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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The boards are edge rubbed but tidy overall. The binding is secure. There are no ink inscriptions or annotations. Tall, extra postage required unless posted within South Africa. JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. light shelf wear on the boards. book is clean and neat. excellent binding. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The Anglo-Boer War in 100 Objects brings the victories and the tragedies-and the full extent of the human drama behind this war-to life through 100 iconic artefacts. While a Mafeking siege note helps to illustrate the acute shortages caused by the siege, a spade used by a Scottish soldier at Magersfontein and the boots of a Boer soldier who died at Spion Kop tell of the severity of some of the famous battles. The book follows the course of the war but also highlights specific themes, such as British and Boer weaponry, medical services and POW camps, as well as major figures on both sides. The text is interspersed with striking historical images from the museum's photographic collection. More than 200 additional objects have been included to help tell the story of a conflict that left an indelible mark on the South African landscape. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: New. 2019. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnTells the story of the iconic Anglo-Boer in 100 artefacts.

British soldier (1877-1948): Boer War; General Staff Officer, Portland Fortress, Dardanelles, Suez Canal defences, etc., during Great War. C.B.E., D.S.O. and Cavalierr of the Order of the Italian Crown. Very good though somewhat discoloured with age. Dimensions five and a half inches by three and a half. Bearing the Society's stamp. Signed (beneath stamp) 'A Ersine-Murray'. Headed 'Cantor Sections'. He has 'discovered that several typewritten pages have been omitted' from his fourth lecture ('lost in the post I expect'). '[S]o I am rewriting this section and will let you have it in a day or two.'.

67pp + tipped in plate. 1st ed., clean in card covers, binding reinfroced with tape.

Offprint. 12mo. Printed self-wrappers; 40pp. Slight aging to text, else Near Fine; but possibly lacking cover wraps. Attacks British policy in South Africa shortly after the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer Conflict. The author was publisher and editor of the Amsterdam political newspaper "Algemeen Handelsblad," where this essay originally appeared.

1 vols. 4 x 6 1/2 inches. 1 vols. 4 x 6 1/2 inches. To be sold for the Boer War Fund at a cost of 1d. Single page, printed on both sides. Creased.

Zustand: Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Tuesday, May 26 (holiday SALE item)* 55 pp, issued as 56th Congress, 1st Session, SD 173; light extraction roughness at spine and light general age toning, now disbound in self wrappers; concerns the seizure by British authorities of a cargo of flour, sausages, canned lambs' tongues and other foodstuffs destined for the Transvaal, theoretically for the use of neutral citizens, domiciled in neutral territory. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

4 pages, folio. On pink paper. In poor condition: much frayed at creases, with some loss of text, and the first leaf is on the way to separating into two pieces. Interesting piece of contempoary populism. Strapline beneath name of newspaper reads 'POOR JAMESON! THE LAUREATE SINGS FOR HIM NOW!' This refers to a piece on page 3 a piece headed ' "JAMESON'S RAID." | The "Star" Laureate's Paraphrase of Mr. Alfred Austin's Poem, "Jameson's Ride," in To-day's "Times." ' The paper contains several other items relating to Jameson, e.g. 'THE RAID. | MR. HOFMEYR DEMANDS A SERCHING INQUIRY. | A PLAIN HINT THAT MR. RHODES MUST GO!', 'A HITCH. | KRUGER SAID TO BE HOLDING OUT FOR STIFF TERMS.', 'THE FIGHT. | DESCRIPTION BY ONE OF JAMESON'S OFFICERS. | PATHETIC INCIDENTS ON THE BATTLEFIELD.', 'JAMESON DISMISSED', 'WIDESPREAD PLOT', 'PATRIOTISM IN SONG'. Item on front page relating to 'Miss Grace Latham' boxed in in ink manuscript.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. Written lengthwise on back of 11.5 x 7.5 printed card. The side of the card with Roberts's autograph is discoloured but in fair condition, but there is slight loss along the inner margin of the printed side, resulting in some loss of text. Roberts' autograph reads: 'I give my vote / Fred. Roberts. / India / 14th. April 1888.' The printed text states that Caroline Constance Williams, aged 8 years, was the daughter of Band-Sergt. John Williams, who 'served 14 years, and 5 months, in India; the last year in Belorchistan, where through hardship under canvas, contracted the disease from which he died. He was in possession of the medal for long service and good conduct.' Details are give of four individuals by whom 'The case is strongly recommended'.

