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Lawrence ‘Titus’ Oates, “a very gallant gentleman”

POLAR REGIONS (1-50) KAREL SCHOEMAN (51-66) ANTIQUES & COLLECTING (67) ART & ARCHITECTURE (68-74) AVIATION (75) BIOGRAPHY (76-77) CAPE (78-83) EASTERN CAPE (84-86) FARMING (87-89) LITERATURE (90-91) MILITARY HISTORY (92-95) MISSION HISTORY (96-100) ROCK ART (101-106) SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY (107-108) TRANSVAAL (109-110) TRAVEL (111-118) POLAR REGIONS

1. Amundsen, Roald: The South Pole. An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 (London: C. Hurst & Co., 1996) Text facsimile, in one volume, of the John Murray edition of 1912, issued in two volumes. Translated from the Norwegian by A. G. Chater. 8vo; original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xxxv + (i) + 392, x + 449, incl. index; numerous plates and maps, incl. large, folding map. Dustwrapper a little edgeworn and rubbed, sunned on spine panel; bumps to bottom fore-corners; occasional minor fox spot. Very good condition. (Conrad, p. 156 [original, and facsimiles up to 1976])

"Lacking in personal charisma, Amundsen was to some extent a victim of British chauvinism, which stereotyped him as a devious foreigner not above gaining the Pole by a deceitful stratagem and, worse by far, sacrificing his dogs to do so. His complaint in later years that British schoolchildren were being taught to regard Scott as the true discoverer of the South Pole was probably no exaggeration. Today we can look back to these distant events more dispassionately, and freely give Amundsen the credit that is his due. He was a truly professional explorer who took pains to put all his theories to the test and left nothing to chance. The South Pole, which so successfully exemplifies Amundsen's philosophy of exploration, is a polar masterpiece which deserves to be in print again after so many years in limbo." £40.00 / R660

2. Anderson, Commander William R., U.S.N. with Clay Blair, Jr.: Nautilus 90 North (London, Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1959) 8vo; original blue cloth; pictorial dustwrapper somewhat creased, browned and edgeworn; endpaper maps; scattered foxing; pp. 190, incl. index. Fair condition. "The astonishing feat of the first atomic submarine and its voyage beneath the polar ice pack." £4.00 / R66

3. Anderson, W. Ellery: Expedition South (London: Evans Brothers, 1957) 8vo; original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper maps; pp. 208; plates. Dustwrapper rubbed and edgeworn, with some loss (now housed in protector). Good condition. "Ellery Anderson applied to join an expedition to the Falkland Islands Dependencies within the Antarctic as a means of satisfying a life-long personal ambition and of re-orientating himself after 14 years as a regular Army officer ... He sailed for Hope Bay in October, 1954, as leader of a small twelve-man base whose objectives

were the exploration and survey of one of the least-known sectors of the Antarctic. ... In this book the author has given a picture of the life lived by himself and his companions as a small community in a vast wilderness. It is a book of extraordinary interest about ordinary people from all walks of life fighting and winning a battle against a ruthless enemy, the Antarctic, with its danger, its boredom, its physical and mental strain and its overwhelming majesty. There is a thrilling sense of challenge and

achievement as well as humanity and humour - it is everyman's guide to the Last Continent." £4.00 / R66

4. [Antarctica, General]: Five titles on Antarctica (various places: various publishers, various dates) (1) Wheeler, Sara: TERRA INCOGNITA: TRAVELS IN ANTARCTICA (London: Jonathan Cape, 1996) Uncorrected proof copy. 207 x 142 mm; printed wrappers; pp. xi + (iii) + 304. Wrappers a bit rubbed and curled. Good. (2) Ommanney, F. D.: SOUTH LATITUDE (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1947) 8vo; original pale blue cloth; no dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. x + (ii) + 308; plates. Cloth worn; backstrip splitting at joints; school prize

bookplate to front free endpaper, scribbled over with felt pen; foxed throughout. Fair. (3) Campbell, David G.: THE CRYSTAL DESERT. SUMMERS IN ANTARCTICA (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992) 208 x 138 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. (xii) + 308, incl. index; maps. Wrappers a little curled and rubbed; occasional foxing. Good. (4) Neider, Charles (editor): ANTARCTICA. AUTHENTIC ACCOUNTS OF LIFE AND EXPLORATION IN THE WORLD'S HIGHEST, DRIEST, WINDIEST, COLDEST AND MOST REMOTE CONTINENT (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1973) 8vo; original blue cloth, lettered in silver gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. viii + 464. Dustwrapper slightly rubbed; some foxing. Very good condition. (5) Halle, Louis J.: THE SEA AND THE ICE. A NATURALIST IN ANTARCTICA (London: Michael Joseph, 1973) 8vo; original turquoise boards, lettered in silver gilt on spine; no dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. xv + (iii) + 286, incl. index; illustrations. Boards fishmothed; some foxing to edges. Fair. £6.00 / R99

5. [Antarctica, General]: Four titles relating to the Antarctic (various places: various publishers, various dates) (1) Bowman, Gerald: FROM SCOTT TO FUCHS (London: Evans Brothers, 1960) 8vo; original dark blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine; price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 192; maps; plates. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn; light to moderate foxing throughout. Good condition. (2) Evans, E. R. G. R.: SOUTH WITH SCOTT (Johannesburg: Twentieth Century Distributors, no date) 16mo; original dark blue cloth, lettered in silver gilt on spine; pp. 318;

frontis. portrait. Joints and extremities a little rubbed; earlier price penned on front free endpaper; some foxing. Good. (3) Fuchs, Vivian, and Edmund Hillary: THE CROSSING OF ANTARCTICA. THE COMMONWEALTH TRANS-ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1955-58 (London: Cassell, 1958) 8vo; original blue cloth, lettered in silver gilt on spine; price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. xv + (iii) + 338, incl. index; maps; plates, incl. colour. Dustwrapper foxed, wrinkled and edgeworn, with some tape stains; name signed on front free endpaper; library codes, stamps and labels; scattered, moderate foxing. Fair to good. (4) Mountfield, David: A HISTORY OF POLAR EXPLORATION (London: Hamlyn, 1974) 4to; original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper maps; pp. 208, incl. index; profusely illustrated with contemporary artwork and photographs; maps. Dustwrapper a little creased and edgeworn; boards partially tanned; scattered foxing. Good. £5.00 / R83

6. [Arctic, General]: Two titles on the Arctic (various places: various publishers, various

dates) (1) Herbert, Wally: ACROSS THE TOP OF THE WORLD. THE BRITISH TRANS-

ARCTIC EXPEDITION (London: Longmans, 1969) 8vo; original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine; price-clipped laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (xii) + 209; map; plates. Dustwrapper a little edgeworn; some foxing to edges and endpapers. Good to very good condition. (2) Lehane, Brendan: THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE (Amsterdam: Time-Life, 1981) 4to; original padded green rexine, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover, with pictorial onlay to upper cover; endpaper map; pp. 176, incl. index; lavishly illustrated with contemporary photographs and artwork, including

much colour. A little foxing. Very good condition. £5.00 / R83 7. Bernacchi, L. C.: A Very Gallant Gentleman (London: Thornton Butterworth, 1935)

Keystone Library edition. 8vo; original purple cloth, lettered in white on spine; dustwrapper; pp. 240, incl. index; plates; maps. Dustwrapper tanned and edgeworn, with trace of fishmothing to upper panel; backstrip a little frayed at head; evidence of damp ingress to boards and endpapers; moderate foxing throughout. Fair condition. Loosely inserted is a newspaper clipping relating to regimental honours being conferred on Oates, twenty-seven years after his death. (Conrad, p. 171) "Biography of

Oates through a heroic filter." - Conrad. "The story of Captain Oates's life and death is one that can never grow old, and it is brilliantly told in full by Commander Bernacchi." - Daily Mail £5.00 / R83

8. Bond, Creina, & Roy Siegfried (text), and Peter Johnson (photography): Antarctica. No

Single Country. No Single Sea (Cape Town: Struik, 1979) 4to; original dark green boards, lettered in gilt on spine and in white on upper cover; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 175 + (i), incl. index; map; liberally illustrated with full-colour photographs. Boards slightly shelf-rubbed; some fox spots to endpapers. Very good condition. "This is a story of a revolution in knowledge, and of the men who struggled against the winds, the monstrous seas and the searing ice to explore this last continent so that man might know what lies at the bottom of the world. It is also the story of the amazing life of the far south - a bird that circles the world for three years before making landfall; a seal that dies of rotten teeth; a penguin that lays

its egg in the darkness of the polar night. Here, too, is the drama of two 'boom-and-bust' industries - the fur seals and the whales. Now a third industry is attracting the attention of the world. Krill. Already the sound of argument is heard ... Has man learnt the lessons of the past? Or will the struggle for Antarctica make losers of us all?" £8.50 / R140

9. British Antarctic Survey: Antarctica - a topographic database

(Cambridge: British Antarctic Survey, 1993) BAS Miscellaneous Series, Sheet No. BAS (Misc.) 7. Colour, 15-panel map of Antarctica, measuring 753 x 920 mm once opened, and 250 x 185 mm fully folded. The scale is 1:10 000 000. Very good condition. "This 1:10 000 000 scale map is a derivative product of the Antarctic Digital Database Project (ADDP). The preparation of the first seamless digital map of Antarctica was co-ordinated in the UK by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) and World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC), under the auspices of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and its Working Group on Geodesy and Geographic Information. ... The seamless map of Antarctica has been prepared from cartographic material published in eleven nations." £7.50 / R124

10. Butler, Angie: The Quest for Frank Wild (Radway: Jackleberry Press, 2011) 8vo; original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (viii) + 214, incl. index; photographs. Near-fine condition. "The Quest for Frank Wild tells the gripping story of one woman's determination to unravel the truth of the final years of Frank Wild, one of the greatest British Edwardian Polar explorers of all time. Frank Wild, Sir Ernest Shackleton's closest friend and right hand man was the only explorer to serve on five expeditions to the Antarctic during the Heroic Age. The last sixteen years of his life were spent in South Africa, supposedly in penury,

unable to come to terms with Shackleton's death and forgotten by his fellowmen. He died suddenly in the small mining town of Klerksdorp near Johannesburg. The little that was known of his later life in South Africa has been maligned by hearsay and sensational journalism and most tragically of all, no-one knew where he was buried. An outstanding man lost in life and in death. Angie Butler's seven year journey finally uncovers the extraordinary untold story and by doing so fulfils Wild's wish to have his Memoirs published. The Memoirs stand alone as a unique account of Edwardian Polar exploration." £25.00 / R413

11. Cameron, Ian: Antarctica. The Last Continent (London, Cassell and

Company, 1974) 4to; laminated pictorial dustwrapper a little edgeworn; original green cloth; endpapers slightly foxed; pp. 256, including index; numerous black-and-white and colour plates. Very good condition. "Antarctica - 51/2 million square miles of windswept ice - is the most desolate, yet in some ways the most beautiful area on earth. Its exploration has been a unique challenge: a contest between nature at her most awe-inspiring and man at his most inquisitive." £5.00 / R83

12. Crane, David: Scott of the Antarctic (London: Harper Perennial, 2006) 196 x 127 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. (xiv) + 637, incl. index, + (i) + 32; plates; maps; facsimiles; photographs. Occasional minor fox spot. Very good condition. "Lionised by the British public as the embodiment of selfless heroism and chivalry, Captain Scott's achievements in the field of exploration have spawned countless books. But in all the pages written about him the personality behind the legend has been distorted beyond all recognition. David Crane's fresh and

exciting biography redresses this imbalance by allowing Scott's voice to echo through its pages. Whether describing the monumental landscape of Antarctica in all its fatal, icy beauty, or giving an account of the challenges he faced in his personal life through his heartfelt letters and diaries, Scott emerges from this definitive biography as an extraordinary figure, a superlative leader of men in possibly the harshest environment on the planet." £5.00 / R83

13. Dufferin, Lord: Letters from High Latitudes. Being some account of a voyage in

1856 in the schooner yacht 'Foam' to Iceland, Jan Mayen and Spitzbergen (London: Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, 1915) With an introduction by R. W. Macan, D.Litt., Master of University College, Oxford, and notes by F. A. Cavenagh. 16mo; original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; endpaper maps; pp. xxxv + (i) + 322 + publisher's adverts. Corners turned and spine sunned; hinges starting; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; some foxing. Good condition. "Was ever a

book of travels, or a book of any sort, written in a livelier vein, or with animal spirits more abounding, than these Letters from High Altitudes? The book is uncommonly well-

written too, and amid all its fun and frolic are to be found descriptive passages of extraordinary power and occasional bursts of genuine eloquence. ... Yet the conditions under which Lord Dufferin undertook and accomplished his daylight voyage in the summer of 1856 made it a real adventure; while the courage, determination, resourcefulness, and good temper, which he and his messmates constantly exercised throughout their not unperilous cruise within the Arctic Circle, were not different in kind or inferior in degree to the virile qualities which nowadays, under more favourable conditions, might carry an explorer to the Pole." £5.00 / R83

14. Fiennes, Ranulph: Captain Scott (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2003) 8vo; original

white boards, lettered in silver gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. xiii + (i) + 508, incl. index; plates; maps. Slightest curl to edges of dustwrapper; corners a little bumped. Very good condition. "The real story of one of the greatest explorers who ever lived by the man described by the Guiness Book of Records as 'the world's greatest living explorer.' Sir Ranulph Fiennes is uniquely qualified to write a new biography of Captain Scott. For the first time Scott's story is told by someone who has experienced the deprivations, the stress and

the sheer physical pain that Scott lived through. Fiennes has suffered all but the final tragedy endured by the much maligned Scott: he is determined to put the record straight. As well as being the definitive biography of Scott, written with the full and exclusive co-operation of the Scott Estate, this book traces the way that Scott's reputation has been attacked and his achievements distorted. Written with the energy and style that have made Fiennes' other books so popular, CAPTAIN SCOTT is the enthralling story of an extraordinary man." £6.50 / R107

15. Fiennes, Ranulph: Mind Over Matter. The Epic Crossing of the Antarctic Continent (New York: Delacorte Press, 1994) 8vo; cloth-backed papered boards, lettered in silver gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp.322, incl. index; plates; maps; diagrams. Two contemporary newspaper dispatches in the words of Ranulph Fiennes, reporting how he reached the North and the South Poles. Slightest curl to edges of dustwrapper; merest trace of foxing to fore-edge. Very good condition. "Mind Over Matter is the death-defying and bone-chilling

account of Fiennes's most remarkable achievement. For 1,350 miles at a rate of 14 miles a day, Fiennes and his partner Dr. Michael Stroud trudged across Antarctica. But the expedition's world records for both the longest unsupported polar journey and the first unsupported crossing of Antarctica came at an incredible cost. Each pulling a 500-pound sled while encountering cavernous crevasses and bitter blizzards with temperatures at - 86°F, the two men faced gangrene, altitude sickness, starvation, hypothermia, and equipment failure that nearly claimed their lives long before they reached the South Pole. The tortuous trek took a mental toll as well. Tensions turned to frustrations that were taken out on each other, and by journey's end the two good friends were deeply antagonistic. With an honest and vivid narrative, Fiennes takes the reader through the coldest land on earth and describes what it takes to survive a monumental physical and mental challenge." £5.00 / R83

16. Freuchen, Peter: Arctic Adventure. My Life in the Frozen North

(London, Heinemann, 1936) 4to; original cloth over boards, rather worn, backed with cloth of differing material; penned titles and library label on spine; no dustwrapper; pp. x + 405; illustrated with maps, one folding, and black-and-white photographic plates, one of which (rather ragged) has worked loose; foxing throughout; past owner's bookplate on front pastedown, his ex libris hand-stamp here and elsewhere. Fair condition

only. Dustwrapper blurb tipped in: "Mr. Freuchen's book is very much more than a thrilling adventure. His title is typical of his modesty. It is one of the first, we think it is the first real authentic account of life in the far North by one who knew the Eskimos intimately, who married and lived among them and who wrote down his autobiography without adornment. . . . The book will be indispensable to explorers, so important are the details and more important results of these experiences. Anthropologists will find herein a wealth, natural historians no less." £5.00 / R83

17. Fuchs, Sir Vivian, and Sir Edmund Hillary: The Crossing of Antarctica. The

Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58 (London: Cassell, 1958) 8vo; original blue cloth, titled in silver gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. xv + (iii) + 338, incl. index; several photographic plates, several of which in full colour; maps. Dustwrapper rather edgeworn and foxed, with previous owner's Scotch tape reinforcing to head and tail of spine panel; bookshop label on front pastedown; previous owner's name on flyleaf; occasional light foxing. Dustwrapper notwithstanding, very good condition. (Conrad 394, Renard 567, Spence 490) "The expedition

completed the first traverse of the continent. Hillary's tractor journey was the first mechanical and third land party to reach Pole while Fuchs was the first to reach the South Pole from the Weddell Sea by land. The flight in the Otter from South Ice to Scott Base via South Pole was was the first Weddell Sea to Pole flight and the second continental crossing ... In addition to establishing three bases, of which Scott Base in the Ross Sea is still in operation, they conducted a comprehensive science program including the first seismic survey across the continent. It was an exploit of the highest standard." - L. J. Conrad: Bibliography of Antarctic Exploration £4.00 / R66

18. Gillham, Mary E.: Sub-Antarctic sanctuary: Summertime on Macquarie Island (London, Gollancz, 1967) All photographs and sketches by the author. Pictorial dustwrapper worn, pp. 223, text illustrations, plates. Labels removed from both pastedown endpapers, leaving marks, edges very slightly foxed. 'An account, by a botanist, of a visit to a particularly desolate and lonely nature-reserve. Illustrated with maps, drawings of flowers, birds and seals, and 32 photographs in black & white.' £5.00 / R83

19. Gran, Tryggve (author), and Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith (editor): The Norwegian with

Scott: Tryggve Gran's Antarctic Diary 1910-1913 (London: National Maritime Museum / Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1984) 8vo; original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper maps; pp. 258, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper a little sunned on spine panel, with slightest curl to edges; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. (Conrad p. 177) "Detailed diary with relevant writings by other expedition members inserted parenthetically throughout. Gran was an enthusiastic and lucid diarist. In addition to an excellent account of the voyage south and the winter, his account of spring sledging to establish Corner Camp, the Second Western Journey to the Granite Harbor area, finding the Polar Party and the climb of Mt. Erebus are particularly good. Gran's perception that he was on a grand adventure is clear throughout (vis-a-vis some of his more scientifically or literary minded companions). ... An excellent book (translated by Gran's daughter) that stands alone, although with a far different perspective than the expedition's gentleman authors. Illustrated with a fine selection of contemporary plates and a detailed map." - Conrad: Bibliography of Antarctic Exploration £14.00 / R231

20. Grikurov, G.E., with G.A. Znachko-Yavorsky and others: Explanatory Notes to the Geologic Map of Antarctica (scale 1:5,000,000) (Leningrad, Research Institute of the

Geology of the Arctic, 1976) 193 x 133 mm; saddle-stitched wraps; pp. 83; library stamp on title page. Good condition. Supplied without the separate map to which it refers. "The explanatory text contains a brief description of major orographic features of Antarctica followed by a full account of all stratigraphic units and intrusive rocks shown on the map. Major structural elements of the continent and principal stages of their evolution are briefly characterized. In conclusion, the objectives for future geologic exploration are postulated." (Introductory abstract). £10.00 / R165

21. Hänel, Christine, with Steven L Chown, and Kevin J Gaston: Gough Island. A Natural

History (Stellenbosch: Sun Press, 2005) Oblong 4to; laminated pictorial boards; pp. 169; liberally illustrated with full-colour photographs; some historical maps, artwork and photographs; some line drawings. Boards very lightly rubbed. Very good condition. "This book provides a well-illustrated, absorbing account of the Island's remarkable plants and animals, and a compelling history of its discovery and exploration. The authors bring to this work their considerable experience of remote, Southern Ocean islands and conservation in the region, making the book essential reading not only for island and seabird enthusiasts, but also for those concerned with biodiversity and its conservation in remote locations." £65.00 / R1073

22. Holdgate, M. W. (editor): Antarctic Ecology. Volume 1 (London, Academic Press,

1970) 8vo; original red cloth; spine gilt; pictorial dustwrapper very slightly rubbed and edgeworn; previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, his ex libris hand-stamp here and elsewhere; pp. xx + 604; illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates, tables, graphs, line drawings; rear endpapers pasted together; hand-stamp of RGS in a few places. Very good condition. Contents of Volume 1: Past Environments, Marine Ecosystems, Plankton and its Pelagic Consumers, The Pelagic Resources of the Southern Ocean, Marine Benthos, Fishes, The Biology of Seals, Adaptation in Seals, Ecology of Antarctic Birds. £6.50 / R107

23. Huntford, Roland: Shackleton (London: Abacus, 1999) 196 x 125 mm; laminated

pictorial wrappers; pp. xxiv + 774, incl. index; plates; map. Sunned on spine; wrappers a little creased. Good condition. "At his height he was fêted as a national hero, knighted by Edward VII, and granted £20,000 by the government for achievements which were, and remain, the very stuff of legend. But the world to which he returned in 1917 after the sensational 'Endurance' expedition did not seem to welcome surviving heroes. Poverty-stricken by the end of the war, he had to pay off his debts through writing and endless lecturing. He finally obtained funds for

another expedition, but died of a heart attack, aged only 47, as it reached South Georgia." £4.00 / R66

24. Johnson, G. L., and others (scientific coordinators): [Map of

Antarctica] General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO). Polar Stereographic Projection (Ottawa: Canadian Hydrographic Service, 1983) Colour, 20-panel map of Antarctica, measuring 1164 x 1060 mm once opened, and 292 x 218 mm fully folded. The scale is 1:6 000 000. Trace of fishmothing to margin, not affecting map. Good to very good condition. £5.00 / R83

25. Langner, Rainer-K.: Scott and Amundsen. Duel in the Ice (London: Haus Publishing,

2007) Translated from the German by Timothy Beech. 8vo; original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (viii) + 232, incl. index; photographs. Fine condition. "In this double biography, Rainer-K. Langner describes a duel in the ice between two very different men, the experienced, meticulous Amundsen, who had learnt Polar survival skills from the native peoples of the Arctic, and Scott, a man of the Victorian Royal Navy, who saw courage, endurance and on-the-spot improvisation as the key to overcoming the obstacles on the way to the conquest of the South Pole, the last place on Earth unclaimed by man.

The question at the heart of this book is why one reached his goal and returned safely, while the other did not. This gripping account of one of the last great adventures of exploration, and of the men who were driven to pursue it, is both a compelling piece of historical writing and an intriguing study of two men whose names will be forever linked with the South Pole." £6.50 / R107

26. Lashly, William (original author), and A. R. Ellis (editor): Under Scott's Command.

Lashly's Antarctic Diaries (London: Victor Gollancz, 1969) 8vo; original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine; price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 160; plates; map. Dustwrapper sunned on spine panel, rubbed and edgeworn; snag to head of spine, with neat, archival tape repair; corners of boards slightly turned; edges foxed, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition. (Conrad, pp. 115, 181) "It has often been said that if Scott had taken Lashly all the way to the South Pole the whole story would have been different. One of the most moving passages in this book is the account of his return with Lieutenant Evans on the last supply party to support Scott's return from the Pole. Admiral Evans, as he later became, claimed that it was Lashly who

saved his life. The diaries have been slightly edited, and explanatory passages inserted, by Commander A. R. Ellis who was given the complete diaries by Lashly's daughter. They are important documents in themselves, and an essential part of Antarctic history." - From the dustwrapper gloss. "Contains Lashly's Discovery and Terra Nova diaries, the former being somewhat longer. Lashly began keeping the diary when he set south with his motor; it is most detailed concerning the return journey with Teddy Evans. The editor has filled in the considerable gaps in the narrative." - Conrad: Bibliography of Antarctic Exploration £20.00 / R330

27. Limb, Sue, and Patrick Cordingley: Captain Oates: Soldier and Explorer (London: B.T.

Batsford, 1983) 8vo; original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine; tinted top edge; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 184, incl. index; plates; maps; facsimiles. Dustwrapper very slightly sunned and edgeworn, with trace of damp-stain to tail of spine panel; a little foxing to edges. Very good condition. (Conrad, p. 182) "Lawrence Edward Grace Oates will always be remembered as a hero, as the man who walked willingly to his death on the ill-fated expedition to the South Pole led by Captain Scott, in order that his comrades might have a better chance to survive. But this

book tells a wider story than that of the expedition alone. ... The story that emerges is one of a brave man, quiet but with a strong sense of humour, a sardonic outlook and one not too eager to conform to the established patterns of Victorian life. The final chapters, dealing with the formation of the Antarctic expedition, its voyage and its fateful journey, tell much about Oates and his comrades. His relationship with Scott was never an easy one and it is fascinating to read of the exchanges between the two and of their very different approaches to common problems." £5.00 / R83

28. Lukyanov, S. (editor): Polar Pilot. Issue #1 (St. Petersburg: Russian Geographic

Society, 1998) 290 x 207 mm; blue card wrappers with pictorial onlay to upper cover; pp. (ii) + 44; some illustrations. Very good condition. Several articles in Russian, with English translations or abstracts. Contents: The international scientific expedition on Franz Josef Land; Russia in Umberto Nobile's fate; Russian travellers on the South Pole; The Land Forces of France on the North Pole; Arctic and Antarctic Museum; The Jubilee of the formation of the Institute of Oceanology; Works on evacuation of the "North Pole"; Philately of Russia/USSR about Amundsen; Russian Antarctic Expedition. £20.00 / R330

29. Marsh, John H.: No Pathway Here (Cape Town: Howard B. Timmins, 1948) 8vo; original

blue cloth, lettered in black on spine; no dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. 200, incl. index; monochrome photographic plates. Cloth worn; backstrip tanned, and splitting at lower joint; upper hinge starting; penned codes to front pastedown; moderate foxing throughout; blurb from dustwrapper flap mounted to front free endpaper verso. Good reading copy. "Mr. Marsh was the only journalist to go to the Marion and Prince Edward Islands when these were so dramatically occupied recently, and in his vivid account will be found the real reason why the islands were taken. He also tells of the dangers overcome, the hardships encountered, the fantastic weather conditions and the unusual wild life found there. The final chapter, with its startling suggestions regarding the future of the Antarctic territories, should prove of more than ordinary interest to many others besides those living in South Africa." £3.00 / R50

30. Mawson, Douglas: The Home of the Blizzard. The Story of the Australasian

Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 1998) 210 x 134 mm; pictorial wrappers, with laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xxxii + 438 + (ii), incl. index; plates; diagrams; maps. Very good condition. Text facsimile of the 1930 Hodder & Stoughton "Abridged popular edition." (Conrad, p. 208 [earlier editions]) "This expedition narrative includes Mawson's account of his epic return after losing both his companions, all but a tiny amount of his food and all his dogs. A novelist would not dare pen such an incredibly unbelievable story. One of the most gripping Antarctic stories." - Conrad: Bibliography of Antarctic Exploration £6.50 / R107

31. Maxwell, Gordon S.: Tales of Polar Exploration. Compiled from Authentic Sources

(London: James Brodie [1928]) The Brodie Books, Number Forty-Four. 180 x 122 mm; saddle-stitched red card wrappers; pp. 63; some illustrations. Wrappers a bit tanned and worn, with archival tape repairs to reverse of spine fold; corners curled; some foxing. Fair to good. Uncommon little primer on the subject, with some outstanding anecdotes from the key figures of the Heroic Age. Publication date suggested by OCLC. "The anecdotes of Polar Exploration have been chosen mainly to show the terrible, yet wonderful, conditions under which the intrepid

voyagers into this grim unknown had to labour." £5.00 / R83

32. McNish, Capt. K. T.: The Eternal Ice (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1971) 8vo; original

turquoise boards; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (xviii) +110; diagrams. Dustwrapper slightly soiled, with short tear to top edge of upper panel; pocket scar to front pastedown; label remnant and penned accession code to front free endpaper. Good condition. "No one knew that when the small, stout ice-breaker with R.S.A. painted on her bright hull left Cape Town on a fine summer's day that this, her maiden voyage to Queen Maud Land in Antarctica, would also be her most hazardous one. . . . Like Antarctica, this is a story of contrasts. A true story of despair and wild hope, of grim battle and rollicking parties, of strange animals that know

how to survive and of men who had to learn to do so." £7.50 / R124 33. Mill, Hugh Robert: The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton (London, Heinemann,

