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Published by Van Riebeeck Society, Cape Town, South Africa, 1996
ISBN 10: 0958411212ISBN 13: 9780958411219
Seller: Hyde Brothers, Booksellers, Fort Wayne, IN, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Gray cloth binding lightly rubbed; leaf edges lightly soiled & smudged, else a tight book. Dust jacket rubbed & lightly creased; residue on backstrip, now protected in a clear mylar cover. ; VAN RIEBEECK SOCIETY SECOND SERIES #25. This volume only. ; VAN RIEBEECK SOCIETY SECOND SERIES #25 Series; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 330 pages.
Published by The van Riebeeck Society, Cape Town, South Africa, 1962
Seller: Eaglestones, Oudtshoorn, South Africa
Book First Edition
Cloth on Board. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair- Glue Damage. First Edition. Volume II only. The previous owner's name is inked on the flyleaf.
Published by Van Riebeeck Society, Cape Town, South Africa, 1991
Seller: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 450pp, tipped in colour frontispiece and occasional further illustrations in black and white. Maps on endpapers. In grey cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. 8vo. Text block edges tanned, mildly affecting page margins. In its original dust jacket, just a little bumped at edges. Palgrave was active in South West Africa (now Namibia) over a period of 25 years, spending eight years in the country as a private individual before becoming a civil servant in Griqualand West, preparing himself for work as a Special Commissioner to Hereroland (or Damaraland, as it was called) and Namaland, undertaking five separate missions for the Cape Government in the early 1880s. It amounts to a series history of Namibia.
Published by Van Riebeeck Society, Cape Town, South Africa, 1990
Seller: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. xl, 244pp [10]. Tipped in colour frontispiece and occasional further monochrome plate illustrations. Map on rear endpapers. In brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. 8vo. Cloth very softly rounded at corners and spine tips. Text block edges toned affecting page margins, mild strip tanning on front endpapers, light spotting on rear endpapers, else internally neat and clean. In its original dust jacket, mildly bumped along upper edge and moderated sunned over spine. The voyage of HMS Guardian is unique in naval history. Sailing from Spithead in 1789, laden with stores and provisions for Britain's new 'thief' colony in New South Wales, she struck an iceberg thirteen days out from the Cape of Good Hope. Only one escape boat survived the voyage back to the Cape - although against all odds, The Guardian herself reached Table Bay a month later. Here, her young captain, Edward Riou, spent a year before receiving orders from the Admiralty to destroy the ship and return to England. This is his story told his journals and other contemporary documents.
Published by VRS/VRV (Van Riebeeck Society), Cape Town, South Africa, 1978
Seller: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, United Kingdom
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Good. 18pp stapled booklet in stiff card covers. 8vo. Covers a little faded, soiled around margins and lightly rubbed at edges. Hint of toning to pages internally. The text of a lecture on the history of the Van Riebeeck Society for the Publication of Southern African Historical Documents, delivered at the third annual conference of Bibliophiles in Johannesburg in 1978. The Society, founded in 1918 is the oldest surviving historical society in South Africa and the only non-profit publishing society devoted to publishing books on South Africa and its history.
Published by Van Riebeeck Society, Cape Town, South Africa, 1993
Seller: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. xxii, 174pp, [10]. Tipped in colour frontispiece and occasional further illustrations in text. In brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. 8vo. Cloth gently rounded at corners and spine tips. Upper text block edge dust darkened. Gift plate pasted onto front free endpaper. Very light spotting on front endpapers and next three or four pages. In its original dust jacket, rubbed on upper corners and at ends of a heavily sunned spine.Guilluame Chenu de Chalezac was brought to the Cape from the Ciskei coast with the survivors of the Stavenisse in 1687, after a year of living in the household of a Xhosa chief. The narrative is based on an account published in 1748. This volume brings together for the first time his family background as a Huguenot refugee, the events surrounding his being marooned on the South Africa coast and his own two parallel accounts of his voyage and its sequels. His later period in the service of the Cape Company, his proposed marriage to the Princess of Orange and his return to a commission in the Prussian Army complete the story.
Published by Van Riebeeck Society, Cape Town, South Africa, 1998
Seller: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. xliv, 294pp, tipped in colour frontispiece and occasional further black and white illustrations and maps in text. Maps on endpapers. In brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. 8vo. A couple of very small spots on front panel, else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original dust jacket, lightly bumped at head of a slightly sunned spine. de Vylder was a Swedish naturalist who, after years in Cape Town, journeyed to present day Namibia between 1873 and 1875, collecting insects and other natural history specimens. His journey was made when European presence was slightly - before the German Colonial Occupation and his journal is a record of an adventure, personal encounters and conditions in what was then considered to a remote region. He was a man of his age, with advanced and provocative views, which shine through his journals.
Published by Van Riebeeck Society, Cape Town, South Africa, 2007
Seller: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. lxvi, 194pp. Colour plate frontispiece. In brown-cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. 8vo. Cloth gently rounded at corners, small indentation on lower edge. Previous owners Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, patchily faded, moderately bumped at edges, lightly rubbed at corners. In 1780, a young Francois Vaillant, born in Suriname and raised in France, set out from Holland for the Cape to collect specimens of birds and animals from the distant and exotic region of the Cape, later becoming famous as the founder of South African ornithology, but at the time finding renown for writing of his travels and putting South Africa firmly in the minds of Europeans. Long out of print, this is a new translation of volume one of his 'Travels'.
Published by Van Riebeeck Society, Cape Town, South Africa, 1994
Seller: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. xxx, 250pp [10]. Tipped in colour frontispiece and occasional further illustrations and maps in text. In brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles. 8vo. Cloth very gently rounded at spine ends. Text block edges a little toned. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original, illustrated, dust jacket, lightly bumped on edges with a mildly sunned spine. This volume gives a full account of the journeys of the Swedish naturalist Johan August Wahlberg in the years between 1838 and 1856 in pursuit of scientific specimens in the interior of southern Africa, particularly Natal, Zululand, the Transvaal, Namibia and Botswana. English translations of his original journals and letters are accompanied by analysis and commentary, providing a Swedish perspective on a history more usually told from an English, French or German perspective.
Published by VRV/VRS [Van Riebeeck Society for the Publication of Southern African Historical Documents], Cape Town, South Africa, 2018
Seller: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Text in Dutch and English. First edition, first printing. 216pp, with colour plate frontispiece, one further colour plate and occasional maps and illustrations in text. In brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering front and spine. Satin ribbon marker bound in. 8vo. Cloth very gently rounded at spine tips. The title page has small and mild creasing. In its original dust jacket, lightly bumped at spine tips, creased at top of front inner flap. Hendrik Swellengrebel, son of a former Cape Governor, visited the Cape's hinterland and the land of Xhosa in 1776-77 with an eye to making recommendations for economic development in the region. His journals and the accompanying aquarelles by his artist, Johannes Schumacher, are precise and richly informative about the land, its economy and inhabitants in the late 18th century. They are presented here in the original Dutch and, for the first time, in English translation.
Published by VRV/VRS [Van Riebeeck Society for the Publication of Southern African Historical Documents], Cape Town, South Africa, 2017
Seller: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Text in Dutch and Afrikaans, and translated to English. xxxviii, 236pp with occasional black and white illustrations. In brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. 8vo. Cloth very slightly rounded at spine tips. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, lightly bumped at edges and slightly rubbed on corners. A hero of Afrikaner history, President M T Steyn led the guerrilla war against the British in South Africa from 1899-1902 before becoming an elder statesman of South African politics, advising on such subjects as the creation of an Afrikaner nation, the self-government of the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony, and the making of the South African Union.
Published by VRS/VRV (Van Riebeeck Society), Cape Town, South Africa, 2014
Seller: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. xlviii, 424pp, with occasional illustrations in text. In brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. 8vo. Boards slightly rounded at corners. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, a little bumped at corners and spine tips, lightly faded on leading edges and over spine. Features over 300 of Olive Schreiner's letters, written from South Africa in the latter part of the 19th century, on the people of South Africa, its politics and racial order, as well as her unfolding critiques of Cecil Rhodes, De Beers and the violence of the British South Africa Company.
Published by The Van Riebeeck Society, Cape Town, South Africa, 1932
Seller: William Davis & Son, Booksellers, Oreland, PA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Account of this South African voortrekker's arduous journey with settlers in the early 19th-century. Trigardt's diary was a valuable contribution to ethnology, linguistics, geography, weather patterns, and wildlife of the southern African interior. Tan cloth with blue spine title and pictorial on front board. Moderately edgeworn and rubbed with bumping to corners. Binding firm. Small library stamp on front endpaper, and previous owner's names inside front board and endpaper. "REF" written in red inside front board. No other markings. Contents clean and very good with color fold-out frontispiece illustration, black and white photographs, and five fold-out maps.
