South Melbourne, Popular Publications, [circa 1915]. With the ownership signature of a captain of the 2/48th. Cover title: 'Easy Conversational Arabic and French for the Australian Soldier. An Indispensible Guide for the Soldier Abroad'. 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
Styria, The University Book Press, [1946]. Forwards by Sir Richard L. McCreery, Commander of 10th Corps, and by Major General C.E. Weir, who took over 46th Division from Lieutenant-General Sir J.L.I. Hawkesworth. Raised in 1939, 46 Division was a North West Midland and West Riding Territorial Division which saw distinguished..... More
![The Investors' and Newspaper Readers' Pocket Map of Africa, 1901 [cover title]. Africa, G. H....](/pictures/thumb/101234_00.jpg?v=1550893975)
Edinburgh, W. and A.K. Johnston, 1901. Scale: 1:11,800,800. The title is given simply as 'Africa' in the cartouche. No mention is made of the war in South Africa. More
Cape Town, Western Province Cricket Association, 2000. More
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
London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1962/ 1866. More
London, Country Life Books, 1979. More
[Kenthurst], Kangaroo Press, [1992]. More
1961 [and] 1958. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Numbers 64 and 65. Signed Crocker copy. More
London, Harvill, 1991 [first thus]. More
Washington, National Geographic Society, 2004. Cover subtitle: Thirty Years of Photography. More
London, Collins Harvill, 1990 (first edition). More
London, Athlone Press, 1989. Number 58 in the Monographs on Social Anthropology series; with the ownership signature of anthropologist Peter Sutton. More
![Everlasting Silver Leaves, from Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa [cover title]. Boer War...](/pictures/thumb/99831_00.jpg?v=1550893871)
[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
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
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
![The Anglo-Boer War. No. ... Scooping! Sweeping! Fighting! [cover title]. Boer War, Herbert...](/pictures/thumb/121024_01.jpg?v=1606530666)
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
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
![The Anglo-Boer War. No. 12. The Last Sweep [cover title]. Boer War, Herbert Melville GUEST](/pictures/thumb/121028_01.jpg?v=1606530669)
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
![Klipdrift. Capture of Lord Methuen [drop title]. Boer War, Lieutenant General Lord METHUEN](/pictures/thumb/121029_01.jpg?v=1606530670)
[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. 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
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, Centaur Publishers, 1983/ 1966. More
