early Russian accounts of the Cape of Good Hope. £15.00 / R240

14. Greenland, Cedryl: A Century in Shreds (Cape Town: the author, [1980]) 232 x

171 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 104; reproductions of contemporary photographs and artwork. Wrappers very slightly curled, partially sunned and lightly soiled; attractive Copenhagen bookplate to inside of upper cover. Very good condition. Recollections of a Cape family's experiences in the century between 1880 and 1980, with much on the principal events through which they lived, notably the Anglo-Boer War. £10.00 / R160

15. Heap, Peggy: The Story of Hottentots Holland. Social History of

Somerset West, the Strand, Gordon's Bay and Sir Lowry's Pass over Three Centuries (Somerset West: the author, 1993) 240 x 173 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 209, incl. index; plates; street plan. Very good condition. "The region described in this book was settled and cultivated very soon after the

establishment of the Cape. ... Peggy Heap has written a comprehensive regional history, concentrating on social and cultural developments and ending with the present day. The historic farms are described in detail: Vergelegen, Lourensford, Morgenster and Cloetenburg - and many others. Then follows a rich and detailed account of social life in the four villages - shops, professions, religion, roads, railways and services - always with emphasis on the personalities involved." £15.00 / R240

16. Henshilwood, Norah G.: All These Under a Summer Sun (Cape Town: Paul

Koston, 1947) 8vo; original orange cloth, lettered in black on upper cover; no dustwrapper; pp. (x) + 89; line drawings. Cloth partially sunned and mottled; ownership inscription to front free endpaper; scattered, moderate foxing. Fair to good condition.

"This is not an autobiography in the usual sense but an attempt to show the influences in the life of a young South African of the first generation, in the period between the end of the Boer War and the outbreak of the first World War. Until 1914 I knew only the Cape Peninsula. These reminiscences, therefore, are of that narrow strip of land between Cape Town and Cape Point, separated from the mainland by the Cape Flats." £6.50 / R104

17. Karsten, Mia C.: The Old Company's Garden at the Cape and its Superintendents. Involving an Historical Account of Early Cape Botany (Cape Town: Maskew Miller, 1951) 8vo; original green cloth; no dustwrapper; pp. xvii + (iii) + 188, incl. index; plates, incl. folding. Light wear to extremities; some foxing to edges, endpapers and outermost leaves, sporadically

elsewhere; pastedowns lifting slightly adjacent to hinges, suggestive of damp ingress; short archival tape repair to reverse of fold in folding plate. Good condition. A fascinating account of the discovery of the unique flora of the Cape in the days of the Dutch East India Company's jurisdiction. £7.50 / R120

18. Penny, Joshua: The Life and Adventures of Joshua Penny (Cape Town:

South African Library, 1982) South African Library Reprint Series, Number 11. A text facsimile of the New York edition of 1815. The complete original title is as follows: "The Life and Adventures of Joshua Penny, a Native of Southold, Long-Island, Suffolk County, New-York: Who was Impressed into the British Service, and in one of his attempts to escape was fourteen months on the Table Mountain, at the Cape of Good Hope, and saw no human being during that time. In another instance he resided some time among the Hottentots. Interspersed with many curious incidents and hair breadth escapes. Also, an Account of his being taken out of his bed by Commodore Hardy, on the night of Aug. 21, 1813- and carried to Halifax; where he suffered nine months imprisonment." 8vo; blue cloth-backed grey cloth, with lettering and sailing ship device in black to upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (vi) + 60. Dustwrapper very slightly edgeworn and foxed. Very good condition. 'Joshua Penny was born in the county of Suffolk, on Long Island, in 1773 and

went to sea at the age of fifteen. After serving on a number of ships, Penny was impressed into the British navy. During 1795 he arrived in False Bay on the frigate Stately and took part in the battle of Muizenberg under Admiral Elphinstone. Penny then deserted to the Dutch, remained for two months in Cape Town, but fled inland when the British captured the town. More than a year later and after many interesting adventures, he returned to Cape Town, and was caught as a deserter, escaped and spent fourteen months on Table Mountain in fear of capture by the

British. "I never enjoyed life better than when I lived among the ferocious animals of Table Mountain, because I had secured myself against the more savage English" he tells us. Penny finally managed to return to his home country, America. When America went to war with the British in 1813, he was taken prisoner by his arch-enemies, and although he was accused of being "their most inveterate enemy within five hundred miles" was released again the same year. He published his story in 1815 and died twenty-five years later.' £25.00 / R400

19. Robinson, A. M. Lewin (editor): The Letters of Lady Anne Barnard to Henry Dundas from the Cape and Elsewhere 1793-1803 (Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, 1973) Title continues: Together with her journal of a tour into the interior and certain other letters. Large 8vo; original rexine-backed brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine, and with gilt publisher's device to upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; tinted top edge; pp. xv + (i) + 303, incl. index; plates; several contemporary illustrations in text.

Dustwrapper a little edgeworn and partially sunned; trace of soiling to dustwrapper and fore-edge; endpapers and edges a bit foxed, a little foxing elsewhere. Very good condition.

"This intelligent and entertaining account of the Cape has become a classic. Anne Barnard accompanied her husband who was sent to the Cape as Secretary to Lord Macartney in 1797. He was nominated to this position by the Secretary for War and the Colonies, Henry Dundas. In the absence of Lord Macartney's wife, Anne Barnard became the first lady of the Colony, a position she was well qualified to hold - for she was well connected at home, a friend of Dundas, Windham, the Prince of Wales, and other well-known members of London society. Furthermore, she was well-educated, cultured, accomplished, with an observant eye, and a developed sense of the ridiculous. And she could write. Her letters to Dundas are full of acute observations, assessments of people, comments on situations, judgements on officials, kindly criticisms of her new Colonial friends and their way of life. She was active, even restless. She climbed Table Mountain. And she accompanied her husband on an ambitious overland journey to beyond Swellendam. Always observing, curious, friendly, articulate. She also made sketches of people and places, small scale impressions in pen and wash. There are about 100 illustrations in this book, of which special emphasis is given to a panorama of Cape Town, in 7 parts, drawn as from the ramparts of the Castle." £17.50 / R280

20. Rutherfoord, Miss [Emma] (author), and Joyce Murray (editor): In Mid-Victorian Cape Town. Letters from Miss Rutherfoord (Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, 1953) First edition. 8vo; cloth-backed decorative papered boards, with title label to upper cover, and lettered in gilt on spine; pp. 157. Cover a little rubbed and slightly tanned; earlier owner's name on clipped front free endpaper; occasional minor fox spot. Very good condition.

"March 23rd, 1852, was Mary Rutherfoord's Wedding Day, the day on which her younger sister Emma succeeded to the title of 'Miss Rutherfoord'. Emma was nearly eighteen and very conscious of the dignity of her new position and the responsibilities it entailed. For the next four years she carried out her duties as the eldest daughter at home, paying calls with Mama and helping her to receive visitors, giving out the household stores each morning and keeping the weekly household accounts, and being an example to her younger sisters. In 1856 she became Mrs. Andrew Murray, and went out into the wilds of the Orange Free State to share with her husband the trials and hardships of his work in Bloemfontein. The following letters were all written during this period before her marriage, and give a picture of happy family life in fairly comfortable circumstances, in Cape Town of the fifties." £10.00 / R160

21. Solomon, W. E. Gladstone: Saul Solomon. 'The Member for Cape Town' (Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1948) 8vo; original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (x) + 362, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper (housed in removable protector) very slightly sunned, with slightest wear to head of spine panel and earlier owner's tape reinforcing to tail thereof; a little foxing; bookplate to front free endpaper. Very good condition.

"Described by a contemporary as 'the smallest man here, yet the greatest member of parliament that South Africa has ever known', SAUL SOLOMON entered the first Cape Parliament in 1854. Thereafter, until his death in 1892, he was intimately connected with every major political event in South Africa - federation, Church and State, Native wars, the struggle for constitutional government and relations with the British Government. In the pages of this biography of SAUL SOLOMON, names that have become household words in South Africa live again. Fairbairn, Porter, Hofmeyr, Sprigg, Sauer, Watermeyer, Faure, Merriman, Molteno - these and many others were the contemporaries of the man whom an Afrikaans writer has described as 'a giant in intellect, a fighter for right and righteousness'. A contemporary said: 'No matter what had to be started in Cape Town, the first question was, "Let us see what Saul has to say about it".' Saul Solomon's biographer tells us 'what Saul had to say about it'." £12.50 / R200

22. Storrar, Patricia: George Rex: Death of a Legend (Johannesburg: Macmillan,

1974) Signed by the author on the title page. 8vo; original purple boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; genealogical table to endpapers; pp. 240, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper sunned on spine panel with tape scars to reverse; some foxing to edges and endpapers, occasional fox spot elsewhere; earlier owner's bookplate to half-title. Very good condition.

"Patricia Storrar has studied the published and manuscript sources relating to this man of mystery, both in England and South Africa. She had the invaluable help of an eminent historian in her overseas researches. As a result, a wealth of new information has been brought to light, including key facts about the Rex pedigree going back to the seventeenth century, about George Rex's indenture as an articled clerk in a notary's office at Doctors' Commons, and his life, work and homes in South Africa. It is not the least of Patricia

Storrar's achievements in this book that, apart from its historicity, she has given substance to a shadow and has provided the answer to the question, 'Who was George Rex?'" £12.50 / R200

23. Storrar, Patricia: Portrait of Plettenberg Bay (Cape Town: Centaur

Publishers, 1982) Signed by the author on the title page. Second, revised edition. 4to; original blue boards; pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. x + 242, incl. index; several photographs, including some in colour. Dustwrapper a bit rubbed, with earlier owner's tape repairs to reverse of spine panel at head and tail; edges of boards very slightly rubbed; a little foxing to edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere; two small pen marks to front free endpaper. Good to very good condition.

"Patricia Storrar has drawn on a wealth of original material to tell the whole story - the primitive inhabitants, the coming of the woodcutters in the days of the Dutch East India Company, the arrival of the Bristish pioneers, the colourful village characters of a century ago, and she brings us up to the present-day community of the Bay. Much research has gone into the creation of the Portrait of Plettenberg Bay but it is full of human interest too. It is undoubtedly a valuable contribution to the history of the Cape

and of South Africa." £20.00 / R320

24. Storrar, Patricia: Portrait of Plettenberg Bay (Cape Town: Purnell, 1978) First edition. 4to; original blue boards; pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. x + 242, incl. index; several photographs, including some in colour. Dustwrapper a little rubbed at folds, with earlier owner's tape reinforcing to reverse; some tape marks to endpapers; a little foxing to edges. Very good condition. £15.00 / R240

25. Tredgold, Arderne: Bay between the Mountains (Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1995) 220 x 150 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 216, incl. index; plates. A little foxing to edges. Very good condition.

