Hello, We have put 25 items on auction. There are a number of lots dealing with hunting and exploration as well as other historical areas of interest relating to Africa.
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An Exhibition Of The Collections In The Africana Museum And The South African National War Museum, Johannesburg, Augmented By Special Loans. 22 July - 10 August 1957. Africana Museum, Johannesburg 1957. Gives extensive details of the medals on exhibition. Lot 150 #21696 Paul Augustinus. BOTSWANA, A BRUSH WITH THE WILD. Acorn Books, Randburg 1987. Illustrated with the artist's photographs, paintings & drawings, this classic is as fresh as ever both visually and in the extensive information given in the text. Lot 151 #25682 Sir Samuel W. Baker. ISMAILIA. A Narrative Of The Expedition To Central Africa For The Supression Of The Slave Trade Organised By Ismail Khedive Of Egypt. 1907 single-volume reissue of the 1878 New Edition. (originally published in 1874). #25683 Sir Samuel W. Baker. THE NILE TRIBUTARIES OF ABYSSINIA And The Sword Hunters Of The Hamran Arabs. London 1908 3rd edition reprint. #25684 Sir Samuel W. Baker. THE ALBERT N'YANZA. Great Basin Of The Nile, And Explorations Of Nile Sources. 1907 reprint single-volume reissue of 1869 New Edition. Lot 152 #24620 Alfred Bertrand. AU PAYS DES BA-ROTSI HAUT-ZAMBEZE. Voyage D'Exploration En Afrique, Et Retour Par Les Chutes Victoria, Le Matabeleland, Le Transvaal, Natal, Le Cap. Librairie Hachette Et Cie, Paris 1898. "Ouvrage illustre de 105 gravures et deux cartes". The 1895-1896 expedition was organised with Captain Alfred St. Hill Gibbons, Percy C. Reid, M.F.-D Pirie and the Author. Their route took them from the Cape via Kimberley, Mafeking, and the Makarikari pans to Kazoungoula and the 'Royaume Des ba-Rotsi' in what is now Zambia. They returned to the Cape via Pretoria, Johannesburg, and Durban. This was the first of two expeditions by St. Hill Gibbons to explore and map the upper basin and central course of the Zambesi. Lot 153 #23911 Hedley A. Chilvers. THE STORY OF DE BEERS. With Some Notes On The Company's Financial, Farming, Railway And Industrial Activities In Africa, And Some Introductory Chapters On The River Diggings And Early Kimberly. Cassell, London 1939. Lot 154 G.E. Cory. THE RISE OF SOUTH AFRICA. A History Of The Origin Of South African Colonisation And Of Its Development Towards The East From The Earliest Times To 1857. Vols 1-6. Struik Cape Town 1965. Facsimile reprint of the Longmans Green edition published in 1910, 1913, 1919, 1926, 1930, & 1940. Lot 155 Sir O'Moore Creagh & E.M. Humphris. THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDER 1886- 1923. A Complete Record Of The Recipients Of The Distinguished Service Order From Its Institution In 1886, To The 12th June 1923, With Descriptions Of The Deeds And Services For Which The Award Was Given And With Many Biographical And Other Details. Hayward & Sons, London 1978. Compiled From Official Publications And Despatches, Letters From Commanding Officers And Other Contemporary Accounts, And From Information From Private Sources. With 1026 portrait illustrations. Lot 156 #24437 Adrian Darter, "One Of Them". PIONEERS OF MASHONALAND. Books of Rhodesia, Bulawayo 1977. Includes 26 photographs by Ellerton Fry. Author joined the Pioneers in 1890 and was one of the few to write an account of his personal experiences. In every line the thrill of adventure and the joy of companionship shine through in this youthful account. Darter wrote this however to persuade the British that the British South Africa Company's Charter should be brought to an end as he believed that the Company had forfeited its rights when it used force to invade Matableland in 1893. Lot 157 #21639 Alkis Doucakis. IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF GANDHI. An Illustrated History Of Johannesburg's Linksfield Ridge And Environs. Colours. 