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ALBERTI, Ludwig. Account of the tribal life & customs of the Xhosa in 1807. Translated by William Fehr from the original manuscript in German of The Kaffirs of the South coast of Africa. Cape Town, A.A. Balkema, 1968. Cloth. With 2 plates and 4 coloured folding plates. XIV,117 pp. The first comprehensive and balanced account of Bantu tribal life. [Boeknr.: 35112 ]

€ 40,00

ANDERSSON, Charles John. Lake Ngami; or, explorations and discoveries, during four years' wanderings in the wilds of South Western Africa. Second edition. London, Hurst & Blackett, 1856.Contemporary half calf, with red morocco title label to spine. With large folding map and tinted frontispiece,15 tinted lithographed plates and several woodengraved illustrations. XVIII,546 pp. First edition published the same year. - 'The narrative describes two expeditions, one in which the author was accompanied by Francis Galton, which extended to Nangoro's Werft in the Ovampo country, and the other when he travelled by himself to Lake Ngami. The courage and endurance of the explorers were remarkable, and their sufferings from the death of water were at times very terrible. Few, if any, books give so full and complete an account of Namaqualand, Damaraland, and the Ovampo country and the description of the fauna of these countries is absolutely unequalled' (Mendelssohn I, p 41) .'A cornerstone book of African hunting in the mid-19th century. The London edition is more desirable with its large tinted plates and map (Czech p 6-7). - A fine copy.Gay 3128. [Boeknr.: 36772 ]

€ 875,00

BACKHOUSE, James. A narrative of a visit to the Mauritius and South Africa. London, Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1844.Original embossed cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With folding map of Mauritius, large folding map of South Africa, 16 etched plates and 28 woodengravings. XVI,628,LVI pp. First edition. - The book is in the form of a diary, and the author seems to have traversed every part of South Africa where there was a mission station or a missionary. In this way he appears to have met almost every prominent man connected with mission work in South Africa at his time. The volume commences with an account of the author's visit to Mauritius, where he stayed about three months. There is a good description of Kaffraria, and of the Basuto, Griqua and Bechuana countries, and the account of the Cape Colony affords valuable information concerning the first part of the nineteenth century (Mendelssohn p.62). It contains vivid descriptions of the people he encountered, particularly the indigenous communities and those involved in the slave trade, which he found revolting and unchristian. Throughout the volume there are ample descriptions of the flora of the country. - A rich and personal account - Fine.Hess & Coger 5155. [Boeknr.: 34996 ]

€ 295,00

BACKHOUSE, James. A narrative of a visit to the Mauritius and South Africa. London, Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1844.Later half red morocco, spine lettered in gilt. With folding map of Mauritius (mounted on linen), large folding map of South Africa (mounted on linen), 16 etched plates and 28 woodengravings. XVI,628,LVI pp. First edition. - The book is in the form of a diary, and the author seems to have traversed every part of South Africa where there was a mission station or a missionary. In this way he appears to have met almost every prominent man connected with mission work in South Africa at his time. The volume commences with an account of the author's visit to Mauritius, where he stayed about three months. There is a good description of Kaffraria, and of the Basuto, Griqua and Bechuana countries, and the account of the Cape Colony affords valuable information concerning the first part of the nineteenth century (Mendelssohn p.62). It contains vivid descriptions of the people he encountered, particularly the indigenous communities and those involved in the slave trade, which he found revolting and unchristian. Throughout the volume there are ample descriptions of the flora of the country. - A rich and personal account. - Fine.Hess & Coger 5155. [Boeknr.: 36713 ]

€ 350,00

BAGNALL, A. Gordon. Wines of South Africa. An account of their history, their production and their nature. Cape Town, Paarl, 1961. Boards. With illustrations by Roman Waher. 95 pp. With bookplate of James Hamilton Russell, signed by the author. [Boeknr.: 35093 ]

€ 25,00

BAIN, Andrew Geddes. Journals of Andrew Geddes Bain. Trader, explorer, soldier, road engineer and geologist. Cape Town, 1949. Cloth. With maps and plates. XXXIX, 264 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, first series, 30. - Andrew Geddes Bain is best known for his building of Cape roads and passes. His diaries, from 1826 to the 1840s, were both working journals and accounts of his experiences and descriptions of the people he encountered in the course of his work. This volume includes his chronicle of his journey in 1826 to the northern Cape. [Boeknr.: 32780 ]

€ 25,00

BAINES, Thomas. Explorations in South-West Africa. Being an account of a journey in the years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch Bay, on the western coast, to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls. London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1864.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. With coloured lithographed frontispiece, 3 folding lithographed maps, and 34 woodengraved plates and illustrations. XIV,535 pp. First edition. - Thomas Baines (1820-1875) travelled with James Chapman from Walvis Bay via Lake Ngami to the Victoria Falls, which he and Chapman were among the first seven white men to see. 'The journey was started on March 20, 1861, and the author was joined by his fellow-traveller, Mr.J. Chapman, on the 20th of July. The volume contains an interesting account of hunting and exploration in the country of the Namaquas and Damaras, and the illustrations are very spirited; there is a good description of the flora and fauna of the country, together with an account of the habits of the natives' (Mendelssohn I, p.69). Thomas Baines became one of the great African travellers (Gordon-Brown p. 118). - (Small library stamp on titlepage). SAB I, p.113; Czech p.9; Hess & Coger 4815. [Boeknr.: 36773 ]

€ 1850,00

BALEN, Johan Hendrik van. Diamanten en paarlen. Avonturen van vier ontsnapte krijgsgevangen Boeren op Ceylon. Haarlem, A. van der Heide, 1902.Original decorated cloth with gilt lettering. With 4 plates by P. van Looy. IV,176 pp. Children's book on the adventures of four escaped prisoners of war Boers from South Africa on Ceylon.SAB I, p.118. [Boeknr.: 37561 ]

€ 45,00

BAREND-VAN HAEFTEN, M. & B. PAASMAN. (Red.). De Kaap: Goede Hoop halverwege Indië. Bloemlezing van Kaapteksten uit de Compagniestijd. Hilversum, Verloren, 2003. Wrappers. With illustrations. 192 pp. [Boeknr.: 24034 ]

€ 20,00

BAREND-VAN HAEFTEN, M. & E.S. van EYCK VAN HESLIN. (Red.). Op reis met de VOC. De openhartige dagboeken van de zusters Lammens en Swellengrebel. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 1996. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. 179 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging XCV. - Detailed journals of Johanna en Helena Swellengrebel (1751) and of Maria and Johanna Lammens (1736) describing how they spend the day reading, playing games and making music, which copious meals they are served, and what their impressions are of life at the Cape of Good Hope. [Boeknr.: 16049 ]

€ 25,00

BARNARD, Anne. South Africa a century ago (1797-1801). Selected and edited by H.J. Anderson. With an introduction by A.C.G. Lloyd. Cape Town, Maskew Miller, (1925). Original blue cloth (stained), with paper title label to spine. With plates. XXVIII,231 pp. Part I. Letters written from the Cape of Good Hope. Part II Extracts from a journal, addressed to her sisters in England. She was the wife to the secretary of the first British governor of the Cape giving a unique view of life at the Cape at the end of the 18th century.Robinson, Wayward women, p.202. [Boeknr.: 35078 ]

