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About the product Am Beispiel des Australischen Diamanttäubchens Geopelia cuneata und des Afrikanischen Kaptäubchens Oena capensis. 210 x 148 mm; wraps; pp. (vi) + VI + 151; 2 colour plates, graphs, tables, line drawings; author's presentation inscription inside front cover to Prof. Gordon Maclean. Fine condition. German-language doctoral dissertation on the ecophysiology of two arid-zone dove species, the Namaqua dove Oena capensis of Africa, and the Diamond dove Geopelia cuneata of Australia. Books: Untersuchungen zur Okophyiologie von Taubenarten aus Extremen Biotopen

About the product 210 x 297 mm; saddle-stitched pictorial wrappers; unpaginated (but pp. 12, excluding cover); three actual commemorative programmes mounted within, with accompanying text alongside; some illustrations; short history of the regiment; roll of honour for wars from the Anglo-Boer War to South Africa 's border war. Foxed and a little curled. Loosely inserted are several items relating to the Durban Light Infantry, including correspondence from the Col. Cyril Metcalfe, two programmes from Metcalfe's 80th birthday celebration (the cover of which is a Leyden cartoon showing the colonel, in a tank, bearing down on Father Time, and one of which is signed by several regimental luminaries), programmes from the 1989 Officers'Mess Dinner and the Presentation of the National Colour to the regiment in the same year, plus several issues of the DLI Flash newsletter, etc. Books: The Durban Light Infantry. One hundred and twenty-five years of service. Commemorative Brochure. September 1979

About the product Brenthurst Second Series, number 2. Standard edition limited to 850 copies. Large 4to; original crimson cloth; laminated pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; tinted top edge; silk markers; pp. 275 + (i), incl. index; several reproductions of contemporary illustrations, in monochrome and full colour. Earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper. A few fox spots to fore-edge, else fine."The name of John Blades Currey (1829-1904) is seldom mentioned in histories of southern Africa. Indeed, the young Englishman who arrived at the Cape in 1850 made little direct impact on its story. He was nonetheless to become a profound influence on some of the Cape's most famous men and an astute chronicler of the political and social events of his time. His memoirs, published here for the first time, cover half a century of Cape history, from 1850 to 1900. Soldiering, farming, copper-mining - Currey tried all these; then, on the advice of governor Sir George Grey he joined the Cape civil service. While in its employ in the late 1860s he was entrusted with the task of introducing to a sceptical Europe southern Africa's first diamond, the'Eureka'. Later, as secretary to the government of Griqualand West, he chose the new name of' Kimberley 'for the burgeoning diamond-fields town of New Rush. But in 1875 Currey was blamed for the diggers'rebellion there, and this led to his dismissal from office and blighted his subsequent public career. While he was in Kimbeley Currey befriended two young fortune-hunters, both of whom were to become renowned premiers of the Cape: Cecil John Rhodes and John X. Merriman. To both of them Currey was to remain a lifelong friend and counsellor.. He is revealed in the account not as a politician but as a man who helped to shape politicians, not as a man who made history but rather as one who was passionately part of it. The manuscript forms part of The Brenthurst Collection, as do the majority of the contemporary illustrations which complement the text." Books: John Blades Currey 1850 to 1900: Fifty Years in the Cape Colony

About the product The dust jacket is shelf rubbed and worn but remains bright and whole. one or two small tears and the spine is darkened. Internally there is a previous owner's name and date and some minor foxing. Tightly bound and presents handsomely in cellophane. JK (R*FH). Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Books: The Early Cape Muslims: A Study of their Mosques, Genealogy and Origins

About the product By the late General Sir James Shaw Kennedy, K.C.B., acting at the time of the Battle on the Quartermaster-General's staff of the Third Division of the Army. With a brief memoir of his life and services, and plan for the defence of Canada. 8vo; original red blind stamped cloth, fishmothed and soiled; backstrip brittle and missing piece at head; pp. iv + 199; text figure; folding map with two short tears; evidence of past exposure to damp on bottom margin of boards and on endpapers; previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, and ownership inscription and hand-stamp on reverse of front free endpaper;"Contents"leaf working loose; scattered foxing. Fair condition only.

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."