Strauss & co - 11 June 2012, Johannesburg

15 Furniture stamps tipped onto front free endpaper; and Viney, Graham and Proust, Alain, Colonial Houses of South Africa , Cape Town: Struik- Winchester, 1987, illustrations, 4to, cloth, dustjacket with matching slipcase, signed by photographer Alain Proust (3) R1 000–1 200 14 Baraitser, Michael and Obholzer, Anton Town Furniture of the Cape Cape Town: Struik, 1987, illustrations, 4to, cloth, dustjacket, minor stains on endpapers; and Atmore, M.G., Cape Furniture , Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1965, illustrations, 4to, hardback, dustjacket, minor foxing (page edges, dustjacket and endpapers), dustjacket with plastic protective covering (2) R600–800 15 Barnard, Lady Anne South Africa a Century ago (1797–1801) Cape Town: MaskewMiller, n.d. [1926], illustrations, 8vo, rebound in half leather and cloth with gilt-tooled spine, corners rubbed and worn, some staining; and Thom, H.B. (ed.), Journal of Van Riebeeck , Cape Town: Balkema for The Van Riebeeck Society, 1952–1958, 3 vols, illustrations and maps, 4to, cloth, top edges tinted, covers rubbed and stained, all plates present, some foxing (4) R500–700 16 Barrow, John An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa, Volume 2 London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804, folding frontispiece, 7 folding charts, 1 folding plan, 4to, half leather and marbled paper, marbled paper rubbed, endpapers and first and final few pages foxed R800–1 000 17 Battiss, Walter Limpopo Pretoria: Van Schaik, 1965, illustrations, 4to, cloth, dustjacket, dustjacket edges scuffed and front flap with foldmarks R1 000–1 500 18 Bekker, Martin The Art of Alexander Rose-Innes Cape Town: Perskor, 1991 , illustrations, 4to, hardback, no dustjacket and cover worn, binding shaken, inside back cover damaged; and Meintjes, Johannes, Maggie Laubser , Cape Town: H.A.U.M., 1944, illustrations, 4to, cloth, dustjacket, dustjacket torn and repaired, cover stained, foxing and staining of first and final few pages (2) R800–1 000 19 Bekker, Martin Gregoire Boonzaier Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1990 , illustrations, 4to, laminated hardback, cover lower edges worn, front free endpaper missing; and Buncher, Richard, Tretchikoff, Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1950, illustrations, folio, ring-bound pages with hard cover, Plates 29 and 30 missing, foxed and time-stained, some pages with offset, spine a little damaged at base (2) R1 000–1 500 20 Bell, David (ed.) Pall Mall Encyclopaedia of Art London: Pall Mall Press, 1971, Vols 1–5, illustrations, 4to, linen cloth, owner bookplates on endpapers (5) R700–800 21 Bouman, A.C. Kuns in Suid-Afrika Cape Town: H.A.U.M., 1938, 2 ed., illustrations, 8vo, hardback, dustjacket, inscribed on front free endpaper: ‘Cecil Higgs with compliments from the author’, foxed and a little stained, spine with small tear, dustjacket worn; Bouman, A.C., Kuns en Kunswaardering , Pretoria: Van Schaik, 1942 , illustrations, 8vo, cloth, spine torn and loose; Gordon-Brown, A., Pictorial Art in South Africa During Three Centuries to 1875 , London: Chas J. Sawyer, 1952, illustrations, 4to, cloth, minor foxing, cover stained and spine chewed at base; Yntema, Elisabeth (comp.), South African Painting and Sculpture: Catalogue , Cape Town: South African National Gallery, 1970, illustrations, 8vo, paperback, title-page stained; Beck, Hilary and Bull, Marjorie (comps), South African Prints and Drawings: Catalogue , Cape Town: South African National Gallery, 1971, illustrations, 8vo, paperback; Bax, D. (comp.), Catalogue of the Michaelis Collection , The Old Town House, Cape Town , Cape Town: [Michaelis Collection], 1967, illustrations, 8vo, paperback, cover bent; Fransen, Hans (comp.), Michaelis Collection, The Old Town House, Cape Town , Zwolle: Waanders, 1996, illustrations, 4to, paperback; and 23 other exhibition catalogues and associated texts, including items on artists such as J.H. Pierneef, Cecil Higgs and Christo Coetzee (30) R600–800 22 Berman, Esmé Art & Artists of South Africa: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary and Historical Survey of Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists Since 1875 Halfway House: Southern, 1983, 2 ed., illustrations, 4to, cloth, dustjacket, binding a little shaken, dustjacket with plastic protective covering R1 000–2 000 23 Berman, Esmé Paintings in South Africa Halfway House, Southern, 1993, illustrations, 4to, hardback, dustjacket; dustjacket a little worn R300–350 24 Berman, Esmé and Nel, Karel Alexis Preller: Africa, the Sun and Shadows; Collected Images Johannesburg: Shelf Publishing, 2009, illustrations, 4to, 2 vols in slipcase with book divider, paperbacks; and Berman, Esmé, Alexis Preller: Africa, the Sun and Shadows; A Visual Biography , Johannesburg: Pan Macmillan and Shelf Publishing, 2010, illustrations, 4to, paperback (3) R800–1 000 25 Berman, Esmé and Werth, Albert Alexis Preller Retrospective, Oct 24– Nov 26 1972 Pretoria Art Museum, 1972, illustrations, 4to, paperback, signed by the artist, cover rubbed and marked R400–500 26 Bird, John The Annals of Natal, 1495 to 1845 Pietermaritzburg: P. Davis, 1888, Vols 1 and 2, 8vo, cloth, covers worn, Vol. 1 shaken and front cover torn at hinge, corners bumped, owner bookplates (designed by W.H. Coetzer) on front inner boards, both vols signed on front endpapers by W.H. Coetzer and dated 28/9/37, minor time-staining (2) R1 000–2 500