"This book makes no claim to be an archival chronicle of the history of False Bay; perhaps it would be more appropriate to call it a domestic chronicle for, though it has necessarily an historical basis, I have tried to give, as well as dates and data, a picture of how people have lived along the shores of the bay during the past 300 years and more, of the conditions under which they lived, their trials and rejoicings, the changes in their environment and in their manner of living as the years have gone by. All this will, I hope,

add some flesh to the bones of history." £7.50 / R120 26. Tredgold, Arderne: Village of the Sea. The Story of Hermanus (Cape Town:

Human and Rousseau, 1965 First edition) 8vo; grey boards; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 168; fourteen pages of photographs and two maps. Dustwrapper rubbed and edgeworn; some foxing to endpapers and edges. Good condition.

"Miss Tredgold has delved deeply into the history of the men who founded the settlement and has talked to the older people who remember the early days. The result is a most readable book on the interesting personalities whose story make up the history of the present-day holiday resort. Sixteen pages of photographs and maps add to the interest this book should hold both for those who love the sea and for those who like a well-written account of the early days at the Cape." £6.50 / R104

27. Walker, Michael: The Golden Years. A Postcard Memoir of the Kalk Bay -

Muizenberg Municipality 1895 - 1913 (Cape Town: the author, 1998) 8vo; laminated pictorial boards; pp. (x) + 234; monochrome illustrations throughout. Cover partially sunned; earlier owner's name and inscription to front free endpaper. Very good condition.

"It was not without coincidence that the golden years - prosperity, popularity and development along the coastline from Muizenberg to Kalk Bay - occurred during the very years that the area was under the authority of its own Municipal council. Formed in 1895 and dissolved with incorporation into the Cape Town Municipality in 1913, the Kalk Bay - Muizenberg Municipality oversaw unprecedented growth and development. ... It was also over this

period that the picture postcard enjoyed tremendous popularity. Postal delivery was efficient, telephones were very limited, and the postcard was widely used by locals and holiday-makers alike. Fortunately, by virtue of their sheer volume, many of these early postcards survived and today represent a new dimension in historical research." £15.00 / R240

EASTERN CAPE 28. Glanville, Helena: "Growing in Faith": A Historical Sketch

of the Diocese of Port Elizabeth 1847 - 2007 (Strasbourg: Éditions du Signe, 2007) 4to; laminated pictorial boards; pp. 168; liberally illustrated with full-colour photographs and some period artwork. Fine condition. A rigorously researched history of the struggles and accomplishments of Catholicism in the Eastern Cape. £25.00 / R400

29. Hockly, H. E.: The Story of The British Settlers of 1820 in South Africa

(Cape Town: Juta, 1948, 1st edition) 8vo; original blue cloth; no dustwrapper; endpaper maps; pp. (xiv) + 317, incl. index; plates. Cloth partially sunned, and stippled; some rust spots to backstrip; trace of foxing to endpapers, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good condition.

"This is not a tale of super-men. It is the plain, unvarnished chronicle of the trials and struggles of a group of four thousand normal human beings, possessed of the failings and probably also endowed with the virtues of ordinary mortals. These people - men, women and children - set sail for the distant shores of Southern Africa with the sole object of establishing for themselves a new home in what was then a wild and untamed tract of country on the borders of Kaffirland. In the course of time they, and more particularly their descendants, gradually spread throughout the length and breadth of what is now the Union of South

Africa, and at the present time form a not insignificant proportion of the European population of that country." £12.50 / R200

GEOLOGY & MINING 30. Bradley, Kenneth: Copper Venture. The Discovery and Development of

Roan Antelope and Mufulira (London: Max Parrish, for Mufulira Copper Mines Limited and Roan Antelope Copper Mines Limited, 1952) Squarish 8vo; original green boards, lettered in gilt on spine; no dustwrapper; pp. 112, incl. index; several plates, including eight after drawings by Margaret Ross; folding map. Boards a little bowed, with trace of damp-staining; spine gilt dull; moderate foxing throughout. An account of the early days of the Copperbelt, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the serendipitous discovery of the Roan Antelope orebody, and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the formation of Roan Antelope Copper Mines Limited. £7.50 / R120

31. Bulpin, T. V.: Trail of the Copper King (Cape Town: Howard B. Timmins, 1959) Illustrated by A. A. Telford. 8vo; original cloth-backed papered boards; price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. 239; line drawings. Dustwrapper slightly rubbed and edgeworn, and housed in removable protector; faint foxing to edges and occasionally elsewhere. Very good condition.

'This is the story of Orlando Baragwanath and the great and colourful company of prospectors who, by their courage and enterprise, changed the destiny of Southern Africa. It is the story of a boy who dreamed of the romance of prospecting and lived to find, with Frank Lewis, the Copper Belt of Northern Rhodesia. Against the uproarious background of early Johannesburg he learned his trade from great prospectors like "French Bob". In the wilderness of old Rhodesia he received his final lessons of blood

and tears, and then, with patience and persistence, he wrote his name in the honoured list of all those who have given mankind something of value and to history a chapter of bold achievement.' £20.00 / R320

32. King, Lester C.: South African Scenery. A Textbook of Geomorphology

(Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1951, 2nd, revised edition) 8vo; original red cloth, lettered in blind to upper board and in gilt on spine; pp. xxxi + (i) + 379, incl. index; plates; maps and diagrams in text; maps, incl. large, folding map at end. Light wear to extremities; earlier owners' signed name and bookplate to front free endpaper; sporadic, light foxing throughout. Very good condition. Still the authoritative text on the shaping of the South African landscape. £10.00 / R160

33. Lehmann, Olga: Look Beyond the Wind (Johannesburg: Hans Merensky Holdings, 1989) Text facsimile of the Timmins edition of 1959. 8vo; original blue rexine, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; pp. 232, incl. index; plates. Faint browning to endpapers; merest trace of spotting to top edge. Near-fine condition.

"South Africa's mineral wealth is one of her greatest blessings. From the gold mines of the Witwatersrand and the Free State to the diamond fields of Alexander Bay, the copper workings of Messina and the coal fields of Middelburg, the country's prosperity radiates from the nucleus of her mineral exploitations. It is therefore not surprising that the men, who, through their knowledge and skill, discovered this hidden wealth and set the huge wheels of industry in motion, should occupy an important place in the annals of our

history. Dr. Hans Merensky is one of these men. It was not without reason that he was called The Wizard Geologist, for his geological discoveries rank amongst the most important not only in South Africa, but in the world. In the comparatively short space of twenty-six years, he was responsible for opening up important deposits of platinum, diamonds, chrome, vermiculite and phosphate, and the combined value of these deposits is astronomical" £20.00 / R320

34. Smalberger, John M.: Aspects of the History of Copper mining in

Namaqualand 1846-1931 (Cape Town: Struik, 1975) 8vo; original rust-

coloured boards; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 152, incl. index; plates; tables, incl. folding. Dustwrapper slightly edgeworn and creased, with sunned spine panel; some foxing to edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition.

"Brought alive in the many fascinating and delightful contemporary comments by people whose lives and fortunes were closely interwoven with the saga of copper mining in Namaqualand, this colourful history of Namaqualand and its mines encompasses the entire period from the early 1600s to today. Here are recounted the initial prospecting expeditions from the Cape, the first purely speculative boom of any extent in South Africa - the copper mining mania of the 1850s, the troubled question of leases and the effect of

the final settlement on the Black peoples who were the original inhabitants of the area, and the rise and development of most important mining centres in Namaqualand. All these aspects and more are examined in this well-researched yet absorbing story. With this book, John Smalberger makes a lasting contribution to our knowledge of Namaqualand's history." £7.50 / R120

HUNTING 35. Finaughty, William: The Recollections of William Finaughty, Elephant

Hunter 1864-1875 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991) A volume in the 'Peter Capstick Adventure Library', the series editor of which is Peter Hathaway Capstick. 8vo; original green boards, lettered in gilt on spine; price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (x) + 242. Text facsimile of the Harrison printing of 1916, which was limited to 250 copies. A little light spotting to edges; dustwrapper flaps and reverse lightly tanned. Very good condition.

'Taken from the years well before and during the Anglo-Boer War, one of the great, early ivory hunters told his adventures to a friend who owned the pioneer paper The Rhodesian Journal. Adventurer, rogue, and hunter extraordinaire, William Finaughty survived the death that awaited many early elephant hunters, bagging over five hundred tuskers in five years, as well as living through the intrigues with which the early South Africa was fraught. "Bill" Finaughty even shot five elephants with four bullets, a feat that is

typical of this book. That he hunted entirely with a muzzle-loading rifle adds a great deal of zest to this classic tale of which only 250 copies were printed, and less than half survive today.' £10.00 / R160

36. Foran, W. Robert: Kill or Be Killed: The Rambling Reminiscensces of an

Amateur Hunter (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988) A volume in the 'Peter Capstick Adventure Library', the series editor of which is Peter Hathaway Capstick. 8vo; original brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (vi) + 320, incl. index; photographs. Spine very slightly cocked; suggestion of foxing to top edge. Very good condition. 'Major W. Robert Foran once killed a lion while "garbed in dinner clothes and patent leather shoes" in the days when it was still possible to meet simba in the streets of Nairobi. He hunted the big five of

dangerous game, experiencing many close shaves in the process. Buckley served in the Boer war, and in the British East Africa Police, a paramilitary group that blazed a rough trail through Kenya's early days. He survived injury and disease, and covered Theodore Roosevelt's famous safari for the Associated Press. His vigorous book is an extremely rare and pungent look at a side of wildest Africa that no longer exists.' £10.00 / R160

37. Kittenberger, Kalman: Big Game Hunting and Collecting In East Africa,

1903-1926 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989) A volume in the 'Peter Capstick Adventure Library', the series editor of which is Peter Hathaway Capstick. 8vo; original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine; price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (vi) + xix + (iii) + 348; photographs; map. Trace of spotting to top edge. Near-fine condition.

"Kalman Kittenberger was a humorous, intrepid Hungarian hunter-collector. When he was mauled by a lion, this great African character proved his courage, and wit, by calmly amputating his own mauled finger and shipping it home in preservative, along with his other specimens. The nobleman's book is one of the most heart-stopping, charming, and funny accounts of adventure in the Kenya Colony ever penned - a

diamond of reality in a field full of sensationalist writing." £10.00 / R160 38. Letcher, Owen: Big Game Hunting in North-Eastern Rhodesia (New York:

St. Martin's Press, 1986) A volume in the 'Peter Capstick Adventure Library', the series editor of which is Peter Hathaway Capstick. 8vo; original purple boards, lettered in gilt on spine; price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (viii) + 266, incl. index; photographs. Bump to bottom fore-corner of upper board; spine a little cocked; edges lightly sunned. Very good condition.

