Eight Portraits
c.1850
After Frederick Timpson I’Ons (1802-1887)

Watercolours signed W.P.J.W (Possibly JW Wilkinson).
I’Ons was an art teacher based in Grahamstown and other places. These portraits are so like his style that I speculate that they are by one of his students. Housed in a custom-made clamshell box.

R20,000

A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force
Inscribed by General Allenby

First Edition 1919

This book contains two anonymous reports which were in fact written by T.E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). 56 coloured maps are present.
Housed in a custom-made slipcase.

R12,500

Ian Fleming’s Thunderball

First Edition 1961
Dust jacket price clipped. Slight offsetting to the prelims. Edges marked.

R8,000

The Effects of Cross and Self-Fertilization of Plants in the Vegetable Kingdom
By Charles Darwin

First edition 1876.
Adverts verso title page. Prelims foxed, hinges loose. Owners stamp on title page. Head and tail of spine chipped. General wear.

R7,500

With the Judeans in the Palestine Campaign
By JH Patterson

First Edition 1922.
Inscribed by author. Patterson is the author of the famous East African book ‘The Man Eaters of Tsavo’

R5,000

An Expedition of Discovery into the Interior of Africa
Through the Hitherto Undescribed Countries of the Great Namaquas, Boschmans, and Hill Damaras

By James Edward Alexander

First American edition 1838
Alexander Bay was named after this explorer.
This edition was printed without a map.
Two volumes.

R3,000

Pioneers & Sportsmen of South Africa 1760-1890
By Servaas D. le Roux

Published by the author 1939
All plates present.
Inscribed by Rhodesian pioneer Jack Carruthers who in 1891 incorporated the area around the Zimbabwe ruins forming the farm ‘Oatlands’. He pegged many mining claims.

R2,000

With Plumer in Matabeleland
An Account of the Operations of the Matabeleland Relief Force During the Rebellion of 1896
By Frank W Sykes

First edition 1897.
Binding repaired. New end papers. All plates present.
Map present.

R2,000

The Boer States
By A.H Keane

Published 1900. Map present.
Ex Libris Edward Philip Solomon, an attorney based in Johannesburg and a prominent member of the Reform Committee. Solomon was imprisoned in Pretoria in 1896 for his part in the Jameson Raid.

R1,500

The Grandest View on God’s Earth
Victoria Falls
By Jonathan Waters

Published 2023
Many explorers, hunters and adventurers came before the development of permanent European settlement around Victoria Falls 125 years ago. Travelling to the Falls has been driven by changes in access and each era of tourism - train, plane and automobile - was distinct. In the early days it was just the beauty of nature, casinos were sexy in the 60’s and 70’s, rafting was all the rage in the 80’s and 90’s, followed by other adventure sports. Global tourism trends have now shifted to the provision of fine food and beautiful lodgings in serene settings. This book provides a glimpse, through the highs and lows, of some of the people who built businesses and facilities geared to this tourist mecca.

R800

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