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About the product First edition. 8vo; original grey pictorial cloth, lettered in blue on spine and upper cover; pp. 143; line drawings by D. Ogilvie. Fore-corners a little turned; trace of fishmothing to cloth; a little wear to extremities; endpapers and page edges somewhat browned; occasional fox spot. Good condition. Afrikaans text. (Nienaber I, p. 267) Uncommon. Besides some examples held by South African repositories, OCLC finds only the British Library copy. The charming story of a circus escapee, Ogus the baboon, who is able to speak to the children Lettie and Hennie, who become his friends.

About the product Cover title reads:'Im kampf um Süd-Afrika. Der kampf in der Kapkolonie'. 8vo; original light brown cloth, attractively blocked in darker brown and green to spine and upper cover, with pictorial onlay to upper cover; pp. viii + 293 + publisher's catalogue; plates; line drawings in text. Backstrip slightly crumpled at head and tail; signatures working loose but holding. Good condition. German text. (Spohr&Poller 479; SABIB 2, p. 66) Sympathetic account of the Boer guerillas'activities in the Cape, particularly during the latter stages of the South African War. A. De Wet, with H. van Doornik and G. T. du Plessis: Die Buren in der Kapkolonie im Kriege mit England

About the product 8vo; original pictorial boards; pp. 37; charming line drawings by Katrine Harries. Spine slightly tanned; moderate foxing throughout; earlier owner's name signed on front pastedown. Good condition. Afrikaans text. Alba Bouwer's work was awarded the Scheepers Prize for Children's literature in 1959, and the C.P. Hoogenhout Award in 1962.

About the product Large 8vo; cloth-backed papered boards; pp. 441, incl. index; maps, line drawings and colour illustrations. Romanian text: diacritics in author's name and book's title have been ignored in cataloguing. From the library of ornithologist Gordon Maclean; signed by him on front free endpaper. Good condition; cover sunned and rubbed; label remnants to tail of spine; university codes and discard stamps to endpapers; pages browned, esp. at edges, owing to friable paper stock used.

About the product 8vo; original red cloth, with gilt lettering and regimental emblem to upper cover; endpaper map; pp. 161; plates in monochrome and colour; line drawings in text; some maps. Spine a bit sunned; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. A very attractively illustrated unit history."THE STORY OF THE NINTH will be eagerly sought after by all past and present Sappers. Not only will it be treasured as a valuable personal memento by all who knew the 9th Field Company at close quarters, but by contributing to the funds of the Sappers Association it will assist in perpetuating the memory of Those Comrades of all S.A.E.C. Units who did not return. It became apparent in the early planning days of 1939 and 1940 that South Africa, with its high proportion of artisans and technicians, would be able to make a larger contribution in Sapper personnel than was ever likely to be needed for our own Divisional and L. of C. requirements. Rather than use this surplus of skilled man-power in a non-technical rôle, the General Staff wisely agreed to organise and train both full- and part-time Sappers for any emergency likely to arise and, as near as possible, to anticipate the need for specialized Engineer units for a multitude of purposes. The fact can now be proudly recorded that, due to this early foresight, no request for Sapper assistance from any of the various Force Headquarters, however complicated, was ever made to the U.D.F. in vain." Books: The Story of the Ninth. A Record of the 9th Field Company, South African Engineer Corps. July 1939 - July 1943

About the product Number 89 of an edition limited to two hundred copies, signed by the author. 4to; quarter-leather deluxe binding, marbled boards, lettered in gilt on spine, and with gilt publisher's monogram to upper cover; tinted top edge; pp. (xiv) + 196, incl. index; colour plates after contemporary artwork; monochrome illustrations in text, from original photographs and artwork, with some sketches by the author. Very slightly shelf-rubbed. Very good to near-fine condition."Early explorers and settlers, courageous and eccentric personalities, trade, farming and enterprise, shipwrecks and frontier wars - this is the subject matter of the panorama of Port Elizabeth. The enthusiasm and conscientious scholarship of Eleanor Lorimer, regional historian of the social and cultural life of P.E., is manifest thorughout this absorbing book. Colonel Robert Gordon, Sir Rufane Donkin, Frederick Korsten, Captain Francis Evatt, Sophia Pigot, the Lovemore family - these are some of the names that feature in the early history of the region.. This rich and varied story is enlivened by a unique collection of illustrations: an extensive search was made for old photographs, with exciting results; there are reproductions of pictures by Daniell, Bowler, Baines, Huggins, and of engravings from contemporary issues of'Illustrated London News'and'Graphic'. The author herself has made wash drawings based on old photographs and Tony Grogan has contributed line illustrations of houses and monuments made especially for this edition."

About the product Author's inscription to upper cover reads"Mrs L. Richfield / with best wishes from / H. M. L. Bolus / Bolus Herbarium / University of Cape Town / Oct. 1 1954."185 x 123 mm; printed grey card wrappers; pp. 96; line drawings in text. Trace of foxing to wrappers; small crease to bottom fore-corner of upper cover; label stain to tail of spine; penned accession code to title leaf verso; occasional fox spot. Good condition. Uncommon (DSAB I, p. 236)"Because of her training as a teacher, Louisa Bolus did everything in her power to inculcate a knowledge and love of the indigenous flora and of nature study among children and laymen. She wrote a school textbook,'Elementary lessons in systematic botany based on familiar species of the South African flora'(Maskew Miller, 1919)."- DSAB V, p. 61 Books: Elementary Lessons in Systematic Botany. Based on familiar species of the South African Flora with an Introduction and Eight Summaries