'Owen Letcher's classic, Big Game Hunting in North-Eastern Rhodesia, is one of the very few to concentrate on this fascinating area, now Zambia: a region that today is still very much safari country. Letcher, a gentleman adventurer who was one of the first writer-hunters to advocate the principles of "fair chase," recounts in fascinating detail adventures in such places as the Luangwa Valley. Lucid observations are made on the region's game and its hunting, and particular attention is paid to the "big five" game

animals.' £10.00 / R160 39. Melliss, C. J.: Lion-Hunting in Somaliland. Also, an Account of

"Pigsticking" the African Wart-hog (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991) A volume in the 'Peter Capstick Adventure Library', the series editor of which is Peter Hathaway Capstick. 8vo; original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine; price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (xii) + 186; plates. Dustwrapper spine panel a little sunned, and tanned to reverse side; trace of spotting to top edge. Near-fine condition. 'Somaliland, today the Somali Democratic Republic, was once a favorite hunting ground for British officers stationed there or in Aden. A captain

in the 9th Bombay Infantry, C. J. Melliss was a pioneer of those professional soldiers of the Thin Red Line of Empire on Indian duty who found new areas of sport here. Ranging well inland despite the risk of irregulars of the Mahdi ... Melliss was able to hunt lions and "pigstick" warthogs, replacing the Indian sports of tiger and wild boar hunting. He tells in his book of a day long gone when gentlemen holding the King's commission could pit their rifles against lions in the most primitive of conditions, as well as try their hand at warthogs with a bamboo and steel lance.' £10.00 / R160

40. Stigand, C. H.: Hunting the Elephant in Africa (New York: St. Martin's Press,

1986) A volume in the 'Peter Capstick Adventure Library', the series editor of which is Peter Hathaway Capstick. Text facsimile of the Macmillan edition of 1913, excluding the chart which appeared in the original. Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. 8vo; original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine; price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (x) + xv + (iii) + 379, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper very slightly rubbed; some minor spotting to edges. Very good condition.

'A preeminent elephant hunting title, this details Stigand's big game hunting efforts primarily in British East Africa, North Eastern Rhodesia, Nyasaland and the Lado Enclave. He includes chapters on hunting rhinoceros, buffalo and lion, but relates his encounters with elephants with particular verve. As he states in Chapter 1: "There is something so fascinating and absorbing about elephant hunting that those who have done much of it can seldom take any interest again in any other form of sport." ' - Kenneth

Czech, An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785-1999 £10.00 / R160

MEDICINE 41. Buss, W. M. & Vincent: The Lure of the Stone. The Story of Henrietta

Stockdale (Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1976) 8vo; original green boards, lettered in white on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 131, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper somewhat rubbed and edgeworn, with earlier owner's tape repairs to extremities of spine panel; bottom edges of boards a little shelf-rubbed; occasional foxing. Good condition.

"In 1873, after answering an appeal by the Bishop of Bloemfontein for teachers and nurses for the Orange Free State, [Henrietta Stockdale] went to the Clewer Hospital and to the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital in London to study nursing. ... She started her work at Kimberley in 1876 as a district nurse in the mining camps, but by 1877 was assigned as a sister to the Carnarvon Hospital there, where she started the first training school for nurses in South Africa. ... As a result of Stockdale's vision and drive, South

Africa became the first country in the world to provide for state registration of both nurses and midwives ... " - DSAB II, pp. 716-7. £5.00 / R80

42. Sandler, E.M.: Lichtenstein's Vaccination Tour - 1805. Introduction and

Extracts / Lichtenstein se Inentingsreis - 1805. Inleiding en Uittreksels (Supplement to the South African Medical Journal, 20 April 1974)

270 x 210 mm; saddle-stitched booklet; pp. 15 + (i); map. A little creased and browned. Very good condition.

English and Dutch texts in parallel columns. Extracts from Lichtenstein's 'Diary of a Journey through the Karroo'. "The manuscript upon which this article is based is housed in the Cape Archives, Cape Town, and gives a detailed account of a journey undertaken by Lichtenstein in 1805 with the object of vaccinating a number of inhabitants in the interior of the Cape." £7.50 / R120

MILITARY HISTORY 43. Bailey, J. R.: Eskimo Nel (Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1964) 8vo;

original boards; no dustwrapper; pp. 166. Trace of foxing to edges and endpapers; earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper, and tape repair to head of upper hinge. Good to very good condition. Recollections of life as an R.A.F. pilot during World War Two. Foreword by Peter Townsend. £7.50 / R120

44. Morphew, Jeff: Five Frontiers to Freedom (Cape Town: Vineyard

International, 1999) 220 x 150 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 226; photographs; maps; plans. Corners of cover a little curled. Very good condition.

"Jeff Morphew was the first and until his death in 1994, the only man living to have escaped from an Italian POW camp in World War II while Italy was still at war, and this is his frank and uninhibited story. Only two others made it before the Badoglio capitulation and they both perished soon after. Because of its geography, intricate dialect patterns and absence of foreign workers with whom foreign escapers might identify, Italy was a more secure cage than Germany or even than Germany's

supposedly escape-proof Colditz Castle. In his foreword to this book a fellow captive with Jeff, Sir de Villiers Graaff, pays a glowing tribute to Jeff's daring and ingenuity, without which this escape could never have been accomplished." £20.00 / R320

45. Reitz, J. F.: Memoirs of a Somehow Soldier (Cape Town: the author, no

date) 210 x 140 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 80; plates; cartoons. Spine a little tanned; a few biographical notes in pencil to the title page. Very good condition.

Although shortsighted, rather deaf, and born with a deformed foot, this "somehow soldier" was recruited by General George Brink for the Union Defence Force, and served as an intelligence staff officer under General Manie Botha. The chapters cover: The Mounted Commando Division; the SA Tank Corps armoured cars; secondment to the British Army for military government duties; training at the Civil Affairs Staff College in England; posting to Algeria for service in Italy; the Garigliano Front and Anzio; posting

to the US Army for service in France; Normandy and Orleans; Belgium and Holland; the first British military government to operate in Germany. £12.50

MISSION HISTORY 46. Anonymous: Malexena ma Nkana mu Ncemi (Bulape: A.P.C.M., 1922) 8vo;

original burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt to upper cover; pp. 105. Cloth lightly rubbed. Very good condition.

Highly uncommon mission imprint: a Tshiluba (or Luba-group) Book of Church Order, or Scripture primer, with excerpts from the Pentateuch, Joshua, and the gospels. OCLC and Copac find no repositories holding this title, nor is it in the Doke Collection, though it is listed by the University Library of Gent, Belgium. Bulape is a town north of Mweka, in the Kasai-Occidental province of Congo (Kinshasa), where Presbyterian missionaries have been active since early colonial times. In 1938, Virginia Garner wrote of

the place: "Bulape is located in the forest country and is on a hill like all the other stations of this mission. There are people of three different tribes here, the Baketi, Baluba, and Bakuba. The Bakuba, to the north, control the whole section and makes slaves of the other people. The whole Baketi tribe are subject to Lukenga's [Lukengo's] rule, king of the Bakuba, and many smaller tribes as well. The missionaries here have to learn three languages. Our little Baluba is still good here thank goodness, as we know more of that than any other language in Africa." - Images Out of Africa: The Virginia Garner Diaries of the Africa Motion Picture Project, p. 96 £25.00 / R400

47. Anonymous: Mission Work and Mission Stations in the Western Cape

1737-1911 (no place: publisher not stated, no date) 210 x 148 mm; printed paper wrappers; pp.18. Fine. A chronology of pioneering missionary societies is provided, followed by a brief history of mission stations at the Cape and in Cape Town, with a synopsis of the work done at some of the more prominent mission outposts, such as Genadendal, Wupperthal, Elim, Zoar and Pniel. £7.50 / R120

48. Mignon, Andrea: The 19th Century Lutheran Mission in Botswana

(Gaborone: The Botswana Society and The National Archives and Records Services, 1996) 247 x 170 mm; saddle-stitched card wrappers; pp. (iv) + 47; contemporary photographs. Very good condition.

"In the past research on the Hermannsburg Mission has been largely confined to studies in German. This has contributed to a general neglect of the Mission in the English literature on Botswana. Andrea Mignon's study is thus an important and overdue contribution to the ongoing reassessment of local church history. Besides examining the early years of the Mission she has ably traced its post 1862 development among the Balete and Bahurutshe communities of south-eastern Botswana. In so doing

she draws upon German archival materials recently deposited at the Botswana

National Archives as part of a record repatriation project sponsored by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs." £15.00 / R240

49. Small, W. O., and others: Die honderd-vyf-en-twintigjarige geskiedenis

van die Moraviese Gemeente Wittewater. 15 Mei 1859-15 Mei 1984 (Genadendal: [printed by] Genadendalse Drukkery, 1984) 213 x 151 mm; saddle-stitched card wrappers; pp. 44; photographs. Afrikaans text. Trace of foxing. Very good condition. Uncommon history of this Cape Moravian congregation and community. £12.50 / R200

50. Strassberger, Elfriede: The Rhenish Mission Society in South Africa,

1830-1950 (Cape Town: Struik, 1969) 4to; original blue rexine, lettered in gilt on spine, and with gilt publisher's device to upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xv + (iii) + 109, incl. index; plates; tables. Dustwrapper somewhat foxed, and sunned on spine panel; some foxing to edges, endpapers and outermost leaves. Very good condition.

"In the first part of this book the author gives the development of the mission's work in South Africa to the beginning of the work of the Rhenish Mission Society and tells why South Africa was chosen as the first mission field of the R.M.S. In the second part she gives an historical picture of the mission stations at: Amandelboom, Concordia, Komaggas, Out Posts, Richtersveld, Stellenbosch, Steinkopf, Tulbagh, and Worcester, and of the Institutions Evenhaezer and Wupperthal." £15.00 / R240

NAMIBIA 51. De Klerk, W. A.: The Thirstland (London: Rex Collings, 1977) 8vo; original

dark brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. (vi) + 463. Dustwrapper partially sunned, a little rubbed, with trace of damp-stain to edges; archival tape reinforcing to reverse of dustwrapper's short edge-tears; two small holes to lower panel and board, slightly penetrating final leaves (suggestive of scissors having been dropped on the book); earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; trace of foxing to edges. Good condition.

Historical novel recounting the experiences of the Dorsland trekkers. "The primary chronicle of the book is that of the Thirstlanders, who during the eighteen seventies left their well-established homes in the Transvaal to search for their own Utopia - somewhere else in Africa. Contending with some of the most difficult terrain in Africa, this trek became one of the strangest recorded overland journeys of the last century. ... Intertwined in the strange history of the Thirstlanders in search of their Land of Rest is

the personal history of Will Worthington Jordan: the coloured man from the Cape who became guide, counsellor and friend to one of the most fundamentalist of Boer societies of the time. After he had led them to a lost highland in Southern

Angola, Jordan died in Ovamboland a martyr in their cause. The cause of the most unlikely of all the Boer republics: Upingtonia in Damaraland." £7.50 / R120

52. Haythornthwaite, Frank: All the Way to Abenab (London: Faber and Faber,

1956) 8vo; original salmon-coloured cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; dustwrapper; pp. 288, incl. index; map; plates. Dustwrapper somewhat tanned, foxed and a little edgeworn, with earlier owner's tape reinforcing to spine panel and folds; earlier owner's name signed on front pastedown, and initials on top edge; some foxing to endpapers and edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good condition.