2008. A review of the history, institutions, architecture, of the area. The area and many of the houses were the brainchild of Hermann Kallenbach, friend of Mahatma . Lot 195 # Colin Harding. FRONTIER PATROLS. A History Of The British South Africa Police And Other Rhodesian Forces G. Bell, London 1937. Covers the occupation of Mashonaland, the Jameson Raid, the Matabele Rebellion, the Mashonaland Rebellion. Also covers action of Rhodesian Forces during the Boer War with chapters on Mafeking, Rustenberg. Contains text of the Rudd Concession, various ordinances of the British South Africa Company, Nominal Roll of the Pioneer Corps, casualties of the 1893 Matabele war, patrols & casualties of the B.S.A. Police in 1897, casualties of the M.M. Police in Matabeleland 1896, Roll of B.S.A. Police who served in the Rhodesia Native Regiment 1914-1918, Honours & casualties of the B.S.A. Police 1914-1918. Lot 196 #22953 Archibald Hurd. THE MERCHANT NAVY. Volumes 1,2,3. History Of The Great War. Based Upon Official Documents. John Murray, London 1921, 1924, 1929 By Direction Of The Historical Section Of The Committee Of Imperial Defence. Lot 198 #24983 James Johnston. REALITY VERSUS ROMANCE IN SOUTH CENTRAL AFRICA. Being An Account Of A Journey Across The Continent From Benguella On the West Through Bihe, Ganguella, Barotse, The Kalihari Desert, Mashonaland, Manica, Gorongoza, Nyasa, The Shire Highlands, To The Mouth Of The Zambesi On The East Coast. Hodder & Stoughton, London (1983) "During a period of 20 months Author crossed south central Africa, mostly on foot, without any companion, passing through numerous hostile and savage tribes, traversing areas hitherto reported too pestilential for exploration, surmounting natural obstacles which have been represented as insurmountable, and penetrating regions where no white man had ever gone before". As a doctor the author's object was to assess conditions for missionary work by natives of his home Jamaica. This relatively scarce British edition includes the illustration opposite page 304 as censored from the American edition. Lot 199 #25670 F. Vaughan Kirby. SPORT IN EAST CENTRAL AFRICA Being An Account Of Hunting Trips In Portuguese And Other Districts Of East Central Africa. Rowland Ward, London 1899. From Czech: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICAN BIG GAME HUNTING BOOKS: "An elusive Rowland Ward publication, this title continues Kirby's big game hunting adventures in the neighbourhood of the Zambesi and Shire Rivers. He bagged kudu, leopard, eland and buffalo while also shooting hippo and crocodiles. His best chapters cover his experiences hunting elephant in the Chiringoma region. Kirby's writing style, while quite descriptive, features some exceptionally long paragraphs". Lot 200 #7321 Bishop Knight-Bruce & Dunnell Rudd. (Ed. Constance E. Fripp & V.W. Hiller). GOLD AND THE GOSPEL IN MASHONALAND. Being The Journals Of, 1. The Mashonaland Mission Of Bishop Knight-Bruce. & 2. The Concession Journey Of Charles Dunell Rudd. Chatto & Windus, London 1949. Central African Archives. Oppenheimer Series Number Four. Lot 201 #21808 David Livingstone. (Ed. J.P.R. Wallis). THE ZAMBEZI EXPEDITION OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE 1858-1863. Volume 1. The Journals, Volume 2. The Journals Continued With Letters And Despatches Therefrom. Chatto & Windus, London 1956. Central African Archives. Oppenheimer Series Number Nine. Lot 202 #21786 Robert Moffat. (Ed. J.P.R. Wallis). THE MATABELE JOURNALS OF ROBERT MOFFAT 1829-1860. 2 Volumes. Chatto & Windus 1945. Government Archives Of Southern Rhodesia. Oppenheimer Series No. One. Covers Robert Moffat's five visits to Moselekatse. Also includes some selected letters to Richard Moffat, Mrs Moffat, Rev. A. Tidman, & one to Sir George Gray. Note: The first publication in the Oppenheimer Series. Lot 203 #21621 Allister Macmillan (Ed). ENVIRONS OF THE GOLDEN CITY AND PRETORIA Cape Times, Cape Town 1937. Covers the early Transvaal industrial towns from Pretoria to Vereeniging and from Krugersdorp to Witbank & Middelburg. Articles on the different locales by writers such as Eric Rosenthal, Hedley Chilvers, Vere Stent, & more. The format is a history and outline of each town followed by a review of commercial establishments. Illustrated with many photographs. Companion volume to "The Golden City". Lot 204 #25671 J.H. Patterson.THE MAN-EATERS OF TSAVO. And Other East-African Adventures. Macmillan. London 1908. Introduction by F.C. Selous. Author was an engineer in Uganda where the railway construction workers were carried off from their tents at night by lions which saw them as tasty and easy pickings. This classic East African title deals with not only the man-eating lions, but the construction of the Tsavo bridge, observations on hunting, Swahili & Masai tribes, and life in East Africa in those times. #25672 IN THE GRIP OF THE NYIKA Further Adventures In British East Africa. Macmillan. London 1908. "In the subsequent pages I have endeavoured to give a plain account of the trials and adventures which befell me on two recent expeditions through the 'nyika', or wilderness, in British East Africa". Written after 'The Man Eaters Of Tsavo' the