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All other bindings and the remainder of this volume are tight, firm and unshaken, which for this set is uncommon.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe jackets are variably nicked and frayed but where this is the case only mildly; housed now in removable plastic coverings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA handsome set of this landmark work of South African botany.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRudolph Marloth was a Prussian analytic chemist who came to South Africa in the early 1880s. His passion for botany resulted in his first publication on the Cape flora, Das Kapland (1908)- he taught chemistry at Stellenbosch University, notably to JC Smuts, and there offered a course in botany.  He was a keen mountaineer and co-founder of The Mountain Club. 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The book deals with the school boycott and inferior education standards for black children in the 1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51082450338112,"sku":null,"price":3500.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0955\/4460\/7040\/files\/IMG_1326.jpg?v=1758709249"},{"product_id":"some-afrikaners-photographed-by-david-goldblatt-signed-limited-1st-edition","title":"Some Afrikaners Photographed by David Goldblatt (Signed, Limited 1st Edition)","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAuthor: Goldblatt, David \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTitle: Some Afrikaners Photographed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Murray Crawford \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDate: 1975 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePlace: Sandton \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions: 4to. 33cm x 25cm \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e167pp+ limitation page. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1st Edition, limited to 1000 copies, each signed by the photographer. This is number 558.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlack cloth boards, gilt titles to spine. White pictorial DJ with titles to spine and top panel. Illustrated throughout by Goldblatt's iconic black and white images of South Africa during the height of Apartheid, with descriptions to the opposite pages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLower spine corner bumped, top edge a little dusty. Dust jacket frayed at edges with a few chips and closed tears to the edges and flaps sitting a little loose as folds have lost their definition. Spine titles a little rubbed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSome faults, but internally clean, neat and bright. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVG- in a like dust jacket.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51082471997760,"sku":null,"price":14500.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0955\/4460\/7040\/files\/Untitleddesign_2.jpg?v=1758710082"},{"product_id":"a-late-19th-century-illuminated-south-african-travel-diary","title":"A Late 19th Century Illuminated South African Travel Diary","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAuthor: ‘F’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTitle: Late 19th Century Travel Manuscript: A Christmas under Canvas in Sunny Africa \/ Cape Town to Johannesburg by Rail \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDate: December 1898 – August 1899 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePlace: Cape Town and Johannesburg \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions: 4to. 24cm x 19cm. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWatercolour title page + 39 leaves + 1pp on ruled paper.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLater plain blue cloth covered boards. Original marbled endpapers preserved and bound in after new, plain endpapers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA charming, late Victorian, South African manuscript in three parts, illustrated throughout by the author in ink and watercolour, a laid in original photograph, and laid in photographic reproductions. The first part: a Christmas camping holiday at Fish Hoek, the second of a trip by rail to Johannesburg and the third part the author’s impressions of that city at the height of the gold rush, on the eve of the Second Anglo Boer War. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart one: “A Christmas under Canvas in Sunny Africa”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e details the author and his traveling party’s excursion by train from central Cape Town to Fish Hoek, where the party camped out between Christmas and New Year 1898\/9. Among them was a Mr. Heineman, who, the author remarks, is “a brother of the firm of London Publishers” (William Heineman). The diary offers a glimpse into the retail trade over Christmas, details what the campers ate and drank, and what the Fish Hoek valley looked like before it was developed into a large suburban hub – also offering some insight into the antagonism that existed between the Dutch and English at the Cape. From the diary the author remarks:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Only about 5 or 6 houses in this place, they are mostly Dutch, low plain buildings, very unattractive to the eye in beauty of architecture, but very plain and steadily built...The ground our camp was in belonged to a Dutch man, Mr De Villiers...he was a typical (Jan Tromp? Farm tramp?), as broad as he was long almost, rough and hardy, as it were (sic) sensible to be...He had settled here 30 years ago and the ground was given to him, commenced farming, rearing stock and by these means he is today worth a good sum of money. We met the gentleman in question on returning from our morning immersion and he commenced talking rapidly in Dutch to us...“We don’t speak Dutch”...He was very surprised and apparently disquieted and said in broken English something like this – You be ferry slow, I pick up ze \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEnglish in one day, why don’t you do same with ze Dutch. I don’t speak English very well, but I understand it well. You no good of you no speak Dutch here. We assured him we would pick it up shortly...infernal to us tho’ it seems”.