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(Cape Town: South African Library, 1997) 0869681184. 210 x 145 mm; laminated pictorial wraps; pp. x + 219. Spine a little sunned. Near fine condition. Topics covered include: Current State of Publishing and Bibliography of African materials (John McIlwaine); History of the South African Publishing and Book Trade (A.S.C. Hooper); Mission Presses in Natal (Brian Spencer); Le Vaillant's 'Voyages' and the circumstances surrounding the publication of the 'Voyages' (Ian Glenn); Offprints: Their Significance and Collectability (Max Sandler); The illustrated 'Table Books' of the Nineteenth century: a dilemma when the caoutchouc crumbles (Johann Maree); Highlights of the Herbarium: early botanical books at the University of the Witwatersrand (Jacqueline Kalley); Silent witnesses: the books in the private library of N.P. van Wyk Louw (Elna Buys); Collecting librariana (Reuben Musiker); The Depiction of the Zulu Wars in South African Children's Books (Thomas van der Walt). .

(Cape Town: South African Library in association with Centre for Contemporary Islam, UCT, 1997) 0869681192. Grey Bibliographies Series No. 21. 240 x 185 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. xiv + 209, incl. index. Fine condition. "This annotated bibliography compiled by Dr Muhammed Haron of the Department of Arabic Studies, University of the Western Cape, is a valuable contribution to the literature on Muslims in South Africa, and will be of interest to both the academic and the general reader. The bibliography covers a wide range of themes, which have been divided into 16 categories. These include art and architecture; economic and management sciences; education; ethnic and cultural studies; health and social sciences; history; language and literature; legal studies; politics and other more general topics. The bibliography lists mainly books, research projects and academic and popular articles, published in English. Some conference and seminar papers have also been included. Annotations are clear and… Leer más

(Cape Town: University of Cape Town Libraries, 1970). 232 x 165 mm; saddle-stitched card wrappers; pp. (iv) + iv + 26. Wrappers ever so slightly sunned. Very good condition. "The following bibliography lists books and periodical material on the Namib desert. Periodicals have not been covered completely as only indexes to later South African periodicals exist. However, periodical articles, especially 1900 - 1915, have been included despite the lack of indexes." .

(Cape Town: University of Cape Town School of Librarianship, 1967). 230 x 163 mm; saddle-stitched printed wrappers; pp. (xii) + 51. Wrappers slightly sunned and creased; bump to fore-edge. Good to very good. "The publications in this bibliography comprise books, pamphlets and periodical articles dealing with various aspects of the Free State Gold Mines. Items have all been examined and only those dealing exclusively or chiefly with the Orange Free State mines have been included. Books and articles containing a section on the Free State have been selected but any general articles on gold mining in South Africa have been omitted. ... The bibliography covers the mines from their inception to the end of 1964. Very few articles of a later date have been included." .

(Cape Town: Book Exhibition Committee; Van Riebeeck Festival, 1952). Catalogue of an exhibition of books, atlases and maps held in the South African Library, Cape Town, 1 March till 5 April 1952; in commemoration of the arrival of Jan Van Riebeeck at the Cape; 6 April 1652 / Katalogus van 'n uitstalling van boeke, atlasse en kaarte in die Suid-Afrikaanse Biblioteek, Kaapstad, 1 Maart tot 5 April 1952, ter herdenking van die aankoms van Jan van Riebeeck aan die Kaap 6 April 1652. 8vo; blue cloth-backed paper on boards, lettered in gilt on spine, with gilt festival device to upper cover; pp. xii + 187 + (i), a few plates, facsimiles. Copenhagen bookplate to front pastedown; boards very slightly rubbed and foxed; some foxing to endpapers and edges; occasional pencilled annotations. Good. Bilingual text: English and Afrikaans. This exhibition brought together some of the greatest desiderata of Africana collecting. .

(London: Crosby Lockwood & Son, 1970) 0258967900. 8vo; original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine; no dustwrapper; pp. (ii) + 105, incl. index. Chip to fore-edge of upper board; cover partially sunned. Very good. .

(Cape Town, Book Exhibition Committee; Van Riebeeck Festival, 1952). Catalogue of an exhibition of books, atlases and maps held in the South African Library, Cape Town, 1 March till 5 April 1952; in commemoration of the arrival of Jan Van Riebeeck at the Cape; 6 April 1652. Original cloth-backed paper on boards, lightly soiled, pp. xii + 187 + (1: colophon), a few plates with facsimiles. Endpapers and edges, lightly foxed. .

(Cape Town, Book Exhibition committee; Van Riebeeck Festival, [1952] reprinted with new plates, 1981). Catalogue of an exhibition of books, atlases and maps held in the South African Library, Cape Town, 1 March till 5 April 1952; in commemoration of the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck at the Cape; 6 April 1652. Large octavo, stiff wraps, pp. xii + 187 + (1: colophon), plates. Africana collecting. This exhibition brought together some of the greatest desiderata of Africana collecting. .

(Cape Town: University of Cape Town School of Librarianship, 1964). 227 x 164 mm; saddle-stitched card wrappers; pp. (viii) + 29. Very good condition. "The following bibliography is a list of material relating to the towns of Walvis Bay and Swakopmund. As the compiler is a native of the latter, and knows the former intimately, this compilation has been most interesting and enjoyable to him. The bibliography has been arranged with the needs of the local historian in mind." .

(London: Cambridge University Press, 1949). 8vo; original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; price-clipped dustwrapper; pp. xii + 201, incl. index. Dustwrapper a little edgeworn and partially tanned; trace of light foxing. Good to very good condition. 'The grace and wit of these Sandars Lectures in Bibliography for 1947 will recommend them to others besides the confirmed bibliophile, perhaps even to those who in echoing Housman's "Bibliophiles, an idiotic class" have dared to deny the civilised appeal to eye, heart, mind and imagination of the pursuit. Certainly they will be of real interest to collectors, antiquarians, booksellers, librarians and bookmen in general.' .

(Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, 1978). 236 x 155 mm; saddle-stitched wrappers; pp. (ii) + 18. Partially sunned; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. Likened to the Hakluyt Society in England, "The Van Riebeeck Society is a unique institution. It is the oldest surviving historical society in South Africa. It is, moreover, the only non-profit publishing society devoted to publishing books, as distinct from journals, in South Africa." .

(London, Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1968). Original red cloth, pp. xi + 249. Fine copy. .