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Auction #130 begins on 09 Apr 2026

Auction #130 - Africana

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Lot 31

Landor (Walter Savage)

IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS

Signed by Olive Schreiner and dated 1886 Associated with Havelock Ellis and Schreiner

Lot 32

Roskell (Arthur H.)

SIX YEARS OF A TRAMP'S LIFE IN SOUTH AFRICA

First edition (1886)

Lot 33

One Who Has Visited The Fields

THE DIAMOND FIELDS OF SOUTH AFRICA; with Notes of Journey there and Homeward, & some things about Diamonds and other Jewels (1872)

Lot 34

Calvert (Albert Frederick)

GERMAN EAST AFRICA (1917)

Lot 35

Adams (William)

'VOYAGER AND TRAVELLER' Vol I - Africa

"The Modern Voyager and Traveller through Asia, Africa & America" (1834)

Lot 36

Worsfold (W. Basil)

THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA (1913)

With chapters on Rhodesia and the Native Territories of the High Comission.

Lot 38

Jorissen (Eduard Johan Pieter)

CODEX VAN DE LOCALE WETTEN DER ZUID-AFRIKAANSCHE REPUBLIEK (1894)

Codex of the Local Laws of the South African Republic with the Constitutions of the South African Republic of 1858 and 1889 included.

Lot 41

Ashe (E. Oliver)

BESIEGED BY THE BOERS

First edition. A diary of the siege of Kimberley by a surgeon of the Kimberley hospital

Lot 42

Latrobe (Rev. C.I.)

JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA IN 1815 AND 1816

Limited edition (facsimile reprint) No. 917 of 1000 With some account of the missionary settlements of the United Brethren near the Cape of Good Hope

Lot 43

Bell (Frederick William)

THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONSPIRACY; OR, THE AIMS OF AFRIKANERDOM (1900) (Presentation copy)

Lot 45

Cumming (Roualeyn Gordon)

FIVE YEARS' ADVENTURES IN THE FAR INTERIOR OF SOUTH AFRICA

The Lion Hunter in South Africa with notices of the native tribes and savage animals

Lot 51

Angove (John)

IN THE EARLY DAYS

The reminiscences of pioneer life on the South African diamond fields

Lot 53

Gray (Sir John)

HISTORY OF ZANZIBAR FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO 1856

First edition first impression with dust jacket.

Lot 54

De Kiewiet (C. W.)

THE IMPERIAL FACTOR IN SOUTH AFRICA (1937)

Lot 55

Enes (Antonio)

MOZAMBIQUE (1946)

Report presented to the government by Antonio Enes (first published in 1893).

Lot 60

Muller (Hendrik P.N.)

THE LAND AND PEOPLE BETWEEN THE ZAMBESI AND THE LIMPOPO (1894)

An account of Zambesia, Rhodesia, and Portuguese East Africa at the close of the nineteenth century. With color folding map.

Lot 63

Cipolla (Arnaldo)

IN THE LAND OF GOLD AND DIAMONDS (1930)

Tanganyika, Zanzibar, Comoros and Madagascar, Madeira, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Orange, Natal, Rhodesia.

Lot 86

Colenso (Rt. Rev. John William)

TRIAL OF BISHOP COLENSO FOR ERRONEOUS TEACHING (1863)

Lot 98

Cape Provincial Institute of Architects:

THE BUILDINGS OF CENTRAL CAPE TOWN, VOLUMES. 1, 2 & 3:

Lot 114

Stewart (J.), Linder (H.P.), Schelpe (E.A.) and Hall (A.V.)

WILD ORCHIDS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

Lot 149

MacKenzie, (John M.) & Dalziel, (Nigel R.)

THE SCOTS IN SOUTH AFRICA:

ethnicity, identity, gender and race, 1772-1914

Lot 151

Merriman, (Nathaniel James)

PASSAGES OF MISSIONARY LIFE FROM THE JOURNALS OF THE VENERABLE ARCHDEACON MERRIMAN:

the K____, the Hottentot and the frontier farmer

Lot 152

Bleek, (W.H.I.) & Engelbrecht, (J.A.) [editors]

ZULU LEGENDS;

edited by J.A. Engelbrecht

Lot 153

Bleek, (W.H.I.) & Lloyd, (L.C.) [compilers]

THE MANTIS AND HIS FRIENDS:

Bushman folklore; collected by the late W.H.I. Bleek & the late Lucy Lloyd; edited by D.F. Bleek

Lot 154

Witbooi, (Hendrik) & Voigts, (Gustav)

DIE DAGBOEK VAN HENDRIK WITBOOI:

Kaptein van die Witbooi-Hottentotte, 1884-1905…; met 'n voorwoord deur Gustav Voigts

Lot 157

Mouton, (Annalize)

STANFORD 150:

portrait of a village; text & photographs by Annalize Mouton

Lot 165

Bunbury (Charles J. F.)

JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

With excursions into the interior, and notes on the natural history, and the native tribes

Lot 170

Bird (John)

THE ANNALS OF NATAL 1495 to 1845 (1888)

Former copies of Sarah Goldblatt, first Afrikaans female poet, literary editor of C. J. Langenhoven's writing, and a founding member of SANLAM

Lot 171

Van Riebeeck (Jan)

DAGVERHAAL VAN JAN VAN RIEBEEK, COMMANDEUR AAN DE KAAP DE GOEDE HOOP (1884, 1892, 1893) - 3 VOLS.

Lot 175

Moberly (G. S.)

A CITY SET ON A HILL - A History of Eshowe (1970) - inscribed by author

South African Town History

Lot 203

Distant (W.L.)

A NATURALIST IN THE TRANSVAAL

With coloured plates and original illustrations

Lot 216

Fitzpatrick, Sir Percy

JOCK OF THE BUSHVELD

illustrated by E. Caldwell

Lot 223

Smith (Anna)

JOHANNESBURG STREET NAMES

A Dictionary of street, suburb and other place-names compiled to the end of 1968

Lot 230

The South African Railways

WE FOUGHT THE MILES

The History of the South African Railways at War 1939-1945

Lot 234

Mursalo (T.A.)

IN SEARCH OF A BETTER LIFE

A Story of Croatian Settlers in Southern Africa

Lot 235

Paton (Alan)

KONTAKION FOR YOU DEPARTED (Signed)

Lot 237

Stoker (HM)

OFFICIAL YEAR BOOK OF THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA AND OF BASUTOLAND, BECHUANALAND PROTECTORATE AND SWAZILAND N0 30 1960

Lot 238

Pearse (GE)

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FURNITURE IN SOUTH AFRICA

Lot 239

Potgieter (TD), Sleigh (D), Seemann (UA), Webb (DA), Davey (AM) & Linder (A)

CAPE MILITARY MUSEUM SIX TITLES FROM THE SET

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