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Lot 16
Paterson (Lieutenant William)
A NARRATIVE OF FOUR JOURNEYS INTO THE COUNTRY OF THE HOTTENTOTS AND CAFFRARIA
In the years one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, eight and nine. Illustrated with a map and seventeen copper-plates.
Lot 17
Leyland (J.)
ADVENTURES IN THE FAR INTERIOR OF SOUTH AFRICA
including a Journey to Lake Ngami and Rambles in Honduras, to which is appended a short treatise on the best mode of skinning and preserving birds, animals, etc.,…
Lot 18
Graham (Maria)
JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE IN INDIA
Lot 19
Fernyhough (Thomas)
MILITARY MEMOIRS OF FOUR BROTHERS (1829) - author's inscription & with notes indicating this was working copy for another edition
Contains the author's scarce and valuable first-hand account of the capture of the Cape of Good Hope in 1806.
Lot 20
Paton (Alan)
CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY (1948) - SIGNED
A very scarce PERIOD-SIGNED first edition of the author's classic novel.
Lot 21
[Richardson (John F.), van Velden (Nelia), Davidson (Anthony D.) (compilers)]
SURVIVAL: WILDLIFE ENCOUNTERS - OUT OF AFRICA (1990) - limited collectors' edition
The Directors' Collection Series
Lot 22
de Drée (Stéphane)
VOYAGE AUX MINES DE DIAMANTS DANS LE SUD DE L'AFRIQUE 1872-1877 [1878]
"Journey to the Diamond Mines of Southern Africa 1872-1877"
Lot 23
Chilvers (Hedley A.)
THE STORY OF DE BEERS (1939)
Lot 24
Taylor (The Rev. Isaac)
SCENES IN AFRICA, FOR THE AMUSEMENT AND INSTRUCTION OF LITTLE TARRY-AT-HOME TRAVELLERS (1820)
Contains 84 hand-coloured copperplate engravings
Lot 25
Ivanoff (Victor)
DIE TWEEDE WÊRELD-OORLOG IN SPOTPRENTE "The Second World War in Cartoons" (1946)
Lot 26
Christie (Agatha)
1.) A POCKET FULL OF RYE (1953) & 2.) 4.50 FROM PADDINGTON (1957)
Two vintage Miss Marple detective novels in first edition
Lot 27
Worsfold (W. Basil)
PORTUGUESE NYASSALAND (1899)
First edition, first impression copy with red cloth covers with gilt crest vignette of the Nyassa Company Royal Charter and with a two large multiple folding maps.
Lot 28
His Majesty's Stationery Office
A MANUAL OF PORTUGUESE EAST AFRICA (1920)
A scarce book with a lot about Mozambique Company, Zambezia Company, Nyassa Company, and mining in Portuguese East Africa.
Lot 29
Krenkel (Erich)
GEOLOGY OF AFRICA [3 volumes] (1925-1938)
Second volume is completely about South African geology.
Lot 30
Schatz (Ilse)
TSUMEB IN OTAVI MINING & RAILWAY COMPANY'S TIME (1997)
The foresight of the founder of the Tsumeb Museum on the Tsumeb Mine (Ongopolo Mine) in Namibia.