"How many people know the whereabouts of Abenab? And yet, by the time they have finished this vivid and compelling book, how many will not know, as well as if they had been there themselves, that Abenab is a very small town at the furthest point of the author's South West African parish? ... Mr Haythornthwaite is the clergyman in charge of the parish ending in Abenab. When he was first sent to Walvis Bay from Johannesburg the place struck him as desolate and overfull of sand. But he learnt otherwise, and as he

moved about the country by rail, car, horse and foot, visiting his parishioners and covering hundreds of miles, he came to love it all for the wild open grandeur which more settled countries have lost. He conveys this love to his readers in a warmly human and detailed style, and with the aid of many excellent photographs, in such a way that few people will fail to enjoy the journey from Walvis Bay All the Way to Abenab." £7.50 / R120

53. Mossolow, N.: Die Verhaal van / Die Geschichte von / The History of

Namutoni (Windhoek: the author, 1971) 245 x 185 mm; saddle-stitched pictorial wrappers; pp. 60; ground-plan; contemporary photographs; some adverts.

Wrappers a little rubbed; occasional faint foxing. Very good condition. Trilingual text: Afrikaans, German, English. Now a favourite restcamp in the Etosha National Park, Namutoni, with its Beau Geste-style fort, has a history closely linked to the German occupation of South West Africa, and the subjugation of the Ovambo. £7.50 / R120

54. Terry, Carolyn, with Harry Gundry: The Desert Bankers. The story of the

Standard Bank in South West Africa (Cape Town: W. J. Flesch & Partners, 1978) Signed inscription by Harry Gundry on title page. 210 x 147 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 184, incl. index; map; photographs. Wrappers and bit rubbed and creased, and sunned on spine; small tape or label mark to half-title; trace of spotting to edges. Good condition.

"The Bank first began operating in Windhoek in 1915 and, since then, has made a considerable contribution to that territory's progress and prosperity. It has been associated with all sections of South West Africa's economy, becoming closely involved with the mining, fishing, karakul and beef-producing industries. ... The book includes the reminiscences of Harry Gundry, a Bank pensioner, whose humorous writings are well known to Bank staff

and to the people of South West Africa through his numerous contributions to magazines. His memories add colour and atmosphere to the early days of banking in the territory ... " - From the Foreword. £12.50 / R200

NATURAL HISTORY 55. Balfour, Daryl & Sharna: Rhino (Cape Town: Struik, 1991) Cover title: Rhino:

The Story of the Rhinoceros and a Plea for Its Conservation. Foreword by Ian Player. 4to; original pale grey boards, lettered in silver gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 176, incl. index; lavishly illustrated with Daryl Balfour's full-colour photographs; some monochrome illustrations. Dustwrapper partially sunned, with short tear at head of spine panel; a little foxing; small scuff to top edge of upper board. Very good condition.

"Rhino are among the most magnificent and awe-inspiring creatures on earth. Massive, powerful, yet totally vulnerable to the whims of mankind, the survival of the world's few remaining rhino is one of the greatest challenges facing conservationists today. The rhino's horn, evolved as a defensive weapon, is also its Achilles' heel and the sole reason for this animal having been hunted to the brink of extinction. The unheard-of privilege accorded author/photographers Daryl and Sharna Balfour of operating unfettered by the usual

restraints of vehicles, roads and park regulations and being allowed to roam at will through the greatest rhinoceros reserves in Africa has resulted in a unique, personal yet informed perspective on these animals and a collection of stunning close-up photographs. Rhino deals not only with the black and white rhino in Africa, but also with the Asian species - the severely endangered Indian, Javan and Sumatran rhino. The text discusses the dilemma of poaching and the rhino horn trade, and the efforts to curb the slaughter of this prehistoric-looking animal. But the main thrust of the text and photographs in this book is to show the animals in their natural surroundings, their habitats and social behaviour, and also the animals that associate with them. Through its well-researched and up-to-date text and its stunning photographs, Rhino forms an evocative plea for the continued existence of these creatures." £7.50 / R120

56. Clarke, James: Sabi Sabi - The story of a South African game reserve

(Johannesburg: Sabi Game Lodge, 1990) 4to; original pale boards, with lettering to upper cover; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 96; full-colour photographs; map. Dustwrapper very slightly rubbed. Very good condition. "The game rangers at Sabi Sabi love their work. Over the years they have had the opportunity of taking exceptional photographs of some of the fascinating creatures which live in this lowveld wilderness. As their personal tribute and as an act of love for their

environment, Sabi Sabi - The story of a South African game reserve, was published. Those who have visited Sabi Sabi will be reminded of their experiences and those who have not will be enticed to come and experience the magic of Sabi Sabi." £15.00 / R240

57. Compagno, L.J.V.: Sharks of the Eastern Cape Coast. Ichthos Field Guide No. 1 (Grahamstown: J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, 1986) 210 x 147 mm; saddle-stitched pictorial wrappers; pp. (i) + 26 + (i); line drawings. Wrappers a bit sunned and a little foxed; occasional fox spot. Good condition. "This is a pictorial guide to the sharks found in waters of the Eastern Cape from Cape Agulhas to the Transkei border. It includes inshore and offshore sharks of the continental shelf, as

well as oceanic and deep-water bottom species." £5.00 / R80 58. Dennis, Nigel J (photographer), and Bob Scholes (text): The Kruger National

Park. Wonders of an African Eden (London & Cape Town: New Holland, 1995) 4to; laminated pictorial boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. 176, incl. index; profusely illustrated with stunning full-colour photographs and colour maps. Dustwrapper sunned on spine panel and a little edgeworn; trace of foxing to top edge and outermost leaves. Very good condition.

"With 650 000 people visiting the Kruger National Park annually (80 000 of whom come from overseas and many of whom return year after year), the time is right for a book that is not only useful to visitors to the Park but also a work of beauty and value - a volume that will become the definitive Kruger Park guide. The photographs illustrating this title are the culmination of two years of dedicated work by renowned natural-history photographer Nigel Dennis. His evocative photographs, with their luminous colours and

immaculate compositions, have captured the essence of this ecological sanctuary ... The text by Bob Scholes highlights the fact that 'the Kruger National Park is part of a dwindling global treature, the collective natural heritage of all mankind'." £10.00 / R160

59. Funston, Malcolm (photographs), with Peter Borchert and Braam van Wyk (text):

Bushveld Trees. Lifeblood of the Transvaal Lowveld (Cape Town: Fernwood Press, 1993) 4to; original green boards, with grey tree device to upper board and grey spine lettering; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 120, incl. index; lavishly illustrated, with large photographs of each species considered, and complementary photographs and artwork showing associated wildlife. Occasional fox spot. Near-fine condition.

A fabulous book, highly evocative of the Kruger National Park and adjacent areas of Mpumalanga and Limpopo provinces. "The trees of the Bushveld are indeed the lifeblood of the eastern Transvaal Lowveld, for without them the remaining wilderness of the region would simply not exist as we know it. Certainly the great diversity of wildlife, one of South Africa's most valuable assets, would be absent and not only this country, but the entire world would be the poorer for it." £15.00 / R240

60. Henning, Stephen (text), and Clare Abbott (paintings): Southern African Butterflies (Johannesburg: Macmillan, 1984) 4to; original orange boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 100, incl. index; full-page, colour illustrations; some line drawings and diagrams in text. Dustwrapper sunned on spine panel, with crease to lower panel, and short, closed tear at head of spine; a little foxing to endpapers and edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition.

"Southern African Butterflies describes and illustrates all the butterflies you are likely to see in suburban gardens, as well as some of the rarer varieties found in the more remote areas of forest, bushveld and mountain. Species are included from each of the eight families of butterflies occurring in Africa south of the Cunene and Zambezi Rivers to present an overall picture of this colourful group." £7.50 / R120

61. Liebenberg, Louis: A Field Guide to Animal Tracks of Southern Africa (Cape Town: David Philip, 1990) 230 x 155 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. xii + 306, incl. index; distribution maps and spoor illustrations. Wrappers partially sunned, with crease to bottom fore-corner of lower cover; half-title adhering to upper cover; some tape remnants and scarring to inside of lower cover and half-title verso; a little foxing. Good.

"This is the first comprehensive field guide to the animal tracks of southern Africa. In the first, introductory section, author Louis Liebenberg explains how to identify and interpret spoor, and how to master the basics of tracking. The second and far larger part contains the field guide proper, and includes sections on the invertebrates, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals of the sub-continent. In addition to almost a hundred pages of highly accurate illustrations of spoor, drawn from the field, the guide provides

detailed entries describing the prominent features of the spoor and general information on the animals - their size, identification, habits, distribution and habitat. Distribution maps are also included." £12.50 / R200

62. Lovegrove, Barry: The Living Deserts of Southern Africa (Cape Town:

Fernwood Press, 1993) 4to; original orange cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, and with gilt oryx device to upper cover; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 224, incl. index; lavishly illustrated, with full-colour photographs, colour maps, graphs and tables. Small chip from top edge of dustwrapper's sunned spine panel, else fine.

A beautiful book. "For generations the deserts of southern Africa have fascinated scientists and travellers alike. They teem with life: ants and elephants, cryptic 'stone plants' and colourful daisies, strikingly marked gemsbok and dainty dik-diks have all found a home in the subcontinent's seemingly barren wastes. So, too, have cartwheeling spiders, fog-basking beetles, thermally hitchhiking moles, fruit-eating hyenas, succulent plants with built-in windows, and the still-enigmatic welwitschia. How do

they cope with scarce and, even worse, unpredictable rainfall, temperatures that

fluctuate from extreme cold to extreme heat in a matter of hours, food supplies that are few and far between? And, having coped with all these, how do they protect themselves against predators and, most important of all, how do they manage to breed successfully? In The Living Deserts of Southern Africa Dr Barry Lovegrove unravels many of the mysteries associated with life in southern Africa's four desert biomes: the Desert, the Arid Savanna, the Succulent Karoo and the Nama Karoo. ... The resulting book, designed for the serious student and the academic as well as for the interested nature-lover, will surely be a definitive reference work for many years." £17.50 / R280

63. Meiring, Piet: Behind the scenes in Kruger Park (Johannesburg: Perskor,

1982) 4to; laminated pictorial boards; pictorial endpapers; pp. (viii) + 153; photographs. Very good condition. 'Behind The Scenes In Kruger Park is an educative and interesting presentation of

information that enables the reader to discover facts for himself that are not readily available to the man in the street. The author takes the reader on a conducted tour through the Game Reserve but this time it is a tour with a difference. In this case, not only animals play a rôle. Human beings also feature prominently in this presentation - especially those who work "behind the scenes" to protect and maintain our natural heritage.' £6.50 / R104

64. Pienaar, U de V, with W D Haacke and N H G Jacobsen: The Reptiles of the Kruger National Park (Pretoria: National Parks Board of South Africa, 1983) Revised Third edition. 8vo; original pictorial boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (viii) + 236, incl. index; full-colour photographs and Park distribution maps for each of the species covered; tables. A little curl and wear to dustwrapper's top edge; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; trace of foxing to endpapers and outermost leaves. Very good condition.