1933) 8vo; original blue cloth; spine sunned and lower board rippled and very damp-stained; no dustwrapper; bookplate on front pastedown; pp. xvi + 312, incl. index; black-and-white photographic plates; maps in text; foxing throughout, quite pronounced in places; some pencilled page references on rear endpapers, which are rippled and damp-stained. Fair condition only. (Conrad p. 144, Renard 1074) "Mill was Shackleton's mentor and confidant. He had a very high opinion of Shackleton and had championed his application for the post of Secretary to the Scottish Geographical Society in 1903." (Conrad, Bibliography of Antarctic Exploration). £5.00 / R83

34. Mountevans, Admiral Lord: The desolate Antarctic (London, Lutterworth Press, 2nd impression, 1950) Original blue cloth, unevenly faded, pp. xvi + 172, plates. School prize-label on the front free endpaper, text lightly browned, text edges slightly foxed. £4.00 / R66

35. Mountfield, David: A History of Polar Exploration (London, Hamlyn, 1974) 4to; original blue boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper very slightly faded and rubbed; endpaper maps and prelim's mildly foxed; pp. 208, incl. index; profusely illustrated with maps, photographs and period documents. Very good condition. "The nature of the quest - into uncharted seas and virgin territory under appalling conditions and with, at first, no knowledge of how to deal with the unpredictable ice and murderous cold - offered a challenge that might, on the face of it, be hardly worth taking up. But all sorts of men, from many nations, took part, and these were as remarkable for their diversity as for their daring. Martin Frobisher, the Elizabethan adventurer; Willem Barents, the heroic Dutchman who was the first man to winter in the Arctic; Vitus Bering, a Dane in the service of Peter the Great, who forced a way east across Siberia and found Alaska, Cook - these were the pioneers. They paved the way for Nordenskjold, Nansen, Shackleton, Amundsen, Scott, Peary, Byrd; for the charting of polar seas and the mapping of polar lands; for vastly increased scientific knowledge and for new ways of not only surviving the cold but of living in it." Please note that this book is rather heavy, and postage will be determined according to destination and the customer's preferred method of despatch. £4.00 / R66

36. Mowbray, Jay Henry: Discovery of North Pole by Cook and Peary. Including the

Marvelous Wonders of the Polar World ([Philadelphia]: publisher not identified, 1909) Large 8vo; original pale blue cloth blocked in gilt and black, with pictorial onlay to upper cover; pp. 432; colour frontis; numerous monochrome illustrations. Cloth worn and

stippled; backstrip tanned, with some loss to head; some edge tears; binding slack; hinges starting; a little foxing. Fair condition. Title continues: Embracing history of the expeditions of Sir John Franklin, Lieut. DeHaven, Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, Dr. Hayes, Sir George Nares, Capt. Hall, Lieut. Schwatka's 3000 mile sledge journey, cruise and loss of the Jeannette and fate of Delong, Dr. Nansen, the ill-fated attempt of Andree, Duke d'Abruzzi, etc., etc., together with the marvelous achievements of Dr. Cook and Commander Peary, compiled from the official records and writings of all the famous Arctic explorers by the celebrated author, traveler and lecturer Jay Henry

Mowbray, Ph.D., LL.D. Illustrated with more than 100 illustrations of scenes in the Polar Regions and portraits of Arctic heroes. £10.00 / R165

37. Nansen, Fridtjof: Farthest North. Being the record of a voyage of exploration of the

ship Fram 1893-96 and of a fifteen months' sleigh journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an appendix by Otto Sverdrup, captain of the Fram (London:

Constable, 1897) First edition. Two royal 8vo volumes; original turquoise buckram, lettered in gilt on spine in each case; first volume with gilt 'Fram' vignette and title to upper board, second with gilt dog-sled device and title; pp. xiii + (iii) + 510, xiii + (iii) + 671, incl. index; numerous plates and illustrations in text, incl. several in colour; two folding maps in colours at the end of the first volume, and a further two such maps at the end of the second. Backstrips slightly crumpled at head and tail; cloth partially stippled; corners bumped; moderate foxing throughout. A very good set of the first edition, in a less garish binding than that of the second. This is a "narrative of the First Fram Expedition, 1893-1896, led by Nansen, with the object of investigating the polar basin north of Eurasia by drifting in the ice with the currents

northwest from the New Siberian Islands across or near the pole [and] contains descriptions of the voyage in the Fram from northern Norway July 1893, across the Kara Sea to the New Siberian Islands and the drift thence across the polar sea, Sept. 1893 - March 1895." Included is an "account of Nansen's and Johansen's sledge journey toward the North Pole, their wintering on Franz Josef's Land and trip home, March 1895 - Aug. 1896, with excerpts from Nansen's diary; also a supplement by Otto Sverdrup on the Fram's drift in the ice, March 1895 - Aug. 1896." - Arctic Bibliography, 11983 £125.00 / R2063

38. Pinnock, Don: Blue Ice. Travels in Antarctica (Cape Town: Double Storey Books,

2005) Author's presentation inscription to half-title. 244 x 168 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 175; lavishly illustrated with full-colour photographs. Fine condition. "Most people think of Antarctica as a white smudge at the bottom of a world map. Yet it's a landmass almost the size of Africa with weather and ocean currents that dominate the planet. In Blue Ice, award-winning travel writer Don Pinnock journeys to the seventh continent - the last to be discovered. He explores what drew Cook, Bellingshausen, Shackleton, Scott and other adventurers and

naturalists to this vast terrain. With sensitive descriptions and startling photography, he travels to the heart of Antarctica's wilderness and explores the relationship between Cape Town and the frozen south. This is an extravagant travelogue, which paints a vivid portrait of one of the most remote and unforgiving places on earth. It reveals the extremes of adventure, courage and unspoilt beauty with precision, humour and a sense of wonder." £15.00 / R248

39. Pirrit, John: Across West Antarctica (Glasgow, John Smith & Son, 1967) 8vo; original

blue boards; spine gilt; no dustwrapper; pp. xiv +130; black-and-white photographic

plates; maps; previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, his ex libris hand-stamp here and on title page; rear endpapers pasted together; hand-stamp of RGS on last page. Very good condition. (Conrad p. 384, AntBibl 1181, SPRI 17566) "The author was leader of United States traverse party exploring Filchner Ice Shelf during International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958. " (Conrad, Bibliography of Antarctic Exploration) "This book does much more than recount a year in his life. In its modest and informal way it allows his character to shine through - his good humour,

his endless patience and forbearance, his cheerfulness and serenity, his strength in leadership, and his bravery. Ever as a student he revealed the fibre of his spirit, and as he matured he grew in moral stature to enrich by his presence the company he kept. He was a good man to know, and echoes of the goodness happily remain in the words of this book, which at once tells his tale and is a memorial to his excellence." (Introduction by Prof. T. Neville George). £5.00 / R83

40. Ponting, Herbert G.: The Great White South: Or, With Scott in the Antarctic (London:

Gerald Duckworth, 1950) 8vo; original blue cloth, lettered in silver gilt on spine, with silver gilt expedition logo to spine and upper cover; price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xviii + 299 + (iii) + (96); plates. Dustwrapper tatty, with some loss; spine mottled, and frayed at head; moderate foxing. Good. (Conrad, p. 183) 'This provides a full account of Ponting's activities (including his propensity for directing awkward, cold and dramatic poses his mates called "ponting") and contains many of his photos (to which he retained the copyright). Read by itself, it would provide a partial picture of events. His chapter on the Pole Party was of

necessity a second hand account as he returned on Terra Nova after the first winter. There are numerous editions.' - Conrad: Bibliography of Antarctic Exploration £5.00 / R83

41. Quartermain, L. B.: South to the Pole. The Early History of the Ross Sea Sector,

Antarctica (London: Oxford University Press, 1967) 8vo; original beige cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; tinted top edge; endpaper map; pp. xx + (ii) + 481, incl. index; plates; maps, incl. folding map at end. Dustwrapper tattered; some foxing to edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere; archival tape reinforcing to lower hinge at tail. Good condition, in a modest dustwrapper. "This first full-scale account of any one sector of the Antarctic tells the story of the area most rich in history - that from the Ross Sea 'south to the Pole'. From the courageous voyages of Cook and Bellingshausen in the 18th and early 19th centuries, the first penetration of the Sea by Ross himself, the first deliberate wintering in the Antarctic by Borchgrevink and the first great inland journeys by Scott and Shackleton, the story moves to the attainment of the Pole by Amundsen and Scott, the tragic, splendid, though little-known story of the Ross Sea section of Shackleton's abortive Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-1917, the Odyssey of the Ross Sea whalers and the proclamation of the Ross Dependency in 1923. These, as well as ... little publicized exploits ... are told with an immediacy and wealth of human interest only attainable by an author who has not merely soaked himself in Antarctic lore but who himself knows the Antarctic." £15.00 / R248

42. Richards, R. W.: The Ross Sea Shore Party 1914-17 (Cambridge: Scott Polar

Research Institute, 1962) Scott Polar Research Institute Special Publication Number 2. Squarish 8vo; original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; price-clipped dustwrapper; pp. (viii) + 44; two plates; map. Dustwrapper damp-stained, foxed, somewhat fishmothed, and rather edgeworn; some leaves a little damp-stained to fore-edge; small, penned marginal emendation to one page (p. 6). Good condition, in a fair dustwrapper. (Conrad, p. 223) "A personal account of the Ross Sea Shore Party." - Conrad: Bibliography of Antarctic Exploration. "This is an attempt to set down my personal story of the fortunes and misfortunes of

the Ross Sea Party of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition after the lapse of over 40 years. ... There is little written record of this story. So far as I am aware, Joyce's South Polar Trail, and the final section of South by Shackleton are the only works dealing with it. In the latter, understandably enough, the Ross Sea Party takes a minor place beside the exciting narrative of the loss of the Endurance and Shackleton's masterly leadership in bringing the party to safety. ... I believe the tale of our adventure is worth the re-telling, even after the lapse of so many years, for several reasons. In the first place the Ross Sea Party made, in my opinion, one of the really notable polar journeys of all time. Briefly, ten men were marooned with none of their own fuel, clothes or stores, and, by the aid of a great deal of improvisation, succeeded in journeying upwards of 1,500 miles in one sledging season." - From the author's Introduction £35.00 / R578

43. [Scott, Captain Robert Falcon]: Eight titles relating to the polar explorer (various

places: various publishers, various dates) (1) Scott, R. F.: SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION. THE PERSONAL JOURNALS OF CAPTAIN R. F. SCOTT, CVO, RN, ON HIS JOURNEY TO THE SOUTH POLE (London: The Folio Society, 1964) 8vo; original blue cloth, blocked in gilt and silver gilt to spine and upper cover; endpaper maps; pp. 322; photographs. Cloth partially faded. Very good condition. (2) Huntford, Roland: SCOTT AND AMUNDSEN (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1979) 8vo; original blue rexine, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xx + (ii) + 665, incl. index; maps; plates. Dustwrapper edgeworn and rubbed, with trace of water stain

to reverse; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; a few fox spots to edges. Very good condition, in a modest dustwrapper. (3) Seaver, George: EDWARD WILSON OF THE ANTARCTIC. NATURALIST AND FRIEND (London: John Murray, 1939) 8vo; original pale blue cloth, with lettering to spine; no dustwrapper; pp. xxxiv + 301, incl. index; colour frontis.; plates; maps, incl. folding. Cloth faded and mottled; library stamps, codes, and label or pocket remnants to endpapers; penned code to copyright page; upper hinge starting; one early leaf working loose. Fair. (4) Brent, Peter: CAPTAIN SCOTT AND THE ANTARCTIC TRAGEDY (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1974) Large 8vo; original maroon boards, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. 223, incl. index; profusely illustrated with contemporary photographs and artwork, incl. some colour; maps. Dustwrapper a little rubbed, sunned and edgeworn; scattered, light foxing. Good condition. (5) Gwynn, Stephen: CAPTAIN SCOTT (London: The Bodley Head, 1929) 8vo; original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; blocked in gilt and black to upper board; pp. (xii) + 240, incl. index, publisher's adverts.; plates; folding map. Cloth worn, and partially discoloured; lower joint starting; backstrip snagged at head; contemporary gift inscription to front pastedown; scattered, moderate foxing. Good internally; fair condition overall. (6) Evans, Edward R. G. R.:

SOUTH WITH SCOTT (London: Collins, [1948]) 8vo; original pale blue cloth, lettered in blue on spine; price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xii + 284; plates; folding map. Dustwrapper edgeworn and a little rubbed; school prize bookplate to front free endpaper; a little foxing. Good condition. (7) Mear, Roger, & Robert Swan: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF SCOTT (London: Jonathan Cape, 1987) Large 8vo; original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper maps; pp. xiv + 306, incl. index; liberally illustrated with full-colour photographs; maps. Dustwrapper a little rubbed, and quite creased; spine somewhat cocked; rear free endpaper creased. Good condition. (8) Savours, Ann (editor): SCOTT'S LAST VOYAGE THROUGH THE ANTARCTIC CAMERA OF HERBERT PONTING (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1974) Small 4to; original pale blue boards, lettered in silver gilt on spine; price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 160; map; profusely illustrated with contemporary photographs, including a couple of very early colour photographs by Ponting. Dustwrapper rubbed, and slightly edgeworn; edges of boards a little tanned; endpapers and outermost leaves foxed, occasional foxing elsewhere. Good. £15.00 / R248

44. Shackleton, Ernest: South. The Story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 Expedition (London:

Heinemann, 1970) 12mo; original blue boards, lettered in silver gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 205, incl. index; photographs; map; some text figures. Dustwrapper somewhat tanned and edgeworn; a little foxing to endpapers and edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good to very good condition. (Conrad, p. 224) "This is a new edition of Sir Ernest Shackleton's classic, which describes the Antarctic expedition of the Endurance in 1914 and the drama of the two years he and other members of the expedition spent attempting to cross the Antarctic continent. The ordeals which they had to face after their ship was crushed in the ice and their subsequent tribulations and

disappointments make a story which amply demonstrates the extraordinary courage and determination characterizing those who seek to expand man's horizons." £15.00 / R248