Photolithographically printed in black on one side of a 51 x 63 cm. piece of cloth, folding into a 16.5 x 11 cm. packet, in green printed cloth covers backed with card. In good condition, lightly-aged, with minor signs of age and wear. Cover reads: 'Transvaal. | (Major Jackson's Series). | Sheet No. 37. | Melmonth. | Field Intelligence Department. | Pretoria, 1901.' Signed in pencil on front cover 'G S Scovell | Cam Hrs.' In top left-hand corner of map: 'No. 37'. In bottom left-hand corner: 'Compiled in Surveyor General's Office - Pretoria underdirection [sic] of MAJOR H. M. JACKSON R.E. Mch. 1901 | From Transvaal Farm Surveys - Zululand portion from Map supplied by Surveyor General Natal'. In bottom right-hand corner: 'Photo-Lithographed - Pretoria - June 1901. | Mapping Section - Field Intelligence Dept - Army Head Qrs.' E. Liebenberg, in a paper titled 'The Cartographic Legacy of the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902', describes the 'valuable work' done by Jackson until the cessation of hostilities when he became Surveyor-General of the Transvaal Colony. As he explains, 'Major Jackson's Transvaal and Natal Series', of which the present item is a part, was the second of three series (the first being the 'Imperial Map of South Africa', and the third the 'Transvaal and Orange River Colony Degree Sheet Series), its deficiencies the result of the hurry with which it was compiled: 'Major Jackson's Transvaal and Natal Series was initiated by Major H M Jackson, head of the Topographical Section of the FID soon after Pretoria was occupied in June 1900. Also known as the First Transvaal Series, this series consisted of 74 sheets of irregular size covering the whole of the Transvaal (except the extreme north-eastern portion), Naral, Zululand and Swaziland, and part of the former Bechuanaland. The maps were printed in monochrome on linen-backed paper and were, like the Imperial Maps, folded to pocket size for easy usage on horseback. Compiled in a hurry for urgent military use, the maps are of a poor standard and it is uncertain whether they were of much use for military purposes. Although farm names and farm boundaries are shown, the physical topography is merely sketched in and no altitudes are given. According to Jackson himself, these maps were based on a mere 'patch-work' of farm diagrams and as such included much information that was of dubious value - if not positively misleading'. From the papers of Lieutenant-Colonel George Julian Selwyn Scovell of the 1st Cameron Highlanders, for more information regarding whom see his obituary in The Times, 29 April 1948, and his entry in Who Was Who. Scovell's diaries covering his period of service in the Boer War are offered separately.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. London, Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd., 1933. Octavo, 256 pages plus 28 pages of plates (totalling 40 illustrations from photographs). Gilt-lettered black cloth a little rubbed, sunned and marked; front cover slightly bowed; extremities a little bumped; edges a little foxed and marked; flyleaves lightly discoloured; a very good copy. The autobiography of British soldier, artist and sculptor Adrian Jones (1845-1938). Pages 111-114 (and the plate facing page 96) refer to his Boer War Memorial sculpture at the entrance to Government House at the corner of North Terrace and King William Street, Adelaide. Jones tells the story from the initial request by 'an influential Committee, representing the City of Adelaide' chaired by Sir Kiffin Thomas, to the unveiling in 1904 and Sir William Sowden's letter of appreciation some 21 years later. The Memorial 'was designed along the vigorous lines that appeal so strongly to the Australian people. Indeed, many Australians told me that they thought it the best statue in the country, but this may have been said to please me' (page 112). His 'magnum opus, however, was his "Peace Quadriga", 1912, for Constitution Arch, Hyde Park Corner, his hopes for a major unveiling ceremony (and perhaps even a knighthood) dashed by the death of his great advocate, King Edward VII, in 1910'. ('Public Statues and Sculpture Association' website). With a foreword by Lt.-Gen. Lord Baden-Powell.

