A Complete History of Drugs
R40,000

A curious work of exoticism reflecting 18th century knowledge and fancy; for instance that Amber is produced in the earth, that Ambergris is a form of beeswax and that there exist only 7 metals. Sandra Sherman argues that “although the History was concerned with offering useful medical information, natural history allied with exotic drugs was also a selling point”. Many of the entries have little to do with medicine, offering delightful accounts of how certain substances are grown and collected and even, in the entry on medicinal ivory, how dragons destroy elephants.

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23 Painting of Orchids from Around the World
R30,000

Pencil & watercolour.
No provenance other than a monogram on painting 10 “NC”.

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Bushman Paintings Copied by M.Helen Tongue  
R12,500

The text consists of a 10 page preface by Henry Balfour, 20 pages of introduction by Tongue. Notes on the Bushmen by E. & D. Bleek and a list of the plates.

The plates being 54 loose numbered reproductions of the tracings made by Tongue.

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Authentic Records of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope 
R12,500

An Inquiry into the Justice and Expediency of Completing the Publication of the Authentic Records of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope relative to the Aboriginal Tribes.

By Donald Moodie (First Edition, 1841)

Rebound in modern half morocco leather and marbled end boards.

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Eyewitness Account of the Siege of Mafeking 
R12,500

Manuscript covering the period 13 October 1899 - 17 May 1900.
By an unknown hand.

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African Game Trails
R5,000

In March 1909, the ex-president left for the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition. Roosevelt's party landed in Mombasa in East Africa and traveled to the Belgian Congo before following the Nile River to Khartoum in modern Sudan. Well-financed by Andrew Carnegie and by his own writings, Roosevelt's party hunted for specimens for the Smithsonian Institution and American Museum of Natural History.

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Een Drievoudig Snoer (Inscribed)

By Andrew Murray (9 May 1828 – 18 January 1917) a South African writer, teacher and Christian pastor. Murray considered missions to be "the chief end of the church".

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R2,500

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Kruger Days: Reminiscences of Dr W.J. Leyds 
R2,000

By Kees van Hoek (1939) Inscribed by W.J Leyds “With Dr Leyds’s compliments”

Willem Johannes Leyds (1 May 1859 – 14 May 1940) was a Dutch lawyer and statesman who served as state attorney and state secretary of the South African Republic. From 1898 to 1902, during the crucial period of the Second Boer War, he was the Republic's special envoy and minister plenipotentiary in Brussels, accredited to several European states.

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Something Out There 
R1,500

By Nadine Gordimer (1984) Uncorrected Proof.

A short story collection by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer. Published by Jonathan Cape.

It consists of 9 short stories and one long novella, "Something Out There."

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Transvaal Problems: Some Notes on the Current Politics 
R1,500

By Sir Lionel Phillips 1905.
Ex Libris mining magnate and Rand Lord Sir Otto Beit.

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