Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa 1840
R225,000.

First Edition, Second State (there isn’t a list of subscribers)
By Captain William Cornwallis Harris

This huge work was considered by Mendelssohn “One of the most important and valuable of the large folio works on South African fauna”. Each chapter has a detailed description of the animal illustrated in the accompanying plate.

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Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
R25,000.

1844
First edition (in book form).
Published by Chapman and Hall, London.
Half leather in original binding.
Like nearly all of Dickens’ novels, Martin Chuzzlewit was first published in monthly installments.

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Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls
R20,000.

1889
Second Edition

First published in 1881, this valuable account of Matabeleland and its flora and fauna is attractively illustrated from sketches and watercolour drawings by the author, Frank Oates, and his brother, William.

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Ismailia
R12,500.

1874
First Edition
A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade
2 volumes.
By Sir Samuel Baker

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Rock-Drawings of Southern Upper Egypt
R7,500.

1938
Sir Robert Mond Desert Expedition, Season 1937-1938, Preliminary Report by Hans A Winkler.
2 volumes

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Union Jottings
R6,000.

De Luxe Edition c.1890
Signed by the artist William Whitlock Lloyd
Ex Libris John Gaspard Gubbins of the famous Wits University Collection
Limited to 150 copies, this being no.67.

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An Alphabetical Arrangement of all the Wesleyan-Methodist Preachers and Missionaries 
R3,500.

Who are travelling, or are located, in Great Britain, and in Distant Parts of the Globe, with a view of all the circuits and stations.
1827 Third Edition.
By William Hill.

Signed by Rev. Thomas Hodgson, who was a South African Wesleyan Methodist Missionary.

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Struggles Through Life
R3,500

1808 Second Edition
2 volumes.

Exemplified in the Various Travels and Adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, of Lieut. John Harriott, Formerly of Rochford, in Essex; now Resident-Magistrate of the Thames Police.

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Six Years of a Tramp's Life
R3,500

1886
By Arthur H Roskell

'A well-educated Englishman who arrived in South Africa in 1877, Roskell at once dissipated what money he had. Thereafter he tramped for six years about the country, cadging, during which period he claims to have walked 20,000 miles’.

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The Lands of Cazembe
R3,500

1873 First Edition

Lacerda's Journey to Cazembe in 1798
Translated and annotated by Captain R. F. Burton.

Also Journey of the Pombeiros, P. J. Baptista, and Amaro José, across Africa from Angola to Tette on the Zambeze.

Translated by B. A. Beadle.
And a Résumé of the journey of MM. Monteiro and Gamitto,
by C. T. Beke.

Published by the Royal Geographical Society.

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The Land of Zinj: Being an Account of British East Africa, its Ancient History and Present Inhabitants.
R3,000.

1913 First Edition

British East Africa between Juba and the Zambesi rivers.
By Captain C.H Stigand

Chauncey Hugh Stigand OBE FRGS FZS (1877–1919) was a British army officer, colonial administrator, and big game hunter. He was killed in action while attempting to suppress a rebellion of Aliab Dinka.

Stigand was a prolific writer.

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Johannesburg Turf Club Prince of Wales Meeting
R2,000.

HRH The Prince of Wales' personal copy of the programme for the Prince of Wales Meeting at the Johannesburg Turf Club which he attended in person on Wednesday, 24th June , 1925, as part of his tour of Africa.

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