James, F L The Unknown Horn of Africa (second edition, 1890) 195 x 140 Copies of the important first edition, with includes a scientific appendix and colour plates, change hands for thousands of dollars. This shorter edition was published a year later and a few months after the author, a well-known adventurer, sportsman and natural scientist, was killed by an elephant on the West African coast. He was on another adventure on the opposite side of the subject of this book, the Horn of Africa, and he was then not yet forty. This version includes an obituary, written by two brothers. The olive-green cloth-boards, printed in black and pale-blue on the upper face and decorated in black with gilt lettering to the spine, are well preserved, with only light rubbing and bumping at the spine-joins and corners. The black endpapers are cracked but the hinges are undamaged. The book remains tightly bound. There is little left of the gilt on the top page edge. The contents - xx + 273 pp of b/w illustrated text, notes and index + tissue-guarded engraved signed portrait frontispiece, several inserted b/w plates, folding colour map at the back + 8 pp of publisher`s announcements - are complete, unmarked and undiscoloured. The tissue guard is foxed. This is a collectable copy. Very Good London and Liverpool George Philip & Son 1890 Click here to view further details and to bid
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Horsbrugh (Maj. B.) & Davies (Sgt. C.G.) THE GAME-BIRDS & WATER-FOWL OF SOUTH AFRICA 4to (250 x 195 mm) 159 pages, 67 colour plates by C.G. Finch-Davies, original quarter dark green morocco with light green cloth sides (the corners are lightly bumped), top edge gilt, bookplate on the front paste-down endpaper and a corresponding small stamp below the date on the title page. The text is foxed throughout. The 67 plates which are printed on coated paper are free of foxing on the printed side but there is some light foxing on the backs. Good London Witherby & Co. 1912 Click here to view further details and to bid
Marloth (Rudolph) THE FLORA OF SOUTH AFRICA 4to (295 x 215 mm) 4 volumes in 6 parts (volumes 2 & 3 each in two parts), 180 colour plates, many plain plates, and numerous text figures (figure 59 in volume 4 missing as usual), original green cloth, bookplates on the front paste-down endpapers and corresponding small stamps below the date on the title pages. The cloth is insect scarred – this is particularly bad on volumes 1 and 4, bindings of volumes 1 and 4 are loose with some plates detached, some occasional light foxing. Marloth was an analytical chemist by profession and soon after he arrived in Cape Town in 1883 he started a herbarium of South African plants. He was devoted to the search for rare flora and he went on botanical expeditions as far afield as the Karoo, the Free State, Botswana and Namibia. The originals of the colour plates were painted in Cape Town by artists such as Ester Smith and Ethel May Dixie and printed in Germany. See Woods, `Veld and Flora`, September 1976, pp.10-11. This article also discusses the missing figure 59 concluding that as the figure was sent out after publication to be inserted very few copies are found with the missing illustration. The errant illustration was reproduced in `Veld & Flora` in June 1986 accompanied by a note by R. Geary-Cooke and a photocopy of figure 59 has been included in the set we offer here. Of Florence Phillips Woods writes, `The production of this costly and magnificent work was made possible only by the bountiful generosity of Sir Lionel and Lady Phillips, who together bore the entire cost of printing and publication. At the outset Lady Phillips had asked Marloth if he could write a popular book on South African flora, but he made it clear that it would have to be scientific. It could be said that the final result was a happy combination of both aspects.` Fair Cape Town Darter Bros. & co. 1913 -1932 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lyell (Denis D.) THE AFRICAN ELEPHANT AND ITS HUNTERS 8vo (225 x 140 mm) 221 pages, frontispiece, 12 plates, original red cloth, gilt vignette of an elephant`s head on the upper cover, gilt titling on the spine, occasional light foxing and some soiling on the page edges, overall a good copy. Czech (Dr Kenneth) An annotated Bibliography of African Big Game hunting Books, 1785 to 1950, page 174, `This excellent book includes the author’s adventures hunting elephant in various parts of Rhodesia and Portuguese East Africa: `An elephant often screams when he comes for a hunter, but not always, for I have seen one come on without making a sound except with their feet as they rustled through the grass.` Of additional interest, are his chapters on early elephant hunters, recent (ca. early 20th century) hunters and even a passage on hunters killed by big game.` Good London Heath Cranton Limited 1924 Click here to view further details and to bid
