Search Results: Titles starting with R from Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA

(Pretoria: Bureau for Information, Directorate Research, 1988). 293 x 208 mm; side-stitched limp boards, with subject penned on spine; pp. (iv) + 15 + (ix) + 54 + 9 + 40 + [33-43] + 30 + 32; photocopied rectos. Worn at head of spine. Very good condition. Although the editorial information is in Afrikaans, much of the content is English. An outline of the political parties in the tricameral parliament that existed in South Africa at the time, accomodating White, Coloured and Indian voters, but not Blacks, including the organizational arrangements of each. .

(Dorking: Ringpress Books, 2002) 1860541828. 214 x 137 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 176; line drawings; diagrams; full-colour plates. Bottom corner of fore-edge slightly bumped. Very good condition. "The More You Know About Your Rabbit ... the better you will understand his specific needs and requirements. In Rabbitlopaedia you will find invaluable guidance on every aspect of rabbit care and health, broken into the following easy-to-read sections: 1. Principles of rabbit keeping, with information on housing, feeding and breeding. 2. Health care, detailing anatomy and physiology, with an A-Z listing of rabbit diseases. 3. Rabbit breeds, giving profiles of the breeds and the world of showing rabbits. Readers with learn: How to care for a hutch rabbit; How to care for a house rabbit; How a rabbit's body works; How to recognise rabbit diseases; How to breed and exhibit rabbits. Rabbitlopaedia will prove an essential reference for all those who really are interested in providing… Read more

(Pretoria: Department of Health, Welfare and Pensions, 1979, revised edition) 0621057452. 145 x 208 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. (iv) + 60 + (ii); (iv) + 62; photographs. Wrappers somewhat curled and rubbed; museum library hand-stamp to wrapper and to English title page; a little faint spotting. Good condition. A guide to the disease and its management in parts of South Africa known to be affected. Text in English and Afrikaans. .

(London, Adam and Charles Black, 1973). Number 3 in the Series "Railways of the World". 8vo, laminated pictorial dustwrapper (clipped), original orange cloth, pp. 343, incl. index. 105 photographs, 8 colour plates, maps, plans and a colour frontispiece. Lower corners of boards very slightly bumped, backstrip of dw a little sunned. Very good condition. "This series has been planned to give an account of the major railways, past and present, the world over. Written by the well-known railway historian, who is a professional engineer having personal connections with many of the railways concerned, each volume will deal with the historical origins, constructional features, locomotive and train working." .

(London, Adam and Charles Black, 1979). Number 6 (and last) in the Series "Railways of the World". 8vo, laminated pictorial dustwrapper, original black boards, top of backstrip very slightly bumped, pp. xvi + 317, incl. index. 81 photographs and 42 maps and diagrams, with a colour frontispiece. Near fine condition. "This series has been planned to give an account of the major railways, past and present, the world over. Written by the well-known railway historian, who is a professional engineer having personal connections with many of the railways concerned, each volume will deal with the historical origins, constructional features, locomotive and train working." .

(London, HarperCollins, 2003). 8vo; original black boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (xiv) + 242, incl. index. Mint condition. 'The ghost of Ralegh pursued the House of Stuart to the scaffold.' - G.M. Trevelyan. 'Ralegh dressed himself for the voyage, not in the shabby clothes he had been wearing, but in the fine costume that people expected of him, that he expected of himself: a crisp white ruff, a tawny or hair-coloured doublet, a black embroidered waistcoat, a pair of black cut taffeta breeches, ash-coloured silk stockings, a wrought black velvet gown and a fine pair of shoes. On his finger he placed a ring with a diamond, one noted by a clerk after his death as "Given him by the late Queen." His hair was combed and on his head he wore a lace nightcap, and on that, when it was time to go out, he would put his hat …' .