"This guide has been compiled to introduce the numerous reptiles of the Kruger National Park to the visitor as well as to students of this interesting, yet much maligned, group of animals. ... All the species are illustrated by means of excellent colour pictures and the authors attempt to draw attention to the very significant role which this rich array of reptiles play in the ecological interrelationships of this great sanctuary." £10.00 / R160

65. Pringle, John A., with Creina Bond and John Clark: The Conservationists and the Killers. The Story of Game Protection and the Wildlife Society of Southern Africa (Cape Town: T. V. Bulpin / Books of Africa, 1982) Folio; original green boards, with gilt device to upper board and spine lettered in gilt; pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. 319, including index; illustrated with maps, line drawings, reproductions of colour wildlife paintings, and photographs. Dustwrapper very slightly rubbed, with trace of edgewear; a little foxing to outermost leaves. Very good condition. "When man reached the intellectual divide which separates the killers from the conservationists in Southern Africa, it was almost too late. While there is general acceptance in this world that all countries should preserve at least 10 per cent of

their area for wilderness, nature, recreation and purity of watersheds, South Africa today has less than 4 per cent of its once seemingly boundless land conserved and safe from despoliation. The story of how even that small area was conserved is a story of the dedication and inspiration, not of governments, but of individuals, of small associations and of the Wildlife Society which increasingly works today in Southern Africa to guard the heritage of nature, to conserve what is left of the wilderness, to seek out areas where the

flowers, plants, trees and all wild creatures can be restored to their former glory with the remarkable resilience of nature when human beings find harmony with their environment instead of destroying it, where the conservationists take over from the killers." £12.50 / R200

66. Rowan, M. K.: The Doves, Parrots, Louries and Cuckoos of Southern

Africa (Cape Town: David Philip, 1983) Illustrations by Graeme Arnott. 8vo; original turquoise cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xx + (xx) + 429, incl. index. Trace of foxing to endpapers and edges. Very good condition.

"This is the authoritative work on an important and interesting group of birds. M. K. Rowan sets out in comprehensive detail the habitat, distribution, frequency, description, social organisation, maintenance activities, reproduction, population dynamics, and relations with man of every Southern African member of the four orders of birds under review (Columbiformes, Psittaciformes, Musophagiformes, Cuculiformes). The area covered is South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Swaziland, and

Lesotho. ... There are 8 beautiful plates of illustrations by Graeme Arnott, distribution maps, and line drawings." £8.50 / R136

67. Taylor, Ricky: The Greater St Lucia Wetland Park ([Pietermaritzburg]:

Parke-Davis for the Natal Parks Board, 1991) 210 x 262 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 48; large, folding colour map; full-colour photographs and diagrams. Very good condition. A comprehensive, liberally illustrated overview of Lake St Lucia, the estuary, dunes and surrounds, by the area's leading ecologist. £7.50 / R120

68. Walker, Clive (text and photographs): Twilight of the Giants (Johannesburg: Sable Publishers, ca 1982) Large 4to; original grey cloth, lettered in silver gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. 208; profusely illustrated, with photographs in colour and monochrome. Trace of sunning to dustwrapper's upper panel adjacent to spine; a little foxing to edges and outermost leaves. Very good condition. "Most recent extinctions can be attributed, either directly or

indirectly, to man; more specifically to man's demographic and technological

expansion. ... If mankind continues to allow whole species to perish, when does their peril also become ours? In South Africa we have witnessed the extinction of the Quagga, the Bluebuck, the Cape Lion and any number of plant species. Right now there are certain species whose survival is threatened; the Black Rhino, the Cheetah, the elephants of Kaokoveld and Knysna, the Cape Vulture and the floral kingdom of the south western Cape." £10.00 / R160

69. Burrows, J E: Southern African Ferns and Fern Allies (Johannesburg:

Frandsen Publishers, 1990) 4to; original dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xii + 359 + (iv), incl. index; detailed line drawings; distribution maps; colour photographs. Dustwrapper very slightly rubbed, with trace of foxing to reverse side; light bump to top fore-corners; bookplate to the front pastedown; some foxing to edges and outermost leaves. Very good condition.

"SOUTHERN AFRICAN FERNS AND FERN ALLIES is an important new publication which represents the culmination of eighteen years of fern collecting throughout southern Africa and into the remotest corners of this subcontinent. It is a comprehensive work covering all 343 known species of the region and including also some of the naturalised introduced species. The text is easily readable, scientifically correct, and has been carefully vetted by experienced pteridologists. Every species is illustrated with excellent colour photography and there are over 800 individual line illustrations, showing salient diagnostic

characteristics and providing extensive insight into this fascinating group of plants." £75.00 / R1200

NORTHERN CAPE 70. Allen, Vida: Early Kimberley: A Photographic Souvenir (Kimberley:

Historical Society of Kimberley and the Northern Cape, 1986) Kimberley series no. 6. 210 x 293 mm; side-stitched pictorial wrappers; pp. (iv) + 152 + (iv), incl.

index; contemporary photographs, captioned. Wrappers slightly rubbed, slight crease to upper cover; earlier owner's bookplate to inside of upper cover. Very good condition. A fascinating compilation of photographs showing the personages, buildings and events connected with Kimberley's creation and early history, from the start of

diamond mining by independent diggers to the advent of aviation, sports clubs and public institutions. £20.00 / R320

71. Beet, George: The Grand Old Days of the Diamond Fields. Memories of Past Times with the Diggers of Diamondia (Cape Town: Maskew Miller, [1931]) 8vo; later red cloth lettered in black on spine and upper cover; new endpapers; pp. xix + (i) + 192, incl. index; illustrations. Library stamps and codes to title page verso; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. "The discovery of the South African alluvial diamond fields in 1866

came as a veritable surprise to the whole world. The real rush to the new El Dorado began in 1869, when eager fortuneseekers pressed in from all parts of the sub-continent and overseas, and ranged themselves along the middle section of the Vaal River. ... Scarcely a soul in all this multitude had the vaguest idea of what a diamond looked like in its rough state, but all were well aware of its preciousness and value." £20.00 / R320

72. Bradlow, Frank R: Printing for Africa. The Story of Robert Moffat and

the Kuruman Press (Kuruman: Kuruman Moffat Mission Trust, 1987) Author's signed presentation inscription to title page reads "For Walter & Ruth Middelman, / With Admiration for their wide intellectual interests / Frank R Bradlow". Middelman blind-stamp to front free endpaper. 240 x 150 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 36; colour frontis. tipped in; map; some illustrations. Trace of foxing to edges. Very good condition.

"Practically single handed Moffat reduced the Sechuana language to writing, translated the Bible into it, and from his press at Kuruman issued the first printed literature in a native African language. At Kuruman too, with Mary Moffat's help, he created a model mission settlement which became a pattern for the rest of Africa." - From Northcott: Robert Moffat: Pioneer in Africa 1817-1870 £17.50 / R280

Hosken copy, with their bookplate

73. Scully, W. C.: Lodges in the Wilderness (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1915)

Hosken copy, with their bookplate to the front pastedown. Crown 8vo; purple-brown cloth with evocative desert scene on upper cover; pp. 252; plates. Tipped in on the title page is a publisher's slip noting that "General Botha's army is operating in the neighbourhood of the great waterless desert dealt with in this book", and that "It forms the great problem of the campaign." Backstrip sunned; extremities slightly rubbed and lower joint chafed; earlier owner's name signed on fly-leaf; sporadic, moderate

foxing. Good condition. (Hosken, p. 180; SABIB 4, p. 181; Czech [2011], p. 250) "Promoted to colonial magistrate in South Africa's Cape Colony, Scully traveled into the desert areas of Bushmanland south of the Orange River in quest of oryx and springbok. While numerous head of both species were bagged, this is more valuable for its descriptions of the forbidding terrain." - Czech: An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999 £60.00 / R960

74. Scully, William Charles: Between Sun and Sand. A Tale of an African Desert (Cape Town: J. C. Juta & Co., [1912]) Signed by Judge Marius Diemont, with his attractive bookplate, to front pastedown. Crown 8vo; original cream cloth, with blind-stamped boards, and spine lettered in gilt; pp. (xii) + 294. A little discoloration to cloth; trace of foxing to edges, and occasionally elsewhere. A very good copy of this attractive edition.

The first edition of this work was issued by Methuen in 1898. Contrary to the publication date provided in Hosken and elsewhere, 'A South African Bibliography', based on the acquisition dates of both the British Museum and South African Library copies, gives 1912 as the publication date of the Juta edition. (SABIB IV, p. 181; Hosken, p. 178) The book reflects "the hardships suffered by nomadic farmers in Namaqualand and Bushmanland", and is "an episodic novel, notable for the creation

of some memorable bushveld characters ... " - Adey, et al: Companion to South African English Literature, p. 177. "His particular literary merit lies in the integrity with which he recorded the contemporary scene. A lifetime spent in the Cape civil service gave him an intimate knowledge of South Africa and its peoples; the extent to which his books reflect this knowledge makes them a source of valuable information for the historian and sociologist." - DSAB I, p. 705. £17.50 / R280

RAILWAYS 75. Moir, Sydney M.: Twenty-four Inches Apart. The two-foot gauge railways

of The Cape of Good Hope (Kempton Park: Janus Publishing, 1981) 8vo; original brown rexine, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp.182, incl. index; plates; plates; excellent technical drawings of locomotives and rolling stock, plus maps of the railway lines. Dustwrapper a little rippled, with damp-stain to lower panel; earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper; trace of foxing to top edge, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition.

First published in 1961, this book is especially uncommon in this more recent edition. "This is the interesting story of a group of two-foot gauge railways which helped to open up the south-west tip of Africa. Some grew up to become broad-gauge lines; the longest, the Avontuur, is still in full commercial operation as a narrow-gauge railway, with the magnificent 2-8-2 Class 15 hauling heavy trains over 177 miles of heavily graded route. Mr. Moir has provided a stirring narrative which combines information on the sources of

traffic and methods of operation with accurate techical information, and the 79 maps and drawings complete the most carefully documented history that enthusiast or layman could desire." £30.00 / R480

76. Smith, A. W. (photographs), and D. E. Bourne (text): The Spirit of Steam.

Locomotives in South Africa (Feltham: Temple Press, 1983) 4to; original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pp. (iv) + 137 + (ii); lavishly illustrated with full colour photographs. Fine condition. "As a sanctuary for one of man's own endangered creations - the steam locomotive - South Africa's position is unique. Not only is she the last of the world's industrialized nations to operate steam for both goods and passenger traffic on a rail network set against superb scenery, but the country's mines and industry run a private stable of engines found, elsewhere, only in the world's few railway museums. In magnificent colour photographs and an entertaining

instructive text, The Spirit of Steam captures, for the present and future enthusiast, the essence of the staggering range of locomotive types and classes which still operate on the southern tip of Africa. A fascinating blend of picture and word takes the reader across the sun-scorched veld, through cuttings surrounded by snow-capped mountains, and along narrow-gauge lines which wind their way among forests and sub-tropical growth. And, as few other railway books have done, The Spirit of Steam runs back

the curtain on the men who ride on the footplate, feeding the fires and taming the steel leviathans. For the spirit which the book captures is not only the spectral smoke and steam, it is the acrid sulphur smell of the firebox and the rough grittiness of fine cinders. Between these pages, the armchair traveller can share, at last, the heat of the engine cab, the throb of a locomotive 'giving all its got', and the thrill of titanic wheels as they thrum their history-making tattoo across an ever-changing landscape." £7.50 / R120

77. Uitenhage Historical Museum: SAS-SAR Uitenhage 1876-1976 (Uitenhage:

Uitenhage Historical Museum, 1976) 297 x 210 mm; colour pictorial wrappers; pp. 63; photographs and reproductions of contemporary artwork in colour and

monochrome; advertisements. Faint trace of spotting. Near-fine condition. Text in both English and Afrikaans. A centenary history of the Uitenhage railway line, described as "the firm and unyielding backbone" of the town. Included is an illustrated account, in Afrikaans, of the famous baboon Jack, trained as a signalman in the late 1800s by James Wide. £7.50 / R120

ROCK ART 78. Rusch, Neil, and John Parkington: San Rock Engravings Marking the

Karoo Landscape (Cape Town: Struik, 2010) Oblong 4to; original grey cloth; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper maps; pp. 128; lavishly illustrated with full colour photographs. As new.

