Haydock’s Douay (Catholic) Bible 1845
R10,000

By George Leo Haydock (1774–1849) a priest, pastor and Bible scholar from an ancient English Catholic Recusant family. His edition of the Douay Bible with extended commentary, originally published in 1811, became the most popular English Catholic Bible of the 19th century on both sides of the Atlantic.

Ex Libris Thomas Grimley (1821–1871) Irish-born priest and educator who served as Bishop of Cape Town, South Africa.

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A Narrative of a Visit to the Mauritius and South Africa 1844
R7,500

First Edition
By James Backhouse

Mendelssohn 1:62. “The book is in the form of a diary and the author seems to have traversed every part of South Africa where there was a mission station or a missionary. In this way he appears to have met every prominent man connected with mission work in South Africa at this time.”

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History of the 1st Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders 1883
R7,500

First Edition
Zulu war interest (pg 52-56)
Page 36 references the sinking of the Birkenhead.

The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) is a light infantry company (designated as Balaklava Company, 5th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland) and was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that existed from 1881 until amalgamation into the Royal Regiment of Scotland on 28 March 2006.

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Harmsworth Atlas & Gazetteer c.1907 
R6,500 

500 maps and diagrams in colour with commercial statistics and gazetteer index of 105,000 names.

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Childrens' Theatricals 1879
R5,000

Being a Series of Popular Fairy Tales Adapted for representation in the drawing room. Written by J.Keith Angus.
Published by George Routledge and Sons, London.

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South African Land and Freshwater Mollusks (German) 1898 
R5,000

By Rudolf Sturany (1867 - 1935) an Austrian zoologist who specialized in the field of malacology, the study of mollusks.

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Voyages Aeriens 1870  
R3,750

By J. Glaisher (English meteorologist, aeronaut and astronomer), Camille Flammarion (French astronomer and author), W. de Fonvielle (French science writer and balloonist) and Gaston Tissandier (French chemist, meteorologist, aviator, and editor).
Published by Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, Paris.

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Li Fiho d'Avignoun / Les Filles D’Avignon1885  
R3,000 

Théodore Aubanel (1829 – 1886) félibre poet.

Li Fiho d'Avignoun is Aubanel's second collection, which brings together "mature" poems (in particular La Vénus d'Arles ). First published by private subscription only, the book was immediately condemned by the archbishop, with orders to stop distribution and to burn the seized copies.

Inscribed to Uys Krige from Mary and Roy Campbell.

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Samesprake in Afrikaans en Engels 1897
R3,000 

This book, 'Conversations in Afrikaans' is a very rare, printed example of the evolution of the Afrikaans language. Afrikaans only became an official language in 1925.

Published by D.F Du Toit & Co, Paarl.
 
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Dreams by Olive Schreiner 1917
R3,000 

(First Edition 1890)
Published by Thomas Bird Mosher
Limited to 450 copies.

Olive Schreiner (1855 – 1920) was a South African author, anti-war campaigner and intellectual.

Thomas Bird Mosher (1852–1923) was an American publisher out of Portland, Maine. He is notable for his contributions to the private press movement in the United States.

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The Group Areas Act Ex Libris Helen Suzman
R1,500

1953
By Judge V.G Hiemstra (1914-2006)
Ex Libris / signed by anti-apartheid activist and politician Helen Suzman.

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