(Cape Town: J. C. Juta and Co., 1887). Crown 8vo; original dark brown cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, and ruled in blind to margins of boards; pp. xvi + 205. Lower joint chafed; bequest bookplate to front pastedown, and some library stamps and codes elsewhere; somewhat foxed. Good condition. (Mendelssohn I, p. 877) 'In the first chapter of the work Mr. Leibbrandt observes that he "proposed to lay before the reader ... some of the most remarkable events embraced within the period of the administration of Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel, a man hitherto considered as the embodiment of tyranny, cruelty, and oppression, because judged only from the description of his enemies, and without the light of evidence which places him in a more favourable view." A large part of the little volume is taken up by extracts from the Archives, showing how the difficulties which surrounded the Governor were the result of legacies from his predecessors. Considerable information is afforded… Read more

(Pretoria and Johannesburg, J.H. de Bussy; Cape Town, Holl. Afrik. Uitg. Mij., 1912). 2 vols., small octavo, original red cloth, slightly marked, patterned endpapers, pp. 97, illustrations; original cloth-backed chromolithographic pictorial paper over boards, little rubbed, pp. 128, illustrations. Text lightly browned, slight foxing. .

(Bethulie: Hollard, 1986) 0620093773. 8vo; laminated pictorial boards; pictorial endpapers; pp. 280, incl. index; plates, line drawings and diagrams. Earlier owner's inscription to title page; some foxing; pages somewhat damp-rippled. Good condition. "Early in 1886 two itinerant miners, George Harrison and George Walker, arrived on Langlaagte looking for casual work. Both had dug for gold in Australia and it seems likely that they were on their way to rich alluvial goldfields discovered in the Eastern Transvaal. ... Within a few weeks, excited prospectors traced evidence of banket over a distance of nearly 50 kilometres from east to west - all the way to Randfontein and its neighbours at the Rand's furthest extremity." .

(no place: Rhodesian Army, 1976). "Restricted". 150 x 85 mm; concertina-fold green card pamphlet; pp. (x). A little rubbed, with some soiling. Good. Range tables for mortar deployment during the Rhodesian Bush War. .

(Manchester University Press, for The Institute for African Studies, 1971). Dustwrapper, pp. 304. .

(Pietermaritzburg: Reality, 1976). The theme of this issue is 'Soweto - And After'. 297 x 207 mm; saddle-stitched wrappers; pp. 20, wrappers included in pagination. Some foxing and browning. Good to very good condition. The journal 'Reality' had as chairman and vice-chairman of its editorial board the two leading figures in South Africa's Liberal Party, Peter Brown and Alan Paton. Other outstanding figures of the anti-apartheid struggle among the members of the editorial board included Edgar Brookes, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, and Selby Msimang. The November 1976 focuses on events connected with the Soweto Riots, now recognised as a watershed event in the history of South Africa, and commemorated annually on the 16th of June as Youth Day. 'This massive wave of unrest has all been about just one thing - apartheid. Bantu Education may have set the reaction off but what African children were saying when they started off on that first protest march, way back in June, what… Read more

(Dundee, Natal, The Ebenezer Press, no date, circa 1923). Wraps, pp. 8. Horizontal crease. .

(Pretoria: J. P. van der Walt, 1994) 0799319929. 8vo; laminated pictorial boards; pictorial endpapers; pp. 262; illustrations in text; map. A little sunned on spine; edges foxed. Very good condition. Afrikaans text. "Ruim een derde van die Kaapse rebelle wat gevonnis is, het uit die distrikte Aliwal-Noord, Burgersdorp, Jamestown, Lady Grey, Dordrecht en Barkly-Oos gekom. Dit is hierdie gebied wat deur die Boerekommando's as Vrystaatse grondgebied geannekseer is. In hulle ywer om rekrute vir die Boeresaak te werf, is daar so ver gegaan om 'n eie onafhanklike republiek aan die inwoners te belowe. Die vlag van die Nuwe Verenigde Suid-Afrika is op die Stormberge gehys. REBELLE VAN DIE STORMBERGE is die boeiende verhaal van daardie storm-en-drang-jare. … Die verhaal van die Stormberge is die verhaal van legendariese vegters soos kmdt. Hendrik Olivier, kapt. Jim de Montmorency, die befaamde Boerejagter kol. Harry Scobell en genls. P. H. Kritzinger en Jan Smuts. Maar bowenal is… Read more