Paterson (Lieutenant William) A NARRATIVE OF FOUR JOURNEYS INTO THE COUNTRY OF THE HOTTENTOTS, AND CAFFRARIA IN THE YEARS 1777, 1778, 1779 4to (305 x 245 mm) Illustrated with a map and nineteen copper-plates. The Second Edition, Corrected: xii,175, (i directions for placing of the plates) pages, 19 hand coloured engraved plates (15 of botanical subjects and 4 of Bushmen habitations, Hottentots, Horned Snake and Camelopardalis), folding map, old half calf rebacked preserving the backstrip and red title labels, marbled paper sides, small book label of a previous owner on the front paste-down endpaper, contained in a later slip case in brown cloth with a leather lip. The edges and corners are worn, light foxing on the plates, contents are clean and bright, a good copy unusual with the hand coloured plates. It is uncertain how many copies with hand coloured plates were issued. None of the originals of the engravings in the two editions of Paterson’s Four Journeys are in the collection in the Brenthurst Library so the colouring cannot be compared but the colouring in this copy is botanically accurate. Paterson, William (1755-1810), traveller and lieutenant-governor of New South Wales, was born on 17 Aug. 1755. He entered the army at an early age, but not before he had developed a strong liking for natural history, especially botany. The interest and patronage of Lady Strathmore enabled him to gratify these tastes, and before entering upon active service he had made a series of exploring expeditions in the Hottentot country. He left England early in 1777, arrived at Capetown in May, and on 16 Oct., in company with Captain Gordon, made his first expedition, returning to Cape Town on 13 Jan. 1778. His second expedition lasted from May to 20 Nov. 1778. His third was into the district which he called Caffraria, and claimed as hitherto unknown, and it lasted from 23 Dec. 1778 to 23 March 1779. His fourth journey occupied him from 18 June to 21 Dec. the same year. He made several fresh contributions to science, and is credited with having brought to England the first giraffe-skin ever seen there. The French traveller Le Vaillant several times refers to his researches in high terms. Paterson published `A Narrative of Four Journeys into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffraria in the years 1777–8–9,` London, 1789, 4to. A second corrected edition and a French translation appeared in 1790. His botanical collections are in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paterson,_William_(1755-1810)_(DNB00) Mendelssohn (S.) South African Bibliography, volume 2, pages143-4, `Mr Paterson accompanied Colonel Gordon (Commander of the Troops of the Dutch East India Company in South Africa) and Jacob van Reenan in several trips to the interior. He remarked that he does not give a description of the Cape as he would be only repeating what Sparrman and Masson had already communicated in their publications. In the course of his travels the author penetrated as far as Namaqualand on the west, and the Great Fish River on the south-east. Although the principal feature of the work is the description of the botanical specimens collected and noted by Mr. Paterson, there are many interesting notes respecting the natives, with a few remarks on the Dutch Colonists.` Good London Printed for John Johnson 1790 Click here to view further details and to bid
Cape Town Gazette –Kaapstads Kourant: THE CAPE TOWN GAZETTE, AND AFRICAN ADVERTISER (1818/9) Folio (445 x 270 mm) KAAPSTADS KOURANT EN AFRIKAANSCHE BERIGTER. Volumes XIII & XIV, Saturday, January 3, 1818, no. 625 – Saturday, December 25, 1819, No. 728. 104 issues, approximately 678 pages, bound in contemporary half leather with marbled paper sides. Both the leather and paper are worn and rubbed, some light foxing but overall the contents are very good. Bookplate of F.W. Hosken on the front paste-down endpaper. The Government Gazette was the principal organ of communication of the Cape Government. It included subsidiary legislation (proclamations and Government notices in terms of acts), bills, acts, advertisements, tenders, shipping, divorces, births, deaths, insolvencies, etc. Very good Cape of Good Hope Printed at the Government Press 1818-1819 Click here to view further details and to bid