45. Shackleton, Keith: Wildlife and Wilderness. An Artist's World (London, Clive Holloway

Books, 1986) Oblong large 4to; original blue cloth; very good laminated pictorial dustwrapper; past owner's name on half-title page; pp. 120; with 50 large full-colour paintings. Very good condition. "Here is an artist's 'homage' to a polar wilderness he loves as a subject as much as a place to be. To him, the wildlife and the environment itself share equal and complimentary importance. His revelations about painting in general and his analysis of the joys the subject presents are informative, philosophical, full of personal anecdote, totally frank and often very funny indeed. . . Keith Hope Shackleton, painter, naturalist, explorer, broadcaster, and author, is one of Britain's best known living wildlife artists, Past President of both The Royal Society of Marine Artists and The Society of Wildlife Artists, and current Chairman of The Artists League of Great Britain. Though only distantly related to the Shackleton of Antarctic fame, he has shared the same passions. He has travelled and painted all his life, as a pilot, as a dinghy enthusiast, and latterly for many years as naturalist on the adventure ship Lindblad Explorer." £5.00 / R83

46. Smith, Michael: An Unsung Hero. Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor (London: Headline,

2001) 4to; original black boards, lettered in silver gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 341, incl. index; contemporary photographs; maps. Gift inscription to front free endpaper. Near-fine condition. "Exploration in Antarctica has produced many epic stories of endurance and survival, and Tom Crean was a central figure in some of the most incredible of them. Having run away from home as a youth, he went on to become one of the most indestructible heroes of Antarctic exploration. He played a key role in the dramatic events on three out of four British

expeditions in the heroic age of Polar exploration. He served Scott and Shackleton - bitter rivals - and outlived them both. Tom Crean's is the great untold story of his era; now, for the first time, his astonishing tale of adventure, heroism and survival against the odds is vividly brought to life. ... Illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs, this extraordinary and unforgettable story was a number one bestseller in Ireland when it was published in 2000." £12.50 / R206

47. Taylor, Griffith: With Scott: The Silver Lining (London: Smith, Elder, 1916) First edition.

Royal 8vo; tastefully re-bound in blue half morocco, with marbled boards; spine tooled in compartments, with second compartment lettered in gilt, and gilt centres to the remaining spine panels; new endpapers; pp. xiv + (ii) + 464, incl. index; plates, and numerous illustrations in text; 7 maps, including a large, folding map in colours. With the leaf *iv-iv** providing the author's preface, absent from the first issue. Light to moderate foxing; archival tape repair to reverse of large, folding map. A lovely copy of one of the most uncommon of the autobiographical narratives relating to Scott's last expedition. (Conrad, p. 190; AntBibl 23-63.29; Renard 1573 and 1574; Spence 1183; SPRI 12742) "This contains an expedition narrative from Taylor's viewpoint. The account of the voyage south on Terra Nova was first published in the Melbourne Argus as a series of articles and some of the material first appeared in Scott's Last

Expedition. The strength of this book is Taylor's account of the two Geological Journeys that he led to the Western Mountains (i.e., Royal Society Ranges and Dry Valleys). His parties explored and named many Taylor Valley features as well as being the initial explorers of the Granite Harbor area. This is an excellent first person account based on Taylor's journals. The first edition is difficult to find ... " - Conrad: Bibliography of Antarctic Exploration £395.00 / R6518

48. The Graphic: The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper. Saturday, September

11, 1875. Vol. XII. No. 302 (London: The Graphic, 1875) Folio (405 x 298 mm); pp. [241-272]; several woodcuts and advertisements. Some spotting and occasional light soiling. There are several illustrations of the Arctic Expedition of George Nares with the 'Alert' and 'Discovery', and a substantial illustrated supplement, with map, on the subject. Details are provided of the experiences on the voyage, and expectations as to the expedition to the Pole. As to plans for travel, it is noted that "Captain Nares is satisfied that in order to reach the Pole the most certain method is to push forward sledge parties." Although the expedition, described by David Mountfield as "the last British naval assault upon the Arctic in the 19th century", iced-in by bad weather, failed in its ultimate objective, it did nevertheless achieve a farthest-north record

and lay the foundation for Peary's success of thirty-three years later. "The success of this expedition," writes Mountfield, "like others before it, was due to the high quality of British seamanship and the gritty determination of the younger officers, in particular Albert Markham." - Mountfield: A History of Polar Exploration, p. 115 £20.00 / R330

49. Wheeler, Sara: Cherry. A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard (London: Vintage, 2002) 197 x 130 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. x + (iv) + 354, incl. index; plates; maps. Slightest curl to bottom fore-corners of wrappers; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. "Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959) was one of the youngest members of Captain Scott's final expedition to the Antarctic. Cherry undertook an epic journey in the Antarctic winter to collect the eggs of the Emperor penguin. The temperature fell to seventy below, it was dark all the time, his teeth shattered in the cold and the tent blew away. 'But we kept our tempers,' Cherry wrote, 'even with God.' After

serving in the First World War Cherry was invalided home, and with the zealous encouragement of his neighbour Bernard Shaw he wrote a masterpiece. In The Worst Journey in the World Cherry transformed tragedy and grief into something fine. But as the years unravelled he faced a terrible struggle against depression, breakdown and despair, haunted by the possibility that he could have saved Scott and his companions. This is the first biography of Cherry. Sara Wheeler, who has travelled extensively in the Antarctic, has had unrestricted access to new material and the full co-operation of Cherry's family." £5.00 / R83

50. Young, Louisa: A Great Task of Happiness. The Life of Kathleen Scott (London: Papermac, 1996) 215 x 135 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. xvii + (i) + 298, incl. index; plates. Wrappers very slightly rubbed. Very good condition. "Kathleen Scott died in 1947, famous for being an explorer's wife rather than a formidably gifted sculptress. This fascinating, racy book should set the record straight, presenting her as a personality in her own right and an artist to boot." - Beryl Bainbridge, Spectator £5.00 / R83

KAREL SCHOEMAN 51. Balfet, Frantz (author), and Karel Schoeman (series editor): Samuel Rolland (1801-

1873): Pionier van die sending in die Vrystaat (Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1984) Vrijstatia Series, Number 2. Translated from the French by Jan van de Graaf. 8vo; original dark brown boards, lettered in white on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 142, incl. index; plates; map. Dustwrapper very slightly rubbed and edgeworn. Very good condition. Afrikaans text. "Gedurende die dertiger- en veertigerjare van die vorige eeu het daar in die gebied wat tans die Suidoos-Vrystaat en Lesotho uitmaak 'n netwerk van sendingstasies ontstaan wat vir etlike dekades 'n belangrike rol in die ontwikkeling van die Transoranje gespeel het. Die grootste en mees florerende hiervan was Berseba, naby die huidige Smithfield, met sy kerk, skole en drukpers, wat in

1835 deur die Fransman Samuel Rolland gestig en meer as twintig jaar lank met groot welslae deur hom gelei is. Tydens die Eerste Vrystaat-Sotho-oorlog van 1858 is Berseba vernietig en in later omwentelinge is die sendelinge van die Paryse Sendinggenootskap uit die Vrystaat verban. Vandag is hulle aanwesigheid grotendeels vergete, en aan hulle jarelange werk het daar feitlik geen herinnerings oorgebly nie; dog met hierdie biografie van Rolland word daar 'n poging gedoen om die onreg te herstel en lig te werp op 'n minder bekende onderdeel van die Vrystaatse verlede." £20.00 / R330

52. De Waal, J. C. (author), and Karel Schoeman (translator and editor): Die Herinneringe van J. C. de Waal (Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1986) Vrijstatia Series, Number 7.

8vo; original buff boards, lettered in white on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 95, incl. index; plates. Edges of dustwrapper flaps very slightly tanned. Very good condition. Afrikaans text. "J.C. de Waal, lid van 'n gevestigde Bolandse boeregesin, het in 1866 op 22-jarige leeftyd na die Vrystaat verhuis. Hy het aan die Sotho-oorloë deelgeneem, 'n sukkelbestaan gelei, en saam met die veelbeproefde jong staat algaande in welvaart toegeneem, totdat hy in die laaste dekades van die 'Modelrepubliek' tot vooraanstaande inwoner van die distrikte Bethulie en Smithfield en lid van die Volksraad gevorder het. Met die Anglo-Boereoorlog het hy egter alles verloor, en soos die

meeste van sy volksgenote moes hy opnuut begin. De Waal se herinnerings is nie net die uiters leesbare beskrywing van 'n enkele menselewe nie, maar gee daarby 'n boeiende beeld van die Vrystaatse Republiek in sy opkoms en ondergang soos hy dit self meegemaak het. Hierdie onbekende dokument uit die Vrystaatse Argiefbewaarplek is 'n waardevolle stukkie Vrystatia én Africana." £30.00 / R495

53. Fraser, J. G., and James Briggs (authors), and Karel Schoeman (series editor): Sotho

War Diaries 1864-1865 (Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1985) Vrijstatia Series, Number 3. 8vo; original black boards, lettered in white on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 118, incl. index; plates; map. Dustwrapper slightly tanned to spine panel, with trace of wear to top edge of lower panel. Near-fine condition. "In 1864 the much disputed boundary between the Orange Free State and Lesotho was finally established, and a young English-speaking South African, J. G. Fraser, was placed at the head of a contingent sent from Philippolis to supervise the withdrawal of the Basotho across the line. The following year the Second Sotho-Free State War broke out and Fraser once more saw duty, as field-cornet in charge of the Philippolis commando. Fraser's

unpublished diaries of these two periods have now been combined with an excerpt from his autobiography describing the same events, and with the likewise unpublished diary of the British officer James Briggs, who was caught up in the war while on a hunting expedition from the Eastern Province, to give a vivid firsthand account of the war (including the battle of Verkeerdevlei, in which both men participated) and of the conditions in the Free State Republic during the troubled early years of its existence. Sotho War Diaries is a fascinating book which will be of interest to the general reader and the student alike." £20.00 / R330

54. Schoeman, Karel (compiler and editor): The British Presence in the Transorange

1845-1854 (Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1992) Volume 13 in the Vrijstatia series. 213 x 136 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 147, incl. index; plates; map. Spine very slightly sunned. Near-fine condition. "In 1845 British troops were sent across the Orange River to uphold the authority of the local Griqua community against white immigrants from the Cape Colony, a step which marked the beginning of nine years of close British involvement in the affairs of the Transorange. This anthology of contemporary writings gives a vivid picture of the period with its tensions, rivalries and violence, combined with remarkably rapid development and expansion in many fields, during which the modern Orange Free State came into being." £12.50 / R206

55. Schoeman, Karel (editor and translator): Die Huis van die Armes: die Berlynse

Sendinggenootskap in die O.V.S. 1834-1869 (Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1985) Vrijstatia Series, Number 4. 8vo; original blue boards, lettered in white on spine; pictorial

dustwrapper; pp. 144, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper very slightly rubbed, and a little sunned on spine panel. Very good condition. Afrikaans text. "Die Lutherse kerk op die ou Vrystaatse sendingstasie Bethanie dien as herinnering aan meer as 150 jaar van sendingwerk in die provinsie. In hierdie bloemlesing van eietydse berigte en beskrywings word dié werk van sy aanvang tot die inwyding van die huidige kerkgebou in 1869 vasgelê. 'n Lewendige beeld van evangeliseringswerksaamhede onder die Korana en later die Batswana word daarin gegee, en hierby ook die ontwikkelingsgeskiedenis van Bethanie self en dié van die latere

stasies Pniel, Platberg en Saron aan die Vaalrivier, tesame met 'n waardevolle beeld van die Vrystaat en sy inwoners in die vroegste jare van Blanke vestiging." £30.00 / R495

56. Schoeman, Karel: In Liefde en Trou. Die lewe van president M. T. Steyn en mevrou

Tibbie Steyn met 'n keuse uit hulle korrespondensie (Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1983) Squarish 8vo; original chocolate boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 171 + (48); substantial section of photographs. Short tear to bottom edge of dustwrapper's lower panel; edges foxed. Very good condition. Afrikaans text. "Tydens sy lewe is president Steyn in Suid-Afrika sowel as daarbuite as een van die grootste figure in die land gehuldig; maar verbasend soos dit klink, het daar nog net een omvattende lewensbeskrywing van die President in Afrikaans verskyn, wat in 1921 gepubliseer is. Hierdie kort, oorsigtelike biografie deur Karel Schoeman is 'n poging om dié onreg in 'n mate

goed to maak en om hulde te bring aan 'n uitsonderlike figuur wat as die eerste moderne Afrikaner beskryf is; maar hiernaas wil dit ook dien om die President aan 'n nuwe generasie Suid-Afrikaners bekend te stel. Terselfdertyd is dit die biografie van mevrou Tibbie Steyn, wat haar man nie net op uitsonderlike wyse bygestaan het nie, maar 'n halfeeu lank in eie reg 'n besondere plek in die Suid-Afrikaanse maatskappy beklee het. Dié populêre werk, wat hoofsaaklik op die herinnerings van tydgenote berus, bevat voorts bykans sewentig briewe uit die privaatkorrespondensie van president en mevrou Steyn, wat vir die eerste keer gepubliseer word, en foto's uit die versameling van die familie." £22.50 / R371

57. Schoeman, Karel: 'n Lug vol helder wolke (Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1975)

8vo; original blue boards; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 115. Dustwrapper somewhat spotted, with price sticker adhering to front panel. A little browning to endpapers and edges. Name of previous owner on ffep. Good to very good condition. Afrikaans novel. "Die verhaal van hierdie novelle is geensins verwikkeld nie. 'n Jong man, Kobus, keer terug na die familieplaas waarin hy nie belang stel nie en wat hy na die dood van sy vader erf. 'n Verhouding ontstaan tussen hom en sy niggie Alida, en dit het 'n tragiese afloop, waarna Kobus finaal van die plaaswêreld en sy familie afskeid neem. Dit is 'n ontroerend-eenvoudige vertelling, sonder

opsmuksel, maar 'n periode in die Afrikanse geskiedenis word sonder enige opvallende dramatiek vir ons uitgebeeld. Die plaaswêreld word 'n integrerende deel van die gebeure, en Schoeman slaag daarin on met sy rustige verteltrant 'n besondere balans tussen vorm en inhoud te bewerkstellig." £7.50 / R124