"The vast spaces of the Karoo abound with images pecked, incised or engraved onto rock surfaces. These landscape markings, generally known simply as 'rock engravings', were created in the pre-colonial period by San hunter-gatherers who roamed this land in search of sustenance and water. Their engravings most commonly (though not always) depict animals such as eland, quagga or elephant, and reflect, in fascinating and unusual ways, the

relationship of the San to the harsh environment of the Karoo. San Rock Engravings explores the visual legacy of these ancient artists, the signs they left on the land and the meanings that could be attached to them. Neil Rusch's superb photographs, complemented by John Parkington's thought-provoking text, bring to life these enigmatic markings and the way of life of their creators." £15.00 / R240

79. Willcox, A. R.: The Drakensberg Bushmen and Their Art. With a guide to the rock painting sites (Winterton: Drakensberg Publications, 1984) 210 x 148 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. xi + (i) + 95 + (xii); map, line drawings and photographs, some of which in colour. Very good condition. A guide to the rock art sites of the Drakensberg, providing more information on a wide variety of sites than other publications of equivalent size. £5.00 / R80

80. Woodhouse, H.C.: The Bushman Art of Southern Africa (Cape Town:

Purnell, 1979) 4to; original black boards, lettered in white on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; decorative endpapers; pp. 125, incl. index; liberally illustrated in colour and monochrome. Dustwrapper slightly rubbed and edgeworn; edges of boards very lightly rubbed. Very good condition.

"The art-lover will admire the elegance of the draughtsmanship, the portrayal of the movement and the sophisticated techniques of distortion and foreshortening. The general reader will be fascinated by new views of life in Southern Africa before the beginning of written records. To guide him there are introductory chapters dealing with the Bushmen, past and present. ... Bert Woodhouse has pursued his hobby of photographing, studying and writing about the art on the rocks of Southern Africa for more than twenty

years. The illustrations in this book are a selection from his collection of some 25 000 colour slides." £10.00 / R160

SOCIAL & CULTURAL HISTORY 81. Davids, Achmat: The Afrikaans of the Cape Muslims from 1815 to 1915.

Edited by Hein Willemse and Suleman E. Dangor (Pretoria: Protea Book House, 2011) 240 x 168 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 318, incl. index; facsimiles; photographs; tables; maps. Earlier owner's bookplate to half-title. Fine condition.

"The Afrikaans of the Cape Muslims examines the Arabic-Afrikaans literary tradition of the Cape Muslim community. Achmat Davids traces the emergence of Afrikaans a'jami texts, i.e. Afrikaans texts written in Arabic script and distributed or published at the Cape of Good Hope, since the early nineteenth century. The study is divided into two distinct parts. In its first two chapters the author traces the historical and linguistic development of Afrikaans as it is spoken in the Cape Muslim

community, the vehicles through which it was perpetuated and the literature that was produced. Subsequent chapters explore the development of Arabic-Afrikaans as a written script with a distinctive alphabet. In a study that had already contributed much to our understanding of the linguistic and literary development of Afrikaans, Davids's major contribution is his rereading of Arabic-Afrikaans texts in terms of the Islamic reading practice of tajwid. He was able to determine what early Afrikaans sounded like. The study is concluded with a discussion of

the relationship between the Afrikaans language and the literature of the Cape Muslim community." £35.00 / R560

82. Goldstuck, Arthur: The Ghost That Closed Down The Town. The Story of

the Haunting of South Africa (Johannesburg: Penguin, 2006) 198 x 129 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. xiii + (i) + 328. A little foxing to edges. Very good condition.

"In exploring ghost stories as urban legends, Goldstuck makes a fascinating discovery: the ghostly beliefs of each culture in South Africa have had a profound impact on the supernatural beliefs of every other cultural group in the country over the past four centuries. The result is the story of the South African ghost: a unique and complex character that reflects a turbulent history and a harsh existence and sheds a fascinating light on the nature of supernatural experience throughout the world." £7.50 / R120

83. Gross, Fanny A.: Who Hangs the Hangman? A Modern Approach to

Punishment (Cape Town: Juta, 1966) 8vo; original salmon-coloured boards, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xv + (i) + 198, incl. index. Dustwrapper very slightly edgeworn, with short closed tear to bottom edge of lower panel, which is a little rubbed. Very good condition.

"The social phenomenon of crime and punishment arouses greater interest today than ever before. Mounting attacks are being made by prominent South Africans on capital punishment in the Republic, which is said to have the highest execution rate in the world. ... In South Africa, quite a few articles have been written on the subject of penology and there have been important public pronouncements by leading citizens, but there are few books on the subject which bring out the peculiar problems of this country and

how they fit in with generally accepted theories, and which describe the largely progressive, though sometimes contradictory, developments in our penal system. The author has made this part of her task, and her work should and will be read by many." £10.00 / R160

84. Juta, Jan: Background in Sunshine. Memories of South Africa (New

York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972) 8vo; original green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, with gilt crowned cranes device to upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xiii + (iii) + 302; illustrations by the author. Dustwrapper torn and sunned; light wear to bottom fore-corner of upper board; trace of foxing to edges. Very good condition, in a modest dustwrapper.

"Jan Juta is a many-talented man: painter, designer, author, lecturer, and lay preacher in the Episcopal Church. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, he was the only son of Sir Henry and Lady Juta, politically and socially prominent members of what was then called the Cape Colony. After attending Christ Church College, Oxford, he studied art in Rome, Madrid, and Paris. His murals have been commissioned in France, England, South Africa, and the United States ..." £7.50 / R120

85. Sampson, Lin: Now You've Gone 'n Killed Me. True stories of crime,

passion and ballroom dancing (Cape Town: Oshun, 2005) 210 x 150 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 199; photographs. Earlier owner's name signed on half-title; trace of foxing to edges. Very good condition.

"These are extraordinary pieces of writing, born of an uncanny ability to spot drama in situations so ordinary that most people don't even notice them. They are also marvels of observation, every sentence polished like a jewel and festooned with perfect quotes. ... Lin Sampson writes about South Africans exactly as she finds us, and she gets us down good and true. She is a talent of Herman Charles Bosman's stature. We are very lucky to have her." - Rian Malan, author of My Traitor's Heart £7.50 / R120

86. Searle, Thomas: The Liquor Laws of the Cape Province, Union of South

Africa (Cape Town: Townshend, Taylor and Snashall, 1912) 183 x 125 mm; saddle-stitched card wrappers; pp. 16. Very slightly faded; occasional faint fox spot. Very good condition.

Uncommon title: OCLC finds only the Brigham Young University copy and three held by South African repositories. (SABIB 4, p. 184) The author was both a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Cape parliament between 1904 and 1910, and a Congregational preacher. His address entitled 'The Liquor Problem of South Africa' was published by the Lovedale Press, circa 1907. £15.00 / R240

SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY & POLITICS 87. "A Lady" [Sir John Robinson, according to A.C.G. Lloyd]: Life at Natal a

Hundred Years Ago (Cape Town: Struik, 1972) 8vo; original green rexine, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pp. 134; black-and-white illustrations. Dustwrapper somewhat rubbed, with trace of edgewear; front free endpaper removed; some foxing to endpapers, edges, and outermost leaves. Good condition.

"This fascinating book gives a day-to-day account of life at Natal a century ago. It was originally written as a series of letters to a close friend abroad. This publication will be of special interest to those wanting to know more about the social customs and behaviour of the people of Natal at that time. In a pleasant and "chatty" style, the author describes the events in Durban, Pinetown, Pietermaritzburg and surrounding areas. She writes mostly about the people, their elegant houses, what they did and did not do,

what they ate and drank, what they talked about, their fashions, their parties and picnics, in fact, it vividly portrays the atmosphere of the time." £7.50 / R120

88. De Kock, W. J.. and D. W. Krüger and C. J. Beyers (editors-in-chief): Dictionary

of South African Biography [5-volume set] (Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council, 1968-1987) Five large 8vo volumes; original maroon rexine,

lettered in gilt on spine; dustwrappers to second and fourth volumes; pp. xx + (iv) + 895, (xviii) + 870 + (viii), (xx) + 861 + (xv), (xxvi) + 803 + (xxi), (xxviii) + 909 + (xxviii). This set evidently compiled from different sources: library codes and labels to the first volume, which is bumped at the tail of the spine; second volume's dustwrapper a bit sunned and edgeworn; third volume signed by earlier owner on front free endpaper and somewhat foxed, with bump to top fore-corner of upper board; fourth volume has slightly tanned spine panel to dustwrapper, and occasional fox spot, else near-fine; fifth volume with merest trace of spotting to top edge, else fine, though lacking dustwrapper. Complete set of this important reference work, with detailed biographies of key figures in South African history. £95.00 / R1520

89. Hall, Martin: The changing past: Farmers, kings and traders in

southern Africa, 200-1860 (Cape Town: David Philip, 1987) 240 x 180 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. (vi) + 161, incl. index; profusely illustrated. Wrappers somewhat curled and rubbed; trace of foxing; earlier owner's name signed on half-title. Good condition. "This book, which is profusely illustrated throughout, is a history of southern Africa in transition; it opens with the beginning of the agricultural way of life in this region, and ends with the discovery of

the new mineral wealth that initiated industrialisation." £5.00 / R80 90. Partridge, A. C. (editor): Lives, Letters and Diaries (Cape Town: Purnell,

1971) ELISA Series Vol. 1. 8vo; original pale boards; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (xii) + 199; plates. Dustwrapper a bit rubbed, and slightly edgeworn; a little foxing. Very good condition.