Government draughtsmen Transvaal Ordinances 1905 and 1906; Wetten van de Transvaal 1909 245 x 165; weight 2.7 kg The volumes in this small selection of ordinances of the Transvaal under colonial government - the English version for two years and the Dutch version for the last of the chosen years - are not uniformly bound, the first being full-bound in brown pebbled cloth and the others being half-bound in tan calf and brown pebbled cloth. The first has rubbed black lettering on a cream paper panel, while the other two have gilt lettering on red leather panels - one torn at the head and the other torn for half its length. The volumes are ex-library. The endpapers of one volume are cracked. Otherwise the contents of all three volumes are attractively designed, well printed, sound, unmarked and undiscoloured. An average of 37 Acts a year saw the light in the first decade of the previous century, while two of the private ordinances in this selection established a constitution and rules for attorneys and architects. Good+ Pretoria Transvaal Government 1905-1909 Click here to view further details and to bid
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Various Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek. Staats-Coerant [Gazette]. 1896 (1) 370 x 250; weight 3.5 kg The half-bound leather and heavy green cloth-boards of this large volume are rubbed and the corners are frayed. The book covers the first six months of 1896. It remains tightly bound, although there is a binding crack between the second-last and last sections. The book is unmarked except for two different library stamps. The endpapers are lightly foxed and there is light sunning towards many of the page edges. A feature of these gazettes in their many large fold-out schedules - monthly for import commodities and values and gold production, as well as less frequent tables for, for example, revised telegraph and postal rates. Most of these are intact, but a few are present but torn or loose. Other regular features are ward-lists of all burghers entitled to vote and trading licences issued, with a large number of these being awarded to persons with recognisably Indian names. Good+ Pretoria Transvaal Government 1896 Click here to view further details and to bid
Van der Hoogt, C. W. + White, Montagu The Story of the Boers 184mm x 122mm `The Story of the Boers Narrated by Their Own Leaders Prepared Under the Authority of the South African Republics.`Montagu White wrote the first chapter: `The Policy of Mediation`.Original wrappers (paperback). ix prelims, 285 pages, 4 black and white portraits and a folded piece of sheet music inserted at the rear - `Het Transvaalsche Volkslied`.CONDITION DETAILS: See image provided of the `Free Library` sticker. The spine has a mark where a library sticker was removed. The binding is fragile and worn, but still intact. The book is still reasonably clean internally, with light page edge creases. Ex-library New York Harper & Brothers 1900 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lindop (Barbara) Lot of 2 - SONG FOR SEKOTO (Inscribed by author) plus THE BLUE HEADS ( A separate CD featuring the music of Gerard Sekoto.) 297mm x 210mm x 11mm 159pp. Matt laminated pictorial softcover. Richly illustrated in colour throughout. Inscribed by author. Some light scuffing to covers, otherwise fine throughout This publication accompanied `Song for Sekoto` 1913 - 2013, an exhibition at Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, held 25 April - 2 June 2013. Included in this Lot is the CD `The Blue Heads`, featuring the music of Gerard Sekoto. Very good Craighall The Gerard Sekoto Foundation 2013 Click here to view further details and to bid
PEASE Alfred E Private Memoir of Sir Thomas Fowler 21 cm by 13 cm Fowler born August 12 1868 killed in action April 20 1902. iii and 194 pages. 17 maps and illustrations. Publisher`s light blue cloth. Please note postage will be added at $15 (UK), $20 (EEC) or $30 (worldwide) Including many of the Boer War letters of this officer of the Wiltshire Yeomanry contingent. good London privately printed 1906 Click here to view further details and to bid
