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Tommy Cornstalk: Being some account of the less notable features of the South African war from the point of view of the Australian ranks [London] 1902 Longmans, Green, and Co.
Narrative of a journey in the interior of China, and of a voyage to and from that country, in the years 1816 and 1817; containing an account of the most interesting transactions of Lord Amherst’s embassy to the court of Pekin, and observations on the countries which it visited London 1818 Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
ADA see Art, Design, Architecture (ADA)
The narrative of Private Buck Adams [written 1884] edited by A. Gordon-Brown Cape Town 1941 Van Riebeeck Society (No. 22)
An eulogy on Dr Alexander Cowie and Mr Benjamin Green; who lost their lives on their return from Delagoa Bay to Graham’s Town Graham’s Town 1830
Under the Southern Cross: Short stories from South Africa Johannesburg 1988
Africa Contemporary Record: Annual Survey and Documents Volume XIX (1986–7) London 1988 Africana Publishing Co.
Africa Research Bulletin Exeter, England 1964–1985 Africa Research, Ltd. (Political, Social & Cultural Series)
(The) African court calendar (and directory) Cape Town 1801; 1807–1826 (continued by The South African almanac(k) and directory)
African Drum see Drum
The African Monthly: A magazine devoted to literature, history, exploration, science, art, poetry, fiction, &c. Grahamstown 1906–1910 African Book Company, Ltd.
The Agricultural Journal of the Cape of Good Hope Cape Town 1888–1910 (until 1903 with title (The) Agricultural Journal; continued by The Agricultural Journal of the Union of South Africa)
The Agricultural Journal of the Union of South Africa Pretoria 1911–1914 Department of Agriculture (continuation of The Agricultural Journal of the Cape of Good Hope, The Natal Agricultural Journal and The Transvaal Agricultural Journal)
Hortus Kewensis; or, a catalogue of the plants cultivated in the Royal botanic garden at Kew 3 volumes London 1789 George Nicol
2nd edition enlarged by William Townsend Aiton (son of William Aiton) 5 volumes London 1813 Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
An expedition of discovery into the interior of Africa, through the hitherto undescribed countries of the Great Namaquas, Boschmans and Hill Damaras 2 volumes London 1838 Henry Colburn
American Journal of Physical Anthropology Philadelphia 1918– The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology
South African Balloons: A skit on the boom Johannesburg 1895 Argus Printing & Publishing Co.
reprint Pretoria 1982 The State Library (No. 92)
Lake Ngami, or, Explorations and discoveries during four years’ wanderings in the wilds of Southwestern Africa New York 1856 Harper & Brothers
London 1856 Hurst & Blackett
In the early days: The reminiscences of pioneer life on the South African diamond fields Kimberley 1910 Handel House
Voyages and travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt, in the years 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806 3 volumes London 1809
The annual of the Mountain Club of South Africa (title varies as Mountain Club Annual) Cape Town 1894– Mountain Club of South Africa
The annual register of world events: A review of the year London 1894–1974 Longmans (title varies as The Annual Register: A review of public events at home and abroad)
Appleton’s annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year 1902 New York 1903 D. Appleton & Co.
The Kafir language: Comprising a sketch of its history; which includes a general classification of South African dialects, ethnographical and geographical: Remarks upon it’s nature: And a grammar King William’s Town 1850 Wesleyan Missionary Society
Narrative of a voyage round the world, in the Uranie and Physicienne corvettes, commanded by Captain Freycinet, during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820 London 1823 Treuttel and Wurtz, Treuttel, Jun. and Richter
Narrative of an exploratory tour to the north-east of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope (translated from French by J.C. Brown) Cape Town 1846 A.S. Robertson
another edition London 1852 John C. Bishop
Area handbook for the Republic of South Africa Washington 1971 Foreign Area Studies, American University
The Argus annual and Cape of Good Hope directory… Cape Town 1888–1897 (continuation of The general directory and guide book to the Cape of Good Hope; title varies)
The “Argus” annual and South African directory, with a map showing all the postal routes Cape Town 1889 Argus Printing & Publishing Co., Ltd.
As a matter of fact: The gold and uranium industries Johannesburg 1955 The Transvaal and Orange Free State Chamber of Mines (PRD Series: No. 55)
A trip to Boërland, or a year’s travel, sport, and gold-digging in the Transvaal and Colony of Natal London 1879 Richard Bentley and Son
Six months in Cape Colony and Natal and one month in Tenerife and Madeira London 1886 Kegan Paul, Trench
The diary of G.F. Austen: My experiences in Potchefstroom during the First Boer War 1880–1881 Roodepoort 1981 Cum Books (Human Sciences Research Council, Source Publication No. 73)
Journal. 1821–1830 Typescript. Private collection
History of the Abambo: Generally known as Fingos Butterworth 1912 Gazette
facsimile reprint Cape Town 1962
The Transvaal of today: War, witchcraft, sport and spoils in South Africa Edinburgh 1878 William Blackwood
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The South African diamond fields New York 1872 David Wesley & Co.
