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Rare Books, Art, Maps & Décor

December 2024

 

Map of Cimbebas from Catembela to the Cape of Good Hope

https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/antique-maps/map-of-cimbebas-c1715

Hand coloured copperplate engraving by Louis Renard after Frederick de Wit’s 1680 sea chart. This sea chart is curiously ‘on it’s side’ because it was created before the convention of orientation maps to have North at the top of the page. Note too, the hedge betting of the cartographer who hints at the more pointed shape of Southern Africa. The rumb lines are for naval navigation.

Some minor tears. 620mm x 534mm unframed.

R20,000
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Antique Maps on the website.

 

Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa by Sir John Barrow

https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/books-on-africa/travels-into-the-interior-of-southern-africa-by-john-barrow-first-edition

1801 First Edition
With copperplate engraved map. Complete.
The 2 Vol illustrated version was published after this.

An account of travels into the interior of Southern Africa in the years 1797 and 1798 including cursory observations on the geology and geography of the southern part of that continent; the natural history of such objects as occurred in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms; and sketches of the physical and moral characters of the various tribes of inhabitants surrounding the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope

225mm x 283mm

R12,500
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Books on Africa on the website.

 


Three Letters from Maclear to Michell 1846

https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/documents/letters-from-maclear-to-charles-michell-1846

From Sir Thomas Maclear (Royal Observatory Cape Town) to Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Cornwallis (Collier) Michell, Suveyor General at the Cape.
Refers to “the gigantic engineering task you have grappled with.”
According to a note in Evans, page 45, Herschel persistently spelt Michell’s name wrong. It would appear that Maclear did too.

183mm x 225mm

R12,500
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Documents on the website.

 

The Imperial History of England
https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/books-rest-of-the-world/the-imperial-history-of-england-1809

1809
By Theophilus Camden

2 vols bound into one book. The first edition of this famous work came out in 1607. Copperplate engravings. Repairs. Not collated.

Very heavy, not recommended to post. 260mm x 380mm

R10,000
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Books on the Rest of the World on the website.

 

Art Book: Maud Sumner

https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/art/art-book-maud-sumner

By Charles Eglington.
Inscribed to the famous South African surgeon Dr Isidore Kaplan.
Together with various dedicated cards and exhibition catalogues.

272mm x 375mm.

R8,000
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Art Books on the website (after the artwork)

 

A Modernist Building, Johannesburg

https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/johannesburg/johannesburg-modernist-building

Hand-painted architect’s concept painting.
By P. Kent for the architect Herbert Porter. Dated 1963.

Laid down and some water damage.
52cm x 39cm excluding mountboard.

R6,000
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Johannesburg on the website

 

Anti Apartheid Poster by Horst Kleinschmidt

https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/posters/anti-apartheid-poster-by-horst-kleinschmidt-c1973

Issued by The Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society (SPRO-CAS), established in mid-1969 by the South African Council of Churches and the Christian Institute of Southern Africa.

The project was directed from 1969-1972 by Peter Randall, formerly the assistant director of the South African Institute of Race Relations and later the director of Ravan Press. Prominent South African activists and intellectuals involved in the study project or its successor project (SPRO-CAS 2), included Steve Biko, Richard Turner, Fr. Cosmas Desmond, Bennie Khoapa, Horst Kleinschmidt , and others.

601mm x 720mm framed

R4,500
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Posters on the website.

 

Rhodesian Soldier By Peter Badcock

https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/militaria/rhodesian-soldier-by-peter-badcock

No 60 out of an edition of 350 prints.

Peter Badcock was a Southern African, conceived in the Protectorate of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) and born in Pretoria in 1949. He grew up and was educated in the Colony of Southern Rhodesia, later Rhodesia before its transition to Zimbabwe. In 1978, Peter cut short a career in public relations and advertising to produce his first book, Shadows of War. By then a Territorial Officer in the Rhodesian Security Forces he followed this with Faces of War in 1980 before leaving Zimbabwe for South West Africa (Namibia), to write and draw his third book, Images of War, published in 1981.

Peter lived with his wife Toni in the mountainous Eastern Highlands of South Africa’s Free State. Peter died on 9th May, 2024, but Toni continues to keep his legacy alive by way of maintaining a gallery of original artwork, and the sale of his remaining limited edition books and prints.
508mm x 637mm unframed.

R3,500
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Militaria on the website.

 

Naauwkeurige Waarneemingen Ontrentde Seldsaamheeden En Uitwerkselen Der Natuur [Dutch] 1719

https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/natural-history/accurate-observations-from-unusual-effects-in-nature-1719

(Accurate Observations from Unusual Effects in Nature)
by N. de Vallemont
Published by John Du Vivie

Rebound, lacking original endpapers / half title & frontispiece.
Several copperplate engravings, not collated.
155mm x 195mm

R3,000
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Natural History on the website.

 

Antique Ship’s Storm Lantern

https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/decor/antique-ships-storm-lantern

Brass.
Oil lamp with original parts.
Height 330mm x 130mm x 105mm

R3,000
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Decor on the website

 

How I Killed the Tiger

https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/hunting/how-i-killed-the-tiger

By Lieut.-Colonel Frank Sheffield 1902
Second Edition. Inscribed by the author.
Binding repaired.

R3,000
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Hunting on the website

An African Tragedy

https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/first-editions/an-african-tragedy-c1928

By Rolfes Reginald Raymond Dhlomo (no date c.1928)

R. R. R. Dhlomo (born 1901, Siyamu, Natal [now in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa]—died 1971) was an African novelist, journalist, and editor who wrote in Zulu and English. His An African Tragedy (1928) was the first novel in English by a Zulu writer.

An African Tragedy, a novel about the corrosive effects of the city on a pair of lovers from the country, is a Christian fable of sin and forgiveness. Dhlomo’s major novels in Zulu—UNomalanga kaNdengezi (1934; “Nomalanga, Daughter of Ndengezi”) and Indlela yababi (1946; “The Way of the Wicked”)—paint portraits of Zulu life in Natal (now part of the KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa) and Johannesburg, respectively. Many of his other Zulu works are semibiographical accounts about members of the Zulu dynasty.

R2,000.
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First Editions on the website

 


For more information contact James
+27 (0) 79 779 4574
jamesfindlaycollectablebooks@gmail.com

The last day of December trading is 10 December 2024

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