Ian Fleming (& Others) IAN FLEMING LOT - 5 BOOKS 8vo. Comprising: 1. Fleming. The Diamond Smugglers. 1st. Edition. 1957. The scarce second issue variant with gilt lettering on the spine which is much scarcer than the white lettering variant. An about very good copy which has some mild foxing of the endpapers and a few spots internally. There is also a fairly large transverse inscription on the medial side of the front pastedown. The dw. is very good plus complete and not price-clipped and has a slight crease of the rear flap. It has only light fading of the spine. 2. Fleming. Thrilling Cities. 1963. Small neat inscription on the verso of the ffep. otherwise a very clean fine copy. In a very good plus price-clipped dw. which has some light markings but is otherwise complete and notably has a bright pink unfaded spine which is uncommon in this title. 3. Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica. Deutsch. 1965. Some evidence of a ? name erasure from the ffep. otherwise a clean near fine copy. In a very good plus dw. which is not price-clipped and and has some light edge wear but no chipping. 4. The Education of a Poker Player by Herbert O. Yardley. First thus with a 3pp. introduction by Fleming. A very good plus unmarked copy in 1/4 cloth and patterned boards. In a very good minus dw. which has considerable wear and some chipping and tears. (See scan). 5. All Night at Mr. Stanyhurst`s by Hugh Edwards. 1963. First thus with 14pp. introduction by Fleming. Bookseller`s small label on front pastedown otherwise about fine. In a very good dw. which has some signs of use notably two approximately 1cm. tears of the inner aspect of the front flap not visible externally. Very Good London Jonathan Cape & Deutsch 1957-1965 Click here to view further details and to bid
Cape Town: CAPE TOWN AND THE PICTURESQUE PENINSULA. Oblong 4to (245 x 230 mm) 36 pages of sepia-toned full-page and other photographs of Cape Town and the peninsula, 3pages of commercial advertisements and others on the inside covers, some of the photographs are attributed to photographers such as Arthur Elliott (including a series of interior views of Groote Schuur house), T.D. Ravenscroft and E.J. Steer, the centre double-page spread is a fine panorama of Table Mountain with the city laid out before it, bound in decorated brown card covers with a photograph of yachts in Table Bay tipped onto the upper cover, the full-page advertisements include The Caledon Baths, Garlick’s Store, Civil Service Stores of S.A. Ltd. and Jones’ Rheumaticuro, The Great South African Remedy. Stapled binding, the covers are slightly rubbed, soiling in the centre margins of the large panorama. A South African Bibliography, volume 1, page 463, describes a first issue with hard yellow covers but does not include this issue in the light card wrappers. No publication date is given but the South African Library accession date in 9.11.1911 Good Cape Town & Johannesburg The Cape Times Ltd No date (1911) Click here to view further details and to bid
Sachs (Joseph) IRMA STERN AND THE SPIRIT OF AFRICA 8vo (205 140 mm) 63 pages, 63 pages of text + 11 black & white plates, 3 illustrations in the text, grey cloth back, oatmeal paper sides, light foxing on the endpapers and half title page, a good copy. Good Pretoria J.L. van Schaik, Ltd., Publishers 1942 Click here to view further details and to bid
Gibbs, Peter The Bulawayo Club - A History 8vo A history of those who were especially pertinent to the Club`s history - the founders, the chairmen, the secretaries, and those members who have been concerned with occasions which affect a particular part of the story. Memories of T.H.Cooke were especially valuable to the author in putting together this book; 125pp. plus lists of chairmen, secretaries, life members, guests, and an index. Condition: pale blue cloth boards very good, contents clean and binding tight; f.f.e.p. has been removed, otherwise a very good copy. The dust-jacket is in very good condition, with more wear at the top edge and rubbing/light marking. good Bulawayo The Bulawayo Club 1970 Click here to view further details and to bid
Dougherty, Martin Small Arms from 1860 To The Present Day 4to From classic US Civil War rifles such as the Springfield M1855 to the latest in personal defence weapons and hand-held rocket launchers, Small Arms covers all of the most significant and successful small arms produced during the past 150 years; 224pp. illustrated in full colour. Condition: book: near fine, jacket: very good with light edge creasing and one small closed tear. very good London Amber Books 2010 Click here to view further details and to bid
