Search Results: Titles starting with R from Springbok Books

Here is an absolute rarity, and one of the cornerstone Africana titles.This beautiful copy is a First Edition (second editions are far more common) The binding is new as of 2020, salvaging a copy that survived a fire Quarter-leather and marbled boards, marbled page edges; The book has been rebound adding (from another copy) the 32-page catalogue of "Mr. Bentley's New Publications," which features this title prominently on the first page of the catalogue; Fold-out map in great condition considering its age With ALL 6 of the color lithographs. The color lithographs are NOT listed in the List of Illustrations Very scarce and desirable. Due to value, shipping and insurance to overseas buyers will be 2-3 times higher than the Biblio-quoted shipping cost.The photos are part of the description, so study them carefully, as they are very helpful, and of the actual book being sold.

Here is a rarity. Original cloth binding. 1867 first London edition published by Macmillan.
Sir Samuel White Baker's THE NILE TRIBUTARIES OF ABYSSINIA AND THE SWORD HUNTERS OF THE HAMRAN ARABS
This is one of the most exciting accounts of true exploration and adventure ever published.
The endsheets on this copy were replaced at the time that the spine cloth was internally reinforced.
Baker and his young wife, whom he purportedly stole from a slave auction in the Ottoman Empire when he was not the winning bidder, for an entire year explored the many tributaries of the Nile and learned Arabic in preparation for exploring for the source of the Nile. The Bakers' subsequent Nile explorations, and meeting John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant on their way back from discovering the source of the Nile, is covered in Baker's THE ALBERT N'YANZA, which was published in 1866 even though the events occurred AFTER the events of THE NILE TRIBUTARIES.
Notice the illustration to the front of the book depicting a… Read More

Here is an EXCEEDINGLY RARE and collectible SIGNED copy of Wilbur Smith's novel RIVER GOD
SIGNED & DATED PRESENTATION COPY of the first printing of the Macmillan first British edition Wilbur presented this as a gift to very close friends of his, David and Nel Davies, in Cape Town, South Africa.
The following is from their grandson:
"David and Nel (Nellie) were my grandparents who were good friends with Wilbur and his wife [Danielle]. My grandfather was a plastic surgeon and my grandmother was a nurse. My grandmother looked after Danielle when she fell ill as a favor to her and Wilbur....all the books were gifts to my grandparents over the years of friendship."
ONE-OF-A-KIND - signed just "Wilbur"
This book (canted, well-loved) and its dust jacket show signs of wear, use, toning, and having lived in humid Cape Town.
I have 6 other books also presented as gifts to David and Nel.
A must for the serious collector.
NO OTHER SIGNED, INSCRIBED and DATED COPY OF RIVER GOD FOR SALE ANYWHERE ELSE AT THE TIME… Read More

Flat-signed by Wilbur Smith on the title-page. This copy imported from South Africa, where Wilbur Smith lived.

Here is a very uncommon first edition from 1874. MY KALULU, PRINCE, KING AND SLAVE: A Story of Central Africa by Henry Morton Stanley You won't find a nicer copy for sale anywhere else. On Henry Stanley's journey to find David Livingstone, Stanley was given a young black boy, whom Stanley renamed Kalulu, which is Swahili for "rabbit." After Stanley found Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"), Stanley took Kalulu with him to England and spent 6 weeks writing HOW I FOUND LIVINGSTONE (1872), which was very popular with the public, which was enamored with Livingstone and Livingstone's trials and tribulations. MY KALULU was Stanley's first work of fiction. It was written for Boys. Stanley went on to become even more famous as an explorer in Africa. In 1874, the New York Herald and the Daily Telegraph financed Stanley on another expedition to Africa. His ambitious objective was to complete the exploration and mapping of the Central African Great Lakes and rivers, in the process circumnavigating Lakes… Read More

The deluxe binding, limited edition; a rare book. Text in both Zulu and English, by way of double columns.

A rare first edition beautifully rebound.An account of the 1820 Settlers in Albany South Africa by one of the emigrants and one of the few survivors in 1870. Mendelssohn I, 491."When the Jubilee of the British Settlers was celebrated in Grahamstown in 1870, the Rev Henry Hare Dugmore was chosen to tell the story of the Settlement, and the lecture he gave was later published . . . Dugmore had come as a child with the emigrants of 1820, and had shared fully in both the hardships and the achievement of the critical fifty years that followed . . . He was chosen to speak to them, because he had earned the right to speak for them" Henry Hare Dugmore (1810 1896) was an English missionary, writer and translator. He was born in England to Isaac and Maria Dugmore and baptised in Birmingham on 5 June 1810. The family emigrated when his father was financially ruined after being forced to pay the debts of a relative for whom he had stood surety. The Dugmore family sailed to South Africa on the vessel Sir George… Read More