58. Schoeman, Karel: Promised land. A Novel (London: Julian Friedmann

Publishers, 1978) First edition in English. Translated by Marion V. Friedmann. 8vo; original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (ii) + 205. Dustwrapper very slightly rubbed; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; trace of foxing to edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition. "When this

prize-winning novel first appeared in Afrikaans it was hailed as 'a brilliant piece of work' and 'a masterpiece of low-key writing, understatement, allegory and subtle innuendo'. This is the first time that Karel Schoeman has allowed one of his novels to be translated into English. It is a startling and chilling perspective of South Africa in the not-too-distant future." £7.50 / R124

59. Schoeman, Karel (editor): Sophie Leviseur Memories (Cape Town: Human &

Rousseau, 1982) Vrijstatia Series, Number 1. 8vo; original purple boards, lettered in white on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 123, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper very slightly rubbed. Very good condition. "Born in Bloemfontein in 1857 as daughter of the Free State pioneer Isaac Baumann, Mrs Sophie Leviseur spent the greater part of her long life in the town. In her Memories, which she wrote when she was already in her eighties, Mrs Leviseur describes the early decades of the Orange Free State with great vividness, ending with her experiences during the Anglo-Boer War and the Women's Suffrage Movement. Visits to Kimberley, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town in the early years are also described. The Memories of Sophie Leviseur

provide a lively portrait of domestic and social life in South Africa during the latter half of the nineteenth century, and as such are an interesting and valuable item of Africana." £35.00 / R578

60. Schoeman, Karel (editor): The Early Days of the Orange Free State: Charles Warden,

W. D. Savage, Martha Jane Kirk (Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1989) Vrijstatia Series, Number 10. 8vo; original brown boards, lettered in white on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 111, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper a little tanned. Very good condition. "Recollections of the early years of White settlement in what is now the Orange Free State, by the son of the first British Resident, the clerk of a Bloemfontein shopkeeper and the wife of Bloemfontein's first market master, are here published together to provide a vivid picture of life in the Orange River Sovereignty. In addition, the reminiscences of Martha Jane Kirk cover her early life in the Eastern Province and later experiences in the eastern Free State, thus giving a survey of sixty years of South African history. Warden's recollections were originally published in 1899 and copies are extremely rare, and Savage's appeared in a Bloemfontein newspaper in 1885, while Mrs Kirk's autobiography has never appeared in print. In this volume three valuable items of Free Statia and of Africana are therefore made available to the modern reader and researcher." £30.00 / R495

61. Schoeman, Karel (editor): The Free State Mission. The work of the Anglican Church

in the Orange Free State 1863-1883 as described by contemporaries (Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1986) Number 6 in the Vrijstatia series. 8vo; original purple boards; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 104, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper sunned on spine panel, with short tear to top edge of lower panel; trace of foxing to top edge and reverse of dutwrapper. Very good condition. "This anthology, compiled mainly from contemporary accounts in the Quarterly Paper of the Free State Mission, gives a description of the work of the Anglican Church in the Orange Free State under its first two Bishops, and of the great contribution it made to the development of the Republic, out of all proportion to its actual size or strength. At the same time the book

provides a vivid picture of life in the Free State during the sixties, seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century, and of its people, White, Black and Coloured." £30.00 / R495

62. Schoeman, Karel (editor): The Missionary Letters of Gottlob Schreiner 1837-1846 (Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1991) Number 12 in the Vrijstatia series. 212 x 138 mm; pictorial wraps; pp. 160, incl. index; map; plates. Wrappers very slightly rubbed. Very good condition. "Coming to South Africa in 1838 at the age of 23, Gottlob Schreiner spent his first years in the country in the service of the London Missionary Society at Philippolis, and later at Basel in what is now the Eastern Free State. Schreiner's nineteen official letters to the LMS have been published here in full, augmented by extensive quotations from his personal letters to the Basler Mission in Switzerland and a number of contemporary accounts, making this volume of Vrijstatia a valuable

and interesting piece of Africana." £25.00 / R413 63. Schoeman, Karel (editor): The Recollections of Elizabeth Rolland (1803-1901) with

various documents on the Rolland family and the Free State mission of Beersheba (Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1987) Volume 8 in the Vrijstatia series. 8vo; original pale purple boards; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 152, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper slightly sunned on spine panel. Near-fine condition. "Born in England in 1803, Elizabeth Rolland was brought to South Africa as an infant school teacher by Dr John Philip in 1829, and spent the remainder of her long life in this country. While giving a full account of her English background, her recollections, written in the 1870s, are especially valuable for the information they provide on Beersheba, the mission station in the present Orange Free State which she and her husband, the Revd Samuel Rolland, founded

in 1835 and which was destroyed in the First Sotho-Free State War of 1858. To this autobiography, now published for the first time, have been added a number of contemporary documents on Beersheba and the Rolland family, most of which have never before appeared in print or have previously not been available in English, to form a valuable source of information on early European settlement in the Free State." £30.00 / R495

64. Schoeman, Karel (editor): The Wesleyan Mission in the Orange Free State 1833-

1854, as described in contemporary accounts (Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1991) Number 11 in the Vrijstatia series. 212 x 136 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 144, incl. index; plates; map. Lower cover ever so slightly rubbed. Near-fine condition. 'In 1833 the Wesleyan mission stations north of the Orange River were transferred to the Caledon River valley in what is now the Eastern Free State, and during the thirty years which followed, the "Bechuana Mission" expanded its activities to include the border towns of the Cape Colony and points as far northward as the modern Swaziland and Mafikeng. In this anthology the work of the Mission is described by means of the contemporary writings of the missionaries themselves, and an important period in

early Free State history is rescued from undeserved obscurity.' £15.00 / R248 65. Schoeman, Karel: Die dood van 'n Engelsman: die Cox-moorde

van 1856 en die vroeë jare van die Oranje-Vrystaat. (Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1982) 8vo; original purple boards; dustwrapper; pp. 113, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper a little sunned on spine panel. Very good condition. 'Die teregstelling van die Engelsman Charles Leo Cox deur die Vrystaatse Regering in 1856 vanwee die moord op sy vrou en kinders het dwarsdeur Suid-Afrika 'n sensasie veroorsaak. Aan die hand van die dokumentasie oor hierdie opspraakwekkende saak wat bewaar gebly het, het Karel Schoeman

die lewe en dood van Cox gerekonstrueer, en daarmee op lewendige en leesbare wyse aan die vroeë jare van die Vrystaatse geskiedenis gestalte gegee.' 'Cox, Charles Leo (London, Eng., 13.12.1815 (?) - Bloemfontein, 1.11.1856) was executed as a murderer. Nothing is known about his early life, except that he came of a good family. A cousin of his was the wife of Sir Henry Barkly, later High Commissioner and Governor at the Cape. […] On 20.1.1853 Cox married the sixteen-year-old Maria Magdalena Bouwer, […]. The marriage was, however, not happy and it was said that Cox drank and maltreated his wife. Therefore when she and her children died under suspicious circumstances (26.4.1856) he was immediately arrested. He was charged with having murdered his family by strangling his wife and poisoning and suffocating his children, but to the day of his death, he maintained that he was innocent. He stated that his wife had first poisoned her children and then herself with strychnine.' (DSAB, Vol. V, p. 155). £15.00 / R248

66. Schoeman, Karel: The Face of the Country: a South African family album 1860-1910

(Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1996) Photographic portraits from the collections of the South African Library selected and introduced by Karel Schoeman. 4to; original charcoal boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 144, incl. index; monochrome photographs throughout. Fine condition. A remarkable compilation of images, dating from the earliest use of photography in southern Africa, and including many outstanding ethnographic portraits. "From the collections of the South African Library, Cape Town, Karel Schoeman has selected 273 photographs, mainly portraits, to provide and overview of South Africa and its people during half a century in the recent history of the country. Accompanying the

photographs is an extensive text in which the images are discussed and events placed in their historical context." £27.50 / R454

ANTIQUES & COLLECTING 67. Baraitser, Michael, and Anton Obholzer: Cape Country Furniture. A Pictorial Survey

of Regional Styles, Materials and Techniques in the Cape Province of South Africa (Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, 1971) Number 137 of an edition limited to two hundred copies in a special quarter leather binding, signed by both authors. With an historical introduction by Dr Mary Alexander Cook. 4to; original brown quarter leather, lettered in gilt on spine; marbled boards; gilt publisher's monogram to upper cover; dustwrapper; pp. xviii + 286, incl. index; map; profusely illustrated with photographs of specimen pieces. Dustwrapper with a few small impresions to upper panel, trace of wear to tail of spine panel, and some foxing to reverse; very occasional minor fox spot. An excellent copy of this specially-bound, signed version of the first

edition. "From the beginning of the 19C Cape Town and the Boland were swamped with imported furniture. For physical and financial reasons the Cape country districts escaped this fate for almost three generations; and during this period there developed the wealth of style and variety of design described in this absorbing book. ... What emerges is that Cape country furniture is considerably richer in style and variety than that of Cape Town and the Boland. It is worthy of serious study and deeper appreciation than has been the case in the past. With this in mind, the authors systematically searched the Cape platteland for many years; they found and studied examples of locally-made furniture, and took the 960 photographs that are reproduced in this book. From these research data they were able to describe and to classify the regional styles, the craftsmen, and the timbers." £105.00 / R1733

ART & ARCHITECTURE 68. Arnold, Marion (editor): South African Botanical Art. Peeling Back the Petals

(Vlaeberg, Fernwood Press, 2001) Folio; original green cloth gilt; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; gift inscription by botanical artist Brenda Clarke on half-title; pp. 216 including index; well over 100 colour reproductions of stunning artwork from South Africa's rich heritage of botanical art. Fine condition. "Flowers are reproductive organs designed to attract pollinators. Yet human fascination with floral form, function and beauty endures, and is eloquently described in plant portraiture. Challenging essays in this richly illustrated evaluation of South African botanical art 'peel back the petals' to explore botanical imagery - from historical, scientific, and artistic perspectives. The interdependence of biological, social and cultural phenomena is

revealed in this celebration of the enigmatic beauty of flowers." £40.00 / R660 69. Arnold, Marion (editor): South African Botanical Art. Peeling Back the Petals

(Vlaeberg: Fernwood Press, 2001) Signed presentation inscription from Marion Arnold to the half title; loosely inserted signed note from the publishers to the effect that the book has been sent to the recipient by Marion Arnold. Folio; original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine, with gilt flower device to upper cover; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; decorative endpapers; pp. 216, incl. index; well over 100 colour reproductions of stunning artwork from South Africa's rich heritage of botanical art. Top fore-corners slightly bumped; earlier owner's name to front free endpaper; occasional fox spot; top edge very slightly rippled to some leaves, suggestive of past exposure to moisture. Very good condition. £40.00 / R660

70. Harmsen, Frieda (editor): Cecil Skotnes (no place: Privately published in conjunction

with the 1996 Cecil Skotnes Retrospective exhibition, 1996) 238 x 335 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 240; lavishly illustrated in full colour and monochrome. Earlier owner's bookplate to first blank; two obituaries and another Skotnes-related clipping mounted to inside cover or first leaf. Very good condition. "Disciplined by his sympathy with the obdurate material into which he drew, he began to simplify his earlier stylized images and, slowly, to transform them into semi-abstract symbols. By a subtle process of allusion, bred of his acute

awareness of the character and mood of his surroundings, these forms acquired the elusive but indisputable imprint of Africa." - Berman: Art & Artists of South Africa (1983), p. 426 £40.00 / R660

71. Heniger, J.: Hendrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drakenstein (1636-

1691) and Hortus Malabaricus: A Contribution to the History of Dutch Colonial Botany (Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema, 1986) 4to; original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine, and with gilt publisher's device to upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xvi + 295, incl. index; several illustrations after contemporary artwork. Dustwrapper very slightly edgeworn, and a little tanned to spine panel; earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper; slightest spotting to edges. Near fine condition. " 'Hendrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drakenstein (1636-1691) and Hortus Malabaricus' deals with Van Reede's career as a servant of the Dutch East India Company and his

development into an amateur of botany. As commander of Malabar (the present Kerala, India) during 1670-1677, he organized detailed descriptions and large-size illustrations of 740 tropical plants with the help of Indian and European botanists, physicians, philologists, interpreters, and draughtsmen. The genesis of Hortus Malabaricus is explained on the basis of Viridarium Orientale of Matthew of St.Joseph, Van Reede's main assistant, as well as the commentaries by Arnold Syen and Jan Commelin. The insertion of Hortus Malabaricus in the European botanical literature up to 1800 is discussed on the strength of a selection of fifteen pre-Linnaean and Linnaean botanists, including Linnaeus. A number of the original drawings of Hortus Malabaricus and Matthew's drawings in Viridarium Orientale is reproduced here for the first time." £40.00 / R660

72. Letty, Cythna: Children of the Hours. Indigenous plants with peculiar habits;

drawings, paintings and poems by Cythna Letty (Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, 1981) 4to; original yellow boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 63, incl. index; full-colour botanical illustrations. Dustwrapper slightly rubbed, edgeworn, with earlier owner's tape repairs to edges, and foxed on reverse side; top edge somewhat foxed; a few fox spots to endpapers. Very good condition. "Children of the Hours is a distillation of her careful botanical observation, her ability to realise texture through line and water colour, to pick an insignificant little flower and transform it into a work of beauty to delight the botanist and art lover alike. These little masterpieces are here combined with a selection of equally finely observed and deeply felt poems, in which gentle wisdom is mixed with refreshing insights and flashes

of vivid lyricism. Together these are indeed the 'children of her hours', the offspring of a dedicated artists' lifelong devotion to her art." £10.00 / R165

73. McWilliams, Herbert Hastings: A Retrospective Exhibition of Naval Drawings and Water Colours from World War II - 1939-1945 (Port Elizabeth: King George VI Art Gallery, 1974) 250 x 182 mm; original wrappers, lettered in gilt on upper cover; unpaginated (but pp. 52); some full-page illustrations; notes to 84 exhibition pictures. Wrappers rubbed. Good to very good condition. "During the war years art materials were scarce, so Herbert

McWilliams used whatever was available: iodine, ordinary blue writing ink, chalk, carbon pencils, scraps of paper, a simple fountain pen and even lemon juice and rum. His drawing has the facility of the trained architect, good perspective and accuracy, but he combined this with vitality, life and a sense of urgency; it was necessary for him to record before the memory faded before his eyes." £12.50 / R206