Boyden, Peter `Ashes and Blood` - The British Army In South Africa 1795-1914 4to The NAM`s Collections of Boer War material are probably the most extensive in the United Kingdom, if not the world, and as the museum of the British Army it is a natural setting for such a display. The editors have been concerned to place the events of October 1899 to May 1902 into a wider context, and extend the scope of the Special Exhibition from the first British occupation of the Cape in 1795 to the departure of the Imperial garrison in 1914 to participate in the First World War. This has provided an opportunity to display, in many cases for the first time, a selection from the Museum`s Study Collections relating to the pre-1899 history of the British Army in southern Africa, while also exploring some of the effects of the Boer War in the dozen years until the outbreak of the First World War; 528pp., including an outline chronology of The British Army in South Africa 1795-1914, a list of contributors, and index. Profusely illustrated and with never-before-seen photographs, documents, personal accounts of the war, as well as medals, memorabilia and other artefacts. Condition: softcover in excellent condition, perfectly clean with only a craese along the spine and very light edge wear. near London National Army Museum 1999 Click here to view further details and to bid
various Rhodesian History - The Journal of the Central Africa Historical Association - Vols. 1-12 complete set 8vo A superb complete set of the scarce journals of The Central Africa Historical Association, with Volume One commencing with articles such as `The Early Years Of The British South Africa Company`, `The Zimbabwe Ruins Re-examined`, `The Tete Agreement`, and Volume Twelve (retitled `Zimbabwean History`) containing articles on `Hlengweni: The Story of the Lower Save and Lundi Rivers, from the late Eighteenth to the mid Twentieth-Century`, `The Jewish Community In Zimbabwe` and `Towards A History of Zimbabwe`s Railways`, etc... Condition: This set is in excellent condition with no inscriptions, and all volumes are still clean and crisp, with the exception of vols.10 & 12 which have light wear and a little creasing to their rear covers. excellent Salisbury The Central Africa Historical Association 1970-1981 Click here to view further details and to bid
Mandela (Nelson) FREE SOUTH AFRICA. OFFICIAL SOUVENIR PROGRAMME (Signed by Nelson Mandela) 4to (300 x 330 mm) An International Tribute, Wembley Stadium, April 16, 1990. Nelson Mandela will attend and speak. 100 pages including the covers, illustrated in colour throughout, light card covers, signed by Mr Mandela on the upper cover in gold ink, the signature is dated 14.5.96 Included are messages from Mr Mandela, Archbishop Trevor Huddleston and Oliver Tambo. Artists who played at the concert include: Lennie Henry, Dave Stewart, Soul II Soul, Stanley Clarke, Neil Young, Miriam Makeba, Tracy Chapman, Natalie Cole, Hugh Masekela and Abdullah Ibrahim. Very good London Concessions International 1990 Click here to view further details and to bid
Early Cape Printing: NOTICE OF GOVERNOR’S PERMISSION TO PUBLISH THE CAPE TOWN GAZETTE (1800) 245 175 mm The Governor, His Excellency Sir George Yonge, Knight of the Bath, Etc., Etc. His Excellency has been pleased to grant Permission for the Printing and Publishing a Weekly Newspaper, in the English and Dutch Languages, under the Title of CAPE TOWN GAZETTE, AND AFRICAN ADVERTISER. N.B. The First Number will be ready for delivery on Saturday, the 16th Instant. Cape Town, 1st August, 1800 Two single sheets, 245 x 175 mm, one in English and the other in Dutch, printed on both sides. The two leaves bound into full light blue leather with gilt titling on the upper cover. These Notices are amongst the earliest examples of printing at the Cape. Prior to the first British occupation of the Cape in 1795 printing at the Cape had been prevented by the Dutch East India Company which employed clerks to copy official documents. On 21st July 1800 Sir George Yonge granted Messrs. Walker & Robertson permission to set up a printing press to be known as the Government Printing Office, No.35 Plein Street, and this was followed by the notice to publish the Cape Town Gazette. Prior to these notices only fragments of printing are known. Laidler in his The Pre-Victorian Products of the Cape Press 1796 – 1837 (Johannesburg 1935) lists it as the sixth item. The first issue of the Cape Town Gazette – Kaapsche Stads Courant appeared on 16th August 1800. See also: Smith (A.H.) The Spread of Printing, South Africa, Amsterdam 1971. Very good cape Town Click here to view further details and to bid
Elliott (Arthur) SOUTH AFRICA THROUGH THE CENTURIES Small 4to (255 x 185 mm) Told in a Series of 1,100 Photographs by Arthur Elliott. With descriptive notes by W.R. Morrison. 78 pages, 8 plates including a portrait of Arthur Elliott, original printed light blue card covers bound into full brown leather, titled gilt on the upper cover. 4 newspaper articles relating to an exhibition of Colonial Antiquities which took place at the City Hall in January 1908 are mounted on linen and loosely inserted in a pocket in the back cover. This is the catalogue of an exhibition of Elliott’s photographs which took place in Cape Town in 1930. It was one of a series which he mounted between 1910 and 1938, the year of his death. He specialised in historical photographs often taking images of old paintings, drawings and maps. He now better known for his architectural photographs of Cape Town and the historic buildings of the Western Cape. Prints of the photographs could be purchased at the exhibition and for an additional fee could be coloured by hand. The collection of his negatives, mostly on glass, is housed in the Western Cape Archives. Very good Cape Town Maskew Miller Limited 1930 Click here to view further details and to bid