Published by Historical Publications South Africa (formerly the Van Riebeeck Society), Cape Town, South Africa, 2021
Seller: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. xlx, 204pp. Colour plate frontispiece, with occasional further illustrations and charts in text. In brown-cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. 8vo. Cloth gently rounded at corners. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, slightly sunned over spine. In 1780, a young Francois Vaillant, born in Suriname and raised in France, set out from Holland for the Cape to collect specimens of birds and animals from the distant and exotic region of the Cape, later becoming famous as the founder of South African ornithology, but at the time finding renown for writing of his travels and putting South Africa firmly in the minds of Europeans. Long out of print, this is a new translation of volume two of his 'Travels'.
Published by Historical Publications South Africa (formerly the Van Riebeeck Society), Cape Town, South Africa, 2019
Seller: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. x, 318pp, with occasional plate illustrations and black and white illustrations in text. In brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. Brown satin marker bound in. 8vo. Boards gently rounded at corners; internally neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original dust jacket, a little rubbed at corners, creased on inner front flap, very slightly bumped on edges in places. Laing was one of the first missionaries from the Glasgow Missionary Society to arrive on the eastern frontier of South Africa in 1831; like others, he kept a daily journal until his death in 1872. This volume contains the first six years of his journals and covers a tumultuous perod on the Eastern Cape, revealing his observations and close relations with the amaXhosa people of the region.
Published by VRS/VRV (Van Riebeeck Society), Cape Town, South Africa, 2018
Seller: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. xxviii, 194pp plus occasional plate illustrations. In brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. Bronze satin ribbon marker bound in. 8vo. Cloth very slightly rounded at base of spine, internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original illustrated dust jacket, slightly bumped on corners and spine tips, lightly faded along leading edge. The so-called Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918, tellingly dubbed 'Black October' was at the time the worst disease episode to affect South Africa, where it claimed some 350,000 lives or around five percent of the population during a six week period. Cities, including Kimberley, Cape Town and Bloemfontein, particularly heavily hit, with corpse-laden carts trundling the streets to collect the dead. This volume captures graphically this short but unprecedented crisis in South African history.
Published by Van Riebeeck Society, Cape Town, South Africa, 1990
ISBN 10: 0620144556ISBN 13: 9780620144551
Seller: SAVERY BOOKS, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardback 1990. 23x15cm. xxxix+243 pages. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. JACKET HAS A LITTLE EDGE WEAR. Front flap is price-clipped. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner, securely boxed in cardboard. ref.
Published by Historical Publications South Africa (formerly the Van Riebeeck Society), Cape Town, South Africa, 2020
Seller: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. xxii, 360pp, with monochrome frontispiece and occasional further monochrome portraits in text. In brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles. Bronze satin ribbon marker bound in. 8vo. Cloth very slightly rounded at spine ends. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, very slightly bumped in places along upper edge, slightly creased at top of inner flap. Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje (1876-1932) was one of the best known political and literary figures of his generation. He spoke out against the oppressive regime of the South African government in the early decades of the 20th century and is remembered for a number of important books, including his diary kept during the Siege of Mafiking; and as a political writer and activist, his campaigns around the Land Act of 1913 helped preserve the Setswana from extinction. His letters also record his travels to London and the United States. Those of his letters written in Setswana are accompanied here with an English translation. Very hard to find volume.
Published by Van Riebeeck Society, Cape Town, South Africa, 1978
ISBN 10: 062003369XISBN 13: 9780620033695
Seller: Masalai Press, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 297 p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams, maps, index, bibliography. 0.0.
Published by Van Riebeeck Society, Cape Town, South Africa, 1997
ISBN 10: 0958411239ISBN 13: 9780958411233
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 222 pages. Bibliography. Index. "Norwegian missionaries were strategically located witnesses to history who recorded their observations and opinions of inter alia Zulu culture and religion, the impact of European civilisation on indigenous life, events surrounding the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, epidemics and natural disasters and the nascent Zulu church. This volume contains a translated and meticulously edited selection of the most revealing of these illuminating documents." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Appears unread. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. An excellent copy.