74. Pearse, G. E.: Eighteenth Century Architecture in South

Africa (Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, 1968) Large 4to; original powder blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, and with gilt publisher's device to upper cover; dustwrapper; tinted top edge; pp. xi + (iii) + 49 + (i) + (113) + (vii), incl. index; plans, monochrome photographs and line drawings. Dustwrapper a little sunned, and somewhat worn, with clipped corner to lower flap, and earlier owner's tape repairs; corners of boards slightly bumped; a little foxing to edges; occasional fox spot elsewhere. A very good example of this celebrated monograph. "This is a new edition of what has become widely accepted as a classic

and pioneering study of a subject of established importance. Originally published in 1933, Professor Pearse was the first to consider and describe the Cape architecture of the 18th century as an independent style, and to examine this within its historical perspective. In the cultural development of South Africa, there has been no greater achievement. ... The glory of this large format book is the illustration. There are 36 line drawings in the text; and 111 plates that present 59 photographic studies, and 80 superbly-executed architectural drawings from measured details. In this edition, many of the subjects were newly-photographed by Willem Malherbe and by Hans Fransen (who was responsible for the selection of the new photographs), and the majority of the details were reproduced from the original drawings. The plates are fully described in extensive notes." £80.00 / R1320

AVIATION 75. Illsley, John William: In Southern Skies. A Pictorial History of Early Aviation in

Southern Africa 1816-1940 (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2003) Folio (340 x 245 mm); original blue papered boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; decorative endpapers; pp. ix + (i) + 362, incl. index; profusely illustrated with contemporary photographs and artwork, with some colour. A beautiful book. Dustwrapper very slightly rubbed; light bump to tail of spine; ownership inscription to half-title. Very good condition. "Now, in this aviation centenary year, the contribution made by pilots, aircraft designers and builders to flight in the southern half of Africa is highlighted in a long-overdue volume on this neglected field of endeavour. Here are the heroes and the rogues, the triumphs and the failures. This lavishly illustrated book, the product of 15 years' research, uses over eight hundred images to convey the excitement of those pioneers who took to the air In Southern Skies." £25.00 / R413

BIOGRAPHY 76. Bailey, Barbara: An Eccentric Marriage. Living with Jim (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2005)

221 x 150 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 276, incl. index; plates; photographs and line drawings in text. Wrappers very slightly rubbed. Near-fine condition. "Jim Bailey, son of mining magnate Abe Bailey, author, World War II hero and publisher of Drum magazine, was a South African icon - and a true eccentric. In 1950, Barbara Epstein, then twelve, met the dashing Jim when he threw a dachshund at her. That night she wrote in her diary: I have fallen in love with the most beautiful person ... I love him as much as Beethoven. The life they created together is charted here, in diary entries and narratives spanning fifty

extraordinary years. Barbara's story is frank, funny and at times deeply moving. A dazzling tale set among artists, authors and musicians, it is also a mother's story, and a story of love." £12.50 / R206

77. Carp, Bernard: I Chose Africa (Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1961) Small

4to; original red boards; no dustwrapper; pp. 127, incl. index; photographs. Earlier owner's name on front free endpaper; foxing to endpapers; edges damp-stained, not affecting text. Fair to good. "Bernard Carp's absorbing interest in Nature has taken him into many far-away and normally inaccessible places in Africa. On these expeditions his keen insight and powers of accurate observation have been put to excellent purpose and he has now recorded some of his more interesting experiences ... As is abundantly clear from this personal account little or nothing of moment has escaped the

author's enquiring mind and there is no question but that all lovers of the African out-of-doors will find this book most satisfying. In addition all those others, who, for one reason or another have had little opportunity to roam beyond their own circumscribed environment, this most readable and informative book should prove of equal appeal." - From the Foreword by V. Fitzsimons, Director Transvaal Museum. £10.00 / R165

CAPE 78. Collier, Joy: Wine Farms of the Western Cape (Cape Town:

Timmins, 1981) Number 851 of an edition limited to 1500 copies, signed by the author. Folio; original pale brown boards, lettered in dark brown to spine and upper cover; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 48; large, full-colour illustrations after the artist's watercolours. Dustwrapper a little sunned on spine panel; some small tape marks to reverse of dustwrapper and rear pastedown; earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper. Very good condition. Charming pictures of the the more famous, and some lesser-known estates, with their characteristic Cape Dutch architecture. £12.50 / R206

79. Gordon-Brown, A: Christopher Webb Smith. An Artist at the Cape of Good Hope

1837-1839 (Cape Town, Howard Timmins, 1965) 4to; original brown rexine, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pp. xii + 92, including index; 77 colour and black-and-white plates. Dustwrapper a little edgeworn; earlier owner's bookplate and hand-stamp to front free endpaper; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. "Few people will have heard of this artist, but once you have read A. Gordon-Brown's able account of his sojourn at the Cape in 1837-1839 and studied the magnificent paintings and sketches that adorn his book, you will perhaps agree the author has discovered a second Bowler ...The account of the author's research in the matter is fascinating in itself. He heard of Webb Smith when following up a clue in regard to the identity of a Cape artist

known only by his initials 'J.W.' He describes how evidence he collected as a result of a great deal of hard work in London pointed to Webb Smith being the artist who made many of the important Cape landscapes in the Library of Parliament in Cape Town hitherto attributed to 'J.W.' But the bird studies by Webb Smith in a setting of Cape flora and scenery, are perhaps the major feature of this beautiful volume. Here then is a unique book, one that will appeal to all collectors of Africana and it can only increase in value as the years go by." £10.00 / R165

80. Gordon-Brown, A. (Introduction): The Cape Sketchbooks of Sir Charles D'Oyly 1832-

1833 depicting Cape Town, the Countryside and Neighbouring Villages (Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, 1968) 4to; original coarse, pale grey cloth, with spine lettering and publisher's device to upper cover in pink; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xii + [119 views]; the pictures are printed on the rectos, or, in the case of the larger format sketches, as two-page spreads, verso and recto. Earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper; dustwrapper a little sunned and very slightly rubbed, otherwise near fine condition. "The Cape Peninsula and its neighbouring countryside was fortunate in having the attention of so excellent an artist as Sir Charles D'Oyly in 1832/33. In the Government Archives, Cape Town, is an

album of 118 of his drawings of Cape Town and its suburbs, and a series of wonderful landscapes made during a trip into the Boland. D'Oyly was a fine draughtsman with a manifest love for landscape and an observant eye for people and their daily activity. He obviously became very attached to Cape Town (where he lived while on leave from India) and recorded his impressions with sympathy, accuracy and with a sensitive technique. He worked with pen-and-ink, with wash, pencil and with a combination of these media. He painted from life, in the field, with his easel propped up in a position that offered stimulus (he sometimes put himself into these pictures). Faithful reproductions of each of the drawings in the album are presented in this book, together with the descriptive caption recorded by D'Oyly himself. A. Gordon-Brown has contributed a biographical sketch of D'Oyly, from which his background and associations with other artists of his time is clarified. This book is a significant contribution to the pictorial Africana of the nineteenth century, and is an important and often entertaining glimpse into the social history of the period." £20.00 / R330

81. Gordon-Brown, Alfred: An artist's journey along the old Cape Post Road 1832-33

(Cape Town: A.A. Balkema, 1972) Title continues: Illustrated by 21 of his sketches, further illustrations and a map, with notes as to the identity of the artist. Large 8vo; original rexine-backed papered boards; lettered in gilt on spine, with gilt publisher's monogram to upper cover; pp. ix + (i) + 69, incl. index, several illustrations; map. Very slightly rubbed; earlier owner's deletion fluid over front free endpaper inscription, and subsequent owner's bookplate with acerbic, penned comment about the deletion fluid; scattered, moderate foxing. Good to very good condition. "In about 1832-33 an unknown but able artist spent several weeks, perhaps months, at

the Cape of Good Hope. His drawings and notes are reproduced here by kind permission of the Library of Parliament, Cape Town, where his sketch-book is preserved. There are some ten pictures of Cape Town, and fifteen more of farmhouses and scenery along the 530-mile road from Port Elizabeth to Cape Town, which the artist travelled on horseback. Most of these are pen-and-ink sketches, while the rest are in pencil and are unfinished. A few of the Cape views have been used previously as book illustrations, but so far as is known, none of those of his overland journey has hitherto been published." £15.00 / R248

82. Richings, Gordon: The Life and Work of Charles Michell (Cape Town: Fernwood

Press, 2006) Oblong 4to; original charcoal blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine, and with gilt lighthouse device to upper cover; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 224, incl. index; sumptuously illustrated with some modern photographs, reproductions of Michell's artwork and facsimiles of contemporary maps, portraits, etchings. Slight bump to bottom fore-corner of upper board; earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper. Very good condition. "This biography of Charles Michell allows us to enter into the world of this 'able and indefatigable' man for the first time, and to encounter well-known Cape personalities, including Governors Sir Lowry Cole and Sir Harry Smith, through his eyes. This beautifully illustrated work gives the reader glimpses of mid-nineteenth century Cape countryside, with the publication for the first time of the majority of Michell's watercolours, sketches and engravings." £20.00 / R330

83. [Saw, Norman], (compiler): Cape Town ... The Receding Years - a photographic and

historical collection (Cape Town: Reliance Printing Works, [ca 1980]) 447 x 312 mm; printed wrappers; pp. (ii) + 51; printed recto's; fifty-one full-page illustrations. Wrappers

slightly sunned; trace of damp-stain at head of spine, just touching margin of a few plates. Very good condition. A series of historic pictures, photographs and facsimiles, reproduced in monochrome, celebrating the Cape Peninsula as it was in historic times. "The compilers of this collection are keenly aware of the privileges we all enjoy as inhabitants of this beautiful peninsula, and have tried to portray the Cape in all its aspects ... Those who still remember Cape Town as it used to be will be stirred by

nostalgia, and will enjoy the glimpses into the past of the Mother City which we are offering here." £35.00 / R578

EASTERN CAPE 84. Currey, R. F.: St. Andrew's College Grahamstown 1855-1955 (Oxford: Basil Blackwell,

1955) 8vo; original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, with gilt crest to upper cover; dustwrapper; pp. 188, incl. index; plates. Some tape remnants to reverse of dustwrapper; edges and endpapers somewhat foxed, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition. "This is the tale of a South African school founded a hundred years ago in the full tide of those Arnold reforms which were to bring so many famous schools to birth in nineteenth century England. But St. Andrew's College was set up on the Eastern Frontier of South Africa as it then was; in what was a Military Headquarters through the long series of frontier wars. For

Grahamstown lies at what was the point of impact, as Mr. H. V. Morton points out in his Foreword, between the European Settlers coming in from the west and from overseas and the African tribes pressing down from the north and east. So the school had a stormy infancy; and there were further storms ahead in the 'colonial' period that was to follow. Emerging from these cramping conditions St. Andrews stands to-day, on the threshold of its second century, as a completely South African school which is yet not unmindful of the rock whence it is hewn." £10.00 / R165

85. Mostert, Noël: Frontiers. The Epic of South Africa's Creation and the Tragedy of the

Xhosa People (London: Pimlico, 1993) 233 x 153 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. xxix + (i) + 1355, incl. index; plates; maps; genealogical table. Trace of creasing to lower wrapper; some spotting to edges. Very good condition. "The story of the nine 'Kaffir' wars, fought in the 18th and 19th centuries between the whites and the Xhosa nation, forms the heart of this astonishing book. The principal events took place in a comparatively small area of land around the coast, eastwards from the Cape, on territory demarcated by the Great Fish and the Great Kei Rivers. It was here that the crucial frontier was variously to be found - the volatile border where colonial expansion met local intransigience and brutal warfare proved the only solution to the impasse. Noël

Mostert vividly recounts this momentous story and its appalling aftermath - the self-immolation of the Xhosa. His starting point is the arrival of the first visitors to the Cape, the Portuguese, in 1492. In an epilogue he observes that the end of the wars did not mean the end of the agony, but rather a legacy of pain and anger that to this day shapes South African society." £17.50 / R289

86. Taylor, Stephen: The Caliban Shore. The Fate of the Grosvenor Castaways (London:

Faber and Faber, 2004) 196 x 126 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. xviii + 297, incl. index; maps; monochrome illustrations in text; colour plates. Faint tape marks inside wrappers; trace of browning to edges; old penned price to half-title. Very good condition.

"When the Grosvenor ran aground on the treacherous coast of south-east Africa, an astonishing number of her crew and passengers, including women and children, reached the shore safely. But the castaways found themselves hundreds of miles from the nearest European outpost - and utterly ignorant of the people among whom they found themselves." Ian Thomson writes in 'Independent on Sunday': "A deftly reconstructed slice of high seas drama ... A marvellous account of Europeans adrift in 1780s Africa, as well as a dark parable of the rat-like behaviour of marooned human beings." £7.50 / R124

FARMING 87. Fielding, Denis, and Paul Starkey (editors): Donkeys, People and Development. A

resource book of the Animal Traction Network for Eastern and Southern Africa (ATNESA) (Wageningen: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 2004)

239 x 170 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 248, incl. index; maps; tables; photographs; charts. Near-fine condition. Uncommon: OCLC finds just one American and one Namibian repository holding this title, besides some libraries in South Africa. "Donkeys are on the increase! Donkey populations are spreading in Africa. Women and men are finding donkeys ever more important for transport and farming. However, donkeys are neglected by governments, educational establishments, researchers and extension services. Despite their poor

image in many societies, donkeys are being employed successfully thanks to farmer inventiveness and indigenous knowledge. Donkeys, people and development analyses the trends in donkey use and the social and economic benefits of donkeys for women and men. The lessons and constraints are explored through 45 papers prepared by 70 authors from 25 countries. Issues examined include the profitability of donkey transport, the complementarity of donkey power and the need for participative extension and research. The texts are illustrated by numerous tables, maps, diagrams and attractive photographs. The book contains a wealth of experience valuable to everyone concerned with rural livelihoods, transport and development, especially those involved in poverty alleviation, research, extension, training, gender issues and project implementation." £20.00 / R330