Jabavu (D.D.T.) THE LIFE OF JOHN TENGO JABAVU, EDITOR O IMVO ZABANTSUNGU, 1884-1921 8vo (200 x 140 mm) 156 pages, frontispiece portrait, 9 plates, original green printed card covers bound into recent half blue leather with blue cloth sides, some light foxing but overall a very good copy. http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/john-tengo-jabavu: `John Tengo Jabavu (1859-1921) Founder of the first Bantu-language newspaper in South Africa, political leader in the Cape and educator.` very good Printed by the Lovedale Institution Press No date (Preface 1922) Click here to view further details and to bid
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[Smedley (Constance)] WOMAN: A FEW SCHRIEKS! (Olive Schreiner’s copy heavily annotated in her hand) Small 8vo (170 x 110 mm) Setting Forth the Necessity of Shrieking till Shrieks be Heard, by X. With an Appendix by Mrs Philip Snowden. This book is offered to those women on the fighting line who have had the courage to face ridicule, and the wit to turn the laugh upon their enemies by their indifference to derision. 142 pages, bound into recent full red leather gilt, preserving the original grey printed card cover (the author’s name appears on the cover but not on the title page) signed by Olive Schriener at the top, some light foxing. Almost every page bears ink underlining and annotations by Schriener. Constance Smedley (1881-1941) author, illustrator and campaigner for women`s rights. She published this feminist tract, Woman: A Few Shrieks, under the pseudonym ‘X’ in 1907. It evidently caught Olive Shcreiner`s attention. She writes in an letter dated 1907, `I shall be down with my husband about the 21st & will let you know where we are staying. I fancy it will be the Royal in Plein Street. Have you read a most splendid thing called `Woman, a few shrieks` by a Miss Smedley. The humour is grand.` (Olive Schreiner Letters Online - http://www.oliveschreiner.org/vre?view=collections&colid=113&letterid=17). Good Letchworth, Herts. Published by the Garden City Press, Ltd. No date (1907) Click here to view further details and to bid
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[Van Riebeeck] JOURNAL OF JAN VAN RIEBEECK "8vo (255 x 185 mm) " Edited and with an Introduction and Footnotes by H.B. Thom. 3 volumes, 395 + 406 + 531 pages, frontispiece portrait, maps & illustrations in each volume, red cloth gilt with some light insect scarring which is heaviest along the spine of volume 2, a good set. Good Cape Town For the Van Riebeeck Society, published by A.A. Balkema 1952 – 1958 Click here to view further details and to bid
Generaal Manie Maritz My lewe en strewe Though indicated on the dust jacket that the publication date is 1938, this book was only published and released early 1939. A very neat copy in the original light red boards and dust jacket. Name of previous owner in front as well on dust jacket. 263 pages. 27 Chapters wherein he describes his life before, during and after the Anglo-Boer War, as well as his flight through Africa to Europe after the Rebellion of 1914. Salomon Gerhardus (Manie) Maritz (1876 - 1940), `Boer general and rebel leader of 1914, was a descendant of the Voortrekker leader Gerrit Maritz … Maritz became an admirer of Nazism. He joined the Greyshirt movement in the Union, but resigned in 1934 to form the South African National Democratic movement. He was farming in South-West Africa at the time, but paid frequent visits to the Union to make speeches attacking the Jews and Freemasonry. In August 1939 he was charged in the high court, Windhoek, with engendering racial hostility in South-West Africa by the distribution of his book, My lewe en strewe (Pretoria, 1939). On 34 August he was found guilty, the presiding judge stating that the book had been `… written with the deliberate object of encouraging bad feelings towards the Jewish race`. … Maritz was short, stocky, broad-shouldered and dark-complexioned. In his prime he was endowed with exceptional physical strength about which many striking anecdotes were recorded by his contemporaries. His courage, energy and ruthlessness made him a formidable opponent in the field. In civilian life his impetuosity, restlessness and lack of business acumen precipitated a series of financial setbacks. He undoubtedly had a personal magnetism, but his arrogance, violent temper and pathological racial prejudices made him many enemies and often alienated his friends.` (Dictionary of South African Biography, Vol. I., pp. 513-515) Very good Click here to view further details and to bid
