Hello, We list 16 titles on this auction.
Details of the auction are to be found at: http://www.antiquarianauctions.com This is auction #106. It is open for viewing now. Bidding commences on Thursday 13th April at 16.30 GMT and closes on Thursday 20th April at 16.30 GMT. ie. 18.30 local South African time. See Notes at end hereof for some additional details. We have the following lots on offer: ------------------------------------- Lot 6 #26685 J.E. Hughes. (Intro. Major H.C. Maydon). EIGHTEEN YEARS ON LAKE BANGWEULU The Field, London, 1933 1st edition Inscribed "With the Author's Compliments" to half-title page (but not so signed). Formerly a Native Commissioner in North-East Rhodesia the Author does a land and a boat tour around the lake and gives an account of these travels with his experiences of hunting and native life. A very detailed and informative text of life in the veldt those days. Illustrated with over 75 plates. To view this book use URL: https://tinyurl.com/38jpa99h Lot 14 #28568 Reed Massengill, & Ken Furtado. (Ed. Dian Hanson) QUAINTANCE. "The Flamboyant Life and Forbidden Art of George Quaintance" Taschen, Koln, 2010 1st edition George Quaintance, 1902 to 1957, lived and worked during an era when homosexuality was repressed and when his paintings and physique photos could not depict a penis. In an era before the Stonewall riots, the sexual revolution, gay rights, and the AIDS crisis, Quaintance and his high-camp erotic art existed in a demi-mode of legality. Half a century later the masculine fantasy world created by Quaintance, populated by Greek Gods, Latin lovers, lusty cowboys and chiseled ranch hands, retains its seductive allure. His highly prized oil paintings numbered just 55. As the preeminent male physique artist of the 1940s and early 1950s, his work for the early gay titles 'Physique Pictorial', 'Demi Gods', and 'Body Beautiful' inspired a generation of artists including Harry Bush, Etienne and Tom of Finland. Text by Reed Massengill with a Commentary on the complete works by Ken Furtado. Hugely well illustrated including 4 oversized fold-out plates. English, French, & German text and captions. To view this book use URL: https://tinyurl.com/2tvafw6p Lot 15 #28554 Samuel Johnson A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE In Which The Words Are Deduced From Their Originals And Illustrated In Their Different Significations By Examples From The Best Writers. To Which Are Prefixed A History Of The Language And An English Grammar. 2 volumes. A-K ('A' to 'Kyd') & L-Z ('Left-handedness' to Zig-Zag'). Triple-column text. John Jarvis, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, 1786. Edition not given. Modern binding, gilt on half leather, black over tan textured rexine with new eps and trimmed edges. A sound and attractive set of this seminal work by Dr Johnson. The 1786 Jarvis edition is relatively scarce and that may be the only year in which it was so published. Specifically this edition does not mention 'John Fielding' as the seller of copies printed by John Jarvis of which such copies are clearly extant. To view this book use URL: https://tinyurl.com/44xwpc5z Lot 21 #28505 Jean Hermanovitsn& Umberto Brunelleschi LA GUIRLANDE. 2e Fascicule. Album Mensuel d'Art Et De Literature. La Guirlande, Paris, November 1919 Copy No.283 of 800. Inscribed thus: "Bound by Lilian Webb in Paris 1930". The 2nd Fascicule of 11 only. 1/2 decorative leather bound over paper-covered boards, hand-made marbled end-papers. This art binding is intriguing, well carried out, but perhaps not professional, it nevertheless is 'sympathique' in the style of the contents and the period. Various pochoir plates. Artwork by: Brunelleschi, George Barbier, Mahias, Benito, Maurice Taquoi, joseph Hemard. Articles & stories: PHILI by Abel Hermant, LE TESTAMENT by Paul Bourget, COMLAINTE by A. de Noailles, LE BON AU THEATRE by Andre Brule, UNE LETTRE DE PARIS by Rip, LA PARISIENNE by Andre de Fouquieres, ELEGANCES PARISIENNES by Juliette Lancret, POUR VOUS, MESDAMES by Pamela. To view this book use URL: https://tinyurl.com/yckk2s82 Lot 174 #28377 Sir Andries Stockenstrom. (Ed C.W. Hutton) THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE LATE SIR ANDRIES STOCKENSTROM Sometime Lieutenant Governor Of The Eastern Province Of The Colony Of The Cape Of Good Hope. Volumes 1 and 2 Juta, Cape Town, 1887 1st edition. 