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Text: English. Freeley translated in poetic narrative form by T W Rolleston. Illustrated throughout by Willy Pogany with b&w line drawings and 16 full-page color illustrations. One 3.5 x 5cm colour illustration pasted in on the frontispiece. Bright gilt decoration to front cover and spine. Light wear to the limp suede cover. Text is written on thick grey paper. Colour illustrations tipped in. Splitting to the end papers. Some light foxing to the 4th page opposite Part 1. Publisher: G G Harrap & Co. Publication Place: London Condition: Good Binding: Softcover. Thick red suede covered boards.

About the product Number 492 of an edition limited 740 copies, signed by James Walton and the three other contributors. 4to; original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper plan; pp. xi + (i) + 96, incl. index; several maps, monochrome illustrations after contemporary photographs and artwork; line drawings. Dustwrapper and edges slightly rubbed; sporadic, light foxing. Very good condition."The owners of the Josephine Mill were people who played a very important part in the development of Cape Town and South Africa, and two of them, Jacob Letterstedt and Anders Ohlsson, were pioneers in the establishment of the milling and brewing industries in the country. Their activities in the political and social fields were also far-reaching. The book, however, is not confined to the Josephine Mill and its owners. It provides a historical record of every water-mill which existed in Cape Town and vicinity and, as Newlands has always been a centre of the brewing industry, it therefore deals with the growth of that industry at the Cape. Most of the ninety illustrations are line drawings and half-tones which have not been published previously or which have been produced specially for the book. The text similarly includes a great deal of historical information about the Cape, and Newlands in particular, which has not been published before or is to be found in printed sources not readily accessible. It covers a time-span of over three hundred years from the first burgher settlement along the Liesbeek River to the present day." The Josephine Mill and Its Owners. The story of Milling and Brewing at the Cape of Good Hope (James Walton, and others)

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 Text facsimile of the Maskew Miller edition of 1952. 8vo; pictorial boards; endpaper map; pp. xiv + 310, incl. index; plates; folding genealogical table; line drawings in text. Tipped in on the half-title is a ticket for the"Malagas Pontoon"issued by the Swellendam Divisional Council (the hand-operated pont at Malgas on the Breede River is the last of its kind in South Africa). Near fine condition."In the heyday of the old Cape Dutch civilization they spoke of the coastland east of the Hottentot Holland mountains as the Overberg. This'new Canaan', as Lady Anne Barnard called it, is described by Dr Burrows as'one of the richest repositories of our national heritage'. The success of the first printing of this book many years ago proves his claim. The history of the Swellendam Drostdy, the short-lived Swellendam republic, the birth and development of sheep farming, glimpses of the lovely old homesteads, and the families who owned them, Van Bredas, Van Reenens, Reitzes, Moodies; the story of the fabulous Barry empire, the lost seaports; all these are revealed in a book that is not only for the collector and historian but for all who enjoy a good story and glimpses of an intriguing, romantic past." Books: Overberg Outspan. A Chronicle of People and Places in the South Western Districts of the Cape

About the product National Museum Memoir No. 5. Edition limited to 500 copies. 4to; original green cloth, lettered in black on upper cover; pp. vii + (i) + 172; numerous line drawings, tables, photographs, maps, including folding. Cloth slightly stippled; a little foxing to endpapers and edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good to very good condition."This volume completes the series of monographs describing excavation in Later Stone Age deposits of the Orange River Scheme area."The excavations mentioned in the text include Ventershoek, Lemoenfontein, Holmsgrove, Goodlands, Glen Elliot, Damplaas, Blydefontein and Merino Walk. C. G. Sampson: The Smithfield Industrial Complex: Further Field Results

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 First edition. 8vo; original grey pictorial cloth, lettered in blue on spine and upper cover; pp. 143; line drawings by D. Ogilvie. Spine somewhat cocked; cloth a touch rubbed; a little foxing. 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 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 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 4to; original dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xii + 359 + (iv), incl. index; detailed line drawings; distribution maps; colour photographs. Dustwrapper very slightly rubbed, with trace of foxing to reverse side; light bump to top fore-corners; bookplate to the front pastedown; some foxing to edges and outermost leaves. Very good condition."SOUTHERN AFRICAN FERNS AND FERN ALLIES is an important new publication which represents the culmination of eighteen years of fern collecting throughout southern Africa and into the remotest corners of this subcontinent. It is a comprehensive work covering all 343 known species of the region and including also some of the naturalised introduced species. The text is easily readable, scientifically correct, and has been carefully vetted by experienced pteridologists. Every species is illustrated with excellent colour photography and there are over 800 individual line illustrations, showing salient diagnostic characteristics and providing extensive insight into this fascinating group of plants."

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 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 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