€ 35,00

BAX, D. & C. KOEMAN. Argitektoniese skoonheid in Kaapstad se kompanjiestuin 1777 - 1805. With a summary in English. Kaapstad, Tafelberg-Uitgewers, 1963. Oblong 8vo. Cloth, lettered in gilt. With 41 illustrations and plates. 112 pp. [Boeknr.: 35034 ]

€ 45,00

BAX, D. Het oudste Kaapse zilver 1669-1751. Met gegevens over zilveren voorwerpen verkregen in de 17de, 18de en 19de eeuw door die kerkelijke gemeenten en instellingen van Compagnie en burgerij welke reeds voor 1752 aan de Kaap bestonden. Summary in English. Amsterdam, Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij, 1974. 8vo. Wrappers. With 28 photographic illustrations. 208 pp. - (VKA). [Boeknr.: 11583 ]

€ 35,00

BAX, D. n' Pastelportret deur Piter Willem Regnault, tekenaar en tuinier in Kaapstad, 1753-1765. Amsterdam, N.V. Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij, 1969. Wrappers. With folding plate. 20 pp. - (KNAW). [Boeknr.: 6454 ]

€ 15,00

BELL, Nancy R. Heroes of discovery in South Africa. London, Walter Scott, (1899).Original decorated cloth, a.e.g. With numerous woodengraved illustrations. 418 pp. First edition. - A fine copy. SAB I, p.168. [Boeknr.: 37219 ]

€ 65,00

BERNARDIN DE SAINT PIERRE, Jacques Henri. A voyage to the island of Mauritius (or Isle of France), the Isle of Bourbon, the Cape of Good Hope, &c. With observations and reflections upon nature and mankind. By a French officer. Translated from the French by John Parish. London, W. Griffin, 1775.Modern half leather. (12), 291 pp. First English edition, first published in Amsterdam, Paris in 1773: Voyage à l' isle de France, à l'isle de Bourbon, au Cape de Bonne Espérance, etc. . - This work was written by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737-1814), the author of the well-known romance Paul et Virginie (1788). It contains a vivid description of life in Mauritius where Bernardin de Saint Pierre resided as an engineer for the French crown from July 1768 to November 1770. The author criticised the brutality of slavery on the island and as a result, his book was refuted and ridiculed as soon as it was published. Nevertheless, even though his observations were undoubtedly influenced by his being ardently anti-slavery, it is likely that his description of the cruelty displayed towards slaves on the island was accurate (The Paolo Bianci Collection 44). In the latter part of 1771 the author visited Cape Town (on his homeward voyage), where he was entertained by governor Tulbagh, whom he describes as an able and affable man of eighty years of age. There is a somewhat pleasing account of the Cape Colony and its inhabitants. Reference is made to the paucity of the European population, and it is observed that 'Holland perhabs .. fears the aggrandising of this colony, preferable in every respect to the mother country' (Mendelssohn II, p.263). Including visits to and descriptions of Île Bourbon (Réunion) and Ascension Island. - (Some foxing). - Sacrce.Ryckebusch I, p. 49-50; Gay 3264. [Boeknr.: 36860 ]

€ 950,00

BEYERS, Coenraad. Die Kaapse patriotte 1779-1791. Kaapstad, Juta & Kie, (1929). Cloth. XVII,260 pp. [Boeknr.: 16714 ]

€ 35,00

BIEWENGA, Ad. De Kaap de Goede Hoop. Een Nederlandse vestigingskolonie, 1680-1730. Amsterdam, Prometheus & Bert Bakker, 1999. Wrappers. With illustrations. 346 pp. [Boeknr.: 21169 ]

€ 25,00

BOTHA, Colin Graham. The Public Archives of South Africa 1652-1910. Cape Town, Cape Times Limited, 1928. Cloth, spine lettered in gilt. IX,108 pp. - First edition. [Boeknr.: 35092 ]

€ 45,00

BRADLOW, Frank R. The Van Riebeeck Society 1918-1978. Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, 1978. Wrappers. 18 pp. [Boeknr.: 34557 ]

€ 15,00

(BRINK, Carel Frederik). Nouvelle description du Cap de Bonne-Espérance, avec un journal historique d'un voyage de terre, fait par ordre du gouverneur .. Ryk Tulbagh dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, par une caravane de quatre-vingt-cinq personnes, sous le commandement du captain Henri Hop. Amsterdam, J.H. Schneider, 1778.2 volumes in 1. Contemporary half calf, spine lettered in gilt. With engraved printer's device on title-page 16 engraved folding plates depicting animals. (8),130; 100 pp. First French edition, first published in Dutch the same year. - Ryk Tulbagh (1699 - 1771), Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony from 1751 to 1771 under the Dutch East India Company (VOC), stimulated exploration of South Africa, including this expedition. The first part of the work contains a description of the Cape and the Hottentots, edited by J.N.S. Allamand, professor at Leiden and J.C. Klöckner, a physician residing at Amsterdam. The second part is a journal kept on a journey to Namaqualand which extended from July 16, 1761, to April 27, 1762. The party was led by Hendrik Hop, captain from Stellenbosch. Other members included Carel Frederik Brink to keep the journal, and Jacobus Coetsé as a guide. Including reports on the fauna, natives and minerals. Theal observes that these reports were drawn up by men who 'were diligent observers. This document is therefore not only highly interesting, but of great permanent worth'. - A fine copy of a fascinating account of the Cape of Good Hope.Tiele 118; Cat. NHSM I, p.207; Mendelssohn I, p.185-186; SAB I, p.283; Rookmaaker, The zoological exploration of Southern Africa 1650-1790, p.36-37; Kennedy, Africana Repository, p.66-67; South Africa in print 61. [Boeknr.: 37122 ]

€ 2650,00

BRYCE, James. Impressions of South Africa. London, Macmillan and Co., 1897.Original red cloth (soiled), spine lettered in gilt. With 3 folding coloured maps. XXV,604 pp. First edition printed in the same year. - There are several chapters on the geography, vegetation and fauna of South Africa, together with a synopsis of the history of the native and European races; most of the important towns and industries are described, and there is an account of Basutoland and Rhodesia (Mendelssohn I, p.209).SAB I, p.318. [Boeknr.: 35003 ]

€ 65,00

BUNBURY, Charles J.F. Journal of a residence at the Cape of Good Hope, with excursions into the interior, and notes of the natural history and the native tribes. London, John Murray, 1848.Original embossed cloth. With frontispiece depicting Table Bay from the sea and 4 plates. XII,297,(3) pp. First edition. - Charles Bunbury accompanied his friend, Sir George Napier, the governor of the Cape Colony, on his voyage to Africa in 1837, and remained there for 14 months during which time he busied himself with botanical research, travelling over a considerable part of South Africa (Mendelssohn I, p.222). - A fine copy.SAB I, p.328. [Boeknr.: 1445 ]

€ 225,00

BURTON, Alfred Richard Edward. Cape colony for the settler. An account of its urban and rural industries, their probable future development and extension. London, P.S. King & Son, Cape Town, J.C. Juta & Co, 1903.Original pictorial cloth gilt. With 8 folding coloured maps and 29 plates. X,355 and 48 pp. with advertisements. First edition; with bookplate of I. & F.W. Hosken. - The volume contains a description of the Cape Colony, with data of every kind, articles upon agriculture, viticulture, and many notes and hints for the benefit of farmers new to the country. A detailed account is given of each division in the Cape, with appendices which traverse almost every subject which might need the attention or investigation of new-comers (Mendelssohn I, p.233). - A fine copy.SAB I, p.342. [Boeknr.: 35008 ]