88. Starkey, Paul (compiler and editor): Animal Traction in South Africa. Empowering

Rural Communities (Johannesburg: Development Bank of Southern Africa, 1995) 240 x 170 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 159; illustrated with maps, graphs, line drawings, photographs, some of which in colour. Fine condition. "Animal power has a long history in South Africa. Its present importance is often unrecognised. Today the majority of farmers in remote rural areas benefit from using oxen, donkeys or horses for transport or cultivation. Animals contribute to food production, marketing and drudgery reduction, particularly for women. This book derives from a remarkable survey in which a multi-racial, multi-disciplinary team travelled nation-wide and listened to the experiences and concerns of

over 500 farmers and officials. ... This attractive, generously-illustrated resource book presents a wealth of information, ideas and experiences. It provides fascinating insights into the past, present and future of animal traction in South Africa. It will be of value to all concerned with rural development, especially those involved in development planning, research, extension, education, training, gender issues and animal welfare." £10.00 / R165

89. van Niekerk, Vida: Frank. A Farmer and His Diary (no place: the author, 2008) 247 x

168 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 308; monochrome illustrations; maps; index mounted

inside lower cover. Upper cover and some initial leaves a bit damp-rippled. Good condition. "This book is based on the diaries of a young Eastern Cape farmer who moved with his brother from Bedford to the Karoo, and during the Second World War enlisted in Die Middellandse Regiment. After seeing some action in Egypt, he was taken prisoner of war at Tobruk with thousands of other men. They experienced the hell camps of North Africa, and were then taken to Italy and Germany. During the final stages of the war, they were marched away from the

Russians in snow and rain and on minimum rations, across Germany. They were released by the Allies early in April 1945, flown over to the United Kingdom to the Prisoner of War Rehabilitation Centre near Brighton, and later embarked on the troopship which was to bring them home to South Africa, arriving in Cape Town on 12 June 1945. Frank continued farming with his brother in the Karoo for 18 months before moving to his own irrigation farm in the Cradock district. Five years later he and his family moved to the Albany district. They all loved the Albany farm but the unfavourable seasons they experienced made for difficult farming." £12.50 / R206

LITERATURE 90. Mann, Chris: South Africans: A Set of Portrait-Poems (Pietermaritzburg: University of

Natal Press, 1998) 210 x 136 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. (vi) + 73. Corner clipped from half-title leaf. Very good condition. "Chris Mann's newest book of poems is an innovation: it provides a series of portraits, of people as individuals and in groups of individuals. The subjects of these portrait-poems are drawn from a variety of cultural and economic settings. They come from different rural and urban backgrounds, are of different age-groups and genders and speak different languages. The book thus provides a glimpse of the astonishing diversity of the people who are South Africans. Denis Beckett of Sidelines, has

commented, 'Chris Mann takes characters we know, brings them off the page into vivid life, and makes everything we never knew about them perfectly clear.' " £7.50 / R124

91. Thurman, Chris: Guy Butler. Reassessing a South African Literary Life

(Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2010) 230 x 170 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 374, incl. index. Near-fine condition. "Guy Butler was a significant public figure in South Africa over the second half of the twentieth century: professor, poet, playwright, autobiographer, historian and cultural politician. Nevertheless, his is not a familiar name to the majority of South Africans and - where he is known - Butler remains a problematic figure. Even before his death in 2001, he was seen as a 'grand old man' in South African literature rather than as a writer for a new generation of readers. Yet much of Butler's

writing was (and still is) subversive and intellectually compelling; it has enduring literary value. His response to the South African situation presents us with a challenge: to acknowledge frankly those elements in his work that distance him from us, without losing sight of the significance it holds. This book makes use of Butler's private correspondence and unpublished archive material, combining biographical insight with criticism of his publications in various genres to offer a balanced explication of his life and work." £15.00 / R248

MILITARY HISTORY 92. Bridgland, Fred: The War for Africa. Twelve Months That Transformed a Continent

(Gibraltar: Ashanti, 1990) 8vo; original brown boards, lettered in white on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper maps; pp. viii + 403, incl. index; photographic

plates (largely in full colour); maps and monochrome photographs in text. Earlier owner's tape repairs to edges of dustwrapper; boards slightly shelf-rubbed; merest trace of foxing to edges. Very good condition. "The reader will learn what it is like to encounter an advanced Soviet MiG fighter in a French Mirage warplane 30,000 feet above the forests of Africa; what emotions grip a reconnaissance commando lying unseen inside Cuban lines within feet of enemy soldiers; how it feels in an armoured car to face a Soviet T-55 tank at just 30 feet in burning bush and swirling dust and smoke. This is, however, far more than just an account of men in battle. Woven

through are details of the political background to the conflict and the diplomatic initiatives which governed the lives and deaths of young Cuban, South African and Angolan men at the front. It is, all in all, a story of African fighting on an unprecedented scale, the international intrigue spanning several continents, and the new opportunities it opened up for democracy to 100 million people in five countries. It is a factual account which makes existing novels about derring-do in Africa seem unimaginative." £60.00 / R990

93. Grobler, J. E. H.: The War Reporter. The Anglo-Boer War through the eyes of the

Burghers. (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2008) 400 x 290 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. xiv + 157, incl. index; profusely illustrated with contemporary photographs; map. New, but with slight bump to bottom fore-corner. "The War Reporter is an imaginary newspaper. There was no single Republican or Boer newspaper that was published on either a daily, weekly or monthly basis for the whole duration of the Anglo-Boer War. The 'editor', 'reporters' and 'correspondents' of The War Reporter never actually existed. The aim was to publish an account of the course of the war in its totality - meaning not merely the military confrontations. The format represents the way in which the war could have been reported in a pro-Boer weekly newspaper (monthly from September 1900), published in the South African Republic as the war progressed. One of the most formidable challenges that face historians is to understand the zeitgeist or atmosphere of the period they write about. The same is true for readers of history books. A failure to understand the situation at the time makes it virtually impossible to understand the major events, the decisions taken by the major participants, the reactions of the ordinary people and the contradictions of the past in the context in which they occurred. This was my biggest challenge as I attempted to portray the world and the views of the Boers as the Anglo-Boer War progressed. The book is first and foremost an attempt to answer the question: how did the Boers experience the Anglo-Boer War?" - Author's Introduction. £12.50 / R206

94. Menpes, Mortimer: War Impressions. Being a Record in Colour (London: Adam &

Charles Black, 1903) Second edition. Squarish 8vo; re-bound in later green rexine, with original upper and spine panels mounted to new cover; lettered in gilt on original spine and upper cover; new endpapers; t.e.g.; pp. xiv + 254; colour plates with captioned tissue-guards; facsimiles; folding map. Some foxing to edges; occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition. (Hackett, p. 169; Mendelssohn I, p. 1008) 'Although the great charm of this beautiful book is the collection of coloured portraits and illustrations, the letterpress is entertaining and interesting. It is stated that the Boers were physically brave, but had "quaint ideas of right and wrong." It is remarked that no clergyman of any prominence joined the British forces, and that the chaplains seemed to have little influence with

the men; on the other hand, reference is made to the many celebrated surgeons and doctors who did splendid service during the hostilities.' - Mendelssohn. £35.00 / R578

95. Rose-Innes, Harry: The Po Valley Break (Johannesburg: Valiant

Publishers, 1976) 8vo; original green boards, lettered in white on spine; no dustwrapper; pp. 210; photographs; map. Earlier owner's hand-stamp to front free endpaper; trace of light foxing to endpapers. Very good condition. Account of the escape from the notorious Camp 60 in central Italy, by a group of South African POW's. Vera Lynn contributes a foreword. £12.50 / R206

MISSION HISTORY 96. Baudert, F. R. (translator), and Timothy Keegan (editor): Moravians in the Eastern

Cape, 1828-1928: Four Accounts of Moravian Mission Work on the Eastern Cape Frontier (Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society for the Publication of South African

Historical Documents, 2004) Van Riebeeck Society Second Series, No. 35. 8vo; original dark brown cloth lettered in gilt on spine and upper board; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xlii + 308; map; plates; 1 line drawing; colour frontis. tipped in. As new. "The four missionary texts which make up this volume reveal the little-known range of Moravian mission work in the Eastern Cape, from its inception in 1828 to 1928. Vivid and subjective in character, they illuminate this lesser-known field of Moravian mission activity in South Africa, which extended to the

Xhosa the pioneering work done at Genadendal and its family of stations in the Western Cape. The narratives paint a graphic picture of the commitment of the missionaries and their families, the successes and failures of their evangelical mission work and also provide rare insights into the thinking and conduct of those who converted to Christianity. As such, they offer a window onto cultural and social interaction in South Africa's longest-enduring and most volatile frontier zone, adding richly to an understanding of how these processes played out on the ground at both a personal and institutional level. To illustrate these written texts, the volume also contains a number of previously unknown contemporary photographs and sketches." £10.00 / R165

97. Bredekamp, H. C., and H. E. F. Plüddemann (editors): The Genadendal Diaries.

Diaries of the Herrnhut Missionaries H. Marsveld, D. Schwinn and J. C. Kühnel. Volume I (1792 - 1794) (Belville: University of the Western Cape Institute for Historical

Research, 1992) Translated from the original German by A. B. L. Flegg. 210 x 147 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 291, incl. index; maps; facsimile page from one of the original diaries. Upper joint a little rubbed; spine sunned; several leaves at the end rippled through damp ingress. Good condition. "Of all documents relating to the development of the Genadendal community, the mission diaries are of the most important and interesting historical sources. In fact, the reading of extracts from them at fellowship circles of the United Brethren in Holland awakened in

the well-known Dr. Van der Kemp an interest in the Cape and spurred him to devote the greater part of his life to the missionary cause in South Africa. With the appearance of this source publication, which is an authentic transcription of the earliest diaries kept at Genadendal, we trust that readers will come to a better understanding of the influence of the missionaries of the Moravian Church, on not only the Genadendal community, but in a broader sense on Cape society." £30.00 / R495

98. De Boer, J., and E. M. Temmers: The Unitas Fratrum. Two Hundred and Fifty Years

of Missionary and Pastoral Service in Southern Africa (Western Region) (Cape Town: Moravian Church in South Africa, 1987) Oblong 4to; original coarse cloth, lettered in gilt; pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper illustrations; pp. vii + (i) + 104; numerous illustrations of church personalities, settlements and architecture. Dustwrapper a little

edgeworn, and very slightly rubbed; trace of foxing to endpapers, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition. "The Moravian Church in Southern Africa (Western Region) takes pleasure in publishing this photographic study of its missionary and pastoral work over the past two hundred and fifty years, during this jubilee year, 1987. The first missionary to South Africa, Georg Schmidt, arrived at the Cape on 9th July 1737 and was directed to the area near Riviersonderend where he

could start his missionary activities. The very simple beginning in the Baviaanskloof, later named Genadendal, led Schmidt through the arduous task of teaching the indigenous Khoikhoin to understand the Dutch language and through this medium convert them to the christian faith. In 1741 Schmidt was ordained by letter and could, on the strength of his ordination, baptise the first five converts. ... During the nineteenth century Genadendal grew in size and in importance. It was regarded as an influential, exemplary mission settlement which served as a model for many other similar settlements which followed later. The Moravian missionaries accepted the challenge to start settlements at: Mamre (1808), Enon (1818), Elim (1824), Shiloh (1828), Clarkson (1839), Goedverwacht (1845), Wittewater (1859), and Pella ... (1869). In this photographic study the authors relate the story of the early beginnings and growth of the Moravian Church in the Western Cape Province from a small and simple mission field to a self-dependent, self-supporting church." £40.00 / R660

99. Kruger, Bernhard: The Pear Tree Blossoms. A History of the Moravian Mission

Stations in South Africa 1737-1869 (Genadendal: Provincial Board of the Moravian Church in South Africa, 1967) 8vo; original brown boards; dustwrapper; pp. 335, incl. index; plates; tables; maps. Dustwrapper foxed, sunned on spine panel and a bit edgeworn; two previous owners' names and "Gendadendal 13.12.77" to front endpaper; sporadic, moderate foxing. Good to very good condition. "This book tells the story of the Moravian mission stations at the Cape from their beginning until the division of the work into two provinces. It is to a great extent based on hitherto unexplored sources at the Genadendal archives and places the events into the context of South African general history. ... It is an account of a

peculiar and remarkable missionary effort, which made an impact on the ecclesiastical history of the Cape, throws an interesting light on the contemporary South African scene and has resulted in the establishment of the Moravian Church in this country. In the concluding chapter, an evaluation of the characteristics, intentions and limitations of this enterprise is given." £20.00 / R330

100. Various authors: Periodical Accounts relating to the Missions of

the Church of the United Brethren established among the Heathen. Vol. XXVI. June, 1868 (London: The Brethren's Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel, 1868) 214 x 137 mm; original printed blue wrappers; pp. [419-474]. Wrappers frittered and a little soiled; some foxing. Fair condition. Besides miscellaneous intelligence, with letters and extracts from diaries of missionaries placed in Australia, Surinam, the West Indies, and the Mosquito Coast, this edition includes feedback from South African mission stations at Genadendal, Baziya, Enon, Robben Island and Shiloh. £10.00 / R165

ROCK ART 101. Coulson, David, and Alec Campbell: African Rock Art: Paintings and Engravings

on Stone (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001) 4to; original dark brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pp. 256, incl. index; lavishly illustrated with full-colour photographs; some line drawings in text; maps. Near-fine condition. "African Rock Art: Paintings and Engravings on Stone is the first comprehensive illustrated book on the rock art of Africa. From the spectacular mountains of the central Sahara, to the arid plateaus of South Africa, home to a vast array of extraordinary art, photographer David Coulson and co-author Alec Campbell have explored the farthest reaches of this vast continent to deliver an astonishing collection of nearly 400 color photographs and line drawings." £50.00 / R825

102. How, Marion Walsham (author), and James Walton (illustrator): The Mountain

Bushmen of Basutoland (Pretoria: J. L. van Schaik, 1962) 4to; original brown pictorial boards; pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; decorative endpapers; pp.63; several illustrations. One or two minor fox spots to edges; earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper verso. Near-fine condition. "Rock paintings and rock engravings have been recorded from many parts of Africa but it is only in the wild, mountainous country of Basutoland that the rock artists continued to paint within living memory. Marion Walsham How was born in Basutoland and there she met Basotho who had painted with the Bushmen in their rock shelters. From them she learned some of the secrets of the diminutive artists and in these pages she tells of the Mountain Bushmen who were living in

Basutoland at the end of last century. Her story is based on her own personal experiences and on information supplied by people who actually knew the Mountain Bushmen." £40.00 / R660