Johannesburg, Tafelberg-Uitgvwers, 1964, 1st ed., 141,(3) pag., facs., original illustrated boards. = Owner's entry on first free endpaper. Memoir of the British concentration camps during the Boer War. Text in Afrikaans.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. London, John Murray, 1903 [Murray's Imperial Library edition]. Octavo, [iv], 167, 8 (publisher's catalogue) pages. Murray's Imperial Library colour pictorial cloth a little flecked and rubbed; top edge foxed; acidic endpapers discoloured, with trifling surface abrasions to the front endpaper; inner hinge slightly cracked and with slight (chiefly surface) tears; a very good copy. The letters were written to Sir Bartle Frere 'in regular succession, from a date shortly before the war broke out. The writer is a man who has long been resident in South Africa, and has held more the position of onlooker than of participator, in its political and commercial affairs. He is not connected with gold mining, he has carefully watched events, and he is an honest English gentleman'.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. On his letterhead of coronet and letter R. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded once. He is sorry to refuse the Duke, 'but I could not really take the chair at a dinner in aid of the Westminster Hospital Funds', as he has 'promised Lord Cadogan to to [sic] act in that capacity in aid of [same?] Chelsea Hospital. Under these circumstances, I am sure you will excuse me.'.

See the entries for the two men in the Oxford DNB, as well as that of the subject of the letter, Sir Richard Temple's eldest son Captain Richard Carnac Temple (1850-1931), the future second baronet. 3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. Aged, with the gutter repaired with archival tape, and the reverse of the second leaf adhering to part of its mount. Headed 'Private' and addressed to 'Dear Sir Richard'. His telegram of 16 May reached Roberts in Kashmir, and he 'at once communicated its contents to the Foreign Secretary, but with no result, as I was sorry to find when the Gazette with the Queen's Birthday Honors appeared'. He will however have 'another opportunity of bringing your son's name to the notice of government, for in Sir George White's report on giving up the Command in Burma, Captain Temple's good services are specially alluded to'. (See the Oxford DNB: 'The outbreak in 1885 of the Third Anglo-Burmese War brought Temple once more on active service, and led in 1887 to his being placed in charge of King Thibaw's capital on Thibaw's deposition.') Roberts will be pleased to 'endorse the General's favorable opinion'.

3pp, 12mo. Bifolium, folded once. In good condition. 29 lines of text. He thanks her for her kindness, 'in the midst of your great sorrow', in writing to inform the Robertses of her husband's death. 'We have often talked of you both, and wondered where you were living.' He had thought it was 'somewhere in the valley of the Thames, at least I thought you told me so when last I met you both walking in Regent Street - some 10 years ago'. After a brief comment on Tierney's ill health, he recalls how 'He, Alfred Torrens, and I sat next to each other at Mills School. Torrens died a few weeks ago, and now I am the only one left.' He ends by sending his and his wife's condolences, and in a postscript signed 'R' asks to be informed 'should you come to London'. In his 1914 biography, Walter Jerrold writes that between 1842 and 1845 Roberts was 'pupil of a Mr. Mills at Hampton'.

