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Description:  Pan books London, 1955.  Soft, pictorial cover.  Condition:  A little tatty with bent cover that has a 2cm tear.  Stamp and owners name on the fep and pages discoloured by age.  

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 Large squarish 8vo; original pale grey cloth; spine lettered in gilt; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (x) + 321; 160 full-page colour illustrations. Dustwrapper a little sunned; tape marks to endpapers and dustwrapper flaps; endpapers and page edges somewhat foxed, sporadic spotting elsewhere. Good to very good."The modern text for this edition, Birds of Asia, has been written by Adam Rutgers, and it demonstrates just how accurate were John Gould's illustrations - despite the general lack of ornithological knowledge in the mid-nineteenth century." Birds of Asia. Illustrations from the Lithographs of John Gould (Books)

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 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