Namibia from Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA

(Cape Town: Nasionale Boekhandel, 1966). Author's signed presentation inscription to front free endpaper reads: "To Mrs Salomé Benjamin / With many thanks for sound and welcome suggestions and for putting it all into typed script. / J Bruwer, Author, 12.8.66". 8vo; original red boards, lettered in black on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (x) + 147; maps; tables. Dustwrapper sunned on… Read more

(Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1964). Translated and abridged by S. Vivier. 8vo; original black boards; pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper maps; pp. 208; plates. Dustwrapper rubbed, sunned and edgeworn; annotations to front free endpaper verso; some underlining; foxed throughout. Good reading copy. Afrikaans text. The remarkable true story of two resourceful Germans, Hermann Korn and Henno Martin, who evaded internment… Read more

([Johannesburg]: Central News Agency, 1958). 8vo; original blue cloth; no dustwrapper; pp. 164; line drawings by Wolf von Loeben. Endpapers and edges rather foxed. Good condition. Humorous memoir of life in South West Africa. .

(Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 1997) 3905141698. 374 x 245 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. (ii) + 120; photographs. A little bumped. Very good condition. "This book contains the facsimile reprint of the first African newspaper published in Namibia, South West News - Suidwes Nuus. Issued in 1960 in Windhoek, it has to be regarded as the earliest… Read more

(Windhoek: SWA/Namibia Information Service, 1982). 210 x 296 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp.40; colour photographs and town plan; trilingual text: English, Afrikaans, German. Wrappers a little rubbed; some fox spots. Good to very good condition. "Swakopmund was founded on 4 August 1892, when Hauptmann Kurt von Francois erected two beacons where the mole is today. In 1916… Read more

(Windhoek: Namibia Scientific Society, 2007) 9789991640754. Published from the author's notes by Evert Sylvander 1924. Translated from the original Swedish edition and edited by Ione & Jalmar Rudner. 209 x 147 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 184, incl. index; maps; monochrome illustrations. Fine condition. "This is the last of five joint publications by Jalmar (1917-2003) and… Read more

(Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, 1998) 0958411247. Second Series No. 28: This is the volume for 1997. 8vo; original dark brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, with gilt publisher's device to upper cover; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. xliv + 292, incl. index and publisher's catalogue; colour frontis.; photographic portrait of De Vylder; illustrations in text. … Read more

(Windhoek: Verenigde Pers, 1974). 8vo; rexine-backed papered boards, lettered in white on spine; pp. (viii) + iv + 128; tables. Boards very slightly rubbed; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. Afrikaans text. "Om soos die woordvoerders van die Nasionale Party en die regering die strydpunt te verteenwoordig as 'n blote keuse wat by die blanke alleen… Read more

(Johannesburg: Southern, 1984) 1868120813. Signed by the author on the half-title. 4to; original papered boards, lettered in white on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. 192, incl. index; numerous photographs in colour and monochrome; map; line drawings. Dustwrapper rubbed and somewhat edgeworn, with earlier owner's tape repair to reverse of top edge; small chip to fore-edge of… Read more

(Cape Town: The Van Riebeeck Society, 1954). Volume 35 in the Van Riebeeck Society's First Series. 8vo; original pale grey cloth, with black lettering to spine, and publisher's device in black to upper board; pp. (viii) + 197 + (vii); plates; folding map. Some foxing to edges and endpapers, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good to very good… Read more

(Windhoek: S.W.A. Scientific Society, 1961). Herausgegeben von Professor Dr. W. Drascher, Tübingen, und Dr. H. J. Rust, Windhoek, im auftrage der S.W.A. Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft, Windhoek. 235 x 170 mm; side-stitched pictorial wrappers; pp. 168; frontis. portrait and a few other illustrations. Wrappers slightly rubbed; discreet archival tape reinforcing at head of spine; penned Latin inscription to copyright page.… Read more

(Cape Town: Nasionale Boekhandel, 1962). 8vo; original light blue boards, lettered in black on spine; dustwrapper; pp. (viii) + 169; plates. Dustwrapper somewhat rubbed and edgeworn, with a little loss to spine panel; small trace of damp-stain to bottom edge of pastedowns; some foxing and tape marks to endpapers; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; pencilled annotations.… Read more

(Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 1986) 0868500925. Large 8vo; original boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (x) + 531 + (iii), incl. index; maps; tables. Dustwrapper ever so slightly rubbed, with trace of curl to edges; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; a little foxing to endpapers. Very good condition. "This timely study examines the struggle of… Read more

(Cape Town: W. J. Flesch & Partners, 1978) 0949989185. Signed inscription by Harry Gundry on title page. 210 x 147 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 184, incl. index; map; photographs. Wrappers and bit rubbed and creased, and sunned on spine; small tape or label mark to half-title; trace of spotting to edges. Good condition. "The Bank first… Read more

(London: Rex Collings, 1977) 0860360458. 8vo; original dark brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. (vi) + 463. Dustwrapper partially sunned, a little rubbed, with trace of damp-stain to edges; archival tape reinforcing to reverse of dustwrapper's short edge-tears; two small holes to lower panel and board, slightly penetrating final leaves (suggestive of… Read more

(Windhoek: Gamsberg Macmillan, 2006) 9991607463. 240 x 170 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 302, incl. index; maps; facsimiles; contemporary photographs; some modern photographs. Very good condition. "Andersson died at the Kunene River in the company of a servant Goliath and Axel W. Eriksson, his young Swedish assistant who had arrived from Sweden in 1865. Eriksson was to remain in the… Read more

(Windhoek: Gamsberg Macmillan, 1992) 1868487644. 4to; laminated pictorial boards; pictorial endpapers; pp. (v) + (72); charming ink and wash drawings of the architectural highlights of the town, with a map. Spine a little bumped and scuffed; earlier owner's bookplate to half-title. " ... this book ... records and preserves the character of old Swakopmund, not only for the… Read more

(Windhoek: Afrikaans-Deutsche Kulturgemeinschaft, 1978). No. 2 in the series of A.D.K. 'Facts and Figures' booklets. 208 x 148 mm; saddle-stitched wrappers; pp. 24; maps and photographs. Very good condition. The population groups receiving attention in this booklet are the Bushmen (San), the Damara, the Herero, the Kavango, and the Nama (Khoe-Khoen). .

(Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1961). 4to; original pale boards; dustwrapper; pp. 154; plates; map. Dustwrapper rubbed and edgeworn; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; a little browning and spotting. Good. "With affection she describes the fascination of its deserts, mountains and vast savannahs; the variety of its inhabitants, from the Okavango river people to the Bushmen… Read more

(London: The Macmillan Press, 1988) 0333457226. 8vo; original black boards lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xii + 203, incl. index; tables. Dustwrapper slightly rubbed, with damp stain to tail of spine panel; trace of spotting to top edge. Very good condition. "Eleven of the world's leading scholars on Namibia offer a collection of… Read more