1p., 8vo. A mimeographed document duplicating fifty lines of handwriting (that of Ferrar himself?). Embossed government crest at top left. A scarce survival, on aged and heavily-worn paper, with closed tears and slight loss to extremities, repaired with archival tape. Text in eleven sections: 'Duties' ('Field Officer of the day', 'Captain of the day', 'Orderly of the day'), 'Remission of sentence', 'Punishments', 'Strength', 'Furloughs', 'Institutes', 'Correspondence etc', 'Deaths', 'C M Prisoners', 'Courts Martial', 'Divine Service' (parade times for Roman Catholics, Presbyterians and Wesleyans'). The longest section, on 'Courts Martial', gives an impression of the tone: 'No 3222 Pte H Parsons 8 Dorsets was tried by D C M 14th August & sentenced to be imprisoned with Hard Labour for 56 days for Receiving stolen goods knowing them to be stolen No 4058 Pte F Armstrong 2 Dorestes was tried by D C M 14th inst & sentenced to be imprisoned with Hard Labour for 6 Calendar Months for "Committing a civil offence that is to say stealing." Captain Pinwell Liverpools is appointed a member of a D C M ordered to assemble at Wynburg at 10-0 AM on Monday 18th. inst.' The two British prisoner of war camps on the Green Point Common the Green Point Track Camp and the Sky View Camp were established during the war to relieve severe overcrowding at the Simon's Town camp. With the end of the war the role of the camp changed to accommodate POWs being sent to the various districts in the former republics rather than overseas. Gradually the number of POWs were being sent from overseas camps to South Africa fell, and the Green Point camp was closed.

Carbon copies on 14pp. of an 8vo exercise book with cloth spine and marbled covers, 'Supplied for the Public Service'. In fair condition, with signs of age, wear and active service. An evocative item, giving a sense of the day-to-day duties of a British junior officer in the Boer War. Entries mainly with facsimile signature of Scovell (whose other papers are offered separately). Other items with facsimile signatures F H White and one other. One page is headed 'Orders for Pickets' and gives five orders, the fourth of which is: 'Each picket commander is responsible that the latrines are filled in - that the ground is cleaned up round the picket, and that all rubbish is buried'. Another page is headed 'To the S. O. | D Col Grenfell's Column' and reads: 'May I send out a wood party at 8.30 to-morrow morning S. E. of Camp? | Strength, 2 Officers, 50 men | Major | Commdg Det | 1st Cameron Hrs. | 8.30. p.m. | 31st May.' Headings include: 'Payment of Canteen Stores at Brakspoint', 'Copy of Picket orders', '12th May | Money due from following Coys to President Canteen', 'Officer's [sic] ', 'Officers Subscriptions'. A note from Scovell to 'Alston' regards the return to 'the Transport at Klerksdorp' of 'the Knock (from wheeled cart)', given to the battalion by Col. Grenfell, 'soon after leaving the W. Line'.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. East London, Printed by the Standard Printing Co., 1902 (revised edition). Small octavo, 48 pages. Saddle-stapled title-wrappers a little marked and creased, with associated creasing to the last six leaves; staples rusty, staining a little the paper in contact with them; overall, a very good copy of what we presume to be a rare item. The preface states that this book 'contains the various orders which have from time to time appeared in C.D.F., L. of C., and C.C.F. orders regarding D.M.T.'s; and also in circular memorandums from heads of departments in South Africa regarding District Mounted Troops. Fresh Orders must necessarily often be issued, and spaces are left in the book for their insertion. H.S. Scott Harden, Capt., O.C. Colonial Forces, No. 12 Area. Aliwal North, February 1st, 1902'. Pages 43-44 contain a list of officers 'appointed by the colonial Government to command District Mounted Troops in the Areas not yet included in Colonial divisions'. Area 11, comprising the Districts of Colesberg, Hanover, and Steynsburg (inclusive of Norvals Pont) is under the command of 'Capt. S.A. White'. This item is not identified as such, but we know it comes from the dispersed collection of Samuel Albert White (1870-1954), the South Australian well-known as an ornithologist and conservationist, but 'During the South African War he had two tours of duty and was temporarily promoted captain, a title he used thereafter' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography').

