Africana items on antiquarianauctions.com Auction #79

[Ian Balchin]

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We list 8 africana lots on this auction starting Thursday 21st November
2019.

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We have the following lots on offer:

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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.


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