opening chapter gives an account of several previously unrecorded tales that occurred when building the Uganda Railway. Lot 205 #25703 Thomas Pringle. (Ed. John Noble) AFAR IN THE DESERT And Other South African Poems. With A Memoir And Notes Longmans Green / Juta. London & Cape Town 1881. The added notes chiefly illustrate the allusions to the scenery and the character of the country and its inhabitants in the selections from his prose writings. Lot 206 #25675 Frederic Courteney Selous. TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE IN SOUTH-EAST AFRICA. Being The Narrative Of The Last Eleven Years Spent By The Author On The Zambezi And It's Tributaries; With An Account Of The Colonisation Of Mashunaland And The Progress Of The Gold Industry In That Country. Rowland Ward, London 1893. From Czech: "In this work recounting eleven years of exploration, work and sport in the 1880's and 1890's, Selous describes numerous adventures with lions and leopards, particularly near the Zambezi, Zweswi, and Manyami Rivers, with additional sport after rhinoceros, eland and hartebeest. After returning to the Transvaal, he linked with Montague Kerr and travelled into Matabeleland. Selous hunted more lions and rhinoceros, and vividly depicts an elephant hunt near the Zweswi River. In 1886, he hunted through Mashonaland, but was forced to escape after his camp was destroyed by hostile tribesmen. Eventually reaching the Zambezi, he hunted lion and lost a canoe to a hippopotamus. He concludes with a chapter on rifles, and another reflecting earlier sporting adventures after elephant, rhinoceros, buffalo and others". Selous recounts much more than his hunting experiences, commenting upon the people, agriculture, topography &c. Lot 207 #25698 Barnabas Shaw. (Wesleyan Missionary, Resident In The Country Nearly Twenty Years). MEMORIALS OF SOUTH AFRICA. (OR Memorials of South Africa). J. Mason, Hamilton Adam, & Thomas Riley, London, 1841. 2nd Thousand. Combines a history of the country with accounts of the Author's travels and work as a Weslyan missionary in Namaqualand, Damaraland, Bechuanaland, the Cape, also throughout Albany and Kaffraria in the Eastern Cape Colony and border areas. Includes a brief account of the missionary William Threllfall who was murdered in Namaqualand, 1825. Lot 208 #25678 Captain H.G.C. Swayne. SEVENTEEN TRIPS THROUGH SOMALILAND. A Record Of Exploration & Big Game Shooting, 1885 To 1893. Rowland Ward, London 1985. "Being The Narrative Of Several Journeys In The Hinterland Of The Somali Coast Protectorate, Dating From The Beginning Of Its Administration By Great Britain Until The Present Time. With Descriptive Notes On The Wild Fauna Of The Country". Lot 209 #24748 The Transvaal Publishing Company. MEN OF THE TIMES. Old Colonists Of The Cape Colony And Orange River Colony. Transvaal Publishing Company, Johannesburg 1906. Originally sold by subscription this features many rather hagiographic biographical entries (probably over 1000) to which each subscriber was entitled. These covered the Cape Colony & the Orange River Colony. Groups of entries interspersed with reviews of various industries (mainly agricultural), entries for 'A Hundred Years Ago', Constantia, Claremont, the Cape Legislature, Deceased Public Men, Pioneers of the Rand, index to entries and also to Members of the Cape Legislature. Lot 210 #17707 Jennifer Verbeek, Mary Nathanson, & Elaine Peel. (Comps). WEBB'S GUIDE TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE COLONY OF NATAL. An Expanded And Revised Edition With Indexes. (A Guide To The Official Records Of The Colony Of Natal). University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg, 1984. This revised edition now lists the Natal colonial holdings of the South African Archives and other important South African libraries, this in addition to that held in five major Natal collections. A generally unobtainable reference work being a continuation of "A Guide To The Official Records Of Natal" originally compiled by C. de B. Webb in 1965 & 1968. Lot 229 #25940 Various. Southern African First Day Covers. 42 Southern African franked First Day Covers from Bophutatswana (13), Ciskei (4), Namibia (4), South Africa (6), Transkei (6), Venda (8), & Zambia (1). Each in original envelope with descriptive card insert. This lot sold on behalf of the Grahamstown Feral Cat Project. They operate a 'Trap, neuter, & release' policy and money realised from this sale will go to the veterinary account for sterilisation procedures. 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