Clarke's Africana & Rare Books

Address: P.O. Box 186, Constantia, (Cape Town), 7848, South Africa
Contact Person: Paul Mills
Country of Origin South Africa
Email: africana@clarkes.co.za
Website: http://www.clarkes.co.za
Trade Association: ABA - ILAB, SABDA
Additional Info:

Phone: 0027 21 794 0600

Founded in 1958, Clarkes specialises in Africana and general antiquarian books, prints, maps and ephemera. Africana Catalogues are issued four times a year. All subjects are covered including, African exploration and travel, missionary endeavour, ethnography, Bushmen and rock art, big-game hunting, military history, the Anglo Boer War, Boer War ephemera, Zulu War and the First World War in East Africa and South West Africa, natural history (botany, ornithology, etc.), Mining (particularly diamonds and gold), Natal & Zululand, Namibia, art & architecture, literature & politics. Also Maps, prints and ephemera. We offer an active search service for all antiquarian and secondhand books.

Results in Auction #18

Lot Author Title Hammer Price
1 Harris (Willaim Cornwallis) PORTRAITS OF THE GAME AND WILD ANIMALS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA $13650
2 Baines (Thomas) THE VICTORIA FALLS ZAMBESI RIVER $8500
3 Roupell (Arabella Elizabeth) SPECIMENS OF THE FLORA OF SOUTH AFRICA $12500
4 Bowler (Thomas) SOUTH AFRICAN SKETCHES, A SERIES OF TEN OF THE MOST INTERESTING VIEWS AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE $9975
75 Raven-Hart (R.) CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 1652 - 1702 $203
77 Bron (Alice) DIARY OF A NURSE IN SOUTH AFRICA $100
145 Carr (J.D.) THE SOUTH AFRICAN ACACIAS $50
150 Gunn (M.) & Codd (L.E.) BOTANICAL EXPLORATION OF SOUTHERN AFRICA $60
151 Letty (Cythna) WILD FLOWERS OF THE TRANSVAAL $50
156 Reynolds (Gilbert Westacott) THE ALOES OF SOUTH AFRICA (Subscribers’ Edition) $158
161 Smith (C.A.) COMMON NAMES OF SOUTH AFRICAN PLANTS $25
163 Van Jaarsveld (Ernst) & Koutnik (Daryl) COTYLEDON AND TYLECODON $40
165 Harris (T.) & Arnott (G.) SHRIKES OF SOUTHERN AFRICA $50
166 Finch-Davies (C.G.) & Kemp (A.) THE BIRDS OF PREY OF SOUTHERN AFRICA $100
222 Carter (A.C.R.) THE WORK OF WAR ARTISTS IN SOUTH AFRICA $150
226 Smail (J.L.) MONUMENTS AND TRAILS OF THE VOORTREKKERS $69
227 Bowler (Thomas) BOWLER’S FOUR VIEWS OF CAPE TOWN $50
228 Burton (Brigadier-General R.G.) A BOOK OF MAN-EATERS $45
229 Martin (Prof. Dr. W.) DE HOLLANDSCHE SCHILDERKUNST IN DE ZEVENTIENDE EEUW $30
238 Latrobe (Rev. C.I.) JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA IN 1815 AND 1816 $50
240 Isaacs (Nathaniel) TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN EASTERN AFRICA $50
242 Raven-Hart (Maj. R.) BEFORE VAN RIEBEECK $74
243 Forbes (V.S.) PIONEER TRAVELLERS OF SOUTH AFRICA $76
246 Duggan-Cronin (A.M.) THE BUSHMAN TRIBES OF SOUTHERN AFRICA $368
