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
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
Los Angeles, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2002. More
Cape Town, Peninsula Press (for the Automobile Association), 1956 (third edition)/ 1949. With the ownership signature and details (dated 19 December 1958) of Major A.G. Evans of 'The York and Lancaster Regiment, 2nd Battalion, The Queen's Own Nigeria Regiment [at] Kadima, Nigeria' on the front flyleaf. A folding 'Key Map..... 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
London, Harvill, 1991 [first thus]. More
London, Collins Harvill, 1990 (first edition). More
Suffolk, Neville Spearman, 1984 (first edition thus)/ 1949. The Introduction by Negley Farson is unique to this 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
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
![The Birds of Africa [in seven volumes]. Leslie H. BROWN, Kenneth NEWMAN, Emil K. URBAN](/pictures/thumb/114950.jpg?v=1563245486)
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
Cape Town, Centaur Publishers, 1983/ 1966. More
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
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
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1963. Oxford Monographs on Social Anthropology. More
London, Bodley Head, 1949, 1957 and 1960 [all first editions]. As 'much at ease with the elegance and bawdyness of a pre-Christian like Horace as with a writer like Baudelaire, nourished in the Christian European tradition'. More
Toowoomba, The Author, 1998. Signed by the author on the title page. An anthology of traveller's tales from Africa and Australia to Russia, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. More