€ 75,00

CAILLE, Nicolas Louis de la. Travels at the Cape 1751-53. An annotated translation of Journal historique du voyage fait au Cap de Bonne-Espérance into which has been interpolated relevant passages from Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences. Translated and edited by R. Raven-Hart. Cape Town, A.A. Balkema, 1976. Half leather. With 5 illustrations. VIII,52 pp. Limited edition. - Published for The Friends of the South African Library. [Boeknr.: 35146 ]

€ 45,00

CAMPBELL, John Kerr. Rambles in South Africa. The Cape, Natal and Transvaal. A record of holiday travel. London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1891.Original pictorial cloth. With woodengraved illustrations. 300 pp. First edition; with bookplate of I. & F.W. Hosken.. - Written in a strongly religious vein and includes many sermons, but considerable information is afforded concerning matters of general interest in South Africa at this period (Mendelssohn I, p. 257-258). - A nice copy.SAB I, p.375. [Boeknr.: 35015 ]

€ 65,00

CAMPBELL, John. Travels in South Africa, undertaken at the request of the London Missionary Society; being a narrative of a second journey in the interior of that country. London, Francis Westley, 1822.2 volumes. Later half morocco. With folding hand-coloured map (large part of map missing) and 12 hand-coloured aquatint plates after the author by Clark. XII,322; 370 pp. (pp.371-384 missing). With errata slip. First edition. - John Campbell (1766-1840), Scottish missionary and explorer, visited the missions in the Cape Colony and Kaffraria for the second time during his second journey in 1820. 'Few Englishmen at that time had performed such a feat, and on his return his appearances on missionary platforms in London and throughout the country were received with enthusiasm' (DNB). His narrative of his second journey is ' highly valued for their attractive coloured aquantint plates' (Gordon-Brown Pictorial Affricana, p.134). - (Aged-browned).Mendelssohn I, p.255-256; SAB I, p.375; Abbey, Travel, 328; Tooley, Coloured plates, 127; Howgego II, p.105-106. [Boeknr.: 27498 ]

€ 350,00

CAMPBELL, John. Travels in South Africa. Undertaken at the request of the London Missionary Society. London, printed for the author by T. Rutt, 1815.Contemporary half calf, (skilfully rebacked), spine lettered in gilt. With frontispiece portrait of the author holding an umbrella, folding hand-coloured map and 9 engraved plates. XV,(1),582 pp. First edition. - John Campbell (1766-1840), Scottish missionary and explorer, arrived at the Cape in 1812. He inspected the settlements of the London Missionary Society and returned to England with his reports of the colony and its hinterland in 1814. Campbell provides a great deal of information in the appendix including prayers in native languages. 'Few Englishmen at that time had performed such a feat, and on his return his appearances on missionary platforms in London and throughout the country were received with enthusiasm' (DNB). He made contact with several tribes previously unreached and named many rivers, villages, mountains, lakes and other topographical features. Campbell was a key player in the opposition to the slave trade. - A fine copy of Campbell's first journey.Mendelssohn I, p.254 (3rd ed. only); SAB I, p.374; Howgego II, p.105-106. [Boeknr.: 34992 ]

€ 975,00

CANA, Frank R. South Africa from the Great Trek to the Union. London, Chapman & Hall, 1909. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering (stained). With 2 folding maps. X,340 pp. First edition. - Mendelssohn I, p.260; SAB I, p.379. [Boeknr.: 25107 ]

€ 30,00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Le Cape de Bonne Esperance. Paris, Daumont, (ca. 1780).Contemporary handcoloured perspective view (vue d'optique or Guckkastenbild) depicting the Cape of Good Hope by Jan van Ryne. Ca. 25,5 x 41 cm. Fine optical view by the Dutch artist Jan van Ryne (ca. 1712-1760), he was believed to have worked in London about 1752-54, when he made an interesting engraving of Table Mountain and Bay, first published by Robert Sayer of Fleet St., London, in 1754, and provided the basis from which other prints were made, one being engraved in reverse in Paris (Gordon-Brown, Pictorial Africana, p.234). We offer the French version of this very attractive view of the Cape of Good Hope from the sea showing the Table Mountain and the company's buildings and many ships in Table Bay. It was an obligatory stop for all European ships going to the Indian Ocean or returning from there to Europe. They stayed a long time to reprovision and to let their crews rest. - A fine engraving.Scheen II, p.277. [Boeknr.: 33550 ]

€ 450,00

CAPE TOWN. - CAPE TOWN AND SUBURBS. Cape Town, P. Schaefer & Co., (ca. 1900).Oblong 8vo. Original red cloth, with illustration of Cape Town harbour in gilt on front. With double-page panorama of Cape Town and 14 other coloured photographic views. The fine views depict the City Hall, Parliament House and The Avenue, Adderley Street (2), the entrance to the Castle, the Docks, Three Anchor Bay, Sea Point, Sea Point showing Lionshead, Victoria Road and the Twelve Apostles, Camps Bay, Groot Schuur Rondebosch, Muizenberg, and Kalk Bay and St. James. - Mint condition.SAB I, p.463. [Boeknr.: 30850 ]

€ 125,00

CAPE TOWN. - THE CITY OF CAPE TOWN. OFFICIAL GUIDE. Third edition. Authorized by the Council of the City of Cape Town. Cape Town, R. Beerman, 1954. Pictorial boards. With many photographed plates and advertisements. 264,(2) pp. [Boeknr.: 30961 ]

€ 35,00

CHENU DE CHALEZAC, Guillaume. Guillaume Chenu de Chalezac, the 'French boy'. The narrative of his experiences as a Huguenot refugee, as a castaway among the Xhosa, his rescue with the Stavenisse survivors by the Centaurus, his service at the Cape and return to Europe, 1686-9. Edited by Randolph Vigne. Cape Town, 1991. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. XXII,174 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 22. - The 15-year-old 'French boy' was wrecked on he Ciskei coast in 1687, and spent a year living in the household of a Xhosa chief. The worlds of the Huguenot diaspora, the great days of Indian Ocean trading, the Cape's pivotal position in the struggle for mastery, and the awakening interest of the Dutch in the 'Terra de Natal' form a many-layered basis to this first full account of the Xhosa and their way of life since European settlement in South Africa began. [Boeknr.: 34547 ]

€ 25,00

CHILVERS, Hedley A. The seven wonders of Southern Africa. Johannesburg, 1929. Cloth. With many illustrations and 18 coloured plates by Chas.E. Peers. XIII,386,(10) pp. Published by the Authority of the Administration of the Southern African Railways and Harbours. -1 The Victoria falls, 2 Zimbabwe, the temple of mystery, 3 The Rand goldfields, 4 the Premier mine, 5 The alluvial diamond fields, 6 The Bushmen, 7 The Cango caves. [Boeknr.: 35148 ]

