Chadwick, Nora. (Intro Barry Cunliffe).

The Celts.

Folio Society. London 2001. (After Penguin 1977). 3rd printing 2002. Gilt dec terracotta buckram boards. 317pp illustrated plates. Gilt dec chocolate slipcase (no dustwrapper issued). 8vo 1.3kg. As new in near Fine original slip-case. An excellent unused copy in all respects. ISBN: 9780140250749 Follows the text of the 1977 Penguin edition. Maps by Reginald Piggott.

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Book number: 28865

Keywords: folio society

Chamberlain, Sir Austen.

Peace in Our Time. Addresses on Europe and the Empire.

Philip Allan. London 1928 1st edition. Green cloth boards. tissue-guarded b/w photo frontis. 308pp 8vo. Front board shaken. fep missing. a Good reading copy with clean text.

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Book number: 11607

Chamberlin, E.R.

The World of the Italian Renaissance.

No inscriptions. Book Club Aassociates (BCA). London 1982. same as George Allen & Unwin edition. Black cloth boards. viii + 311pp. illustrated b/w plates, genealogies. Bottom corner front board bumped o/w near F in VG+ d/w (one small chip, no major tears or loss). ISBN: 0049000357

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Book number: 12098

Champion, George. (Ed. Alan R. Booth).

Journal of the Rev. George Champion. American Missionary in Zululand 1835-9.

C. Struik. Cape Town 1967 1st edition. Duck-egg blue cloth boards. 149pp illustrated b/w. 8vo. No inscriptions. a Fine copy in VG dustwrapper (clean & bright, spine tanned but no loss, chips, or tears). George Champion was one of a party dispatched by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (in 1834?) to start a mission near Port Natal, the party arriving in Cape Town on 6th February 1835. They were instructed to keep a daily journal for submission to the Board. Delayed by act of war they only arrived in Port Natal on 21st December. Champion's diary starts on this date. Dingane was not a trustworthy person and his attitude to the missionaries changed continually. Champion's diary is a valuable personal insight into Dingane's despotic rule.

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Book number: 19625

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Champion, George. (Ed. Alan R. Booth).

Journal of the Rev. George Champion. American Missionary in Zululand 1835-9.

C. Struik. Cape Town 1967 1st edition. Sea-green cloth boards. 149pp illustrated 8vo. 0.4kg. Bookplate to front pastedown and gift inscription to ffep. else a conservatively VG copy in Good dustwrapper (spine tanned, some minor wear, no loss or tears). a good clean copy. George Champion was one of a party dispatched by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (in 1834?) to start a mission near Port Natal, the party arriving in Cape Town on 6th February 1835. They were instructed to keep a daily journal for submission to the Board. Delayed by act of war they only arrived in Port Natal on 21st December 1835. Champion's diary starts on this date. Dingane was never a trustworthy person and his attitude to the missionaries changed almost daily. Champion's diary is a valuable personal insight into Dingane's despotic rule.

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Book number: 26395

Keywords: zulu zooloes zoolah missionary natal american board of commissioners for foreign missions africa african south southern

Changuion, Louis.

The Biddulph Family of South Africa 1820-2020.

Pennefather Books. Haenertsburg 2020. Bicenternnial British Settlers Edition 1820-2020. Printed glossy boards. 390pp illustrated colour and b/w plates. A4 format, 1.9kg. A Mint copy. ISBN: 9780620871471 Signed by Author on title page. Copy No.78 of 100. Published in commemoration of the Bicentennial of the arrival of the Biddulph family with the 1820 British Settlers in South Africa. Provides a background to the history of the Biddulphs and how they came to South Africa. Provides details of the two main streams of the family and other relevant information. Profusely illustrated, a detailed and attractively produced small-run family history.

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Book number: 28277

Keywords: biography autobiography biddulph family history eighteen twenty 1820 british settlers south southern africa african

Chapman, James. (Comp. Y. Baws).

Index to "Travels in the Interior" By James Chapman.

Johannesburg Public Library 1964. Roneo reproduced production, 155pp stapled small 8vo 0.6kg. Newly bound with endpapers in blue textured vynide. A very comprehensive index of names, places, &c to Parts 1 & 2 of the 1868 Bell & Daldy edition.

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Book number: 2749

Keywords: travel exploration south southern africa african james chapman

Chapman-Huston, Desmond. & Cripps, Ernest C.

Through a City Archway. The Story of Allen and Hanburys 1715-1954.

