Nomads of the Serengeti
Cape Town, Struik Publishers, 2002. Signed by the author on the title page. More
Cape Town, Struik Publishers, 2002. Signed by the author on the title page. More
[Klerksdorp, Printed and Published by H.M. Guest, 1902]. 'In the Battle of Tweebosch or De Klipdrift on 7 March 1902, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey defeated a British column under the command of Lieutenant General Lord Methuen during the final months of the Second Boer War........ More
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. 'Towards the end of the war, British drives and offensives became more successful. This was due to the lines of blockhouses and wire fences which parcelled up the wide veldt into smaller areas. Also, the British were themselves using raiding..... More
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. The 1st Scottish Horse was one of two volunteer Scottish regiments raised in South Africa during the war; it saw considerable action in the Western Transvaal, especially in the battles at Moedwil, Vlakfontein, and Braakenlaagte. Preambles to these self-titled poems..... More
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer, Publisher, Stationer, Bookseller, etc. 1902. 'The operations against the Boers in the neighbourhood of Klerksdorp, which were begun on Sunday night, March 23rd, 1902, were very cleverly conceived and executed.... The object of the operations was to form a long line of mounted men with the..... More
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. Guest accurately describes the two and a half hour fight as 'one of the most sustained and determined attacks of the war'. 'The Boers lost eleven killed, 35 wounded, and 10 taken prisoner. The British lost 61 killed or mortally..... More
Klerksdorp, Printed and Published by H.M. Guest, [1901]. 'Being a brief account of the operations of the three Columns under the command of Col. Sir Henry Rawlinson, Col. Hickie, and Col. Williams ... in the south-western portion of the Transvaal, May to October, 1901, inclusive' (drop sub-title). In 1939, Herman..... More
[Newcastle, Natal, Greaves & Teversham, Printers, 25 June 1902]. Provenance: a Western Australian member of the 4th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse. More
Abergavenny, P.M. Heaton Publishing, 1995. More
Polstead, J.B. Hayward & Son/ The Imperial War Museum, 1990/ 1945. Includes 'the names of approximately 169,000 Officers and men of the British, Dominion and other Allied Forces[;] originally published in ten parts by His Majesty's Stationery Office ... in limited numbers for internal reference, updated ... until the last..... More
London, Jane's Publishing Company Ltd, 1985. More
Long Beach, Safari Press, 1997 (first edition). Number 932 of 1000 copies signed by both authors. Number 20 in the Classics in African Hunting series. More
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965/ 1938. With the ownership signature of Sir Walter Crocker (Colonial Administration Service in Nigeria 1930-34, and Australian Ambassador to Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya 1965-67). A related review cutting is tipped-in on the rear flyleaf. 'Sir Reginald Coupland was widely regarded as an authority on David Livingstone..... More
London, The Hakluyt Society, 1931. With the Ingleton bookplate mounted on the front pastedown and the Ingleton Catalogue number (13817) at the bottom corner of the rear pastedown. More
London, Travel Book Club, [c.1930s]. More
Johannesburg, Ad. Donker/ Jonathan Ball, 1993. More
Cape Town, T. Maskew Miller, 1913. More
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1923. 'The Fatimids, Fatimid Caliphate or al-Fatimiyyun is the Shia dynasty which ruled much of North Africa from January 5, 910 to 1171 AD. After about 1070 AD, Fatimid authority over the Levant coast and parts of Syria was challenged first by Turkic..... More
Samuel Albert White (1870-1954) is well-known as an ornithologist and conservationist, but 'During the South African War he had two tours of duty and was temporarily promoted captain, a title he used thereafter' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). There are five studio portraits and one taken outdoors, with White astride a...... More
[Cape Town], Central News Agency Limited, 1934. South African Agricultural Series, Volume XIII. Provenance: Dr Edward Angas Johnson (1873-1951), with his name-stamp on the title page, and numerous related inserts. Dr Angas Johnson, a great-grandson of George Fife Angas, was an Adelaide medical practitioner, prominent in public health circles. In..... More
London, The Bodley Head Ltd., 1967 (first edition). More
Mount Coke, Wesleyan Mission Press (Printed for the Government of British Kaffraria), 1858. Both the front flyleaf and the title page carry the ownership signature of Sir Malcolm MacGregor, fourth Baronet MacGregor and a British naval commander stationed in New Zealand. The inscription is dated 19 December 1861 ('Auckland, New..... More
Hatfield, Umdaus Press, 2000. Succulents, and wildlife in the Richtersveld, a unique mountain desert wilderness of great beauty, tucked in the far north-western corner of the Northern Cape in South Africa. More
[Kenthurst], Kangaroo Press, [1992]. More
Johannesburg and London, Acorn Books, 1991. With the publisher's prospectus loosely inserted. The Subscribers' Edition, one of 2000 copies. More