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Sable reprint of original Purnell edition (Johannesburg 1973).. No inscription. Fine condition in near Fine dustwrapper.. Gilt dec. green cloth boards. 158pp. illustrated 144 col.b/w photos. Contents include chapters on the Fish eagle, the Tawny eagle, the Crowned Eagle, the Martial eagle, the African Hawk-Eagle, Snake Eagles and the Bateleur

Country Life Books 1968 1st edition.. Edges & eps spotted else contents unmarked. edges spotted, light wear only. minor signs of wear at bottom of spines else VG+ condition. Worn slipcase.. 2 volumes gilt dec brown cloth boards. 945pp total. illustrated. in matching slipcase. 305mm x 235mm x 958mm overall. 5.7kg. Gift inscription "To Cecily & Jack (Niven) ... ". Cecily Niven was the daughter of Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (author of 'Jock Of The Bushveld') and in her own right the founder of the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology at UCT Cape Town.

Purnell. Johannesburg 1977 1st edition.. No inscription. VG+ condition in Good dustwrapper (worn along bottom & top edges, tears along top and around spine). excellent contents, a bright copy.. Blue cloth boards. 494pp illustrated photos, maps. large 8vo. 1.1kg. The sixth volume of the official South African Official War Histories. The SAAF in Italy and the Mediterranean, 1943-1945.

Purnell. Johannesburg 1977 1st edition.. No inscriptions. a clean G+ copy in lesser dustwrapper (protected with protective film, heavily worn, and rubbed to rear causing print loss, paper loss to lower spine, &c).. Blue cloth boards. 494pp illustrated photos, maps. large 8vo. 1.1kg. The sixth volume of the official South African Official War Histories. The SAAF in Italy and the Mediterranean, 1943-1945.

Dassie Books. Central News Agency nd.. No inscriptions. insect attack on front edge of rear cover, else VG.. 159pp softcover. A collection of short stories by the author.

Struik. Cape Town 1975.. No inscriptions. a VG-F copy in VG+ dustwrapper ( light wear, no chips, tears, or loss).. Terracotta cloth boards. 224pp illustrated 4to. Spanning the period 1897 to 1939 there are well over 400 photographs identifying makes, owners, location. Of the 130 makes illustrated, 7 examples remained unidentified at time of publication. All but one were later identified.

A.A. Balkema. Cape Town 1963 1st edition.. Book plate to front pastedown. some tanning to ff here and there particularly to end-papers, else excellent contents. Externally VG+, top corners show mild bumping (front one is probably a manufacturing artifact). Excellent shelf and table appearance.. Gilt on quarter brown leather over tan boards. 451pp. illustrated 4to. 1.9kg. Copy No. 185 of 200. Signed by Author on limitation page. Heavily illustrated, this is a detailed study of English & Dutch architecture as it evolved in South Africa. References and bibliography.

Deep South 2003.. Mint condition.. 85pp paperback. A redesigned and second printing of the original 'Earthstepper' published in 1995.

Purnell. Cape Town 1968 1st edition.. No inscription. 4 square corners. eps & edges tanned. contents excellent. VG+ in dustwrapper (exceptionally bright and clean, chipped at head of spine only, else no tears or loss). a particularly smart copy in above average condition.. Blue cloth boards. 390pp illustrated large 8vo. 0.9kg. The first volume of the South African Official War Histories. The full story of South Africa's contribution to victory in East Africa in 1940-1. With the complete history of the operations carried out by the East Africa Force and the Sudan Force in Eritrea, which resulted in the first totally successful campaign carried out by the Allies in World War 2.

Thornton Butterworth. London 1935 (Keystone Library) 1st edition thus.. Spine faded and boards have some ink marks. shelfwear. heavily crossed out owners inscription on ffep hence Good only, but text is very nice and clean.. Tan cloth boards. 342pp. illustrated b/w photos. A period travelogue through Palestine, Iraq, Persia India, China, Japan, Formosa, the South Sea Islands and the Philippines. Author was correspondent of The Times in Tangier from 1887 to 1933.

Barrie & Jenkins. London 1970.. Small neat ownership inscription to front pastedown. VG condition in G-VG shiny dustwrapper (spine faded, general wear, no major loss or tears).. Olive green cloth boards. 185pp illustrated 8vo. Foreword by Kenneth Kaunda. "gives a fascinating and hopeful picture of what is being done by individual countries to preserve our heritage of wildlife" (blurb. Almost 50 years later, obviously not enough!).