€ 45,00

CHUN, Carl. Aus den tiefen des Weltmeeres. Schilderungen von der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. 2. ungearbeitete und stark vermehrte Auflage. Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1905.8vo. Original pictorial cloth. With 3 maps (1 folding map in rear), 6 coloured plates, 8 heliogravures, 32 plates and 482 illustrations. VI,592 pp. Second and best edition, first published in 1900. - Carl Chun (1852-1914) Leiter der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition aus dem Dampfer Valdiva. Ihr Reiseweg führte von Hamburg über die Färöer, die Kanarischen Inseln, die Kamerun-Bucht zur Kongo-Mündung und im weiten Bogen nach Kapstadt; von dort .. zum Eismeerrand. Dabei wurde Ende November 1898 die Bouvet-Insel wider aufgefunden .. Längst der Packeisgrenze wurde die Fährt ostwärts nach den Kerguelen fortgesetzt. Über Neu-Amsterdam und die Cocos-Insel ging es nach Sumatra, von wo aus der Indische Ozean ein zweites Mal, über die Nikobaren, Ceylon, die Chagos-Bank, die Seychellen, nach Daressalam durchschnitten wurde. Chuns Schilderung kan .. ohne Frage zu den Perlen geogrphischer Landschaftsdarstellung in der deutschen Litteratur gezählt werden (Henze I, p.568). - The first large-scale German expedition to explore the deep sea of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean (1898-1899).DAB I, p.542 [Boeknr.: 36737 ]

€ 275,00

CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. London, New York & Bombay, Longmans, Green and Co., 1900.Original pictorial cloth (back cover soiled; spine sl. dam.). With 4 maps (3 folding) and 4 plans. XIV,498; 32 pp. First edition was issued in London by Longmans, Green, and Co., also in 1900. - Churchill's record of the first five months of the Second Boer War. The correspondence of which this volume is composed appeared in the columns of the Morning Post, and extends from October 26, 1899, to March 10, 1900. The volume gives a detailed account of the Natal campaigns up to and including the relief of Ladysmith, and contains in all thirty-seven letters (Mendelssohn I, p.338).SAB I, p.548. [Boeknr.: 35006 ]

€ 295,00

CLOETE, Hendrik. Hendrik Cloete, Groot Constantia and the VOC 1778-1799. Documents from the Swellengrebel Archive. Edited and introduced by G.J. Schutte. English translation by N.O. van Gylswyk and D. Sleigh. Cape Town, 2003. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. XV,336 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 34. - Hendrik Cloete, the owner of Groot Constantia from 1778, extended the manor house and improved and marketed the celebrated Constantia wines. This volume, the correspondence between Cloete and Hendrik Swellengrebel jr follows his attempt o obtain the concession from the Dutch East India Company to freely trade and market his famous wines. This material enables the reader to take a close look behind the scenes of Cape politics and economic history and to learn of the daily life and work of the winemakers of Groot and Klein Constantia in the late eighteenth century. [Boeknr.: 34545 ]

€ 25,00

COLLIER, Joy. Portrait of Cape Town. Cape Town, Longmans, 1961. Half green calf. With illustrations by the author. 108 pp. 200 copies printed, signed by the artist. [Boeknr.: 35050 ]

€ 30,00

COLQUHOUN, Archibald R. The Africander land. London, John Murray, 1906.Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. With 4 coloured maps (1 folding). XI,438 pp. First edition. - The work deals with the native problem, and contains chapters discussing the religion, economic value, and political aspirations of the natives, and on 'the rights and wrongs of the British Indian', the European and colonial population, and private life of the Dutch Afrikanders, Rhodesia and the problems of land-settlements, labour, etc. (Mendelssohn I, p.370).SAB I, p.599. [Boeknr.: 35004 ]

€ 40,00

COLVIN, Ian D. South Africa. London, The Caxton Publishing Company, (ca.1910). Decorated cloth gilt. With map and 12 coloured plates by G.S. Smithard and J.S. Skelton. XIII,328 pp. Romance of Empire Series. - From the contents: The land of Prester John, Vasco da Gama, Van Riebeeck, Van der Stel, The conquest by the British, Kafir wars, The Great Trek, etc. [Boeknr.: 35152 ]

€ 35,00

CREALOCK, John. The frontier war journal of Major John Crealock 1878. A narrative of the Ninth Frontier War by the assistant military secretary to Lieutenant General Thesiger. Edited and introduced by Chris Hummel. Cape Town, 1989. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. XIX,195 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 19. - Major John North Crealock (1837-1895) fought in a number of colonial wars, including the Indian Mutiny and the Anglo-Zulu War. This volume is a detailed account of the warfare conducted against the Xhosa in the last phases of the frontier war of 1877-1878. Opinionated and inefficient, Crealock nevertheless gives a sober account of the military situation. [Boeknr.: 34556 ]

€ 25,00

DARWIN, Charles Robert. On the structure and distribution of coral reefs; and geological observations on the volcanic islands and parts of South America. Visiting during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. With a critical introduction by John W. Judd. London, New York, Melbourne, Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co., 1890.Sm.8vo. Original green cloth, spine gilt. With 6 maps (3 folding) and many woodengravings. XX,549,(6) pp. The Minerva Library; edited by G.T. Bettany. - The voyage of the Beagle lasted from December 1831 to October 1836 and carreid Darwin around the wotld, but especially to South America. This would remain Darwin's only longer voyage. [Boeknr.: 36667 ]

€ 175,00

DAWSON, William Harbutt. South Africa: people, places and problems. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1925.Original red cloth (spine discoloured; sl. soiled), spine lettered in gilt. With 35 photographic illustrations. XI,448 pp. [Boeknr.: 35014 ]

€ 30,00

DEHÉRAIN, Henri. Le Cap de Bonne-Espérance au XVIIe siècle. Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1909.Contemporary half red morocco. With 3 maps. VI,256 pp. Études sur l'Afrique (seconde série): L'escale maritime, Johan van Riebeeck, Les colons européens: origines, accroissement, expansion, Les esclaves, la langue française au Cap. - A fine copy.SAB II, p.35. [Boeknr.: 35077 ]

€ 95,00

DOMINICUS, Foort Cornelis. Het huiselik en maatschappelik leven van de Zuid-Afrikaner in de eerste helft der 18de eeuw. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1919. Wrappers. (6),109 pp. [Boeknr.: 7515 ]

€ 25,00

DOMINICUS, Foort Cornelis. Het ontslag van Wilhelm Adriaen van der Stel. Rotterdam, Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 1928. Wrappers. 107 pp. - (Thesis). [Boeknr.: 197 ]

€ 35,00

DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Great Boer War. 7th impression. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1900.Original cloth (spine dam.). With 4 (of 5) folding maps. X,551;(10) pp. First edition published the same year. - Recognised as one of the most important books written on the Anglo Boer War. Mendelssohn I, p.484; SAB I, p.97. [Boeknr.: 35016 ]

€ 25,00

DU PLESSIS, John. A history of Christian missions in South Africa. London, New York, Bombay, Calcutta, Longmans, Green and Co., 1911.Original green cloth (sl. soiled), spine lettered in gilt. With folding coloured map. XX,494 pp. First edition. - From the contents: The earliest Christian missionaries, The mission of the Dominican Fathers, Early effort by the Dutch colonists, Early missionary efforts on behalf of the slaves, The first missionary to the Hottentots, The Moravian mission, The earliest London missionaries, etc.SAB II, p.120. [Boeknr.: 35009 ]

€ 65,00

ELIËNS, Titus M. (Red.). Wonen op de Kaap en in Batavia 1602-1795. (Met bijdragen van) Monique van de Geijn-Verhoeven, Antonia Malan, Karel Schoeman, Jan Veenendaal, Deon Viljoen, Nigel Worden. Zwolle, Waanders, (2002). 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 130 illustrations (80 in colours). 240 pp. The fascinating interiors of homes in Cape Town and Batavia, the most important Dutch trading posts in South Africa and the Far East. [Boeknr.: 25772 ]

