Search Results: Rhodesia from Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA

(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 and small impression corresponding with point midway along upper joint; bottom edge of boards very slightly shelf-rubbed; earlier owner's name and collector's bookplate to front endpaper; edges a bit foxed, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition. "The fever swamps and lion-infested mountain fastnesses which barred the eastern gateway to the Mashonaland of 1891 was no place for refined young ladies, but neither these natural barriers nor the Charter Company's restriction on entry of women deterred Nurses Blennerhassett, Sleeman and Welby from accepting Bishop Knight-Bruce's invitation to set up a mission hospital near… Read More

(Johannesburg: Covos Day, 2001). 218 x 150 mm; pictorial wraps; pp. xiv + 243. A little brown spotting to textblock edges. Very good condition. "African Tears is the story of a white farmer in Zimbabwe, living side by side with war veterans for 7 months. The veterans claimed the small 1,000-acres farm belonged to their ancestors. For 7 months they watched and intimidated, claiming the farm field by field, 'liberating' the small stock dams and then the timber plantation. The farm was claimed as a war veterans headquarters and every weekend political meetings were held in the field below the house - with hundreds in attendance." .

(Westport, CT: Negro Universities Press, 1970). Text facsimile of the 1894 edition by The Religious Tract Society. 8vo; original blue cloth, lettered in silver gilt on spine; no dustwrapper; map; plates, illustration in text. Trace of foxing to endpapers and edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition. "The Rev. D. Carnegie, the author of this book, went out to Hope Fountain, Matabeleland, in 1882, and spent the next ten years at that station of the London Missionary Society. He has just returned after his first furlough. Hope Fountain is only twelve miles from Bulawayo, the great kraal of Lobengula. Mr. Carnegie knows the native language perfectly, and has been in constant friendly relations with Lobengula, who, although he will have nothing to do with Christianity, is quite sagacious enough to see that the missionary can be of service to him in many ways. Probably no other European knows so well as Mr. Carnegie the Matabele customs, modes of thought, and way of life. The chapters… Read More

(Bulawayo: Stuart Manning, 1960). Crown 8vo; original red cloth; dustwrapper; endpaper maps; pp. 224, incl. index; monochrome photographic plates. Dustwrapper very slightly curled at top edge; endpapers rather browned. Good condition. The history of the opening-up of the countries comprising "the Federation": the two Rhodesias, and Nyasaland. .

(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 Cripps, lyric poet and maverick missionary to Rhodesia. Compelled by the description of Cripps' extraordinary life in Africa, Sheers embarks on a journey through contemporary Zimbabwe in an attempt to better understand his ancestor's devotion to the country and its people and the dramatic, often bloody, differences that echo across the years. Arriving in Africa at the turn of the last century, Cripps establishes his own mission at Maronda Mashanu; the neighbouring European community soon grow suspicious of Cripps' unorthodox methods, and conflict with the British South Africa Company ensues. ... The Dust Diaries is a… Read More

(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 in Cape Town during the stirring days of the old Cape Colony makes fascinating reading, is perhaps best remembered for his leadership in the Mazoe Patrol episode of the Mashona Rebellion of 1896. This was but one aspect of a full life which centred around his work as a telegraphist when this medium was the foremost means of communication. At the age of 29, he was appointed to reconstruct, reorganise and take charge of the Telegraph in Mashonaland. The accounts of his field work, particularly the many dangerous jobs undertaken in maintaining communications during the Rebellion, are of great interest. He played… Read More

(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. .

(Bulawayo: Philpott & Collins, 1953). Rhodes Centenary Edition. Title continues: being a true account of the experiences of the earliest white settlers - men, women and children - in Southern and Northern Rhodesia. 4to; original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; no dustwrapper; marbled endpapers; pp. 364, incl. index; illustrations in text; maps. Cloth rather worn and discoloured; boards a bit warped; internally very good. A detailed look at the lives and experiences of Rhodesia's pioneer settlers, covering all parts of the country now known as Zimbabwe. .

(Bulawayo, no date, SABIB, supplies [191-?]). Oblong quarto, wraps, slightly worn, laced at the spine, six card leaves with photographic views of the Victoria Falls on the recto's only. All the plates are captioned: 'Bulawayo Pictorial Post Card Depot.' Early tourist souvenir. .

(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 occasional soiling. (Hosken, p. 67; SABIB 2, p. 183) "An account of Rhodesia from the missionary point of view, but has a chapter on Dingiswayo, Shaka and Mzilikazi." - SABIB. .