The book includes excerpts from some of the very best works representative of English literature in South Africa, hence the acronym ELISA. These include 'Adam Tas's Stand Against the Governor', a translation of Adam Tas, 'A Journey to Stellenbosch, Paarl and Wellington', by Lady Anne Barnard, 'Education at Lovedale', by Sir Walter Stanford, 'The Discovery of Zimbabwe', by Carl Mauch, and 'Childhood in Natal', by Roy Campbell. £7.50 / R120

91. Potter, Ursula Barnett: Barnett Potter, a Fighter (Cape Town: Howard

Timmins, 1975) 8vo; original yellow boards, lettered in white on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 161; plates. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and slightly edgeworn; bookplate to front pastedown; bottom edges of boards lightly shelf-rubbed; a little foxing to endpapers and edges. Good condition. "Barnett Potter was a man of Africa, a rugged individualist who made his own way in life and fought for what he believed. Journalist, broadcaster and author ... Barnett Potter was also an

airman, a resolute and tought explorer of the skies above and the earth beneath. ... This book is a portrait of him by his wife Ursula, but includes some of his own thrilling and often humorous accounts of his flying adventures." £5.00 / R80

92. Richardson, Deirdre: Historic Sites of South Africa (Cape Town: Struik,

2001) 210 x 145 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 272. Near-fine condition.

"Whether your interest lies in old buildings, local history and culture, or you're simply a tourist, this compact, easy-to-use handbook will guide you to all the officially declared national monuments and historic sites in South Africa. Sourced from the 'Government Gazette' (spanning some 64 years), as well as the South African Heritage Resources Agency, 'Historic Sites of South Africa' highlights the cultural and architectural heritage of the country in all its diversity. Author Deirdre Richardson has

developed a passionate hobby on properties of historic interest into a comprehensive and well-researched topic. The alphabetical format makes it easy to locate a particular site, whether you're already 'on foot', or still planning a trip." £10.00 / R160

93. Sachs, Albie: The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law (Oxford: Oxford

University Press, 2009) 8vo; original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xiv + 306, incl. index; colour frontis. Dustwrapper partially sunned. Very good condition.

"As his term on the Court approaches its end, Sachs here conveys in intimate fashion what it has been like to be a judge in ... unique circumstances, how his extraordinary life has influenced his approach to the cases before him, and his views on the nature of justice and its achievement through law. The book provides unique access to an insider's perspective on life as a member of a modern judiciary, and a rare glimpse into the workings of a judicial mind." £10.00 / R160

94. Wannenburgh, Alf: Forgotten Frontiersmen (Cape Town: Howard Timmins,

[ca 1980]) 8vo; original pictorial boards; pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. (xii) + 194; plates. Dustwrapper slightly sunned on spine panel; edges of boards very slightly rubbed; occasional fox spot. Very good condition.

"If we are to share the future, we should at least be able to share the past by rewriting our history in the perspective of the present-future. In the chapters that follow, it is not my intention to write a history of the 'Coloured People'. History is a total process, and so too should be the recording of it. My purpose will be achieved if the stories I relate prove to people, who believed their ancestors had only a passive part in our history, that their forefathers in fact played a dynamic role as pioneers and frontiersmen - that they are

themselves today PEOPLE WITH A HISTORY." £10.00 / R160 95. Welch, Sidney R.: Europe's Discovery of South Africa (Cape Town: Juta,

preface dated 1935) 8vo; original green cloth gilt; pp. (vi) + 365, incl. index. Very

slightly rubbed; gift inscription to front pastedown; edges lightly browned; upper hinge a little tender. Very good condition. Excellent treatment of the early phase of Portuguese exploration along the African coast, showing the motivation of Prince Henry the Navigator, Bartholomew Dias, and their successors, until the close of the Fifteenth Century. £15.00 / R240

SPORT 96. Chettle, Geoffrey A. (editor): South African Cricket Annual 1959 (Volume

7) (Durban: The South African Cricket Annual, [1960?]) 215 x 137 mm; printed wrappers; pp. 256; plates; score sheets; some advertisements. Curl to top fore-corner of upper cover; pages browned; sporadic foxing. Good condition. The Five Cricketers of the Year are Jackie Thomas Botten, Anthony John Pithey, Gerald Alfred Skerten Innes, John Heynes Ferrandi and Atholl Henry McKinnon. £5.00 / R80

97. Chettle, Geoffrey A. (editor): South African Cricket Annual

1960 (Volume 8) (Durban: The South African Cricket Annual, [1961?]) 215 x 137 mm; printed wrappers; pp. 224; plates; score sheets; some advertisements. Crease to bottom fore-corner of lower cover; pages browned; sporadic foxing. Good condition. The Five Cricketers of the Year are Sid O'Linn, Jon Fellows-Smith, Geoff Griffin, Godfrey Lawrence, and Johnnie Maile. £5.00 / R80

(We have several other editions of the South African Cricket Annual: Please enquire)

TRANSVAAL 98. Acutt, Renault Courtney: Reminiscences of a Rand Pioneer. The memoirs

of Renault Courtney Acutt (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1977) Edited by Walter Saunders. 8vo; original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 165; photographs. Dustwrapper somewhat foxed and edgeworn; trace of spotting to top edge and endpapers. Very good condition.

"This absorbing book is the autobiography of a member of an old Natal family. Born in 1876, Renault Acutt spent his early years in Verulam on the North Coast, went to school at the Berea Academy in Durban and, in 1891, at the age of fifteen, started work as an office boy for a firm in Commissioner Street, Johannesburg, then barely in its second year. He spent the better part of the next thirty years on the Rand, witnessing its growth and contributing to it as a contractor to the mines and later as a cinema entrepreneur (he was

the first general manager of Africa's Amalgamated Theatres). It is his adventures in the 1890's and in the early part of this century that give the book its absorbing interest. There were, for example, his brushes with the Zarps (South African

Republic Police) and his cycle ride from Johannesburg to Durban on the 'roads' of 1897, to attend a cousin's twenty-first birthday party. He remembers the legendary figures of Johannesburg's entertainment world in those early days (Leonard Rayne and Jimmy Hyde among them). He also describes his boyhood friendship with the first great Springbok cricketer, Jimmy Sinclair." £12.50 / R200

99. Altmann, H., with Eric Rosenthal: Overdrafts and Overwork. Memories of

a South African Banker (Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1959) No. 3 of an edition limited to 1000 copies. 8vo; original blue boards; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 103; plates. Dustwrapper a bit rubbed and edgeworn; edges, endpapers, and outermost leaves foxed. Good to very good condition.

"It was in 1891 that Hendrik Altmann arrived in the Transvaal from his native Holland, to find his life's work with the Netherlands Bank of South Africa. President Kruger figures as just another Bank customer. We are back in the days when clerks were sent from the Rand to Pretoria by train carrying sacks full of golden sovereigns loose in the compartment. We learn of the strange life in a Johannesburg Bank during the Boer War - and are back in Potchefstroom when it was still a garrison town with thousands of

Boer Tommies; we note the reactions of the 1914 Rebellion and what happened inside the banks when during the Gold Standard crisis the staff sat up all night making up parcels of sovereigns. One delightful chapter recounts Hendrik Altmann's adventures on a walking tour through Natal, when he was continually mistaken for a hobo." £10.00 / R160

100. Great Britain, Parliament: Transvaal. Further Correspondence

Respecting the Affairs of the Transvaal and Adjacent Territories. (In continuation of [C.-4194] August 1884.) (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1884) This volume is C.-4213. Small folio (322 x 209 mm); blue cloth over boards, enclosing original side-stitched paper wrappers; lettered in gilt on upper cover; pp. xi + (i) + 146; one full-page sketch map. Extremities rubbed, and spine frayed at head; library ink stamp inside upper cover; ink stamps and accession code to title leaf; pocket remnant to inside of lower cover; very occasional

marginal highlighting in coloured pencil. Good condition. (Mendelssohn II, p. 703) "Chiefly regarding Boer Freebooters in Stellaland and Goshen. Alleged proclamation of Boer republic in Zululand." - Mendelssohn. £20.00 / R320

101. Jeppe, Carl: The Kaleidoscopic Transvaal (Cape Town: J. C. Juta and Co.,

1906) Demy 8vo; original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; pp. xii + 266, incl. index. Spine very sunned; trace of damp-stain to fore-edge of lower board and corner of upper board adjacent to tail of spine; upper hinge fragile; edges and endpapers a bit foxed, a little foxing elsewhere. Good condition.

(Mendelssohn I, p. 779; Hosken, p. 109) 'An interesting sketch consisting "largely of reminiscences interspersed with camp-fire stories and old half-forgotten tales." The author was a well-known citizen of the Transvaal, his family having settled there in 1870. Referring to the first annexation Mr. Jeppe observes, "The country tacitly, if sullenly acquiesced. President and Volksraad launched a protest which was hardly looked upon as serious by themselves. The President advised all officials to remain in the service of the

country, and the most prominent Boer leaders, such as Kruger and Piet Joubert, set them a good example by accepting their back pay out of the British Treasury, which sums were, however, subsequently refunded." (The latter statement is not met with in any other work on the subject.) It is observed that a complete answer to the charges against the Boers with reference to the Bronkurst disaster is, that "Colonel Anstruther ... while dying, shook hands with Commandant Joubert, the Boer leader, and thanked him for his courtesy and consideration." The author denies that there was any plot amongst the Boers "to wrest South Africa from the British Empire," and asserts that "the first great compensating advantage" of the South African War (1899-1902) "is, that at last the Briton and Boer have learned to respect each other." ' - Mendelssohn £15.00 / R240

102. Meiring, Piet: Dynamite and Daisies. The Story of Barberton (Cape

Town: Purnell, 1976) 8vo; original black boards; dustwrapper; pp. (x) + 177, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper slightly rubbed, with short, closed tear to bottom edge of upper panel; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; pages somewhat browned throughout, with some foxing to edges and endpapers. Good to very good condition.

"In 1884 Fred and Henry Barber set off on a hunting trip in the Valley of the Kaap - and instead of elephant they found gold. Within six months the town of Barberton had been proclaimed and some ten thousand people descended on the Kaap Valley. They came from Klondike in Alaska, from Cornwall and California and from all corners of South Africa. In a matter of months Barberton became the most populous, and probably the rowdiest, town in the Transvaal. Before a church or a courthouse could be built, it had

three newspapers, two stock exchanges, ten hotels, two clubs and a public house on every street corner. Piet Meiring tells the stirring story of this colourful period in South Africa's history. Its characters ... Its dangers ... And its excitements ... And then finally the bubble burst - the diggers left for the Rand, one by one the music halls and public bars closed down, the barmaids packed up their finery and Barberton knew peace and quiet for the first time." £7.50 / R120

103. Pilgrim's Rest Museum (compilers): Pilgrim's Rest: Geskiedenis in Beeld (Pretoria: Transvaalse Provinsiale Biblioteek- en Museumdiens, 1981) 210 x 300 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. (ii) + 105; full-page contemporary photographs, with descriptive text to facing verso. Wrappers slightly rubbed and curled; earlier owner's bookplate to first blank; very occasional light foxing. Good to very good condition.

