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 #26

Lot Author Title Hammer Price
1 Eliot (T.S.) COLLECTED POEMS 1909 – 1935. (With two letters from Eliot tipped in) $735
3 [Schoonraad (Murray) & Duminy (Peter) Compilers:] BATTISS 75 (With signed silk screen print) $1313
33 Smuts (General J.C.) AFRICA AND SOME WORLD PROBLEMS. (Presentation copy to Sol Plaatje). $1350
34 Botta (Charles) HISTORY OF THE WAR OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA $56
35 [Le Vaillant (F.)] FRANCOIS LE VAILLANT TRAVELLER IN SOUTH AFRICA, $150
36 Maugham (W.Somerset) THE VAGRANT MOOD $105
37 Sotheby (Samuel Leigh) RAMBLINGS IN THE ELUCIDATION OF THE AUTOGRAPH OF MILTON. $50
39 Bagrow (Leo) HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY, Revised and enlarged by R.A. Skelton. $20
40 Eichenberg (Fritz) THE ART OF THE PRINT, Masterpieces, History, Techniques $21
41 Hodnett (Edward) FIVE CENTURIES OF ENGLISH BOOK ILLUSTRATION $32
42 [Kraus (H.P.)] CATALOGUE 131. MONUMENTA ZYLOGRAPHICA ET TYPOGRAPHICA. $20
43 Morison (Stanley) & Day (Kenneth) THE TYPOGRAPHIC BOOK 1450 – 1935 $60
44 Quayle (Eric) THE COLLECTOR’S BOOK OF BOOKS $32
45 Ray (Gordon N.) THE ILLUSTRATOR AND THE BOOK IN ENGLAND FROM 1790 TO 1914 $20
46 Robinson (Duncan) WILLIAM MORRIS, EDWARD BURNE-JONES AND THE KELMSCOTT CHAUCER. $27
71 Skotnes (Pippa) CLAIM TO THE COUNTRY $115
72 MacRae (Colin) LIFE ETCHED IN STONE, Fossils of South Africa $50
73 Rodney (C.M.) JAMESON’S RIDE TO JOHANNESBURG $263
74 Ziud-Afrikaansche Republiek : BULLETIN: OORLOGSNIEUWS – WAR NEWS (Officieel – Official) $420
75 De Volkstem: VELDTOCHT-EDITIE. EENDRACHT MAAKT MACHT $63
76 Salt (Beryl) A PRIDE OF EAGLES. The Definitive History of the Rhodesian Air Force 1920 – 1980. $69
77 Nebenzahl (Kenneth) MAPS OF THE HOLY LAND $20
79 Glanville (Phillipa) LONDON IN MAPS. $20
82 Wallis (J.P.R.) THOMAS BAINES. His Life and Exploration in South Africa, Rhodesia and Australia, 1820 - 1875. $473
83 Harris (W. Cornwallis) PORTRAITS OF THE GAME AND WILD ANIMALS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA (Frank Read Press) $893
120 Skotnes (Pippa) BOOK OF ITERATIONS $79
124 Harmsen (Frieda) THE WOMEN OF BONNEFOI $105
130 Brenthurst Press: BRENTHURST ARCHIVES $21
333 Van Pallandt (Baron A.) GENERAL REMARKS ON THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE $58