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Sturdily rebound first edition. Complete with four color chromolithographs, one monochrome plate, and four in-text engravings, plus colored folding map. Galton traveled and explored with Charles John Andersson.
Francis Galton's brilliant travel account of his time spent exploring the Tropics of South Africa. At the time of this expedition South West Africa was still little explored, with his vivid account filling in the gaps of knowledge relating to the areas between the Cape Colony and the western Portuguese settlements, and towards Lake Ngami. Galton travelled in a party of nearly forty men. Galton was a noted polymath, a proponent on social Darwinism (Galton and Darwin were cousins)

This is a very rare book in original cloth binding, with gilt to spine and blindstamp to boards. See the photos, which provide the best details about condition. Cloth at spine heel splitting, and other wear as expected for a book from 1855.
A missionary's account of the Kaffir war of 1850-2. [The Reverend] Brown was stationed at Igqibira, a small missionary settlement which had been partially destroyed in a previous Kaffir outbreak. Although hostilities broke out almost at the outset of his residence at this place, he remained there for a considerable period, but eventually the station was destroyed, the author escaping to Chumie.

1934 first edition, rebound in quarter leather. Also, a free copy of AN ARTIST IN THE FAMILY, by the same author, and in a matching binding.

THREE MEN DIE is Millin's fictional version of the true-crime of Daisy de Melker. It is a very rare first edition.

Kirkus Review: A book for the readers who like psychological murder studies. Not for the straight mystery fan. A penetrating and unsentimental study of a woman whose desire, first for financial and then for romantic security, brings destruction on these who stand in her way. Dispassionate, clear cut, grim portrait of a selfish woman, against a background of South Africa, which Mrs. Millin knows intimately. Characterize as the horror of the commonplace.

Daisy de Melker's trial during October-November 1932 for poisoning two husbands and her son inspired the rapt attention of the white South African public and national and international media. She horrified and absorbed colonial South Africa not simply because of her crimes but because she was white,… Read More

Rebound in half or 3/4-leather with marbled boards. The true first edition from June 1850 (the second edition was published also in 1850, but in August). Original cloth covers and spines bound in at the end of each volume.