2 volumes. Sir Andries Stockenstrom (1792 –1864) was Lieutenant Governor of British Kaffraria during the years 1836 to 1838. His efforts in restraining colonists from moving into Xhosa lands served to make him immensely unpopular among the settlers of the Cape Colony frontier. As a historical figure, he long remained controversial in South Africa for supposedly hindering colonisation, and pro-imperialist histories traditionally vilified him. However his far-sighted and respectful policies towards the Xhosa have increasingly gained recognition in modern South Africa. On Stockenstrom's legacy, historian Christopher Saunders concluded: "No man in the 19th century Cape had greater breadth of vision, none gained the respect of a wider constituency, black as well as white". To view this book use URL: https://tinyurl.com/y3tmft2f Lot 175 #27370 Anon A HISTORY OF THE SEVENTY-FIRST SIEGE BATTERY SOUTH AFRICAN HEAVY ARTILLERY From July, 1915, The Date Of Its Formation At Cape Town, To the 11th November, 1918, When "Cease Fire!" Sounded At Lesdain, On The Escault Canal, Near Tournai, Belgium Published: Unknown, Printed in London, c.1920 1st edition Includes 'Sectors of the Battle Areas On The Western Front ...' where the battery was in action, decorations, appointments, casualties, Battery Roll. Ownership inscription: "S.J. de Kock, 'Observer Gunner', 71st Battery, S.A.H.A." (listed in Battery Roll). Its predecessors were the South African Heavy Artillery Brigade, The Regiment Of South African Artillery, and No.3 (Transvaal) Battery, South African Heavy Artillery. A scarce South African WW1 unit history. To view this book use URL: https://tinyurl.com/47wvjn3u Lot 176 #27365 Walter Battiss LIMPOPO J.L. Van Schaik, Pretoria, 1965 stated 1st edition Inscribed by Walter Battiss with his usual graphic in ink. Battiss was Professor of Art at UNISA at the time of publication. From his camp on the Limpopo River he conceived this book looking south to the Karoo of his birth and youth, and north to the islands of Zanzibar, Lamu, Manda and Pate which he had visited as an adult. To view this book use URL: https://tinyurl.com/2ywbaxtm Lot 177 #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, Port Louis, 1934 stated 1st edition This is the scarce 'Mauritius' limited edition. Copy No. 46 of 150 copies only. To view this book use URL: https://tinyurl.com/2fdupsws Lot 176 #27250 David Reid-Henry COMMEMORATIVE PRINTS Introduction And Sketch Notes By Louise Reid Henry. Frank Read Press, Mazoe, 1979 1st edition. Set No.70 of 250 only. These lithographic prints, produced by Frank Read Press of then Mazoe, Rhodesia, were produced by a mixture of photo and hand lithography. The prints illustrate the following birds: the Trumpeter Hornbill, the Ceylon Blue Magpie, the Fish Eagle, the Crested Barbet, the Iceland Gyrfalcon, and Epping Forest. Five of the originals were done in tempera, the sixth in oils. Full set of 6 prints, each in folder 550mm x 425mm in original blue 'solander' box To view this book use URL: https://tinyurl.com/uu8zndc7 Lot 179 #26828 Tomotsu Yato OTOKO. Photo-Studies Of The Young Japanese Male Rho-Delta Press, Los Angeles, 1972 1st and only edition Follows from author's earlier two works, 'Young Samurai' and 'Naked Festival'. 