€ 35,00

ELLIS, William. Three visits to Madagascar during the years 1853 - 1854 - 1856. Including a journey to the capital; with notices of the natural history of the country and of the present civilization of the people. London, John Murray, 1858.Modern half morocco, spine gilt. With double-page frontispiece view of Antananarivo, map and 24 wood-engravings. XVII,470 pp. First edition. - Rev. William Ellis (1794-1872) was sent to Madagascar in 1853 commissioned by the London Missionary Society to ameliorate the suffering of their converts under queen Ranavalona's rule. While in Madagascar, he gathered a wealth of information on the island and its inhabitants and collected botanical samples for the Royal Gardens at Kew. He visited the Cape in 1854 on which he gives an interesting account of many places together with botanical notes and information respecting the natives. - (Some waterstaining).Grandidier 1633; Mendelssohn I, p.518; SAB II, p.185; The Paolo Bianchi collection, 129.. [Boeknr.: 36722 ]

€ 350,00

ENGELBRECHT, S.P. Historiese-album van die Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika. Pretoria, J.H. de Bussy, 1948. 4to. Cloth. With many illustrations. 72 pp. The Dutch Reformed Church was introduced to South Africa by the Dutch East India Company's settlement at Cape Town in 1652. The first formal congregation was established in 1665 under the jurisdiction of the classis of Amsterdam. [Boeknr.: 2645 ]

€ 45,00

ENTE, W.K. Natal en Nieuw-Gelderland en de vooruitzigten der kolonisatie aldaar. Arnhem, H.A. Tjeenk Willink, 1861.Original printed wrappers. (8),40 pp. Original edition. - Nieuw-Gelderland was the area between the Umvoti and Nonoti Rivers belonging to the 'Nederlandsche Emigratie-Maatschappij' in South Africa. Ente indicates possibilities to establish oneself as a farmer in this district, and gives some examples of the costs and gains to be expected.Tiele 350; Cat. NHSM I, p.212; Mendelssohn I, p.522; SAB II, p.197. [Boeknr.: 6064 ]

€ 90,00

EYBERS, G.W. Bepalingen en instructiën voor het bestuur van de buitendistricten van de Kaap de Goede Hoop (1805). Met eene inleiding door S.J. Fockema Andreas, S. van Brakel en den uitgever. Amsterdam, Johannes Müller, 1922. Wrappers. 178 pp. - (Werken Historisch Genootschap). [Boeknr.: 6466 ]

€ 30,00

FAGAN, Gawie & Gwen. Church street in the Land of Waveren. (Kaap, 1974). Oblong 8vo. Boards, with dust-jacket. With many photographic illustrations of the old houses. 185 pp. Tulbagh, named after Dutch Cape Colony Governor Ryk Tulbagh, is a town located in the 'Land van Waveren' in the winelands of the Western Cape, South Africa. [Boeknr.: 37784 ]

€ 95,00

FAGAN, Gawie & Gwen. Kerkstraat in't Land van Waveren. (Kaap, 1974). Oblong 8vo. Boards, with dust-jacket (sl. dam.). With many photographic illustrations of the old houses. 185 pp. Tulbagh, named after Dutch Cape Colony Governor Ryk Tulbagh, is a town located in the 'Land van Waveren' in the winelands of the Western Cape, South Africa. [Boeknr.: 30657 ]

€ 95,00

FEHR, William. Treasures at the castle of Good Hope. Skatte in die kasteel de Goede Hoop. 4th edition. Cape town, 1966. Folio. Pictorial boards. With 225 illustrations (several in colours). 140 pp. From 1674 to the time of the first British occupation of the Cape in 1795 it was the seat of the government of the Dutch East India Company. Nowadays it is a museum with a fine collection of art: pictures, furniture, china, glass, silver, etc. [Boeknr.: 6468 ]

€ 35,00

FERRAND, Gabriel. Essai de grammaire Malgache. Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1903. Original printed wrappers, uncut (spine sl. damaged). XLIV,263 pp. Malagasy grammar. - Grandidier, Bibliographie de Madagascar, 1741. [Boeknr.: 30514 ]

€ 45,00

FITZPATRICK, James Percy. The Transvaal from within. A private record of public affairs. 7th impression. London, William Heinemann, 1899. Original cloth. XIV,452 pp. First edition published in the same year. - Sir Fitzpatrick (1862-1931) was a well-known man in Johannesburg, and had been deeply implicated in the Reform Movement, and was subsequently sentenced to imprisonment. A history of the Boers from the time of the great Trek.Mendelssohn I, p.549/50; SAB II, p.251. [Boeknr.: 9676 ]

€ 35,00

FRANKEN, L. Indrukken van een reis per stoomschip naar Zuid-Afrika. 3e vermeerderde druk. Den Helder, Egner, 1930. Original printed wrappers. 68 pp. First published in Apeldoorn in 1926. - Impressions of a trip by steamship to South-Africa. [Boeknr.: 24591 ]

€ 25,00

FRASER, Maryna. (Ed.). Johannesburg pioneer journals 1888-1909. Cape Town, 1985. Cloth. With plates. XVI,267 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 16. - Produced to commemorate Johannesburg's centenary, this volume explores the social history of the mining town in its pioneer days. [Boeknr.: 34535 ]

€ 25,00

FULLER, Thomas E. The right honourable Cecil John Rhodes. A monograph and a reminiscence. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1910. Cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With 13 photographic plates. XII,276 pp. With armorial bookplate of Leman Saunders Sloman. [Boeknr.: 35143 ]

€ 35,00

GARRETT, Edmund. The Garrett papers edited with an introduction by Gerald Shaw. Cape Town, 1984. Cloth. With plates. (12),152 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 15. - In 1895 Edmund Garrett (1865-1907) was appointed editor of the Cape Times and remained there during the crucial period of the Jameson Raid, the lead-up to the South African War. A staunch imperialist, he formed close relationships with Sir Alfred Milner, Governor of the Cape, and with Dr Jane Waterston. His letters to his cousins give an intimate and lively account of life in Cape Town until 1899. [Boeknr.: 34536 ]

€ 25,00

GEYER, A.L. Das wirtschaftliche System der Niederländischen Ostindischen Kompanie am Kap der Guten Hoffnung 1785-1795. München, Berlin, R. Oldenbourg, 1923. Wrappers. X,113 pp. - (Historische Bibliothek). [Boeknr.: 6470 ]

€ 30,00

GODEE MOLSBERGEN, E.C.& Joh. VISSCHER. South-African history told in pictures. Pictorial atlas. Zuid-Afrika's geschiedenis in beeld. Platen-atlas. Amsterdam, S.L. van Looy, 1913. Folio. Cloth (soiled). With many illustrations. (8),140 pp. [Boeknr.: 6476 ]

€ 30,00

GODEE MOLSBERGEN, E.C. Jan van Riebeeck en zijn tijd. Een stuk zeventiende-eeuws Oost-Indië. 2e druk. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen & Zooon, 1943. Half cloth. With many plates. 173 pp. Patria. - Jan van Riebeeck (1619-1677), servant of the VOC, was active in Aceh, Tonkin, Cape of Good Hope, Malacca and Batavia. [Boeknr.: 4288 ]

€ 15,00

GOSSELINK, Martine, Maria HOLTROP & Robert ROSS. (Ed.). Goede Hoop. Zuid-Afrika en Nederland vanaf 1600. Met advies van Robert Ross. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Nijmegen, VanTilt, 2017. 4to. Pictorial boards. With many coloured illustrations. 376 pp. Part of the Rijksmuseum Country Series published by the museum's History Department. Each book in the series uses objects in the Rijksmuseum collection to explore the shared history of the Netherlands and overseas countries. [Boeknr.: 34348 ]

