The Discoveries of Angola and Mozambique 1824

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An account of the discoveries of the Portuguese in the interior of Angola and Mozambique : from original manuscripts : to which is added a note by the author on a geographical error of Mungo Park in his last journal into the interior of Africa

By Thomas Edward Bowdich (1791 – 1824)
1824
First Edition

R35,000

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Omukanda (Namibia interest) 

https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/books-on-africa/omukanda-1893 

1893  
First Edition 
By Dr. Martin Luther (Nothing to do with the protestant reformer). 
 
This book is printed in the dialect of the Ovakuanjama from Northern Ovamboland. 
 
R12,500 

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Notes on Travel in South Africa 

https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/books-on-africa/notes-on-travel-in-south-africa-1875 

1875 
First Edition. 
By Charles John Anderson (4 March 1827 in Norra Råda Värmland, Sweden – 9 July 1867 in Angola) a Swedish explorer, hunter and trader as well as an amateur naturalist and ornithologist. 

“Here’s Andersson’s Notes on Travel cease altogether, and henceforth it is only from his journal, which he kept regularly posted up until a few days of his death, that we have an account of further proceedings.”  
- Editor (Llewelyn Lloyd) 

R10,000 

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De Luxe Edition Limpopo by Walter Battiss 

https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/art/limpopo-by-walter-battiss 

 Published by Van Schaik 
1965 
Original numbered lithograph 4/100 and personalised inscription.  

R7,500 

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Paul Gauguin's Noanoa Voyage de Tahiti  

https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/art/paul-gauguins-noanoa-voyage-de-tahiti 

Standard edition 
1947 

Paul Gauguin's Noa Noa Voyage a Tahiti, reproduced by Syndicat de la Propriete Artistique. Gauguin travelled to Tahiti for the first time 1891 in search of paradisical escape from Europe and was greatly inspired by the experience; upon his return to Paris he began work on Noa Noa, a book of woodcuts and text which reflected his travels.  

R3,500 

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A Turn at the Wheel (signed) 
 
https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/sport/a-turn-at-the-wheel 

Signed by Stirling Moss 
1961 
First edition 
 
Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss (17 September 1929 – 12 April 2020) was a British racing driver and broadcaster, who competed in Formula One from 1951 to 1961. Widely regarded as one of the greatest drivers to never win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship, Moss won a record 212 official races across several motorsport disciplines, including 16 Formula One Grands Prix. In endurance racing, Moss won the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1954, as well as the Mille Miglia in 1955 with Mercedes. 

R3,500 

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Man & Beast in Eastern Ethiopia 
 
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From Observations made in British East Africa, Uganda and the Sudan 
By Sir J. Bland-Sutton F.R.C.S.Eng 1st Baronet (21 April 1855 – 20 December 1936) a British surgeon. 
1911 
First Edition 

The gilt-embossed wildebeest vignette has been bound in. 

R3,000 

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Elements of Astronomy 

https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/natural-history/elements-of-astronomy-1819 

By John Brinkley D.D F.R.S and M.R.I.A  

Archdeacon of Clogher and Andrews’ Proffessor of Astronomy in the University of Dublin 

1819 

Second Edition 

All 6 fold-out engravings present. 

R2,000 

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On the Mines  

https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/photography/david-goldblatt-on-the-mines 

 First Edition 
1973 
By David Goldblatt and Nadine Gordimer 

This book is divided into three parts. The Witwatersrand: a time and tailings, Shaftsinking and Mining Men. The first part is a collection of Goldblatt’s photographs accompanied by an essay by Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer. The second, photographs by Goldblatt with his description of the process of Shaftsinking. The third part is Goldblatt’s images of men on the mines.”I was drawn to photograph the mines not by any metaphor in which they might be seen but by their overwhelming presence in the life and landscape into which I grew. Photography offered both the justification and the medium for greatly extending experience and understandings begun in childhood.” From his interview with Jeffery Ladd – Time Magazine.  
 
R2,000 

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The Ebony Tower 

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By John Fowles 
Proof copy 
1974 

The Ebony Tower by John Fowles is a collection of five novellas and short stories with interlacing themes: The Ebony Tower, Eliduc, Poor Koko, The Enigma and The Cloud. 

R2,000. 

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WE ARE MOVING

James Findlay Collectable Books & Antique Maps is moving from Rand Club to The Cape Town Club.

Our Rand Club shop will be closed by the end of April 2025.

Please make an appointment to visit the
Gallery & Bookshop in the basement of Rand Club

In-store Only: 50% off selected books covering a variety of topics.

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+27 (0) 79 779 4574
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Saturday 15 March.

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