Series Entomologica Vol.4. Dr. W. Junk. The Hague 1968 1st edition. We give the isbn of the later Springer edition. This original edition had no isbn at time of publication.. Sello offset to eps else contents unmarked else VG-Fine in VG dustwrapper (light wear, no chips, tears, or loss).. Gilt title on plum cloth boards. 527pp illustrated b/w. Large 8vo 250mm x 165mm x 35mm. 1.1kg. Chapter VII is devoted to The Mountains Of Equatorial East Africa.

Johns Hopkins Press. Baltimore 1961.. No inscriptions. ffep excised, spine fading, o/w a G+ sound clean copy. no dustwrapper.. Green cloth boards. xxviii + 548pp. fold out maps. 8vo 1.0kg.

Methuen. London 1973.. Ownership ticket f.pastedown. lots of pencil underlining hence VG-.. 458pp paperback. With a comprehensive body of statistics to illustrate the process of, and constraints upon, growth, author explains the impact of colonialism upon the economic development, and the beginning of the economic revolution since the end of the Second World War. Bibliography.

Juta. Cape Town 1983 1st edition.. An absolutely Mint unread copy in matching dustwrapper. Untouched in original publishers brown paper wrapping.. Red cloth boards. 304pp illustrated 8vo. An account of the struggles between Europeans and Africans along the Eastern frontier of the Cape of Good Hope during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Boers, and then the English settlers, came into conflict with the Xhosa tribes in the Eastern Cape, the struggle ending for the Xhosa with starvation and famine as a result of the Great Cattle Killing of 1857. Profusely illustrated with extensive notes and bibliography. An excellent account of the wars.

Juta. Cape Town 1983 1st edition.. An absolutely Mint unread copy in matching dustwrapper. Untouched in original publishers brown paper wrapping.. Red cloth boards. 304pp illustrated 8vo. An account of the struggles between Europeans and Africans along the Eastern frontier of the Cape of Good Hope during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Boers, and then the English settlers, came into conflict with the Xhosa tribes in the Eastern Cape, the struggle ending for the Xhosa with starvation and famine as a result of the Great Cattle Killing of 1857. Profusely illustrated with extensive notes and bibliography. An excellent account of the wars.

Juta. Cape Town 1983 1st edition.. An absolutely Mint unread copy in matching dustwrapper. Untouched, still sealed in original publisher's brown paper wrapping.. Red cloth boards. 304pp illustrated 8vo. An account of the struggles between Europeans and Africans along the Eastern frontier of the Cape of Good Hope during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Boers, and then the English settlers, came into conflict with the Xhosa tribes in the Eastern Cape, the struggle ending for the Xhosa with starvation and famine as a result of the Great Cattle Killing of 1857. Profusely illustrated with extensive notes and bibliography. An excellent account of the wars.

Juta. Cape Town 1983 1st edition.. An absolutely Mint unread copy in matching dustwrapper. Untouched in original publishers brown paper wrapping.. Red cloth boards. 304pp illustrated 8vo. An account of the struggles between Europeans and Africans along the Eastern frontier of the Cape of Good Hope during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Boers, and then the English settlers, came into conflict with the Xhosa tribes in the Eastern Cape, the struggle ending for the Xhosa with starvation and famine as a result of the Great Cattle Killing of 1857. Profusely illustrated with extensive notes and bibliography. An excellent account of the wars.

Juta. Cape Town 1983 1st edition.. An absolutely Mint unread copy in matching dustwrapper. Untouched in original publishers brown paper wrapping.. Red cloth boards. 304pp illustrated 8vo. An account of the struggles between Europeans and Africans along the Eastern frontier of the Cape of Good Hope during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Boers, and then the English settlers, came into conflict with the Xhosa tribes in the Eastern Cape, the struggle ending for the Xhosa with starvation and famine as a result of the Great Cattle Killing of 1857. Profusely illustrated with extensive notes and bibliography. An excellent account of the wars.

Severn House. London 1984 1st UK edition.. No inscription. VG+ in VG dustwrapper (slightly rubbed).. Maroon cloth boards. 236pp 8vo.