Recent Arrivals from Quagga Books

Tafelberg. Language: German, English and Afrikaans. Illustrated by 50 fully described photographs. 38 Pages of text. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Dust jacket: Fair to good. Edge-wear to extremities. Grubby marks. Nicks to header. Binding: Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt image and lettering. Edge-wear.

Howard Timmins. First volume in the series. Numbered copy 696 of 1500 copies. Epic battles between the Zulu, British and Dutch in the mid-19th Century. With maps, illustrations and photographs of the battles. Foxing to front and rear prelims. Light toning to the edges of all pages. Previous owner's name on front fep. Contents clean and firmly bound.… Read more about this item

J F Schwar and B E Pape. Text: German, English and Afrikaans. Booklet published for the centenary year celebrating the story of men and women courageously uprooting themselves for a better life and opportunity in a strange land. Includes a list of men of the British German Legion who obtained grants of land in the districts. List of names… Read more about this item

Undaus Press, 2010. The revised second edition of this beautifully illustrated and informative work on all aspects of the natural history of this unique area. Some mild cockling to the top and lower edges. 260 Pages. Contents clean and binding tight. Revised 2nd Edition. Condition: Very good. Dust jacket: Very good. Binding: Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt… Read more about this item

Edition Olms. Exploring the fascinating life and work of a solitary but universal figure through a combination of extracts from his works, photographs and other archive material, some published here for the first time. 206 pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Near fine. Dust jacket: Near fine. Binding: Hardcover.

A J Pope, 1979. Concentrating mainly on the conflicts that transpired, the struggles for survival and the efforts to bring peace to a troubled land. It is in the form of a guide to many places of interest with the use of maps, photographs and illustrations. Includes fixed Errata page. Some light toning to feps. 185 Pages. Contents clean… Read more about this item

J P van der Walt. A new look at the known and lesser-known artists of South West Africa. Light edge-wear to the front fep. Blind stamp of previous owner on title page. Some thumbing. 239 Pages. Contents clean and binding tight. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. Dust jacket: Good+. Some creasing to folds and spine edges. Grubby marks.… Read more about this item

Colourful and readable story of the South African Cape with its fascinating past. Mild abrasion marks to the gutter of the front end papers. 184 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Dust jacket: Fair to good. Edge-wear to extremities with abrasions to the folds. Foxing to the verso. A few grubby marks to the… Read more about this item

Umdaus Press. Species: skippers, swallowtails and swordtails, and yellows, whites, vagrants, tips and borders. 156 species in total. Two subspecies and a subgenus are newly described in this book. Lavishly illustrated with colour photographs or paintings of all the stages. Some light thumbing. 397 Pages. 1st Edition. Condition: Near fine. Dust jacket: Near fine. Binding: Hardcover. Green… Read more about this item

Andre Deutsch. The nature and habits of these insects. Introductory essay by the Lepidopterist, Josef Bijok. 42 colour plates with detailed captions, encompassing two hundred of the most beautiful specimens. Endpaper maps show the distribution of butterflies and moths throughout the world. 126 pages. Reprint. New and enlarged edition. Condition: Good-. Dust jacket: Good. Some mild edge-wear… Read more about this item

Elm Tree Books. The story of Anglo-Boer wars as seen through the eyes of a soldier at the front, writing in his diary at night accompanied by photographs, maps, cartoons, poetry and ephemera. 192 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. Dust jacket: Good. Some light edge-wear with sunning to spine. Binding: … Read more about this item

Londolozi Publishers. The story of a dream - to create a game reserve out of a group of derelict farms in the midst of Maputaland's rural poverty. Here is the background to Phinda with a brief history of the Zulu and Thonga people. 212 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. Subscribers Edition. Condition: Near fine. Dust jacket:… Read more about this item

A A Balkema for the Friends of the South African Library, 1972. Illustrated by 21 of his sketches, further illustrations and a map with notes and clues to the identity of the artist. 69 Pages. Small label with previous owner's details on front fep. Contents clean and tightly bound. Condition: Very good. Binding: Hardcover. Mild edge-wear. Light… Read more about this item

Howard Timmins. Illustrated with more than 400 colour photograps. The struggle for existence on the wild snow-swept summits and their place in Zulu folk-lore and medicine. Foxing to prelims. Foxing to top and fore-edges. 239 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Good+. Dust jacket: Fair to good. Closed tears to top edge reinforced with clear… Read more about this item

Studio Editions. Colourful folio-size engravings. 60 colour plates. small bookseller label on front fixed end paper. Some foxing to front and rear feps and title page with a scattered spot of foxing to some pages. 128 Pages. Binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Dust jacket: Good. Some edge-wear to extremities. Laminate lifting off in some places. Some foxing… Read more about this item

Prestel. An intrepid explorer to South America to study flora and fauna, an artist and natural historian, Maria Merian was also an entrepreneur teaching painting and drawing, establishing an art supply shop and marketed her own work. 50 colour plates and 146 colour illustrations. Natural history commentaries by Wolf-Dietrich Beer. 175 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. … Read more about this item

Struik Publishers (Pty) Ltd. Outlining the course of the war, through the formal first stages to the guerrilla struggle of the 'bitter enders'. 96 Pages. Illustrations, maps and photographs. Contents clean and firmly bound. 2nd Edition. Condition: Fair to good. Binding: Softcover. Light edge-wear.

Kwela Books. Dramatic images documenting the violence, heartache and hope of South Africa's transitional years to the election in 1994. 1st Edition. Condition: Good-. Dust jacket: Fair to good. Foxing to the verso. Mild edge-wear. Binding: Hardcover. Some light edge-wear.

Thames and Hundson. An installation by renowned conceptual artist, Joseph Kosuth at the Brooklyn Museum. 126 Illustrations, 105 in duoton and 21 in colour. 148 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Near fine. Dust jacket: Very good. Binding: Hardcover. Mild foxing to the verso. Mild edge-wear.

Howard Timmins. Numerous colour photographs of unique rarities and many of the common and attractive species. Mild spot of foxing to the front and rear feps. 126 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Dust jacket: Good. Mild edge-wear. Some sunning to top edge and spine. Foxing to verso. Binding: Hardcover. Some mild edge-wear. … Read more about this item