€ 35,00

GRAAFF, Bart de, Caesar HULSTAERT, Corine de MAIJER. Zeeuwen aan de Kaap. Verhalen uit Zuid-Afrika. Vlissingen, Den Boer, 2015. Wrappers. With illustrations. 96 pp. [Boeknr.: 33679 ]

€ 15,00

GRAHAM BOTHA, C. 300 years - jaar - ans- jaren. Van Riebeeck festival. (No pl.), Cilliers de Wet, 1952. 4to. Cloth, original pictorial wrappers preserved. With many illustrations (several in colours) and advertisements. LXXX,60 pp. [Boeknr.: 16335 ]

€ 30,00

GREGORY, Theodore. Ernest Oppenheimer and the economic development of Southern Africa. Cape Town, Oxford University Press, 1962. Cloth. With plates. XX,637 pp. [Boeknr.: 35141 ]

€ 35,00

HALL, Henry. Aardrijkskundig handboek van Zuid-Afrika. Uit het Engelsch. Rotterdam, P.M. Bazendijk, 1866.Original decorated gilt cloth, with fine lithographed wrappers with plan of Cape Town included. With large folding coloured map. (8),II,164,III pp. First published in English in Cape Town in 1859 Manual of South African Geography; presentation copy with autograph dedication by F.W.A. Beelaerts van Blokland to his brother, both born in South Africa. - 'This work was undertaken by the author at the request of R.W. Rawson, the then Colonial Secretary, there being great need for such a publication at this period. The statistical and general information was brought up-to-date, and the volume proved a useful addition to the educational works on South Africa' (Mendelssohn I, p,.671). - A fine copy.SAB II, p.487. [Boeknr.: 34990 ]

€ 175,00

HEAP, Peggy. The story of Hottentots Holland. Social history of Sommerset West, the Strand, Gordon's Bay and Sir Lowry Pass over three centuries. Cape Town, A.A. Balkema, 1970. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 41 illustrations. IX,194,(5) pp. [Boeknr.: 35067 ]

€ 40,00

HEECK, Gijsbert. Terug naar de Oost. De reis van VOC-chirurgijn Gijsbert Heeck, 1654-1656. Bezorgd en ingeleid door Barend Jan Terwiel en Peter Kirsch. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2017. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. 405 pp. Linschoten Vereeniging CXV. - Gijsbert Heeck made three voyages in service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). His account contains the oldest description of the Cape of Good Hope after the founding by Jan van Van Riebeeckand and also interesting descriptions of Batavia and Siam. [Boeknr.: 34569 ]

€ 55,00

HEERES, J.E. Heeft Nederland de Kaap verkocht ? Eene lezing. Amsterdam, Pretoria, J.H. de Bussy, 1914. Original printed wrappers. 45 pp. An address: Did the Netherlands sell the Cape ?Mendelssohn I, p.699. [Boeknr.: 16711 ]

€ 35,00

HERBERT, Thomas. Zee- en lant-reyse na verscheyde deelen van Asia en Africa: beschryvende voornamelijck de twee beroemde rijcken van den Persiaen, en den Grooten Mogul. Als mede/ verscheyde machtige en groote koninckrijcken van Oost-Indien/ en andere gedeelten van Asia/ te samen met de aenleggende eylanden. Beneffens een verhael van den eersten vinder van America. Uyt het Engels in de Nederlandtsche tale overgeset door L.V. Bosch. Dordrecht, Abraham Andriessz., 1658.4to. Contemporary vellum. With engraved frontispiece and 12 large engravings in the text. (12),192 pp. First Dutch edition, first published in English in London in 1634 A relation of some years travaile, begunne anno 1626. Into Afrique and the Greater Asia. - 'In 1627 Herbert travelled to Persia as a member of the entourage of Sir Dodmore Cotton, accompanied by Sir Robert Sherley. Cottton had been appointed ambassador to Persia as a result of the return of Robert Sherley in 1623. The embassy had produced two rival ambassadors, Sherley and Nagd Ali Beg (Nogdi Ali Beg), each of whom had denounced the other as an imposter. James I therefore decided to send Cotton as his ambassador to Persia to clarify these matters, accompanied by the two interested parties, Sherley and Ali Beg. Thomas Herbert was to accompany the mission. Sailing via the Cape of Good Hope, Madagascar and Goa, the party landed at Surat on 27.11.27. There Ali Beg deliberately took on overdose of opium and killed himself .. Herbert sailed on 18.12.27 for Persia and landed at Gombroon .. they continued to Teheran, and then to Qazvin where both Robert Sherley and Cotton died of dysentery. Herbert, however, continued his travels, visiting Lar, Shiraz, Esfahan, Tehran, Qum, Kashan and eventually returning to Gombroon. From there he made his way to Surat (December 1628), and in April 1629 sailed for London, visiting en route Ceylon, the Coromandel coast, Mauritius and St. Helena' (Howgego p.503/504). Herbert 'gives a description of Persian coffee customs which is probably the earliest in English language' (Hünersdorff/Hasenkamp p.686). Pages 188--192 contain the Ontdeckingh van America door Madoc ap Owen Gwyneth. He was a 12th-century apocryphal Welsh voyager (Howgego M12). - A very fine copy of the earliest significant English travel account of the Near East.Tiele 468; Cat. NHSM I, p.133; Mendelssohn I, p.705-706; Cordier, B.I., p.875; Wilson p.94. [Boeknr.: 36167 ]

€ 1250,00

HEYDT, Johann Wolffgang. Scenes of the Cape of Good Hope in 1741 as drawn by Johann Wolffgang Heydt. Text translated from the German and edited by R. Raven-Hart. Cape Town, C. Struik, 1967. 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. Facsimile of frontispice, titlepage and 7 maps and plates depicting South Africa. 23. - 750 numbered copies printed. [Boeknr.: 34989 ]

€ 35,00

HILDER, Albert Edward. A Canadian mounted rifleman at war, 1899-1902. The reminiscences. Cape Town, 2000. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. XXX,179 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 31. - Hilder's writings are rare accounts of the Canadian action in the war as seen from the perspective of the mounted infantry. No other substantial descriptions of these units have been published, despite the fact that these men made up over 50% of Canadian soldiers recruited to serve in the war. [Boeknr.: 34546 ]

€ 25,00

HOFFMANN, Johann Christian. Reise nach dem Kaplande, nach Mauritius und nach Java 1671-1676. Neu herausgegeben nach der zu Cassel im Verlag von Johann Friederich Hertzog im Jahre 1680 erschienenen Original-Ausgabe. - Johann SCHREYER. Reise nach dem Kaplande und Beschreibung der Hottentotten 1669-1677. Neu herausgegeben nach der zu Leipzig im Verlag von Johann Christian Wohlfart, 1681. Haag, Martinus Nijhoff, 1931. Pictorial wrappers. XIII,104,68 pp. - (Reisebeschreibungen von Deutschen Beamten und Kriegsleuten VII). [Boeknr.: 35145 ]