John Murray. 1954 1st edition. Blue cloth boards. 326pp illustrated 8vo 0.7kg. Inscription. a good clean sound reading copy. no dustwrapper.

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Book number: 12494

Keywords: company history

Charteris, Leslie.

The Saint Closes the Case. (the Last Hero). .

Hodder & Stoughton Yellow Jacket. London 19th imp. 1950. Brown cloth boards. 288pp 8vo. No inscription. G clean copy in dustwrapper (spine faded to white, some stains lower spine, repaired chipped tail of spine, no loss or tears. no. '3' written on spine). scan on request. Third book in the Saint series.

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Book number: 16197

Keywords: detective fiction

Chater, Chater Paul. (Ed. Michael Glover).

An Assemblage of Indian Army Soldiers & Uniforms. From the Original Paintings By the Late Chater Paul Chater.

Perpetua Press. London 1973 1st edition. Milk chocolate cloth boards, xxvii + 33pp + 36 plates with text on facing page. No inscription, 4 square corners. a VG+ copy in Good only dustwrapper (heavily chipped with some closed tears along top edge, no major loss). ISBN: 9780903070041 Indian Army Soldiers & Uniforms contains the original, unpublished watercolour paintings by Chater.

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Book number: 27502

Keywords: military india

Cheater, Angela P.

Social Anthropology. (an Alternative Introduction).

Unwin Hyman 1989 2nd edition. 312pp softcover. Owners signature ffep. front wrap softly creased, hence VG condition only. very clean. ISBN: 0044453590

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Book number: 24262

Keywords: social anthropology

Cheeseman, Thomas. (Rev).

The Story of William Threlfall, Missionary Martyr of Namaqualand, with Some Account of Jacob Links and Johannes Jager Who Fell with Him.

Methodist Publishing Office & Book Room 1910. Rebound gilt in red vynide, new endpapers. 164pp illustrate large 8vo. Binding as new. ff tanned. overall VG+ condition. A member of the Weslyan Methodist Society, Threlfall arrived in the Cape in 1822. He served for a year under the Rev. William Shaw in the Albany District, Eastern Cape before proceeding to Delagoa Bay via Cape Town. Moving to Namaqualand in 1824 he was stationed at Leliefontein. Moving north in 1825 their guides murdered his party thus ending the mission at that point. William Threlfall’s life ended at age twenty-six. He did not leave any organized mission stations, churches, or educational centres which he could claim to have founded, nevertheless the mission station later established at Delagoa Bay bore his name. A memorial was erected on the farm Allgemeine Zeitung, Windhoek, Namibia, on September 14, 1987.

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Book number: 24140

Keywords: missionary south southern africa african weslyan mission kamiesberg little namaqualand hollowforth silverfontein nisbet bath delagoa bay leliefontein

Chidester, David.

Religions of South Africa.

Routledge 1992. same as later isbn 9781138791183. 286pp softcover. Owners signature ffep. a VG-Fine bright unread copy. ISBN: 9780415047807 Explores the religious diversity of South Africa, organizing it into a single coherent narrative and providing the first comparative study and introduction to the topic. David Chidester emphasizes the fact that the complex distinctive character of South African religious life has taken shape with a particular economic, social and political context, and pays special attention to the creativity of people who have suffered under conquest, colonialism and apartheid. With an overview of African traditional religion, Christian missions, and African innovations during the nineteenth century, this reissue will be of great value to students of religious studies, South African history, anthropology, sociology, and political studies.

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Book number: 24298

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Child, John.

Australian Sea Shells.

Cheshire-Landsdowne 1968 reprint. Printed wraps. 80pp illus cold.plates & b/w drawings. A little rubbed on edges hence near VG condition. Bookplate of J.L.B. & M.M. Smith inside front wrap.

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Book number: 20847

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Chirwa, Ephraim. & Dorward, Andrew.

Agricultural Input Subsidies. The Recent Malawi Experience.

Oxford University Press 2013 1st edition. 298pp softcover 8vo. Library stamp ffep else VG+ condition, probably unread. ISBN: 9780198705819 Agricultural subsidies have been adopted on a large scale across different African countries in the last few years. Drawing on their involvement in Malawi over many years and utilising a wide range of information sources the authors provide a detailed analysis of the historical, political, and agro-economic context of the programme. A review of current thinking on the potential of such subsidies and new 'smart' approaches in low-income African countries.

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Book number: 25612

Keywords: agriculture africa african southern malawi