The Royal Edinburgh Album of Cape Photographs
R20,000

The "Royal Edinburgh Album of Cape Photographs" is a collection of photographs taken in the Cape of Good Hope and published in 1869 by Rev. William Fitz-Harry Curtis. It was the first major photographic work dedicated to the Cape.

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The Boer on Commando 
R15,000

A commentary written after the Boer War by Raymond Maxwell M.D. 

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The White Lady of the Brandberg
R10,000

De Luxe Edition. Number 8 out of 100 hand made copies.
Signed by Abbé Henri Breuil, the author who was the artist.

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The South African Goldfields  
R6,000 

Sketch of the Mining and Other Resources of the Transvaal Republic 1894. 

This is a very rare booklet with foldout map of the Witwatersrand gold fields. Complete. Housed in a custom-made clamshell. (Chipped, torn at the corners etc). 

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The Story of a Lion Hunt 1922 
R4,500

First Edition by Arnold Wienholt  
Lion hunting along the Okavango River. 

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Tales by Sinclair Beiles 
R4,000

First Edition 1972
Six original woodcuts printed from the original blocks by Cecil Skotnes

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The Barren Tree in Blossom 1986 (Signed by Sinclair Beiles) 
R4,000 

A book of poems by Greek poet Dimitris Nikolitseas, translated into English by Amy Mims with a prologue by renowned South African Beat poet Sinclair Beiles. Signed, dated and inscribed by Sinclair Beiles. 

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Men, Mines and Animals in South Africa by Randolph Churchill
R2,500

Second edition; published in 1892 by Sampson Low, Marston & Company (London). 

Includes illustrations and fold-out map. 

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The Palace Collections of Egypt 1954 
R2,000 

Catalogue prepared by Sotheby & Co of the important and valuable collection of coins and medals.  
Ex Libris Africana dealer and collector Anthony Wiley and Reinhold Cassirer. 
 
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Wenning by Gregoire Boonzaier & I. Lippy Lipschitz (Signed) 
R1,250

Signed and dated by Gregoire Boonzaier. 
Published by Unie-Volkspers in Cape Town in 1949. 
Illustrated hardcover with 48 pages of text and 83 illustration plates. 

Written by Gregoire Boonzaier and Israel-Isaac “Lippy” Lipshitz, this extraordinary book tells the story of South African artist Pieter Willem Frederick Wenning. 

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