BRUNEAF. Brussels Non European Art Fair 25. 10 - 14.06.2015
Brussels, BRUNEAF, 2015. Exhibition handbook. With the advertising flyer (with a colour map of the fair on the verso) loosely inserted. Text in French, English and Dutch. More
Africa
Archaeological Typology and Practical Reality. A Dialectical Approach to Artiface Classification and Sorting
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991. Provenance: With the ink ownership details of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM ('Archaeology, ANU, 9.9.94'). More
The Brotherhood of the Trees
London, Adelphi, [1930]. Inscribed, dated (20 May 1931) and signed by the author. With a loosely inserted newspaper cutting. More
More than a Game. History of the Western Province Cricket Board 1959-1991
Cape Town, Western Province Cricket Association, 2000. More
Bushmen and other Non-Bantu Peoples of Angola. Three Lectures
Johannesburg, Witwatersrand University Press for The Institute for the Study of Man in Africa, 1965. Features lectures on 'The Yellow Bushmen (Kwankhala and Sekele)', 'The Black Bushmen (Zama or Kwengo)' and 'The Kwádi (Kuroka or Kwépe)'. Number 1 in the Institute for the Study of Man in Africa series. More
The American War Bulletin
Port Elizabeth, Richards, Impey & Co., circa 1870. A rare South African handbill advertising a touring 'Diorama' of the American Civil War. The recto provides the sequence of events from the bombardment of Fort Sumter, Bull Run, the battle between the 'Kearsarge' and 'Alabama', the main battles from Gettysburg to..... More
The Last of the Maasai
London, The Bodley Head, 1987. Foreword by Elspeth Huxley. More
A unique offering of eighteen original watercolours of Rio de Janeiro and the peoples of Southern Africa, many unpublished, together with a significant autograph letter signed by the artist
All of these superb images are titled or captioned by the artist, and many are signed. Rio de Janeiro and environs: Eight views, produced in 1845 in preparation for a never-published plate book to be entitled 'The Scenery of Rio Janeiro [sic] in a Series of Sketches by George French..... More
Anthropos. Revue Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Linguistique... International Review of Ethnology and Linguistics .... Band IV, 1909 [and] Band V, 1910
Wien [Vienna], Mechitharisten-Buchdruckerei, 1909 and 1910. A multi-lingual journal, with the majority of articles in either English, French, or German. There are 22 articles relating to Oceania and Australia, and many more on Asia, Africa and the Americas. Provenance: Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, SA Branch, with occasional inkstamps. [2..... More
Primitive Art. Pre-Columbian, North American Indian, African, Oceanic
New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1979 (first English language edition)/ 1967. Not least, the 55-page chapter 'The Art of Oceania' by Hans Nevermann. More
Important African and Oceanic Art Auction. No. 645, June 7, 2007
Dallas, Heritage Auction Galleries, 2007. With related ephemera, including the bid sheet, loosely inserted; some prices realised inscribed in ink. Not least Papua New-Guinea and Aboriginal. More
African Cichlids of Lakes Malawi and Tanganyika. Third Edition ...
Neptune City, T.F.H. Productions, 1975 (third edition, revised and enlarged)/ 1973. More
Ericas in Southern Africa. With Paintings by Irma von Below, Fay Anderson and others
Cape Town, Purnell, 1967. A large label mounted on the verso of the front flyleaf records that this is number 270 of 400 copies of the Collector's Edition, signed by both authors and the two principal artists. More
Beloved African
Smithfield, Gary Allen Pty Ltd, 2000 (reprint)/ 2000. Inscribed and signed by the author in ink on the title-page. 'A story of a great and enduring love - in the early days of Rhodesia - of the builders, the educators, the history, the triumphs and the troubles of that beautiful..... More
Africa. Tribal Art of Forest and Savanna
London, Thames and Hudson, 1980. 'Over two hundred treasures of art, drawn from private collections and never before made available to the public, have been superbly photographed by the collector, Arnold Bamert' (dustwrapper blurb). More
The Proteas of Tropical Africa. Illustrated by Lura Ripley
[Kenthurst], Kangaroo Press, [1992]. More
Nomads of Niger. Text by Marion Van Offelen
London, Harvill, 1991 [first thus]. More
African Ark. Peoples of the Horn
London, Collins Harvill, 1990 (first edition). More
Africa meets Africa. The African Collection of the Museum of Ethnology Rotterdam
Rotterdam, Museum of Ethnology, 1996. Presentation copy dated (April 1999), inscribed to Douglas Newton 'The collection Man' from Cees van den Meiracker, Museum of Ethnology, Rotterdam. Photography by Erik Hesmerg. Exhibition catalogue. More
The Power of Headdresses. A Cross-Cultural Study of Forms and Functions
Brussels, Tendi, S.A., 1984. The edition was limited to 2000 numbered copies; this copy is unnumbered and out of series. More
A cabinet card portrait photograph of an unknown Australian officer in South Africa
Inscribed on the verso 'To dear Mother, with the Original's love'. More
A collection of 132 stereo photographs relating to the Second Boer War, published between 1900 and 1902
New York, Underwood & Underwood; Chicago, H.C. White Co.; London, Erdmann & Schanz; Meadville, Keystone View Company; and London, Fine Art Photographers' Publishing Co., 1900 to 1902. The stereo views depict scenes from some of the most important campaigns of the war (including Ladysmith, Colenso, Modder River, Kimberley, Spion Kop..... More
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District Mounted Troops. Cape Colonial Forces [cover title]. Part I: Rules and Regulations for Organization, Equipment, Pay and Allowances. Part II: Notes for Guidance of D.M.T. Officers, N.C.O.'s and Men, and Certain Rules and Regulations, Colonial Forces Act, 1892
East London, Printed by the Standard Printing Co., 1902 (revised edition). The preface states that this book 'contains the various orders which have from time to time appeared in C.D.F., L. of C., and C.C.F. orders regarding D.M.T.'s; and also in circular memorandums from heads of departments in South Africa..... More
Everlasting Silver Leaves, from Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa [cover title]
[Cape Town, possibly J.H. Robinson & Co.], circa 1900. The photograph, featuring mainly artillery shells of various sizes (some of them identified), small arms ammunition, and shrapnel (one piece marked '66 Battery'), is signed in the negative 'B.W. Canby'. To say the image is incongruous in a souvenir greeting card..... More
Letters from an Uitlander, 1899-1902. With introduction by Major Sir Bartle Frere
London, John Murray, 1903 [Murray's Imperial Library edition]. The letters were written to Sir Bartle Frere 'in regular succession, from a date shortly before the war broke out.... The writer is a man who has long been resident in South Africa, and has held more the position of onlooker than..... More