Afrikaans text. 'Goud is in 1873 deur Alec "Wheelbarrow" Patterson in die Pilgrim's Rest-vallei ontdek. Hy was 'n alleenloper-delwer wat met al sy besittings in 'n kruiwa die Oostelike Transvaal deurkruis het op soek na goud. Hierdie soektog is ryklik beloon deur sy ontdekking van spoelgoud in die rivier. Aangesien dit tot 'n stormloop na die gebied sou lei, het hy sy vonds geheim gehou en eers nadat William Trafford ook goud in die gebied ontdek het, is die nuus van die ontdekking wêreldkundig gemaak. Volgens 'n ou legende was Trafford so opgewonde oor sy vonds dat hy geskreeu het: "The Pilgrim is at rest!" Sy uitroep het deur die berge weerklink as "Pilgrim's rest ….. rest ….." en vandaar die naam Pilgrim's Rest.' £10.00 / R160

104. Ralls, Alice M., and Ruth E. Gordon: Daughter of Yesterday. A Pioneer

Child Looks Back at Early Johannesburg (Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1975) 8vo; original orange boards, lettered in white on spine; pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pp. 69; contemporary photograph; line drawings. Dustwrapper a bit rubbed and edgeworn; a little foxing to endpapers and edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition.

"Mrs Ralls, a 90 year old lady who remembers Paul Kruger and Jameson's arrival in Johannesburg, has written a book that captures the flavour and zest of early Johannesburg in the way that only a simple unadorned account can do. The book was originally printed privately for her family but it evoked so much praise that it has been decided to offer it to a wider market." £10.00 / R160

105. Struben, Charles: Vein of Gold (Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, 1957) 8vo; original blue leatherette, lettered in gilt on spine, and with gilt publisher's device to upper cover; tinted top edge; pp. 190, incl. index; frontis. portrait; plates. Earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper; endpapers slightly foxed. Very good condition. Charles Frederick William Struben (1877-1958) was the son of Harry Struben. He was educated at the Diocesan College, Rondebosch, at Clifton College, Bristol, and at University College Oxford, where he studied law, captained the university rugby team and was president of the athletics club. Returning to South Africa, he practiced law, was elected to the Cape House of Assembly as the member for Wynberg. During the First World War, he served with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in the Mediterranean, and received an O.B.E. Following the war and his return to South Africa, he left the legal profession for commerce, remaining active in political affairs. Before publication in book form, his memoirs appeared in a mimeographed version in 1953. £10.00 / R160

106. Struben, Roy: Taken at the Flood. The Story of Harry Struben

(Johannesburg: Longmans, 1968) 8vo; original pale pictorial boards; pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. (x) + 260; plates. Dustwrapper very slightly edgeworn, with earlier owner's tape repair to reverse of spine at head; occasional fox spot. Very good condition.

"He believed firmly that the territory which he travelled contained mineral wealth of incalculable value. He was among the early diamond seekers in Kimberley, and also located deposits of copper and iron near Pretoria. With the assistance of his younger brother, Fred Struben, he found the Confidence gold reef, and subsequent geological evaluation and prospecting by the two brothers resulted in the discovery of the vast goldfields which have contributed so enormously to the healthy well-being of modern industrial South

Africa." £7.50 / R120 107. Zeederberg, Harry (author), and Abe Berry (illustrator):

Golden Days (Johannesburg: Van Riebeeck Publishers, [ca 1972]) 253 x 203 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. (i) + 71; contemporary photographs; facsimiles; cartoon drawings; street plans. Cover a bit tanned and worn, with light insect scarring to lower cover; a little foxing. Good condition. Stories of early Johannesburg. £6.50 / R104

TRAVEL & VOYAGES 108. Dicey, William: Borderline (Cape Town: Kwela Books, 2004) Author's

signed presentation inscription on title page. 212 x 137 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 287; maps; monochrome illustrations in text. Very good condition.

"Below its confluence with the Vaal, the Orange River cuts through arid South Africa, carving a dramatic landscape from desert and rock. Here the river spawns a thin green line through the Karoo, the Kalahari, Bushmanland, Namaqualand and the Richtersveld. William Dicey and two friends canoe fourteen hundred kilometres through this stark, chiselled landscape. They are drawn into the lives of its inhabitants - the eccentrics they meet on their travels, as well as the historical figures who once populated the river's banks.

Their journey becomes a voyage into the past, into the wild frontier days of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Dicey tells the stories of people struggling to maintain their identity - the San, the Nama, the Griqua, the Basters, and the coloured people into whom they have merged. These are frontier people, people at the borderline of African and European tradition. Never predictable, Dicey juxtaposes present and past in a quirky mix that upsets our expectations; he asks questions about land, power, identity and race - questions that have no easy answers. An engaging adventure tale, Borderline is also an erudite reweaving of history, and a memorable portrait of a harsh and beautiful region." £7.50 / R120

109. Glyn, Patricia: Footing with Sir Richard's Ghost (Johannesburg: Sharp Sharp Media, 2006) 240 x 165 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 328, incl. index; profusely illustrated with evocative colour photographs and reproductions of period artwork. Earlier owner's bookplate to inside of upper cover. Near-fine condition. "In 1863, English gentlemen Sir Richard George Glyn and his

brother Robert came to Africa, lured to the continent by its big game and the astounding cascade that David Livingstone had recently 'discovered' and named the Victoria Falls. The brothers set off from Durban and, despite terrible trials, reached the Falls four and a half months later ... Richard kept a diary of their extraordinary odyssey, a journal that inspired his and Robert's great-great-grand niece, Patricia Glyn, to shadow their expedition in 2005. But unlike her ancestors, Patricia did the journey entirely on foot. Accompanied by her little African dog, Tapiwa, this remarkable woman walked nearly 2200 kilometres, following her forebears' route along the 19th-century wagon trails that once snaked along the great rivers of the subcontinent. ... Keeping strictly to the timetable set by Richard, she moved when his wagons moved, and stopped when they did - reaching the Falls on exactly the same day as her ancestors had, 142 years before her. This is the story of two brave adventures told through two illuminating, interwoven diaries." £7.50 / R120

110. Jones, Neville: Rhodesian Genesis. The Story of the Early Days of

Southern Rhodesia compiled from the Reminiscences of some of the Pioneers (Bulawayo: Rhodesia Pioneers' and Early Settlers' Society, 1953)

Crown 8vo; original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, and with gilt device of the 'Rhodesia Pioneers' and Early Settlers' Society' on upper cover; dustwrapper; pp. xiv + 162; plates; folding map. Dustwrapper somewhat sunned and spotted, with earlier owner's basic repairs to edges; head of spine a bit sunned; earlier owner's name signed on rear free endpaper; endpapers and edges a bit foxed, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good condition.

A history of the early occupation of Rhodesia, including recollections and pen portraits of the pioneers. £12.50 / R200

111. Klein, Harry: Land of the Silver Mist (Cape Town: Howard B. Timmins, no

date [ca 1952]) 8vo; original green boards, lettered in black on spine and upper cover; price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. 221; plates. Dustwrapper rather edgeworn, with tear to spine panel, and earlier owner's repairs; boards a bit rubbed, with wear to spine extremities; sporadic, moderate foxing; gift inscription to half-title. Good condition.

"Fired with a spirit of adventure and rebellion at being cooped between office walls the author threw up an assured future and set out to explore Southern Africa. His many adventures led him through Natal and Pondoland with an old Irish renegade as a companion, then on foot and horseback through Northern Transvaal, etc. He tells many hitherto unrecorded stories of the past that are an important contribution to the growing knowledge of the early days in Southern Africa. For the first time the story of

the discovery of the great Northern Rhodesian copper-fields is told, we read about the swashbuckling baron who tried to drive a wedge between the Cape and Natal - of the ocean waif whose riddle baffled writers for years - of the real-life Tarzan of the bushveld - the fascinating story of the Old Man of the Berg .... The title is taken from the silver mistland of the Drakensberg mountains, the romantic country of Rider Haggard and John Buchan, of Allan Quatermain and Prester John." £7.50 / R120

112. Macnab, Frances [Agnes Fraser]: On Veldt and Farm. In Bechuanaland -

Cape Colony - the Transvaal - and Natal (London: Edward Arnold, 1897) Second edition. Crown 8vo; original red cloth, lettered in black on spine and upper cover; pp. viii + 320, incl. index; publisher's adverts.; folding map. Cloth darkened and a little bumped and worn; spine sunned; trace of creasing to map, with some archival tape repairs to marginal tears; hinges fragile; earlier owner's hand-stamp and penned date '31/1/1901' to half-title; faint outline of label (?) to upper cover; label remnant to front free endpaper.

(Mendelssohn I, p. 963; Hosken, p. 133) 'The work contains some chapters on agricultural matters at the Cape, and the author appears to have gained considerable knowledge respecting the farming industries of South Africa. In order to thoroughly understand the position of affairs in Bechuanaland, Miss Macnab went for an eight weeks' trek in an ox-waggon throughout the country, meeting all classes of inhabitants, and collecting information. She remarks on the wasted lives and aimless

existence of some of the up-country Boers, and observes, "I could not imagine what these people did with themselves all day .... By what right were people withholding education from these children, and bringing them up to run more wild than savages, to breed like animals, and to know even less of good and more of evil. Was this the freedom that these people loved?" Nevertheless, the author admits that "there is a good deal which is well worth having in 'the Queen of England's Dutch.' " There is an account of the journey through Bechuanaland, and articles on viticulture at the Cape, the fruit-growing and export trade, farming in the Transvaal, irrigation, forestry, and many other subjects.' - Mendelssohn £17.50 / R280

113. O'Brien, Conor: Across Three Oceans. A Colonial Voyage in the Yacht

"Saoirse" (London: Edward Arnold, 1927) Second impression. 8vo; original turquoise cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; endpaper map; pp. xi + (i) + 296 + 12; plates; maps and plans; some illustrations in text. A little stippling to cloth, and

light wear to extremities; light bump to fore-edge of lower board; moderate foxing throughout; gift inscription to title page. Good condition. The Saoirse, captained by the inimitable Conor O'Brien (1880-1952), Irish nationalist and maritime adventurer, became the first yacht to circumnavigate the world along a route incorporating the three great capes. The Saoirse was also the first vessel flying the colours of the Irish Free State to enter many of the world's ports. Here, the story of

the voyage is related in full detail. £25.00 / R400 114. Ruete, Emily: Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from

Zanzibar. An Autobiography by Emily Ruete, Born Salme, Princess of Oman and Zanzibar (Zanzibar: The Gallery Publications, 1998) 220 x 150 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. (iv) + 210; contemporary illustrations. Wrappers ever so slightly rubbed; name signed inside upper cover; purchase place and date penned to title page; merest trace of foxing to top edge.

Very good condition. "What she does provide are countless absorbing insights into everyday life in the harem and the palaces, at a time when Zanzibar was at the height of its influence and at the focal point of an astonishing network of activity, from the lucrative trade in slaves, ivory and cloves to the exploration of the African interior and the political intrigues which characterised the 'Scramble for Africa'. With an intuitive feel for the value of mystery that might be expected from a daughter of the harem, Salme leaves us in possession of stimulating new knowledge, yet wanting to know more." £8.50 / R136