Lot Details
Lot 338
[SOUTH AFRICA] Group related to South Africa.
Comprising: LUCAS, THOS. J. Camp Life and Sport in South Africa. Experiences of Kaffir Warfare with the Cape Mounted Rifles. London: Chapman and Hall, 1878. First edition. Publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt. Chromolithographed frontispiece and plates, vignette title page, half-title, publisher's advertisements. Czech, Africa, p. 171. Shaken, extremities worn, boards rubbed, bookplate to front pastedown; a second copy in modern binding; ANDERSON, ANDREW A. Twenty-five Years in a Waggon. Sport and Travel in South Africa. London: Chapman and Hall, 1888. New edition in one volume. Publisher's blue cloth gilt. Frontispiece, plates, half-title, publisher's advertisements. Czech, Africa, p. 6. Overopened, generally a bit worn, scattered foxing; DRAYSON, A. W. Among the Zulus. The Adventures of Hans Sterk, South African Hunter and Pioneer. London: Griffith Farran Browne & Co., [1892]. Third(?) edition. Publisher's blue pictorial cloth gilt. Frontispiece, plates, half-title. Spine sunned, extremities worn, endpapers foxed; BALFOUR, ALICE BLANCHE. Twelve Hundred Miles in a Waggon. London and New York: Edward Arnold, 1895. First edition. Publisher's burgundy pictorial cloth gilt. Folding map, frontispiece, plates, in-text illustrations, half-title, publisher's advertisements. Shaken, extremities worn, early ownership inscription to front free endpaper; NICHOLSON, G. Fifty Years in South Africa: Being some Recollections and Reflections of a Veteran Pioneer. London: W. W. Greener, 1898. First edition. Publisher's green cloth. Frontispiece, plates, half-title, publisher's advertisements. Spine tips bumped, endpapers foxed, early ownership inscription to front free endpaper; MILLAIS, JOHN GUILLES. A Breath from the Veldt. London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1899. Second edition. Publisher's green cloth gilt, top edge gilt. Frontispiece, plates, in-text illustrations, half-title, publisher's advertisements. Recased, extremities worn, bookplate and gift inscription to first blank; HUTCHINSON, G. T. From the Cape to the Zambesi. With an Introduction by Colonel F. Rhodes, C.B., D.S.O. London: John Murray, 1905. First edition. Contemporary full red morocco with gilt supralibros, all edges gilt. Frontispiece, plates, half-title. Extremities rubbed, front hinge weak but holding, contemporary prize inscription to first blank; and LE ROUX, SERVAAS D. Pioneers and Sportsmen of South Africa 1760-1890. Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia: The Art Printing Works for the author, 1939. First edition. Publisher's red cloth gilt. Plates. Spine darkened, generally rubbed, endpapers toned, gift inscription to front free endpaper.
The lot nine titles. (9)
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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