Rhodesia from Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA

(Bulawayo: Davis & Co., 1924). Please note: Lacks the large folding map of Rhodesia opposite page 425. 8vo; printed cloth; pp. xvi + 432, incl. index; maps; numerous photographs; some adverts. A little rubbed and tanned; some foxing; binding a bit slack. Good condition. 'In issuing the new "Guide to Rhodesia" the Beira and Mashonaland and Rhodesia Railways have placed… Saber más sobre este artículo

(London: Michael Joseph, 1967). 8vo; original blue boards, lettered in silver gilt on spine; dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. 184, incl. index; tables; large, folding map. Dustwrapper a bit rubbed and edgeworn; earlier owner's name signed on half-title; occasional fox spot. Good to very good condition. "The first and major portion of this book consists of a factual account of some… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Bulawayo: Books of Rhodesia, 1977) 0869201530. Rhodesiana Reprint Library Silver Series, Volume 15. Text facsimile of the Heinemann edition of 1897, with a new foreword and index. 8vo; original brown boards, lettered in silver gilt on spine, with silver gilt ox-waggon device to upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (xiv) + xv + (iii) + 218 + (ix), incl.… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Bulawayo: The Commission for the Preservation of Natural and Historical Monuments and Relics, 1953). 8vo; original grey cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; no dustwrapper; pp. 128; plates; folding map. Sporadic foxing. Good condition. The book is divided into five parts: Distinctive and beautiful scenery, Rock paintings and engravings, Ruins, The Matabele invasion and occupation, The European occupation.… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Salisbury: The Rhodesiana Society, 1971). 240 x 152 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. x + 114; black-and-white photographs. Handstamp on first leaf. Wrappers a little rubbed; trace of sunning to spine. Very good condition. Contents: Mazoe and the Mashona Rebellion, 1896-97, by E.E. Burke; H.H.A. de Laessoe: Pioneer, Administrator and Explorer in Rhodesia from 1896 to 1914,… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1966). 4to; original red rexine, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. (viii) + 239, incl. index; profusely illustrated with contemporary photographs, etchings, facsimiles, etc. Very good dustwrapper with trace of foxing to reverse side; earlier owner's name on front pastedown and gift inscription to front free endpaper verso; old tape marks… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Bulawayo: Books of Rhodesia, 1975) 0869200143. Text facsimile of the Macmillan edition of 1893. Volume Eight in the Rhodesiana Reprint Library Gold Series. 8vo; original dark green boards, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (viii) + xii + 340 + 8; plates, incl. map. Very good dustwrapper has two short closed tears to top edge… Saber más sobre este artículo

(London: Faber and Faber, 2004) 0571210163. 8vo; original black boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (x) + 310; portrait; map. Slight curl to top edge of dustwrapper; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper. Near fine condition. "When Owen Sheers discovers a book in his father's study he stumbles upon the life of an obscure relative: Arthur… Saber más sobre este artículo

(London: London Missionary Society, 1910). Small 4to; original red cloth with pictorial onlay to upper cover; endpaper map; pp. 224; photographs in text. Publisher's presentation note to verso of front free endpaper; cloth somewhat worn, rubbed and soiled; backstrip and adjacent portion of boards very sunned; binding slack; trace of damp-staining to bottom edge of pastedowns; some foxing and… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Bulawayo: Books of Rhodesia, 1974). 8vo; original salmon-coloured boards, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (xii) + 230 + (x), incl. index; plates. Spine panel sunned; front free endpaper removed; tape marks and some foxing to endpapers. Absent front free endpaper notwithstanding, good to very good condition. "Dan Judson, whose adventurous youth… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Salisbury: The Government Printer, 1968). 240 x 150 mm; original card wrappers; pp. viii + 180; colour folding map at rear. Wrappers somewhat creased on the edges and a little stained; slightest scattered foxing. Report of a commission appointed in 1967, two years after the Unilateral Declaration of Independence, to "examine the provisions of the Constitution of Rhodesia,… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Harare: Quest Publishing, 1987) 0908306040. 4to; original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; endpaper maps; pp. xv + (i) + 431, incl. index; liberally illustrated with line drawings and full-colour plates. Dustwrapper rubbed, creased and torn, with archival tape repair to reverse side of upper panel; scuff to upper cover; some tape marks to pastedowns; trace of… Saber más sobre este artículo

(London: The Imperial Tobacco Company Limited, no date c. 1957). 8vo; original blue boards; dustwrapper; pp. 92; photographs; colour fold-out map. Boards a bit rubbed, dustwrapper slightly edgeworn. Very good condition. Small handstamp of previous owner on front free endpaper. History of the Imperial Tobacco Company in Nyasaland and Southern Rhodesia. .

(Cape Town: Books of Africa, 1970). Illustrated by Penny Miller. Large 8vo; pictorial boards; pp. 293; plates; line drawings. Cover rubbed, irregularly sunned and a little fishmothed; gift inscription to front free endpaper; edges browned and spotted; foxing to endpapers and outer leaves, occasionally elsewhere. Good. A miscellany of stories from the 80-year history of the… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Salisbury, Galaxie Press, 1975). Illustrations by Len Curling and Joan van der Merwe. 280 x 214 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 184 (including index); numerous illustrations, colour plates, map. Slightly rubbed, with trace of foxing to edges. Good condition. "GARDENING IN RHODESIA is the most comprehensive gardening book published for Rhodesian conditions. Volume One contains detailed, simple-to-follow descriptions of more than… Saber más sobre este artículo

(London: Artists House, 1979). Large 4to; original brown boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 30 + unpaginated photographs section. Dustwrapper with short tears to edges and foxed on reverse side. Very good condition. "Alf Wannenburgh ... sets out ... to describe the country not in terms of its current dilemma but in terms of its natural endowments and… Saber más sobre este artículo

(London, Heinemann, 1960). Dustwrapper, torn and a little soiled, pp. 226, plates. Owner's name on the front free endpaper. 'One of the most urgent problems facing the British Government at the present time is that of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. ... This book has been written to give the facts of the case.' .

(London, Museum Press, 1955). Pictorial dustwrapper, slightly frayed, pp. 191, plates. Scattered foxing, notably on the preliminary pages. .

(London, Faber & Faber, 1973). Uncorrected proof copy in plain printed wraps, slightly worn, pp. 349. Text browning toward the margins. Proof copy, issued without illustrations. .

(Bulawayo, Books of Rhodesia, 1974). 208 x 278mm; pictorial wraps slightly soiled; gift inscription on title page; pp. (ii) + 50; cartoon drawings and commentary. Good condition. "I dedicate this book to those people a part of whose emergence I have tried to illustrate. Because they so readily enjoy the funny side of their own lives, with… Saber más sobre este artículo