Quagga Books ABA ; ILAB

Cape Town, with more than 300 years of colonial history and a haven for traders travelling the East -Indian route from Europe has always been a source of treasures. Quagga in Kalk Bay is still permeated with the sense of the rare and unusual. Large leather bound tomes, 17 century sea charts, glass cabinets stuffed with books, seashells, the odd baboon skull or whalebone. A mounted zebra stares down at you with its glassy eyes. It all has the feel of a successful 17th century merchants Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities. Paintings, books, maps and the oddest of objects.