Published by Van Riebeeck Society, Cape Town, South Africa, 1998
ISBN 10: 0958411247ISBN 13: 9780958411240
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 292 pages. References. Index. Translated from the original Swedish. "De Vylder was a Swedish naturalist, who, after a year's stay in Cape Town, journeyed through present-day Namibia from 1873 to 1875 collecting insects and other natural-history specimens for institutions in his home country. His journal is a record of an adventurous journey, personal encounters and conditions in what was then considered to be a remote region. With this translation the historical travel literature of southern Africa has been enriched." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Appears unread. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. An excellent copy.
Published by Van Riebeeck Society, Cape Town, South Africa, 2000
ISBN 10: 0958411271ISBN 13: 9780958411271
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 177 pages. Bibliography. Index. "When war was declared in October 1899, Hilder volunteered for service in South Africa and served two tours of dutyy in 1900 and 1902. His writings are rare accounts of the Canadian action in the war as seen from the perspective of the mounted infantry. No other substantial descriptions of these units have been published, despite the fact that these men made up over 50% of Canadian soldiers recruited to serve in the war." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's ink stamp upon verso of front free endpaper, otherwise clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Appears unread. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. An excellent copy.
Published by The Van Riebeeck Society, Cape Town, South Africa, 1928
Seller: William Davis & Son, Booksellers, Oreland, PA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jackets. Engaging account by this German physician, explorer, zoologist, and botanist of his travels and observations of southern Africa in the early 19th-century. Lichtenstein describes the people, wild life, geography and economy of the region. This is a reprint of the London edition of 1812. Tan cloth with blue titles. Moderately edgeworn, rubbed, and soiled with some bumping to corners. Moderate foxing to exterior page edges. Bindings firm. Small library stamps inside front boards and front endpapers of each volume, as well as additional stamp on rear board of volume one. "REF" written in red inside front boards of each volume. Previous owner's names inside front boards and adjoining endpapers. No other markings. Toning to front and rear endpapers. Contents clean and very good with black and white illustrations. One illustration detached, but present, in volume two. Fold-out frontispiece illustration and map (with tear) in volume two.
Published by Van Riebeeck Society, Cape Town, South Africa, 1999
ISBN 10: 0958411255ISBN 13: 9780958411257
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 368 pages. Volume I of "the never previously published private and unrevised records of the life of a remarkable Scotswoman, the wife of the Colonial Secretary during the first British occupation of the Cape. They tell of her attempts to reconcile the Dutch to British rule, and are particularly important in recording what official accounts ignore. Vivid accounts are given of events such as the abortive mutiny in the Castle and the imprisonment and trial for high treason of the Graaff-Reinet rebels." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Appears unread. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. An excellent copy.
Published by Van Riebeeck Society, Cape Town, South Africa, 1999
ISBN 10: 0958411263ISBN 13: 9780958411264
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 328 pages. Glossary, selected bibliography and index. Multi-panel fold-out illustration at back. Volume II of "the never previously published private and unrevised records of the life of a remarkable Scotswoman, the wife of the Colonial Secretary during the first British occupation of the Cape. They tell of her attempts to reconcile the Dutch to British rule, and are particularly important in recording what official accounts ignore. Vivid accounts are given of events such as the abortive mutiny in the Castle and the imprisonment and trial for high treason of the Graaff-Reinet rebels." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Appears unread. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. An excellent copy.
Published by Van Riebeeck Society, Cape Town, South Africa, 2001
ISBN 10: 095841128XISBN 13: 9780958411288
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 161 pages. Bibliography. Index. "Lane, a born Ulsterman, a burgher of the South African Republic but still loyal to the British cause, a storekeeper in the hamlet of Hartbeesfontein in the Western Transvaal, faced dire penalties if he did not go to war with his commando. Refusing to bear arms against his mother country, he was placed in charge of the ammunition in the main laager of General Piet Cronje, Deputy Commandant General of the Republic. Not only was he opposed to Kruger and Krugerism but he was incensed at being commandeered. He criticizes much of what he sees and hears about Cronje. This viewpoint makes the work unique and unmatched by any other diarist in the camps of the Boers." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's ink stamp atop front free endpaper, otherwise clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Appears unread. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. An excellent copy.
Published by Van Riebeeck Society, Cape Town, South Africa, 2002
ISBN 10: 0958411298ISBN 13: 9780958411295
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 206 pages. Bibliography. Index. "A personal insider's account of the great imperial scandal of the Jameson Raid (1895-6) and the coming of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Appears unread. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. An excellent copy.