Very good, on aged and lightly creased paper. Six long letters to family in England written during a turbulent period in South African history. Affectionate, chatty, and written from a lower-middle-class point of view (Florrie: 'we always have an h[ou]r., when I change my dress for the afternoon after dinner'). Mostly dealing with family matters. Letter One (from 'Florrie', 4 September 1898, 'P.O. East London, South Africa', 4to: 4 pp): tells an amusing story about Birt, a cart and a goat. Letter Two (from 'Florrie', 11 September 1898, address as Letter One, 4to: 2 pp). Letter Three (from 'Florrie Cockle (soon Iggulden)', 29 May 1899, address as Letter One, 12mo: 8 pp): announcing her engagement. 'I want you Kate, or Maggie, please if you will to get a fashion book with some pretty summer dresses in & send me; I think I shall get a pretty white fancy muslin, with lots of nice lace, & make it myself, for my wedding dress'. Letter Four (from 'Florrie Cockle', 3 June 1899, address as Letter One, 4to: 4 pp): 'its just lovely being loved so much, & taken care of by a good man'. 'Letter Five (from 'your loving brother Birt | Al. Cockle', 4 June 1899, 'c/o Messrs Mallett & Co, East London, South Africa', 4to: 4 pp): 'There is some talk of old Paul Kruger the President of the Transvall [sic] going to England of course we shall have to take it for what it is worth. Pipe has gone out shall have to stop to light it. [.] I think the average person deserves so much better than they get here take the poor what hae they done to serve the life that is delt [sic] out to them'. Letter Six (from 'Willie & Florrie' [in Florrie's hand], 23 December 1899, 'St. Johns Rd., E. London, S. Africa', 12mo: 8 pp): 'instead of finishing up quickly, it seems to be getting a bigger affair every news we hear, the Germans are coming in at Delagoa Bay & helping the Dutch, & that wont be like fighting Dutchmen, but a proper war presently I'm afraid; we haven't heard any more from Bert yet, but as there is no fresh news of Brabant's Horse, we still hope he is safe'.

Of the twelve items (all black and white), the ten small photographs are uniform at 7 x 9 cm; the portrait of Scovell is 21 x 13 cm., and the image of the Spion Kop battlefield 14.5 x 11 cm. Accompanied by a note by Scovell on a slip of paper: 'Relics of the S. African Campaign | 1901-1902 | belonging to G. J. S. S'. The ten small pictures and are in good condition, loose and in an envelope. The ten images are all evocative outside shots, with subjects including: a view of the whole battalion on a horizon line, with the the setting sun behind them; seven officers in khaki crouching down to look at a map outside an encampment; three men in kilts carrying a heavy load towards a wall of sandbags (the wearing of the kilt on active service was abolished at the end of the Boer War); an Indian soldier with a donkey; a convoy with cattle crossing rough terrain; and Dannhauser Station. Scovell's portrait is also in good condition, tipped-in onto a leaf removed from an album, depicting Scovell in dress jacket, trews and boots with spurs, with plumed hat in one hand, the other on the hilt of his sword, and one foot on the steps of a building. The Spion Kop print is worn and has been folded both vertically and horizontally. It is a cut-down version of a celebrated image, but with 'SPIONS KOP, NATAL' scratched onto the plate. From Scovell's papers (other items from which are offered separately). Educated at Haileybury and Sandhurst, Scovell was gazetted to the Cameron Highlanders in 1900. He was only twenty years old as the present account of his activities in the Boer War begins, and with a distinguished military career ahead of him. He would go on to serve on the General Staff in the First World War, and be appointed deputy Director-General of Recruiting in 1917, retiring from the Army the following year to become General Secretary of the Liberal Party from 1919-1922. For more information, see his entry in 'Who Was Who', and his obituary in The Times, 29 April 1948.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Klerksdorp, Printed and Published by H.M. Guest, 'Mining Record' Office, 31 July 1901 (second edition)/ June 1901 (the date 31 May appears at the end of the section on the 'Second British Occupation' in the second edition). Octavo, 45, [3] ('The Town Guard', 'Local Boer Losses', publisher's advertisements) pages. Tan hessian-patterned decorated wrappers; rear cover a little marked; small hole punched in the top left-hand corner of the entire pamphlet; trifling signs of use and age; an excellent copy. 'Second Edition' appears on the front wrapper, page [5] is 'Some Press Notices' of the first edition, and page [34] is a lengthy 'Addendum to the Second Edition'. The short introduction states that the 'information is derived from Diaries kept by residents, the personal communications of Dutch and English people who remained during the War, and the details of the first British occupation from some of the principal actors'. The list of Klerksdorpians on active service with the British forces runs to four pages. In 1939, Herman Guest, the publisher's son, had some of these original Klerksdorp printings bound up and issued with a new foreword, telling the story of the production of his father's 'records of the campaign in the Western Transvaal and elsewhere. It will be realized that the accounts were written during times of stress, and consequently some of the statements have an "ex parte" complexion. The[ir] value . lies in the fact that [they were] written and produced when Klerksdorp was practically in a state of siege. The inhabitants were unable to proceed a mile in any direction from the market square, and the one railway line, although closely guarded, was frequently disturbed by Boers'. Provenance: a Western Australian member of the 4th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse.

