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Auction #131 begins on 21 May 2026

Walton (James)

OLD CAPE FARMSTEADS & BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PUBLISHED WORKS OF JAMES WALTON - SIGNED

Published: Human & Rousseau, Cape Town, 1989 & 1998

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $75

Approximately:

Estimate: $100

Bidding opens: 21 May 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 28 May 16:30 GMT

Ships from: South Africa

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Signed on the title page with the wording "With the compliments of James Walton".

147 pp. Blue boards with white titling to the front cover and spine, and covered with a pictorial dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with b/w illustrations of buildings, maps, architectural plans and building details, and with blue pictorial endpapers. The dust jacket is a little edge worn with creasing at the bottom left of the back cover. The blue boards has some wear to the bottom edges where white is showing through.

In the first four chapters of this book, James Walton traces the possible origins of Cape rural architecture and outlines its development during the first two hundred years of European settlement. In subsequent sections he deals with aspects of Cape rural vernacular architecture which have previously received scant recognition, such as the longhouses, corbelled buildings and other buildings of the Karoo sheep farmer, and wine cellars. In so doing, he describes all types of building which make up the Cape farmstead, ranging from the ornate manor houses to wolwehokke and soap houses.
 
In collecting material for the book, the author travelled thousands of kilometres and most of the two hundred and eighty illustrations are the result of those travels, although many historic photographs by Arthur Elliott and drawings by Alys Fane Trotter, Johann Christian Friderici, Johannes Mulder and E. V. Stade are also reproduced.
 
Source: Dust jacket

The bibliography is 18 pages with the matching blue cover. It is also signed with the words: "With the compliments of James Walton". The cover is crisp, clean, and structurally sound with no fading, creasing, or edge-wear. Internal pages are very good. 

This is a pristine, presentation copy of Walton’s comprehensive bibliography, documenting his 200+ architectural and historical papers.

  • Jacket Condition: Good
  • Binding Condition: Good
  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: 255 x 210 mm & 200 x 140 mm


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