248 Skotnes (Pippa) CLAIM TO THE COUNTRY $37
249 Pager (Harald) NDEDEMA (Presentation copy) $250
250 Tyrrell (Barbara) AFRICAN HERITAGE $79
251 Tyrrell (Barbara) SUSPICION IS MY NAME $58
252 Fairbridge (D.) HISTORIC FARMS OF SOUTH AFRICA $410
253 [Butler (Guy) Editor] THE 1820 SETTLERS, An Illustrated Commentary $70
254 Hattersley (A.F.) AN ILLUSTRATED SOCIAL HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA $30
256 Wallis (J.P.R.) THOMAS BAINES $51
257 Carruthers (Jane) & Arnold (Marion) THE LIFE AND WORK OF THOMAS BAINES $95
299 Arniel (A.J.) BADGES AND INSIGNIA OF THE RHODESIAN SECURITY FORCES 1890-1980 $20
301 [Krige (Uys)] KONING LEAR - Shakespeare $40
321 Miles (Elza) NOMFANEKISO (Presentation copy) $40
323 Harmsen (Frieda)] LOOKING AT SOUTH AFRICAN ART (Presentation copy) $125
337 Barrow (J.) AN ACCOUNT OF TRAVELS INTO THE INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AFRICA $400
339 Lindley (Captain A.F.) ADAMANTIA, THE TRUTH ABOUT THE SOUTH AFRICA DIAMOND FIELDS $150
340 Selous (F.C.) AFRICAN NATURE NOTES AND REMINISCENCES $150
341 Wolhuter (H.) MEMORIES OF A GAME-RANGER $578
346 [Baines (T.) Diemont (M. & J.)] THE BRENTHURST BAINES $200
348 Smith (Anna H.) CAPE VIEWS AND COSTUMES $75
349 Gunn (Mary) & du Plessis (Enid) THE FLORA CAPENSIS OF JAKOB AND JOHANN PHILLIPP BREYNE $75
350 Clarke (S.) INVASION OF ZULULAND 1879 $105
351 Forbes (V.S.) & Rourke (J.) PATERSON'S CAPE TRAVELS 1777 TO 1779 $144
352 Le Cordeur (Basil) & Saunders (Christopher) THE WAR OF THE AXE, 1847 $60
355 [Carruthers (Jane) Editor] THE JAMESON RAID $89
370 [Schoeman (Karel) Editor:] VRIJSTATIA SERIES (13 volumes) $283
371 [Schoeman (Karel) Editor:] THE MISSION AT GRIQUATOWN, 1801 – 1821. An anthology $20
378 [Kirby (Percival R.) Editor] THE DIARY OF DR. ANDREW SMITH $60
379 Lichtenstein (H.) TRAVELS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA $84
380 Van Riebeeck Society: FIRST SERIES – VOLUMES 26, 28, 30, 32 – 50 (22 volumes) $100
381 Van Riebeeck Society: SET OF THE SECOND SERIES, volumes 1 – 41 $525
382 Breytenbach (J.H.) DIE GESKIEDENIS VAN DIE TWEEDE VRYHEIDSOORLOG IN SUID-AFRIKA, 1899-1902 $525
385 Baines (T.) & Lord (W.B.) SHIFTS AND EXPEDIENTS OF CAMP LIFE, TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION $53
386 Bell (W.D.M.) THE WANDERINGS OF AN ELEPHANT HUNTER $37
387 Botha (C. Graham) THE COLLECTED WORKS, In three volumes $40
388 Freislich (R.) THE LAST TRIBAL WAR $35
390 Hodgkiss (Donald) WOODSTOCK GLASS $42
391 Mauch (Carl) THE JOURNALS OF CARL MAUCH $32
392 Nienaber (G.S.) & Raper (P.E.) HOTTENTOT (KHOEKHOEN) PLACE NAMES $37
393 Wagner (P.A.) THE DIAMOND FIELDS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA $40
415 [Blommaert (W.) & Wiid (J.A.) eds] DIE JOERNAAL VAN DIRK GYSBERT VAN REENEN $37
421 [Mossop (E.E.) Editor] THE JOURNAL OF HENDRIK JACOB WIKAR (1779) $45