4 plates preceding text; text printed on rectos only, 32pp e.ps sl. creased. Orig. boards, orig. green cloth spine embossed and colour-printed onlay: 'The Royal Visit to Natal Official Programme'; sl. rubbing to corners. Not on Copac; National Library of South Africa only on Worldcat. The Duke and Duchess, from 1910 King George V & Queen Mary, made a nine month tour of the British Empire (except India) on HMS Ophir, to thank the Dominions for assistance during the Boer War 1899-1902. This Official Visit was coordinated by C.W.P. Douglas-de-Fenzi, Hon. Sec., Colonial Reception Committee; the programme details 141 elements, concluding with arrangements for Ladysmith and the visit to Spion Kop. Natal was a colony from 1843 and became a province of the Union of South Africa in 1910.

Zustand: Very good condition. Limited edition. An ode to celebrate the end of the Boer War, by Robert Seymour Bridges (1844 - 1930) who was the British poet laureate from 1913 to 1930. With a reference to Australians who fought: "Came too the new world's hardy Canadians, And from remote Australia champions Like huntsmen." (p3). Limited edition of approximately 100 copies. Madan #55. This was the last regular issue of the Press. The month after he issued this, Daniel was elected Provost at Oxford. 4to, [7]pp. Pale green paper wrappers, original? Unopened & uncut. Not recorded on Trove; OCLC: 4421139.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near fine. First Edition. New York, Underwood & Underwood; Chicago, H.C. White Co.; London, Erdmann & Schanz; Meadville, Keystone View Company; and London, Fine Art Photographers' Publishing Co., 1900 to 1902. The pairs of images are approximately 80 × 77 mm each (top corners rounded), laid down on printed cards (approximately 88 × 177 mm). All have captions or titles on the rectos, and many have descriptive text on the versos. A few minor signs of age and handling; one card with an unobtrusive ink stamp; overall, in near-fine condition. Each card comes in a glassine sleeve (some slightly torn), and the collection is now housed in two custom-made cloth-covered boxes. The stereo views depict scenes from some of the most important campaigns of the war (including Ladysmith, Colenso, Modder River, Kimberley, Spion Kop, and Pretoria), troop movements and positions, commanders from both sides (including Roberts, Kitchener, Baden-Powell, French, Botha, de Wet, and de la Rey), and the daily life of soldiers. Of specific interest are cards showing colonial units (three Australian, four Canadian, one New Zealand), prisoners of war, battle scenes (some appear to be staged), surveillance from hot air balloons, signals units, railway engineering, hospitals and wounded soldiers, and dead soldiers and war graves. The views were published by: Underwood & Underwood, New York (89 cards); H.C. White Co., Chicago (30 cards); Erdmann & Schanz, London (9 cards); Keystone View Company, Meadville (3 cards); and the Fine Art Photographers' Publishing Co., London (1 card). [132 items].