Search Results: Titles starting with C from Quagga Books

C. Struik, 1962. Vol 1: General History and Social Life of the Cape of Good Hope.Vol 2: History of Law, Medicine and Place Names in the Cape of Good Hope.Vol 3: Cape Archives and Records The books are in very good condition. Sunning to spines. Light foxing to pages and page edges. Red cloth to boards.

C. Struik, 1962. Vol 2: History of Law, Medicine and Place Names in the Cape of Good Hope. Vol 3: Cape Archives and Records. Some age-toning to feps. Light foxing to top-edges. Condition: Very good. Binding: Hardcover. Red faux leather boards with gilt lettering to spine.

C. Struik, 1962. No. 18 of 1000 numbered copies. Vol 1: General History and Social Life of the Cape of Good Hope.Vol 2: History of Law, Medicine and Place Names in the Cape of Good Hope.Vol 3: Cape Archives and Records. Some light toning to end papers. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. Binding: Hardcover. Very good condition. Edge-wear to all extremities on the slipcase.

Voortrekkerpers. Uitgawe van die Patriot-Vereniging via Afrikaanse Teksuitgawes No.2. Some creasing and wear to the prelims. Splitting at the frontispies, otherwise a clean copy. 181 Pages. Condition: Good. Binding: Card Wraps.

North Holland Publishing Company, 1979. A reconstruction of the collection of the Reynst Brothers - an extensive collection of Italian/Ventian paintings from the 16th and early 17th century. Illustrated in black and white.

H.K. Lewis. Previous owner's name to the fep. Light foxing to the prelims. Garrison & Morton 6307.

1947. Recased. Nice, well kept copy. Text in French. Focus on Egyptian art, Van Gogh

William Blackwood, 1864. Green buckram boards with gilt decoration. Slight lean to the spine. Previous owner's name to the verso of the fep.

Cambridge University Press. Vol 1: From early times to 1885. (467 Pages); Vol 2: 1885 to 1994. (724 Pages). Thumbing to both volumes. Contents clean and binding firm. 1st Paperback edition. Condition: Very good. Binding: Softcover. Some mild edge-wear.

Musee du quai Branly, 2007. Text: French. Translated: First Daguerreotype Portraits 1841-1851. 30 portraits in fine sequence of vignettes reproducing the exhibited works.

Tracing the development of Camps Bay beginning with the geological formations to the personal and public histories of those lived and worked in the suburb. Interesting places such as the Oudekraal Kramat; the farm, Ravensteyn; Horak's Round House; where Fingoes danced; and Philly the horse who became a much loved member of the community. Previous owner's name on front fep. 213 Pages. Contents clean and binding firm. 1st Edition. Condition: Fair to good-. No dust jacket. Binding: Hardcover. Edge-wear to all corners and footer of spine. Board exposed at the corners.

A & C Black, circa 1856. Lithographed map. Sheet size: 61 x 44cm. Double sheet with central fold. very good

A & C Black, circa 1856. Lithographed map. Sheet size: 61 x 44cm. Double sheet with central fold. very good

Nominal rolls of the officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the Canadian contingents and Strathcona's Horse with casualities to date and also R.M.C. graduates with the army in South Africa. 127 Pages. Contents clean and binding firm. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Binding: Softcover. Some light edge-wear.

George Philip & Son. Large hand-coloured steel engraved map. Good condition. Margins frayed, some age toning and a central fold. Engraved by Gellatly, Edinburgh. Sheet size: 45.4cm x 66.5cm

Collectors Mail Auctions (Pty) Ltd. A compact and invaluable asset to all Basutoland Postmark Collectors. Many illustrations. Historical photographs. Foldout map of Lesotho at the rear. Foxing to to front and rear prelims. Light foxing to all edges. 294 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Dust jacket: Fair to good. Edge-wear. A number of 1cm closed tears to edges. Creasing and rubbing. Discolouration marks from old cellotape on the verso. Binding: Hardcover. Faux leather boards with mild edge-wear.

Darter Bros. and Walton. Originally published in 1889, this is a scarce fourth edition of what is considered to be the first book on true "Cape Cookery." The Author's Note states: "This little Book is simply what it professes to be, a collection of Cape dishes from original recipes. In the palmy days, when Indians visited the Colony, Cape cookery enjoyed a reputation which it has now almost entirely lost through the competition of more pretentious French dishes. But it is believed that there are still many households which would gladly welcome a handy collection of really good old-fashioned recipes, such as were almost traditional among the better classes of Cape society in former times. For them this book is intended. A.G.H. Cape Town, May 1890." "When he (Leipoldt) discusses A.G. Hewitt‟s Cape Cookery, published in 1889,that it is the "first accurate account of local recipes" (Leipoldt 2004: 23), the book‟s chapters on fish, especially, point to Cape Malay cooking: "smoored kreef"… Read More

Friends of the South African Library. A glimpse of the conditions in the country and mountain districts of the western section of the Cape Colony in the 1840s. The trials and dangers of climbing numerous mountains, the distances covered and elevations gained by Mann on horseback and on foot as part of a normal day's work. 104 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. Very good. Softcover. Thick card-wraps. Fold to front lower corner. Some light edge-wear to sides of spine.

Howard Timmins, 1965. Text is clear with numerous black and white plates. Previous owner's ex-libris label to the top corner of front fep. DW shows some general wear.

A A Balkema. 65 engravings, maps, title pages and portraits - most of which have been reproduced as full or double-pages. Coloured illustrations tipped in at the frontispiece of each volume. 527 Pages. This is a heavy item and will incur additional shipping. 1st Edition. Condition: Good to very good. Dust jacket: Good to very good. Some mild edge-wear. Binding: Hardcover. Cloth boards with insect nibbling to the cloth on both volumes.