€ 35,00

HONDIUS, Jodocus. Klare besgryving van Cabo de Bona Esperança; med de by-gelegen kust naar Angola toe. Faksimilee .. uitgegee, 1652. Met vertaling in Engels deur L.C. van Oordt en van 'n inleiding en aantekeninge voorsien deur P. Serton. Kaapstad, Komitee vir Boekuitstalling Van Riebeeck-Fees, 1952. Half cloth. With folding map and 3 folding plates. XV,33,37 pp. A fine facsimile of the pamphlet by Hondius: A clear description of the Cape of Good Hope, 1652. With translation and an introduction. [Boeknr.: 35127 ]

€ 30,00

HYMNAL. Nziyo dze kereke. S. Rhodesia, Printed and published by the Morgenster Mission Press, 1952. Wrappers. 127 pp. This hymnal is also used by the Swedish church mission in Matabeleland, South Rhodesia. Hymns in the Karanga (Chi-Karanga) language. [Boeknr.: 36465 ]

€ 35,00

IDENBURG, P.J. The Cape of Good Hope at the turn of the eighteenth century. Leiden, Universitaire Pers, 1963. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With portrait and 1 folding plate. 134 pp. [Boeknr.: 3948 ]

€ 25,00

IDENBURG, P.J. De Kaap de Goede Hoop gedurende de laatste jaren van het Nederlandsch bewind. Leiden, Burgersdijk & Niermans, 1946. Half cloth, with dust-jacket. With portrait and 3 folding plates. 112 pp. [Boeknr.: 6478 ]

€ 25,00

INDISCHE LETTEREN. Themanummer Zuid-Afrika in Compagniestijd. (No pl.), 2003. Wrappers. With illustrations. [Boeknr.: 34942 ]

€ 15,00

INNES, James Rose. Selected correspondence (1884-1902). Cape Town, 1972.Cloth. With folding map and 5 plates. 366 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 3. - Sir James Rose Innes (1855 -1942) was the Chief Justice of South Africa from 1914 to 1927 and, in the view of many, its greatest ever judge. Before becoming a judge he was a member of the Cape Parliament, the Cape Colony's Attorney-General, and a prominent critic of Cecil John Rhodes. [Boeknr.: 34528 ]

€ 25,00

JAARSVELD, F.A. van. Van Van Riebeeck tot Verwoerd 1652-1966. 'n Inleiding tot die geskiedenis van die Republiek van Suid-Afrika. Joahnnesburg, Voortrekkers, 1971. Boards, with dust-jacket. With maps. (12),470 pp. [Boeknr.: 35091 ]

€ 40,00

JACKSON, E.L. St. Helena: the historic island from its discovery to the present date. London, Ward Lock & Co., 1903.Original cloth, with gilt St. Helena's seal on cover (spine discoloured). With map and photographic plates. 343 pp. First edition; with the bookplate of Haileybury College. - A detailed historical and geographical account of St. Helena. Dealing i.a. with the South African War prisoners sent there, the captivity of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Navy's antislavery patrols and the island of Tristan Da Cunha.SAB II, p.661. [Boeknr.: 36775 ]

€ 95,00

JEFFREYS, M.K. S.D. NAUDÉ, P.J. VENTER. (Ed.). Kaapse argiefstukke, Kaapse plakkaatboek (1652-1795). Kaapstad, Cape Times Limited, 1944-1949. 4 volumes. Original red cloth (vol. I stained). XXIV,382; XII,252; XII,199; XI,281 pp. With autograph dedication by C. Beyers, senior archivist, to C.R. Swart, minister of justice in South Africa. Afrikaans and Dutch text. - Rare complete set of the records of the Cape Colony, describing a clear timeline of the founding and establishment of the Colony of South Africa. [Boeknr.: 35031 ]

€ 375,00

JONG VAN RODENBURGH, Cornelis de. 'Weest wel met alle menschen' De 'Kaapse brieven' van Cornelius de Jong van Rodenburgh (1762-1838). Verzorgd door Carla van Balen en Dick de Mildt. Hilversum, Verloren, 2012. Wrappers. With 14 illustrations. 640 pp. [Boeknr.: 32768 ]

€ 40,00

JUNOD, Henri Alexandre. The life of a South African tribe. Neuchatel, Attinger Frères, 1912 - 1913.2 volumes. Original green pictorial cloth, gilt lettering, with dust-jackets, uncut. With map and many photographic illustrations. 500; 574 pp. First enlarged edition in English, first published in French Les Ba-Ronga, 1898. - Henri-Alexandre Junod (1863 - 1934) was a Swiss-born South African missionary, ethnographer, anthropologist, linguist and naturalist, stationed for much of his career at Shiluvane Mission Station outside Tzaneen in Limpopo Province. Classic work on the Tsonga-people, a Bantu ethnic group primarily native to Southern Mozambique and South Africa (Limpopo and Mpumalanga). . 'It is one of the finest ethnographical publications on this part of the sub-continent ever issued' (Mendelssohn I, p.796). Volume I: The social life; volume II: The psychic life. - A very fine copy.SAB II, p.714. [Boeknr.: 18954 ]

€ 375,00

KENNEDY, R.F. Africana repository. Notes for a series of lectures given to the Hillbrow Study Centre from March to May 1964. Cape Town, Juta & Company, 1965. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 21 plates. XIII,(1),178 pp. The great collectors and their collections; The Portuguese period-mainly shipwrecks; The 17th century-mainly Dutch but including Terry, Herbert, Tachard, Leguat and others; etc. [Boeknr.: 14207 ]

€ 35,00

KNOX-JOHNSTON, Robin. The Cape of Good Hope. A maritime history. London, Hodder & Stoughton, (1989). Boards, with dust-jacket. With maps and plates. 246 pp. [Boeknr.: 34659 ]

€ 30,00

KOCK, Victor de. Ons drie eeuwe. Our three centuries. 1652-1952. Kaapstad, 1952. 4to. Pictorial leather, a.e.g. With many illustrations (several in colours). 264 pp. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies of the deluxe edition. - This book has been compiled at the request of the Central Committee for the Van Riebeeck Festival Cape Town 1952. [Boeknr.: 35073 ]

€ 65,00

KOLB, Peter. Description du Cap de Bonne-Esperance, òu l'on trouve tout ce qui concerne l'histoire-naturelle du pays; la religion, les moeurs & les usages des Hottentots; et l'établissement des Hollandois. Amsterdam, Jean Catuffe, 1742.3 volumes. Sm.8vo. Later half calf, spines ribbed. With titles printed in red and black, engraved allegorical frontispiece, 5 folding engraved maps and 25 engraved plates (1 folding). XIII,(11),428; (12),262; (16),320 pp. First French edition, first published in German in Nürnberg in 1719 Caput Bonae Spei. Das ist vollständige Beschreibung des Akrikanischen Vorgebürges der Guten Hofnung. - Peter Kolb (1676-1726), a German astronomer, was sent to the Cape by Baron von Krosick in 1705. From 1707 till April 1713 he was secretary in service by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) at Stellenbosch. Of the utmost importance is the section on the plants and on the animals of that region, being the earliest account of South African fauna. 'Peter Kolb published one of the first works in German devoted entirely to the Cape region of South Africa. His work divides equally between the natural history of the Cape and a description of the Hottentot (Khoi) people, explaining their manners and customs in great detail' (Howgego p.577). A detailed description of day-to-day life at the Cape (The Paolo Bianchi collection 206). - (1 leaf sl. damaged with some loss of text). - Fine set.Tiele 606; Cat. NHSM I, p.207; Landwehr, VOC, 585; Cf. Mendelssohn I, p.843-44; SAB III, p.6; Rookmaaker, The zoological exploration of Southern Africa 1650-1790, p.29. [Boeknr.: 3325 ]