(Port Elizabeth: Serum & Venene Department [Port Elizabeth Museum & Snake Park], 1934). 215 x 137 mm; saddle-stitched printed pink wrappers; pp. 8. Wrappers a little foxed and tanned; light browning to pages; staples a bit rusted. Good to very good condition. "Following on the postulations put forward by F. W. FitzSimons on the therapeutic possibilities of specially treated snake venoms for the alleviation and cure of epilepsy, chorea, hysteria, neurasthenia, etc., together with statistics received from this Department and set forth in two Papers, read before the British and South African Association for the Advancement of Science in 1929 and 1931, we have subsequently investigated and substantiated the majority of these claims." .

(London: Cassell & Company, no date). Large 8vo; original green half-morocco with matching pebble-grained cloth sides; spine with raised bands gilt, and title lettered direct in gilt to second compartment; marbled edges and endpapers; pp. xi + (i) + 624, incl. index; woodcut illustrations and maps throughout. Boards a little rubbed, extremities worn, especially to joints at head, and corners turned; hinges starting, but with archival tape reinforcing; earlier owner's name signed verso of front free endpaper; moderate foxing throughout. A good copy. This, the fourth volume in the series, published circa. 1897, is complete in its own right, without indications internally or externally of belonging to a larger work. Very well illustrated with pictures from the contemporary illustrated press, including work by several well-known special correspondents, the book conveys the feel of the times, and covers the final Frontier War in South Africa, the Basotho Gun War, the Anglo-Zulu War, the… Read more

(London, John Murray, 1873). Extract from Journal of the Royal Geographical Society; Volume the Forty-Third. pp. (240 -)263. Disbound, two pages supplied in facsimile. .

(Walsall, W. Henry Robinson, printers, for the author, 1883). Crown octavo, original green cloth, a little fishmothed, corners of boards a little bumped, pp. viii + 199, few plates. Errata slip present. Some spotting throughout, pencilled inscriptions in a few places only. Fair. .

(Grahamstown: The 1820 Settlers National Monument Foundation, 1970). Henry Hare Dugmore Lecture 1970. 215 x 140 mm; saddle-stitched card wrappers; pp. (ii) + 22; portrait. Wrappers very slightly foxed. Very good condition. Head of the Department of History at Rhodes University, Professor Winifred A. Maxwell presented this first Dugmore Memorial Lecture as a prelude to the 1820/1970 Celebrations in Grahamstown, drawing attention to the resources available in researching the 1820 Settlers and their world. "The idea behind my own lecture this evening was a simple one, namely to try and show what a wealth of material lies unexplored and how the investigation of it leads to discoveries. Taken singly, these are often small discoveries but they prompt that constant reconsideration which lies at the back of all advancement of learning." .

(Johannesburg: Umanyano Publication, for African National Congress, 1994) 0958383413. 245 x 168 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. (x) + 147. Wrappers very slightly rubbed; gift inscription to half-title. Very good condition. "This document - The Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) - is the end of one process and the beginning of another. The document is the result of many months of consultation within the ANC, its Alliance partners and other mass organisations in the wider civil society. This consultation has resulted in the policy framework contained in this document. The process now underway is that of developing the detailed policy and legislative programme necessary to implement the RDP. In preparing the document, and in taking it forward, we are building on the tradition of the Freedom Charter. In 1955, we actively involved people and their organisations in articulating their needs and aspirations. Once again we have consulted widely. However, in 1994 we are about to assume… Read more