Non-Fiction

Jewellers' & Watchmakers' Pocket Book – A compact 1951 first edition trade reference of 503 pages, with A. Selwyn as advisory editor and contributors including the noted gemmologist B. W. Anderson. Bound…

Adventures in Understanding – David Grayson’s gentle book of reflections on people and everyday life, from the much-loved “Adventures” series by the American writer Ray Stannard Baker. First published in 1925, this…

Zulu Vocabulary and Phrase Book – A scarce 1907 Eleventh Edition of the popular Zulu phrase book for immigrants and settlers in the Colony of Natal and Zululand, printed and published in…

Of Temptation – An eighteenth-century Glasgow printing of John Owen's celebrated Puritan treatise, printed by J. Bryce and D. Paterson in the Bridgegate in 1758, exactly a century after the first Oxford…

The Young Analyst's Exercise – A scarce 1741 London second edition of Samuel Ashby's 18th-century algebra schoolbook, one hundred problems in simple and quadratic equations, in contemporary leather with an early owner's…

Annals of S. Paul’s Cathedral – The 1868 first edition of Dean Henry Hart Milman’s classic history of St Paul’s Cathedral, published by John Murray, London, with portrait and illustrations. Handsomely bound…

Ten Thousand Eyes – Richard Collier’s gripping true story of the French amateur spy networks in Normandy who stole the secrets of Hitler’s Atlantic Wall before D-Day. A 1958 Collins first edition…

Dictionary of South African Biography – Volumes I to V of the standard South African biographical reference, produced for the Human Sciences Research Council and published between 1968 and 1987. A matching…

The Original of Mr. N.C. Havenga’s Budget Speech – The original 58-page Afrikaans typescript of Finance Minister N.C. Havenga’s budget speech, delivered in the House of Assembly on 22 July 1953, with…

Standing Orders 1965: The Senate – The 1965 Standing Orders Relating to Public Business of the Senate of the Republic of South Africa, a thumb-indexed working copy kept up to date with…

Standing Orders 1965: The Senate – The 1965 Standing Orders Relating to Public Business of the Senate of the Republic of South Africa, thumb-indexed and kept up to date with the printed…

Steam on the Veld – The 1972 Ian Allan first edition of this classic photographic record of South African steam in the 1960s by A.E. Durrant, A.A. Jorgensen and C.P. Lewis, covering…

The Downing Street Years – Margaret Thatcher’s landmark memoir of her eleven years as Prime Minister, 1979 to 1990, in the 1993 HarperCollins, London first edition, first impression. A substantial blue cloth…

Zulu Warrior – Ronald Welch’s scarce last novel, a story of the 1879 Zulu War following a young staff officer in Durnford’s column through Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift, in the 1974 David…

Great River: The Story of the Orange River – A 1986 first edition hardcover by A.R. Willcox, published by Drakensberg Publications of Winterton, Natal, and signed by the author on the title…

Debates of the House of Assembly (Hansard) – The official 1984 Government Printer record of the first session of the Eighth Parliament, the opening of the new Tricameral Parliament. Includes the State…

Debates and Proceedings of the Provincial Council of Natal 1983 – The bilingual official record of the Sixth Council, Third Session, Volume 2, covering the sittings of 16 to 19 May 1983.…

Durban: A Sunlit City by the Sea – A 1937 tourist brochure produced by the Durban Publicity Association and the South African Railways and Harbours Publicity and Travel Department, in its art…

The Tattoo Chronicles – The 2010 first printing hardcover of Kat Von D’s illustrated diary, written with Sandra Bark and published by Collins Design. An intimate look at a year in the…

Casualty Roll for the Zulu and Basuto Wars – The 1985 J.B. Hayward first edition hardcover of I.T. Tavender’s casualty roll for the Imperial and Colonial forces in South Africa, 1877–79, from…