Hello, We list 8 africana lots on this auction starting Thursday 21st November 2019.
Not listed here are items on auction from our stock of erotica items, email us if you wish to be notified of these items - a separate notification will be sent out to that mailing list. Details of the auction are to be found at: http://www.antiquarianauctions.com Visit this site for fuller descriptions and images. You need to register to take part in the auction and antiquarianauctions.com will be pleased to assist you with the bidding process - which is actually simplicity in itself. If you can log in, you can bid. Registration is easy and the site does not ask for too many personal details. This is their auction #79. It is now open for viewing with bidding starting Thursday 21st November at 16.30 GMT and closing one week later on Thursday 28th October at 16.30 GMT (in both cases that being 6.30 pm local time here in SA). We have the following lots on offer: -------------------------------------- Lot 246 #27307 H.C.M. Austen SEA FIGHTS AND CORSAIRS OF THE INDIAN OCEAN Being The Naval History Of Mauritius From 1715 To 1810 R.W. Brooks. Government Printer, Port Louis, 1944 1st edition This is the limited 'Mauritius" edition. Copy No. 46 of 150 copies only. With Foreword by His Excellency The Governor Of Mauritius Sir Wilfred Jackson. Half blue leather over cloth with gilt bands. The spine has 4 raised bands with gilt anchor device betweeen them. The front board shows blind-stamped sailing ship. coloured frontis with tissue guard, 30 plates and 3 folding plans. Lot 277 #27370 Anon. A HISTORY OF THE SEVENTY-FIRST SIEGE BATTERY SOUTH AFRICAN HEAVY ARTILLERY From July, 1915, The Date Of It's Formation At Cape Town, To the 11th November, 1918, When "Cease Fire!" Sounded At Lesdain, On The Escault Canal, Near Tournai, Belgium . no publisher, place, or date given.(obviously) post 1918. Assumed published by the SAHA. Ownership inscription to ffep: "S.J. de Kock, 'Observer Gunner', 71st Battery, S.A.H.A." (listed in Battery Roll). Includes 'Sectors of the Battle Areas ...' where the battery was in action, decorations, appointments, casualties, Battery Roll. Original gilt on leather boards. aeg. 55pp illustrated. Lot 278 #27375 George McCall Theal. THE YELLOW AND DARK-SKINNED PEOPLE OF AFRICA SOUTH OF THE ZAMBESI. A Description Of The Bushmen, The Hottentots, And Particularly The Bantu, With Fifteen Plates And Numerous Folklore Tales Of These Different People. Swan Sonnenschein, Bloomsbury, 1910. Theal's 'History of Southern Africa' contains a great deal of relevant information scattered throughout the different chapters in the many volumes of that work. This volume collects the scattered chapters, memoranda, folklore, etc. and arranges them in proper order with the addition of much new material. Lot 279 #27376 Edgar N. Barclay BIG GAME SHOOTING RECORDS Together With Biographical Notes And Anecdotes On The Most Prominent Big Game Hunters Of Ancient And Modern Times. Witherby, London, 1932. Covers many species of game throughout the world, individual chapters for many African species. Makes clear the enormous amounts of game destroyed in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Lot 280 #27309 John A. Chalmers. TIYO SOGA: A Page Of South African Mission Work. David Bryce, Grahamstown, 1878. 2nd revised edition The frontis portrait shows the usual (printed) inscription from Soga. On the reverse of the frontis has been pasted a second half-title page with the inscription "To my dear wife who aided and encouraged me in all my endeavors to write this simple yet touching story. John Chalmers, Grahamstown, 23rd November 1977". Lot 282 #27380 Jan van Riebeeck (Ed. H.B. Thom). JOURNAL OF JAN VAN RIEBEECK A.A. Balkema for the Van Riebeeck Society, Cape Town, 1952, 1954, 1958. 1st editions. Publication commemorated the landing of Van Riebeeck at the Cape in 1652 - 300 years previously. Volume 1 1651-1655 Volume 2 1656-1658 Volume 3 1659-1662 Lot 283 #27379 Edwin Hadlow Wise Dunkin. MONUMENTAL BRASSES OF CORNWALL. Sixty Two Illustrative Plates Wth Descriptive, Genealogical, And Heraldic Notes. Printed for the Author by Spottiswoode & Co, London, 1882. Annotations and additional material present in this copy appear to be related to the early Tregarthen family. Lot 284 #27385 C.G. Finch-Davies. (Intro. Dr Alan Kemp). THE BIRD PAINTINGS OF C.G. FINCH-DAVIES. The Introduction is a biography of Finch-Davies and is expanded beyond that originally written by that author as published earlier by the Transvaal Museum. There are 99 full page colour plates in addition to the frontis. Winchester Press, Johannesburg, 1984. -------------------------------------- Any additional information, images, assistance, as required in connection with the above items and the bidding process can be provided on request - including p&p estimates for overseas clients. 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