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis part is handsomely illustrated with a mixed media, watercolour and collage title page, depicting a beach with a palm tree in the foreground, halfway up which a monkey climbs towards the fronds, over which a black and white photographic reproduction of Cecil John Rhodes is pasted. A canoe with 8 rowers can be seen in the ocean – middle-ground - with a ship and mountains (possibly the Hottentots Holland) in the background. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe author includes two further full page watercolour illustrations: the first titled ‘Bathing Place’ and of other of their campsite. A further black and white, pen-ink sketch of the Fish Hoek train platform (merely a few wooden planks) and a small rowboat on the sands in the foreground, looking out towards the valley with farmhouses and campsite in the middle-ground, and a final sketch of the Fish Hoek valley, with moonrise over False Bay, flanked by mountains on either side. The illustrations show an undeveloped valley, with the campsite and 3 farmhouses the only architecture visible. At the end of the work, before an ‘editor’s note’, are two black and white photographic reproductions, one of a wooded area and the other a rocky outcrop, possibly a view from Clovely Beach towards Kalk Bay. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart two: Cape Town to Johannesburg by Rail \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003egives an account of a rail journey, departing from Cape Town on 2 May 1899 and traveling through Frazerburg, Naauwpoort, Maatjiesfontein, Bloemfontein and Vereeniging, where there is a lengthy description of a search conducted by a Boer official. The description ends with the author arriving at Park Station.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAdorning this part of the work is a monochrome photographic reproduction titled ‘Cape Town Station’ as frontispiece, showing a large terminal building, with cast iron frame and wrought iron scroll work. This is in fact Park Station, Johannesburg which was commissioned by the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, designed by Dutch railway architect JF Klinkhamer and built in 1896. Only part of Klinkhamer’s original design was completed, as building was interrupted by the Jameson Raid (Woodgate, F. Old Park Station: Draft Statement of Significance, 2015). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFurther illustrations of ‘Bloemfontein Cathedral and Bishop’s Lodge’, ‘Convent of the Holy Family, Bloemfontein’ and a portrait of Milner. The final page contains a monochrome view of the approach to Park station.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart three: Johannesburg or “The Golden City”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an account of the author’s stay there from May to August 1899. It is perhaps the richest of the three parts and contains, among other musings, the author’s comments on: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe stock exchange\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, in which he tells of friend who lost all his money speculating “on change...It’s nothing else but gambling, pure \u0026amp; simple…a lot of speculation is done here” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe sweepstakes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: “It is on a certain horse race that this sweepstakes is (based)...If I draw a winning number \u0026amp; the corresponding horse (wins) I get about 2000£…These sweepstakes are not permitted in the Colony being to their laws and statutes illegal. These…proprietors slap 10% on all prizes…(If) you won a prize of £1000 you would receive 900, the other 100 for the proprietors. That’s not bad.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRace and labour relations\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: “The natives here are not treated anything like so well as at Cape Town…they are not allowed on the footpath or causeway under any circumstances, and are not allowed out after 9 O’clock at night...Some of them have the making of fine men, if they had the advantages of Englishmen, but of course they are treated like dogs and kept down...The Englishman has about 20 to 30 of these boys under him and to make them work \u0026amp; afraid of him, he has to kick \u0026amp; cuff them, ad lib.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRickshaw drivers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: adorned in feathers and with horns on their heads, one with a “jacket made from an old union jack, knickers of the same, on his legs a tuft of white hair \u0026amp; long, \u0026amp; a bell fastened to one of his legs”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe upper classes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: “I have seen some of the smartest “turnouts” (horse-drawn carriages) here that I have ever seen in my life. Those belong to the millionaires, of which lucky beings (or unlucky which?) there are not a few…They live out in the suburbs and the suburbs of this town are very nice places to dwell in. I will say, I never saw better appointed residences any where than some in the suburbs of Johannesburg. They are simply miniature palaces, standing in their own grounds, with nicely laid out gardens, tennis courts invariably etc. etc. They really make one feel not a little discontented with one’s lot in looking at these people living in the lap of comfort and luxury.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoubert Park\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: so named “after one of our most famous generals, who at the time of writing this, is busy preparing to fight against England.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTransportation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: “For nearly every body, man woman or child ride a bicycle here. 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Half title signed and dated 25.5.1995, the day the 1995 Rugby World Cup began and hosts South Africa defeated Australia 27–18 at Newlands in Cape Town. Presentation slip of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund loosely laid in, stating that the proceeds raised by the sales of this limited, autographed edition, in celebration of the 1995 Rugby World Cup, are to be donated to the Fund. Presentation band wrapped around the dust jacket, with the South African flag and the words: Personally signed by Nelson Mandela. 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