Cleghorn and Harris: A JOURNAL OF FASHIONS, For the Summer Season, 1902-3 Small folio (375 x 250 mm) 142 pages, profusely illustrated throughout, pictorial green light card covers, stapled binding. The spine is frayed and the covers are a little dull, bottom corners turned, the last page which was an order form with a perforation is missing, a Gents’ Self-Measurement Form has been detached but is still present. Good Adderley Street, Cape Town Cleghorn and Harris 1902 Click here to view further details and to bid
A George V silver topped and glass matched travelling set comprising five dressing table pots, two silver backed clothes brushes, a silver backed hair brush, a silver handled shoe horn, a silver handled button hook, leather covered notepad, mirror, ink pot and light pot, contained within a green leather suitcase with cloth covering, London, 1911, and Chester 1911, together with a cased set of silver tea spoons and sugar nips with pierced shamrocks
Five pieces of Mauchline ware, comprising; a photograph album (Cathedral Glasgow/New University), 12.5cm, a large rectangular hinged lid box (Bournemouth Pier/Westover Walks/Bournemouth From The Pier/St. Peter`s Church), light scratches, 17.2cm, a tumbler case with fern etched glass (Hastings Pier), 10cm, a notebook (Bridge at Bettws-y-Coed/The Miners Bridge), 8.3cm, and a rectangular money box (Princess Elizabeth`s Tomb, St. Thomas` Church, Newport, Isle of Wight), 7.7cm. (5)
Eight pieces of Mauchline and other ware, comprising; three black ground floral napkin rings, a pair of glove stretchers (Corbier Lighthouse, Jersey), 18cm, a cylinder form box (Interior of Burns` Cottage/Bought in Â…/verse), 14cm, a cylinder box in alternate light and dark (Laxey Wheel), 8.5cm, a rectangular box, the sides and top with flowers and greeting, 7.5cm x 5cm, and a snuff box in papier-mâché, the lid with a river scene and church (continental), 8.4cm x 5.5cm. (8)
Twelve pieces of treen, comprising; a cased hone, a rectangular wooden snuff box in burr, 7cm, a boxwood light bulb case, a shoe form page cutter, a razor strop, a papier-mâché spectacle case, a rosewood cylinder counter box with Tunbridge mosaic top, a miniature Italian photograph frame, a brush, two miniature egg cups, and a bone and vegetable ivory combination needlecase/tape measure, 10.5cm. (12)
Sixteen pieces of treen, comprising; a barrel form box containing a glass tumbler, 10cm, an olive wood page cutter, 30cm, another of shoe form painted with a swallow and inscribed ""Meran"", another in Sorrento ware, a pair of ""Pall Mall"" whist markers, 9.2cm, six Sorrento ware napkin rings, a turned lignum vitae and bone mounted light switch, and three other pieces. (16)
Twelve wooden silk winders, two in olivewood, one with inlaid swallow, inscribed ""Je Reviendrai"", 4.5cm and 5.2cm, an elaborate wooden example inscribed in ink ""Sarah, Beech From Levens"", 6.2cm, another with carved inscription ""Handeck 1851"", 5.4cm, a set of three in alternate light and dark woods of star form, 4.7cm and five various, largest 6.5cm. (12)
A mixed lot, comprising; a black leather hussif with ivory tools, including a glove darner, 15.5cm closed, a leather thimble/scissor case, an alternate light and dark wood knitting needle cylinder, 22cm, two similar darners and others, wooden needle cylinders, a black and gilt lacquer reel box, and other pieces, together with glove stretchers, including two in ivory. (qty)
An Ercol light elm and beechwood cottage drop leaf kitchen table raised on splayed square tapered column supports together with a pair of further light Ercol hoop and stick back elbow chairs, and Ercol dark stained elm side cupboard enclosed by a pair of panelled doors over a frieze drawer and turned supports united by stretchers, a single chair and plate rack
A contemporary light oak floorstanding side cabinet, the upper section with moulded cornice and canted corners over a pair of three quarter length glazed panelled doors with central rod locking mechanism, the lower section with two brushing slides over a pair of panelled doors set on a moulded plinth
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