85 studies of 51 young Japanese males around the age of twenty. "I should like to compare the young men who appear here to perfectly wrought balls of jade because of their unique perfection". To view this book use URL: https://tinyurl.com/2nhrnvr5 Lot 180 #26455 J.E. Burrows SOUTHERN AFRICAN FERNS AND FERN ALLIES Frandsen, Sandton, 1990 1st edition This book describes ferns growing in forests, in grasslands, on high mountains, species surviving as resurrection plants in extremely arid habitats and a few that are even floating aquatics. The 343 species, including 12 introduced ones, are described and illustrated in detail. Every species is illustrated with colour photographs, and there are over 800 line drawings. To view this book use URL: https://tinyurl.com/muwzafh5 Lot 181 #26304 .S. Hickman RHODESIA SERVED THE QUEEN. Volumes 1 & 2 Rhodesian Forces In The Boer War 1899-1902. Government of Rhodesia, Salisbury, 1970 & 1975 1st Edition Volume 1. Rhodesian Forces In The Boer War 1899-1902. Volume 2. 'From Mafeking Until The End Of The War On 31st May 1902'. The The result of considerable research and field work this 2-volume official history of Rhodesian involvement in the Anglo Boer War of 1899-1902 is detailed and contains many illustrations, maps, and useful appendices. To view this book use URL: https://tinyurl.com/y5j8unf2 Lot 182 #28570 F.E.G. Nilant DIE HOUT EN LINOSNEE VAN J.H. PIERNEEF A.A. Balkema, Cape Town, 1974 1st edition. Afrikaans text. 165 items illustrated and discussed. "Pierneef painted Africa. His landscapes were different from anything seen in paint before. Baines, Oerder and others had painted the same scenes, but Pierneef saw them with new eyes. He created an original style out of this new subject matter" (Dr. Anton Hendriks). Pierneef's original style with simplified shapes and a small range of pale colours is instantly recognisable. To view this book use URL: https://tinyurl.com/2p926fnn Lot 188 #27155 C.R. Anhaeusser & S. Maske. (Eds). MINERAL DEPOSITS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA. Volumes 1 & 2 GSSA, 1986 Volume 1 contains 79 papers, including descriptions of Archaean gold, nickel, antimony, and chruysotile asbestos deposits, the auriferous quartz-pebble conglomerate deposits of the Witwatersrand goldfields, and the iron, manganese, asbestos, fluorspar, and zinc-lead deposits of the early Proterozoic Transvaal Sequence. Volume 2 contains 100 papers, including descriptions of platinum, chrome, vanadium, tin, and fluorspar deposits associated with metamorphic mobile belts, including the Limpopo and Damara orogens and the Namaqualand Metamorphic Complex. The final 40 papers in the volume deal with Phanerozoic to Recent deposits, including all the major coalfields, and deposits associated with carbonatites and kimberlites. To view this book use URL: https://tinyurl.com/wtfy5x7f Lot 281 #28560 Charles Dickens THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS Chapman & Hall, London, nd. 1870s? Set of 20 leatherbound volumes: A Child's History Of England, American Notes & Reprinted Pieces, Barnaby Rudge, Bleak House, Christmas Books, Christmas Stories, David Copperfield, Dombey And Son, Great Expectations, Hard Times & Pictures From Italy, Little Dorrit, Martin Chuzzlewit, Nicholas Nickleby, Oliver Twist, Our Mutual Friend, Sketches By Boz, The Mystery Of Edwin Drood, Tale Of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Uncommercial Traveller. Gilt titling on half blue calf over maroon cloth boards. Marbled edges and end-papers. 5 raised bands with gilt decoration to panels. 'Dickens' Works' on red lable and title on brown label. To view this book use URL: https://tinyurl.com/ak47d6j6 Lot 282 #28570 Sir Walter Scott WAVERLEY NOVELS 25 Volume set. Centenary Edition. Adam & Charles Black, London, 1886-1887 Gilt title on maroon half leather over marbled paper-covered boards. top edge gilt. green marbled eps. 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