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 about The Australian Soldiers' Guide to Easy French and Arabic
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 about The Story of 46 Division, 1939-1945
![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 about The Investors' and Newspaper Readers' Pocket Map of Africa, 1901 [cover title
Cape Town, Western Province Cricket Association, 2000. More about More than a Game. History of the Western Province Cricket Board 1959-1991
Los Angeles, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2002. More about Ways of the Rivers. Arts and Environment of the Niger Delta
Cape Town, Peninsula Press (for the Automobile Association), 1956 (third edition)/ 1949. Included is a foldout 'Key Map of Trans-African Highways' (loosely inserted into a paper sleeve affixed to the front pastedown) along with two pages of handwritten notes by a previous owner. More about Trans-African Highways. A route book of the main trunk roads in Africa
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 about Ericas in Southern Africa. With Paintings by Irma von Below, Fay Anderson and others
London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1962/ 1866. More about The Albert N'yanza. Great Basin of the Nile and Explorations of the Nile Sources
Edinburgh, MacNiven and Wallance, 1899. More about Presbyterianism in the Colonies, with Special Reference to the Principles and Influence of the...
London, Country Life Books, 1979. More about Africa's Harsh Paradise. Namibia
[Kenthurst], Kangaroo Press, [1992]. More about The Proteas of Tropical Africa. Illustrated by Lura Ripley
London, Harvill, 1991 [first thus]. More about Nomads of Niger. Text by Marion Van Offelen
London, Collins Harvill, 1990 (first edition). More about African Ark. Peoples of the Horn
Suffolk, Neville Spearman, 1984 (first edition thus)/ 1949. The Introduction by Negley Farson is unique to this edition. More about Karamojo Safari
Berkeley, University of California Press, 1986. The rear flap of the dustwrapper states that 'Volume 1 [is] on Southwestern Zaire ... The following three volumes in the series will cover the arts and cultures of Lower Zaire, southeastern Zaire, and northern and central Zaire'. We can find no record of... More about The Arts of Zaire. Volume 2: Eastern Zaire. The Ritualistic and Artistic Context of Voluntary...
London, Athlone Press, 1989. Number 58 in the Monographs on Social Anthropology series; with the ownership signature of anthropologist Peter Sutton. More about Ritual, History and Power. Selected Papers in Anthropology
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[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 about Everlasting Silver Leaves, from Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa [cover title
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 about Letters from an Uitlander, 1899-1902. With introduction by Major Sir Bartle Frere
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 about A collection of six different vintage portrait photographs of Lieutenant (later Captain) Samuel...
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London, Academic Press, and Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1992, 1997, 2000 and 2004. The colour illustrations in the series are principally by Martin Woodcock, with additional artwork by Ian Willis, Peter Hayman and C. Hilary Fry. More about The Birds of Africa [in seven volumes
Cape Town, Centaur Publishers, 1983/ 1966. More about Zulu Medicine and Medicine-Men
London, George Bell and Sons, 1900 [Bell's Indian and Colonial Library edition]. Signed in pencil 'F. Ware, May 14th, 1900', presumably [Sir] Fabian Ware KCVO KBE CB CMG (1869-1949), founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission and sometime Director of Education in the Transvaal. With the later bookplate and ownership... More about The Natal Campaign
London, John Murray, 1872. Burton was Consul to Damascus from 1869 to 1872. Other articles (each containing a large folding map with added colour) include BURTON, Richard Francis and Charles F. Tyrhwitt DRAKE: Notes of a Reconnaissance of the Anti-Libanus (pages 408-425); FORREST, Alexander: Account of an Expedition to explore... More about Notes on an Exploration of the Tulul el Safa, the Volcanic Region east of Damascus, and the Umm...
London, John Murray, 1990/ 1990. With the bookplate of Grattan Wheaton [OAM], and his inscribed date of purchase. A centennial biography, McLynn draws on new material from a wealth of untapped manuscript sources. More about Burton. Snow Upon the Desert
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1963. Oxford Monographs on Social Anthropology. More about Chiefs and Strangers. A Study of Political Assimilation among the Mandari
