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 & Charles Black, 1971) 0713611065. Number 1 in the series "Railways of the World". 8vo; original green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; price-clipped laminated pictorial dustwrapper; tinted top edge; pp. 243, incl. index; 105 photographs and 8 colour plates. Near-fine condition. "In studying the railways of any country, or group of countries, one cannot go very far without dipping into history. There will be peculiarities of equipment-design or track layout that cannot be explained by an examination of the situation that exists today. In Southern Africa however the history of railways is to a remarkable extent the history of the sub-continent itself. Only in Cape Province does the history of the country extend back to more than a century before the coming of railways, and history in all the countries of Southern Africa is dramatic and compelling to the last degree." .

(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, 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: Arthur Barker, 1963). 8vo; original charcoal boards, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. 143, incl. index; numerous photographs; some maps. Dustwrapper a little rubbed, and edgeworn, with some loss; bump to head of spine. Good to very good condition, in a modest dustwrapper. "This book tells the story of the building of the railways of Southern Africa - a story as exciting as that of the building of the American railways but not yet as well known. The builders contended with mountains, deserts, deep gorges, wide rivers, dense forest, fever, the tse-tse fly, lions, elephants and all the wild life of Africa, yet built railways at astonishing speed to open up virgin country and tap the resources of a great continent." .

(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

(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

(Pretoria: University of South Africa Press, 2007) 9781868883684. A publication in the Hidden Histories series, edited by Raymond Suttner. 240 x 166 mm; saddle-stitched laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. x + 46, incl. index; illustrations in text. Crease to top edge of lower cover. Very good condition. "The name of Makhanda has long been associated with the unyielding spirit of resistance against oppression of the African people. Many have compared him to Nelson Mandela. As a warrior-prophet of the Xhosa people, he led a monumental attack against British forces in Grahamstown in 1819. Though he failed to defeat them, his reputation as an indomitable freedom fighter was sealed when he escaped from Robben Island in 1820. This volume tells the story of that escape, both exploding the myths that came to surround it and providing new detail about what really happened." .

(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, 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

(Grahamstown: Board of Trustees of the Albany Museum, 1925). 230 x 180 mm; printed wrappers; pp. [257-368] + (xxii); plates; text figures. Wrappers a little tanned; scattered, moderate foxing; occasional trace of damp-stain to top edge of leaves; fore- and top edges of one plate (XVII) torn, with some loss, tear slightly intruding on image, though repaired to reverse side with archival tape. Good condition. Exceedingly uncommon museum journal, which produced pioneering articles in such fields as paleontology and ichthyology. This edition includes four articles by Robert Broom. Contents: Some New Lamellibranchs from the Bokkeveld Beds, by F.R. Cowper-Reed; New and Little Known South African Naiades, by M. Connolly; Some New and Little Known Species of Hemiptera from Grahamstown, South Africa, by W. E. China; Descriptions of some African Arachnida, by John Hewitt; On the South African Triassic Rhynchocephaloid Reptile "Eosuchus" Colletti, Watson, by R. Broom; On evidence of a Giant Pig from… Read More

(London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1896). Demy 8vo; original dark green cloth, with gilt lettering to spine and blind-stamped coat-of-arms to upper cover; pp. (x) + 232, incl. index; plates. Light wear to cloth; endpapers and outer leaves rather foxed, some light foxing elsewhere; pages opened, and rough fore-edge uncut. Good. As much a record of the family's sporting (particularly racing) activity, as of noteworthy events connected with the estate and its owners through the generations. .

(Grahamstown: Committee of the Albany Museum, 1913). 237 x 183 mm; printed wrappers; pp. [315-434] + (xvi); plates and folding maps. Wrappers torn and lightly soiled; bump to top fore-corner; short tear to margin of final map leaf, not affecting image area. Good condition. Exceedingly uncommon museum journal, which produced pioneering articles in such fields as paleontology and ichthyology. This edition includes three articles by Robert Broom. Contents: On some Kainozoic Shells from South Africa, by R. Bullen Newton; Notes on the Geographical Distribution of the Hottentot and Bantu in South Africa, by W. Hammond Tooke; On some Fossil Fishes in the collection of the Albany Museum, by R. Broom; Note on Mesosuchus Browni, Watson, and on a new South African Triassic Pseudosuchian (Euparkeria Capensis), by R. Broom; On four new Fossil Reptiles from the Beaufort series, South Africa, by R. Broom; Note on a variety of Rhinolophus swinnyi, Gough, from Pirie, E. Cape Colony, by J. Hewitt; Descriptions of new… Read More