103. How, Marion Walsham (author), and James Walton (illustrator): The Mountain

Bushmen of Basutoland (Pretoria: J. L. van Schaik, 1962) 4to; original brown pictorial boards; pictorial dustwrapper; decorative endpapers; pp.63; several illustrations. Dustwrapper very slightly edgeworn, with earlier owner's tape reinforcing to reverse of spine panel; one or two minor fox spots to edges. Very good condition. £30.00 / R495

104. Willcox, A. R.: Rock Paintings of the Drakensberg, Natal and Griqualand East

(Cape Town: Struik, 1973, 2nd enlarged edition) Number 158 of an edition limited to 275 copies, signed by the author. The second, enlarged edition is, furthermore, somewhat elusive. 4to; original brown quarter leather, with textured cloth sides; gilt device to upper cover; pp. 96, including index; numerous colour photographs. Spine gilt indistinct; extremities lightly rubbed; earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper; faint spotting to top edge. Very good condition. "Artists and archaeologists have long been deeply interested in South Africa's amazing wealth of prehistoric art. Not only have the works in the two thousand known galleries thrown a flood of light on

the development of prehistoric art, they have also thrown a flood of light on the artists themselves. It is in his paintings that we see something of Stone Age man's practices and pastimes and get some idea not only of his ceremonies and beliefs, his hunting habits, weapons and clothes, but also of the animals and birds he hunted and the

environment in which he lived. The paintings add more than a dash of colour to the Stone Age: they literally enliven it and give it a meaning that cannot be detected in the rest of early man's material culture. And incidentally, they provide our only means of appreciating Stone Age man's spirit." From Foreword by C. van Riet Lowe. £70.00 / R1155

105. Willcox, A. R.: The Rock Art of South Africa (Johannesburg: Nelson, 1963) 4to;

original salmon-coloured cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; no dustwrapper; pp. xiv + 96, incl. index; line drawings; photographs and artwork, some of which in full colour; maps. Cloth slightly worn; backstrip fraying and a little sunned; earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper; trace of foxing to edges and outermost leaves. Good condition. "Here for the first time justice is done to all aspects of the study of the rock art of South Africa, artistic and archaeological, and the debated questions of its age and authorship are thoroughly discussed. ... The book is illustrated with twenty pages of the author's photographs, reproduced in magnificent colour gravure, and twelve pages of black and white photographs. In the text are numerous maps and black and white drawings, which give a more exact impression even than photographs of the rock engravings or petroglyphs." £7.50 / R124

106. Woodhouse, H.C.: The Bushman Art of Southern Africa (Cape Town: Purnell,

1979) 4to; original black boards, lettered in white on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; decorative endpapers; pp. 125, incl. index; liberally illustrated in colour and monochrome. Dustwrapper slightly rubbed and edgeworn, with trace of foxing to reverse; bottom edges very slightly rubbed; earlier owner's bookplate to half-title. Very good condition. "The art-lover will admire the elegance of the draughtsmanship, the portrayal of the movement and the sophisticated techniques of distortion and foreshortening. The general reader will be fascinated by new views of life in Southern Africa before the beginning of written records. To guide him there are introductory chapters dealing with the Bushmen,

past and present. ... Bert Woodhouse has pursued his hobby of photographing, studying and writing about the art on the rocks of Southern Africa for more than twenty years. The illustrations in this book are a selection from his collection of some 25 000 colour slides." £12.50 / R206

SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY 107. Muller, C F J: A Pictorial History of the Great Trek. Visual documents illustrating

the Great Trek (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1978) Folio; original coarse, light brown cloth, lettered in black to spine and upper cover; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 111, incl. index; profusely illustrated with contemporary artwork and facsimiles, incl. some colour pictures; maps. Dustwrapper a little edgeworn; light foxing to outermost leaves and edges. Very good condition. "Professor C. F. J. Muller, the acknowledged authority on the Great Trek, has brought together in this book the largest concentration of pictorial evidence ever published on this scale on the subject; it is the result of many years of archival research here and abroad. ... In exploring the visual documents collected in this book, the reader may begin to decide for himself whether the Great Trek was, as some historians think, a magnificent bid for political freedom in which to cradle a new nation or, as others say, the greatest disaster in the history of South Africa." £30.00 / R495

108. Ploeger, J., and Anna H. Smith: Pictorial Atlas of the History of the Union of South Africa / Plate-Atlas van die Geskiedenis van die Unie van Suid-Afrika

(Pretoria: J. L. van Schaik, 1949) 4to; original green cloth, with gilt Van Riebeeck device to upper cover; endpaper maps; pp. 196, incl. index; richly illustrated with contemporary artwork and photographs, and some maps. Boards very slightly stippled; some foxing to endpapers and outer leaves. Good condition. The illustrations have captions in both English and Afrikaans. "In 1913 Godée Molsbergen's fine collection of historical pictures was published. Since then there has not been anything else of a similar nature. Every compiler of such a pictorial atlas is indebted to Godée Molsbergen for his pioneering and also to Arthur Elliott, who apparently photographed every existing illustration and also many

objects no longer in existence. Unfortunately only a comparatively small number of his pictures is generally known, as the complete set has never appeared in book form. The compilers of this Pictorial Atlas have attempted to present the history of South Africa from the earliest times in pictures. The object was to record the share of every section of the people in our chequered history by means of illustrations, and the compilers have not confined themselves to important figures only, but have tried to depict a little of the everyday life of bygone days." £20.00 / R330

TRANSVAAL 109. De Waal, J. B.: Die rol van João Albasini in die geskiedenis van die Transvaal

[Archives Year Book for South African History, Sixteenth Year, Volume I] (Pretoria: Ministry of Education, Arts and Science, Union of South Africa, 1953) WITH 'Die verhouding tussen Kerk en Staat in die Republiek van die Oranje-Vrystaat (1854-1902)', by J. D. Kriel, AND, 'Beutler's Expedition into the Eastern Cape, 1752', by Vernon S. Forbes. Archives Year Book for South African History, Sixteenth Year, Volume I. Large 8vo; original dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; pp. (xii) + 323; portrait plate; five maps, largely folding. Cloth very slightly rubbed; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. The first 160 or so pages are devoted to De Waal's work on Albasini, the next 115 or so pages to Kriel's analysis of Church-State relations in the Orange Free State Republic, and around 50 pages are given to the Forbes account of Beutler's journey. Two

works in Afrikaans, and one in English. £30.00 / R495 110. Gutsche, Thelma: Old Gold. The History of the Wanderers Club (Cape Town:

Howard Timmins, 1966) 4to; original brown rexine, lettered in gilt on spine and with club device in blind to upper cover; no dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. (x) + 206, incl. index; photographs; line drawings. Bump to bottom fore-corner of upper board; earlier owner's name signed on frontis. recto; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. "The Wanderers Club began with Johannesburg and its fortunes rose and fell with those of the Golden City. The story of the sportsmen who created and preserved it through many misfortunes is a story of wars and revolutions, strikes and fires, bullets and explosions. The men who found their recreation on its fields and broke sporting records, were often players in a wider drama, much of which actually took place on the famous grounds. The history of the Wanderers Club is bound up with the history of the Transvaal and has for decades been a beacon in the international sporting world. Its story is a human drama of great personalities who were as much pioneers of South Africa as enthusiastic sportsmen." £5.00 / R83

TRAVEL 111. Gwynn, Stephen: Mungo Park and the Quest of the Niger (London: John Lane the

Bodley Head Limited, 1934) 8vo; original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, with black sailing ship device blocked to upper cover; tinted top edge; pp. 269, incl. index; plates; two maps. Scattered, light foxing; pages opened. Very good condition. A volume in The Golden Hind series. "Mungo Park is in some ways almost a figure of legend; I have often found his name confused with that of Marco Polo who goes back into time almost medieval, whereas Mungo really belongs to the nineteenth century just as much as did his friend and neighbour Sir Walter Scott. But it is difficult for us to realise that less than a hundred and fifty years ago no white man had set eyes on the Niger and geographers still disputed whether it flowed from the West or from the East; and that

barely more than a century has passed since Lander completing Park's task made precarious passage down a waterway now as well known as the Hooghly." £8.50 / R140

112. McEwen, Frank (introduction), and E. E. Burke (catalogue notes): Souvenir

Catalogue of the Thomas Baines Exhibition, May 14th to July 17th 1960 (Salisbury: Rhodes National Gallery, 1960) 253 x 204 mm; pictorial wrappers; unpaginated (but pp. 42); illustrations, largely in monochrome; map. Wrappers a little curled and rubbed, with crease to upper cover; one or two fox spots. Good condition. "At last artists and historians are beginning to perceive Thomas Baines in a new light - in which he appears on a different, greater plane than before, holding a place amongst creative artists of his generation. This new-found conception of Baines interests the artistic world. At the same time nothing can detract from, but can only add to the magnitude of this almost legendary figure, who navigated his way over unknown Africa in the heroic days of European penetration. Baines was that legendary figure. A gun in one hand and a paint brush in the other, warrior, hunter, artist, surrounded by untold dangers and difficulties, he entered the heart of an obscure continent." £17.50 / R289

113. Norwich, Oscar I.: Maps of Africa. An illustrated and annotated carto-

bibliography (Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, 1983) 4to; original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; decorative endpapers; pp. 444, incl. index; profusely illustrated with pictures of old maps, some of which in full colour. Small piece torn from bottom edge of dustwrapper's upper panel; earlier owner's bookplate to fly-leaf; some faint foxing to edges. Very good condition. "This book, the result of many years collecting and research, is designed to provide an illustrated guide to maps of Africa for collectors as well as for those with a more general interest in the art. The maps are all individually illustrated, each with its own carto-bibliography. They have been subdivided into sections dealing with the Continent of Africa, Southern Africa, the Cape of Good Hope, Sea Charts, North, East and West Africa, and Islands, Town Plans and Ports." £85.00 / R1403

114. Park, Mungo: Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed under the

Direction and Patronage of the African Association in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797 (London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for the Author, 1799) Bookplate of Earl of Guilford, Wroxton Abbey, to front pastedown. First edition. 4to; near-contemporary full

mottled calf; gilt-ruled compartment effect to spine, with gilt-on-black lettering piece to second 'compartment', and gilt centres to the remainder; pp. xxviii + 372 + xcii + (vi); six plates, incl. folding; three folding maps, one of which with routes in colours; two leaves of music. Extremities rubbed; corners turned; some moderate foxing, particularly adjacent to engraved plates; some offset from bookplate and plates, as usual; some archival tape repairs to plates; old tape marks to front free endpaper and to reverse of two maps. Very good condition. (PMM 394) "Park was the first European of modern times to reach the Niger. He explored it in two journeys in 1795 and 1805, suffering great hardship. When attacked by natives he was drowned in 1805, after exploring the river as far as Boussa. Park stimulated the many others who followed him by the publication of this book in 1799. It

became a classic of travel literature, being translated into most European languages. His scientific observations on the botany and meteorology and on the social and domestic life of the Negroes of the region have remained of lasting value." - Printing and the Mind of Man. John Keay, in an introduction to a later edition of this work, further explains its appeal thus: "Unlike most other solitary travellers he would never be accused of exaggeration. There is evidence that he in fact suppressed some details because they were so horrific they might strain credulity. This transparent honesty is part of the book's charm. Complemented by the simplicity of an 'unvarnished' style it proves hard to resist. The greatest paradox of all is that a man so remote in life should have become the one traveller with whom some five generations of readers have happily identified." £395.00 / R6518

115. Pearse, R. O, (original author), and James Byrom (revision): Barrier of Spears.

Drama of the Drakensberg (Durban: Art Publishers, 2006) Photography by Malcolm L Pearse and others. 4to; original black boards, lettered in blind to spine and upper cover; laminated pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pictorial endpapers; pp. 395, incl. index; profusely illustrated with colour photographs of Drakensberg scenery, historical photographs and artwork; detailed colour maps. Fine condition. "Since Barrier of Spears was first published in 1973 there have been considerable moves towards conservation of the Drakensberg - most of it is now a World Heritage Site. The intervening years have seen advances in

knowledge, scientific names have changed, and management and its criteria have been radically altered. All these developments are incorporated by James Byrom in this fully revised edition. ... More than 30 years ago the Mountain Club of South Africa Journal described Barrier of Spears as 'more than a book. It is a monument'. We are sure that you will agree!" £35.00 / R578

116. Perham, Margery, and J. Simmons: African Discovery: an anthology of

exploration (London: Faber and Faber, 1942) 8vo; original black cloth over limp boards (wartime economy standards), lettered in gilt on spine; dustwrapper; pp. 280, incl. index; plates; maps, incl. folding. Dustwrapper edgeworn, with tape remnants to reverse, and tail of spine panel somewhat abraded; boards mottled and somewhat worn; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; moderate foxing throughout. Fair to good condition. "In African Discovery Miss Perham and Mr. Simmons have brought between the covers of a single book a superb collection of the most significant and the most dramatic passages from the records and diaries of the great

British explorers in Africa. The period covered begins with Bruce's journey to Ethiopia in 1769 and ends with the death of Livingstone in 1873." £5.00 / R83

117. Sterling, Thomas: Exploration of Africa (London: Cassell, 1964) Large 8vo; pictorial boards; pictorial endpapers; pp. 153, incl. index; profusely illustrated with contemporary artwork; some maps. Light bump to tail of spine; moderate foxing to edges and outermost leaves, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good. Useful introduction to the entire subject. The book could serve as the basis for launching a collection of African exploration titles. £5.00 / R83

118. Thomson, A. A., and Dorothy Middleton: Lugard in Africa (London: Robert Hale,

1959) 8vo; original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; no dustwrapper; pp. 189, incl. index; plates; maps. Cover very slightly worn; spine gilt dull; library code to tail of spine, some codes, hand-stamps elsewhere, and label remnants to rear endpaper; occasional light foxing. Good. "Perhaps 'administrator' is the wrong label for Lugard, suggesting the office stool, and later the proconsular armchair. For he learned about Africa the hard way, from actual physical contact; from her red mud on his boots; from her poisoned thorns in his flesh; from her myriad raging fevers in his blood; and from wounds received in battle against Arab slave-raiders. He covered hundreds of miles of every kind of wild terrain: deep forests, treacherous swamps, unbridged

rivers in spate, rugged mountain tracks, lakes the size of great inland seas, and deserts of limitless, eye-searing sand. All the time of his venturing he had but two objects in mind: to break the power of the slavers, and to add to his Queen's dominions territories where peace and freedom should reign." £6.50 / R107