(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 the public under a still further obligation to be added to the many which the two Rhodesias already owe them. The Guide contains a wealth of detailed, interesting, and, above all, authoritative information, which will be found of use not only to students of our past history, immediate and remote, to present Rhodesians, to visitors who may desire to sojourn in this land of sunshine and to visit and acquaint themselves with the many features of incomparable interest, natural, historic and other, which our Country provides, but also to those (and may their name be legion) who may desire to make their homes in our midst and… Read More

(London: Faber and Faber, 1936). 8vo; original buff cloth, with gilt-on-black lettering to spine; no dustwrapper; pp. 293, incl. index; plates; folding map at rear. A remarkably clean, unblemished copy. (Czech [2011], p. 282) Francis Robert Thompson (1857-1927) was one of the most important pioneers associated with Cecil John Rhodes, using his experience of native Africans to broker the mining concession with Lobengula that earned him the sobriquet "Matabele". His adventurous life included brushes with death at the hands of tribespeople, prospecting, hunting and farming. "Thompson began writing his memoirs, which, after his death, were completed by his daughter, Nancy Rouillard, and published in London in 1936." - DSAB II, pp. 743-4 .

(London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1940). 8vo; original green cloth; bookplate and signature of William Ayliff Godlonton on front pastedown (illustrated in Catalogue of the Godlonton Collection of Rhodesiana, University of Rhodesia, 1972); pp. 327, incl. index; monochrome plates. Cover slightly sunned; lower joint just starting at head and tail; a little soiling to front free endpaper. Good condition. "The donor of the Godlonton Collection of Rhodesiana, Mr. William Ayliff Godlonton, C.B.E., was born in England in 1887. He is a grandson of an 1820 Settler named Robert Godlonton (1794-1884). Educated at Dulwich College in south London, Mr. Godlonton came to Southern Rhodesia and was enrolled as an attorney, notary and conveyancer of its High Court in 1910. . . . He has rendered valuable public service by participating in or presiding over a number of official commssions of enquiry in Central Africa concerning African production and trade, education and also the civil service." - Catalogue of… Read More

(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. An article is devoted to each of the sites listed within the five parts. .

(Salisbury, Longman Rhodesia, 1975). Square format, pictorial card wraps, pp. 222, text illustrations, colour plates. .

(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 British South Africa Police (BSAP). "The beginning of the British South Africa Police came on 15th August, 1885, at Barkly West (near Kimberley) when enrolment commenced for what was named the Bechuanaland Border Police. The Warren Expedition had just concluded its task of pacifying the disturbed no-mans-land where the frontiers of the Cape Colony, the South African Republic (Transvaal), and the territory of the Botswana tribes met in a confusion of claims and political rivalries. ... Law and order in Rhodesia has become synonymous with the unimpeachable and impartial character of its police force. Throughout the 150,333… Read More

(Bulawayo, published by the Association, 1903 - 1906). Contemporary red half-calf, spine gilt-lettered, some wear on edges and hinges, marbled endpapers and edges, pp. 42; Volume I. (1899 - 1900) with Volume II. (1901): pp. 127; with Volume III. (1902): pp. (ii) + 100; with Volume IV (1903 - 4.): pp. 86; with Volume V. Part I. (January - March, 1905.): pp. 20; with Volume V. Part II. (April - July, 1905.): pp. (21 - ) 97; with Volume V. Part III. (October - December, 1905.): pp. (iii) + (99 - ) 133; with Volume VI. Part I. (January - June, 1906.): pp. 67, plates, including folding, maps. A few sections very slightly pulled, very light fingering on the preliminary pages. Scarce. Zimbabwe ruins, bushman paintings, etc. .

(Amsterdam: J. H. de Bussy, 1896). 8vo; original pale grey cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, and will black tsessebe head to upper board; pp. vii + (i) + 327; large, folding colour map. Bottom fore-corners of boards turned; backstrip a little darkened, and gilt title dull, with light wear at head and tail; foxing to edges, endpapers and outermost leaves; upper hinge starting; earlier owner's signed on reverse of front free endpaper. Good condition. Dutch text. (Mendelssohn I, p. 459) 'This edition contains a Preface of seven pages by "Africanus," and a map of South Africa.' - Mendelssohn. Concerning the original English edition, Mendelssohn writes: "The author accompanied Mr. Rhodes to Mashonaland during his visit to that country in 1890 and 1891. The volume is written in a humorous and chatty style, which brings home the real life on the veld with all its discomforts, its accidents, and its charm, while there is the added interest of reading about the greatest South… Read More

(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, 1965, and, having regard to any other constitutional precedents and to views and opinions made known to you, to advise the Government of Rhodesia on the constitutional framework which is best suited to the sovereign independent status of Rhodesia and which is calculated to protect and guarantee the rights and freedoms of all persons and communities in Rhodesia and ensure the harmonious development of Rhodesia's plural society, having regard to the social and cultural differences among the people of Rhodesia, to the different systems of land tenure and to the problems of economic development." .

(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. index; plates. Dustwrapper a little sunned on spine panel; trace of spotting to top edge; top fore-corner of lower board slightly turned. Very good condition. "The purpose of Du Toit's series of firsthand observer 'sketches' was to report progress on Rhodesia - then only four years old - to the South African public. Little escaped his notice and his comments on travel, agricultural opportunities, flora and fauna, the early settlers (with particular reference to Afrikaners), mining prospects, the first urban settlements, African tribal life, and Rhodes's new telegraph and railway, make fascinating reading." .