€ 1750,00

KOTZÉ, D.J. (Ed.). Letters of the American missionaries 1835-1838. Cape Town, 1950 Cloth. With maps and plates. 294 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, first series, 31. - The Americans concentrated initially on the Matabele in the Transvaal, and on Natal. Their arrival coincided with the Great Trek and Boer expansion north and east so they were well placed to observed developments in Voortrekker society and its impact on indigenous societies. [Boeknr.: 32779 ]

€ 25,00

KRAUSE, Ludwig. The war memoirs of commandant Ludwig Krause 1899-1900. Edited by Jerold Taitz with Ken Gillings and Arthur Davey. Cape Town, 1995. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. XXXIV,163 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 26. - In 1899 Ludwig Krause left his legal practice in the Transvaal to fight on behalf of the Boers. Krause's memoirs are remarkable for their clarity and descriptive power. Their value is enhanced by his outspoken and sometimes pungent opinions, not only of some of his British foes, but of some of Kruger's adherents. [Boeknr.: 34553 ]

€ 25,00

KRUGER, Paul. Gedenkschriften. Gedicteerd aan H.C. Bredell en Piet Grobler. Bewerkt door Frederik Rompel. Amsterdam, J. Funke, 1902. Cloth. With portrait. XII,274 pp. [Boeknr.: 7095 ]

€ 20,00

LANE, Jack. The war diary of Burgher Jack Lane, 16 November 1899 to 27 February 1900. Cape Town, 2001. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. LVII,161 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 32. - Jack Lane was placed in charge of the ammunition in the main laager of General Piet Cronjé. He saw action at Magersfontein, outside Kimberley and eventually at Paardeberg where he was captured and sent to St Helena. [Boeknr.: 34542 ]

€ 25,00

LATROBE, Christian Ignatius. Journal of a visit to South Africa, in 1815, and 1816, with some account of the missionary settlements of the United Brethren, near the Cape of Good Hope. London, L.B. Seeley & R. Ackermann, 1818.4to. Later half calf, spine gilt, with red morocco title-labels. With folding map, 4 engraved plates and 12 handcoloured aquatint plates. (8),406 pp. First edition. - Latrobe was sent out to South Africa in response to the request of Moravian missionaries at Genadendal and Groenekloof for a minister to visit them. The Governor of the Cape had expressed a wish that a third station should be opened, and in order to choose a site the author travelled through a large part of the country right up to the Fish River. There is a full description of the district of Groenekloof, and of the missionary settlements, about thirty miles north of Cape Town also an account of the church and village of Caledon. Some information is afforded regarding the life of the up-country farmers at this period. In 1816 he started for a journey into the interior, the route taken from Genadendal being via Zwellendam, Zeekogat near George, Welgelegen, Uitenhage, to the Witte River, and then to the Little Fish River, returning via Plettenberg and Mossel Bays (Mendelssohn p.866-867). The book is much enhanced by the superbly coloured plates after sketches by the author himself and John Melville, Government Surveyor of the Cape, who accompanied him. Also included is a visit to St. Helena, and 'the first description of the fledgling colony' of Ascension Island (Howgego). - A good specimen of the early literature of missionary effort, giving a sufficiently vivid record of personal experiences, native customs, and objects of natural interest that come under his notice (Prideaux p.240). - A very attractive copy.Abbey, Travel, 325; Howgego, II, p.9; SAB III, p.59; Tooley 292; Gordon-Brown p.187. [Boeknr.: 35000 ]

€ 2450,00

LE VAILLANT, François. Reize in de binnenlanden van Afrika, langs de Kaap de Goede Hoop, in de jaaren 1780 tot 1785, gedaan. Uit het Fransch door J.D. Pasteur. Leyden, Amsterdam, Honkoop en Allart, 1791-98.5 volumes in 2. Contemporary half calf, (rebacked with the original spines laid down), with red morocco title-labels to spines. With large folding map and 34 engraved plates (7 folding and 7 printed in sepia). First Dutch edition; first published in French Voyage dans l'interieur de l'Afrique par le Cap de Bonne-Espétance. Paris 1790. - 'Le Vaillant was born at Paramaribo in Dutch Guiana in 1753, and after being educated in Holland, France, and Germany, proceeded to Paris where he studied the natural history collections, and, full of enthusiasm and ambition, decided to travel into the interior of Africa in order to further his opportunities of gaining information by observing the specimens in their native countries. Making the acquaintance of Mr. Temminck, the Treasurer of the Dutch East India Company, he was enabled to proceed to the Cape in one of the Company's ships called the Held-Woltemaade ... The narrative is characterised by the intelligent and interesting manner in which it is written.' (Mendelssohn pp.889-890). On his first excursion Le Vaillant advanced westward along the coast as far as the Great Fish River. His second excursion, between April 1783 and August 1784, took him northward beyond the Orange River. He was one of the first to study the birds in South Africa. With nice views i.a. of the Cape of Good Hope and plates showing Hottentots and giraffes. - One of the earliest works combining exploration, natural history and sport (Czech p.164-165). - (Some browning and waterstaining, some blank margins restored) . - A fine set of his two excursion. Tiele 659; Cat. NHSM I, p.206 (French ed. only); Mendelssohn I, p.889;-890; SAB III, p.100; Howgego p.625; Rookmaaker, The zoological exploration of South Africa 1650-1790, p.177-271, Nissen, ZBI, 2482. [Boeknr.: 34988 ]

€ 950,00

LE VAILLANT, François. Second voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance, dans les années 1783, 84 et 85. Paris, H.J. Jansen et Comp., l'an 3 (1795).3 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary half calf (extremities of spines sl. dam.; hinges cracked but holding). With 22 engraved plates (several folding). XLIV,304; 426; 525,(2) pp. First French edition. - Le Vaillant was born at Paramaribo in Dutch Guiana in 1753, and after being educated in Holland, France, and Germany, proceeded to Paris where he studied the natural history collections, and, full of enthusiasm and ambition, decided to travel into the interior of Africa in order to further his opportunities of gaining information by observing the specimens in their native countries. Making the acquaintance of Mr. Temminck, the Treasurer of the Dutch East India Company, he was enabled to proceed to the Cape in one of the Company's ships called the Held-Woltemaade. During his second excursion (1783 - 1784, he traversed the countries now known as British and German Namaqualand, Damaraland, parts of Bechuanaland, and the Kalahari desert. Later travellers threw doubts on the authenticy of Le Vaillant's journey to these regions, as they could not trace tribes with the names given by the author, but these races were probably dispersed or annihilated, and there can be little doubt that the traveller actualy visited these places (Mendelssohn). , - (Age-browned).Mendelssohn I, p.889 -890; SAB III, p.101; Howgego p.625; Rookmaaker, The zoological exploration of S. Africa 1650-1790, p.177-271, Nissen, ZBI, 2482; Boucher de la Richarderie IV, p.242-244.. [Boeknr.: 28946 ]

€ 495,00

LEDDEN, Willem Pieter van. Jan van Riebeeck tussen wal en schip. Een onderzoek naar de beeldvorming over Jan van Riebeeck in Nederland en Zuid-Afrika omstreeks 1900, 1950 en 2000. Hilversum, Verloren, 2005. Wrappers. With illustrations. 156 pp. [Boeknr.: 28680 ]

€ 15,00

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