facsimile reprint with added index Kimberley 1976 Historical Society of Kimberley and the Northern Cape
The Matabele Campaign 1896: Being a narrative of the campaign in suppressing the native rising in Matabeleland and Mashonaland [written 1896] London 1897 Methuen
Letter from Bagley to his mother in Bloemfontein, written from Kimberley during Anglo-Boer War. a1902 Private collection
Cyclopedia of American horticulture: Comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches 4 volumes London 1901 Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
Journals of Andrew Geddes Bain: Trader, explorer, soldier, road engineer and geologist [written 1826, 1829, 1835, 1836, 1838, & 1846] edited by M.H. Lister Cape Town 1949 Van Riebeeck Society (No. 30)
Explorations in South-West Africa. Being an account of a journey in the years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch Bay, on the western coast, to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls London 1864 Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green
facsimile reprint Salisbury, Rhodesia [Harare, Zimbabwe] 1973
Journal of residence in Africa 1842–53 [written 1850–53] edited by R.F. Kennedy Cape Town 1964 Vol 1 written 1842–1849, publ. 1961; Vol II written 1850–53, publ. 1964 Van Riebeeck Society (Nos 42 and 45)
African hunting from Natal to the Zambesi, including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert, etc., from 1852 to 1860 2nd edition London 1863 Richard Bentley
2nd edition (facsimile reprint) Bulawayo, Zimbabwe 1981 Books of Zimbabwe
3rd edition London 1894 Richard Bentley & Son
Journal…during Captain Cook’s first voyage in H.M.S. Endeavour in 1768–71 to Terra Del Fuego, Otahite, New Zealand, Australia, The Dutch East Indies, etc. edited by Sir Joseph D. Hooker London 1896 Macmillan and Co., Ltd.
(The) Bantu World see World
Cape country furniture: A pictorial survey of regional styles, materials and techniques in the Cape Province of South Africa Cape Town 1971 A.A. Balkema
2nd edition Cape Town 1978 C. Struik
Among Boers & Basutos: And with Barkly’s horse, the story of our life on the Frontier London 1893 Remington
revised edition (extended) Westminster [1896] Roxburghe Press
The letters of Lady Anne Barnard to Henry Dundas: From the Cape and elsewhere, 1793–1803, together with her journal of a tour into the interior and certain other letters edited by A.M.L. Robinson Cape Town 1973 A.A. Balkema
The “colonial household guide” Cape Town 1889 Darter Bros. & Co.
The South African household guide: Containing practical hints on plain cooking, with recipes; useful general hints; medical advice to mothers, etc.; household work; notes for farmers…to which have been added special articles on hygiene, physical culture, dairying, gardening, and poultry edited by Allerley Glossop 5th edition revised and enlarged Cape Town 1913 Darter Bros. & Co.
An account of a voyage to New South Wales London 1803 M. Jones
another edition London 1810 M. Jones
reprint (of 1810) Turnhout, Belgium 1984 Time-Life Books
An auto-biographical memoir of Sir John Barrow, Bart., late of the Admiralty; including reflections, observations and reminiscences at home and abroad, from early life to advanced age London 1847 John Murray
Travels into the interior of Southern Africa, in which are described the character and the condition of the Dutch colonists of the Cape of Good Hope and of the several tribes of natives beyond its limits 2 volumes London 1801–1804 Cadell & Davies
2nd edition 2 volumes London 1806 Cadell & Davies
A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793…to which is annexed an account of a journey made in the years 1801 and 1802, to the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nation, being the remotest point in the interior of Southern Africa to which Europeans have hitherto penetrated. London 1806 T. Cadell & W. Davies
A voyage to the East Indies: containing an account of the manners, customs, &c. of the natives with a geographical description of the country (translated by W. Johnston, with notes and illustrations by J.R. Forster) London 1800 J. Davis
Precious stones: A popular account of their characters, occurrence and applications, with an introduction to their determination, for mineralogists lapidaries, jewellers, etc. (translated by L.J. Spencer) London 1904 Charles Griffin and Company, Ltd.
The aftermath of war: An account of the repatriation of Boers and natives in the Orange River Colony 1902–1904 London 1906 Edward Arnold
Pambaniso: A Kaffir hero, or scenes from savage life. An Historical Kaffir tale. Cape Town 1891 Juta
Meet the Cape wines Cape Town 1955 Purnell & Sons
2nd revised edition Cape Town 1966 Purnell & Sons (S.A.) Pty. Ltd
Kalahari camp fires: Retold from the manuscript of A.S. Poultney, pioneer Durban 1941 Knox
2nd edition Durban 1943
The grand old days of the diamond fields: Memories of past times with the diggers of Diamondia Cape Town [a1935] Maskew Miller
Before his Majesty in Council. Cape of Good Hope. Between William Brown Master, and Andrew Spooner, supercargo of the American ship, the Five Brothers, Appellants, and Willem Stephanus van Ryneveld, Ex Officio, Attorney-General, Respondent. Appendix to the Respondent’s case. 1796 National Library of SA (Special Collections) BRO 343.1 AQ
Education in South Africa Pretoria 1966 J.L. van Schaik Ltd.
2nd edition Pretoria 1971 J.L. van Schaik Ltd.
(editor) Norman’s law of purchase and sale in South Africa 2nd edition Johannesburg 1939 Hortors
3rd edition Durban 1961 Butterworths
4th edition Durban 1972 Butterworths
Bygone days: Being reminiscences of pioneer life in the Cape Colony and the Transvaal London 1933 H.F. & G. Witterby
(editor) The Transvaal war 1880–1881 Edinburgh 1885 William Blackwood & Sons
facsimile reprint Cape Town 1972 C. Struik
The African patriots: The story of the African National Congress of South Africa London 1963 Faber & Faber
The ruined cities of Mashonaland: Being a record of excavation and exploration in 1891 London 1892 Longmans, Green and Co.
2nd edition London 1888 Longmans, Green
The best of South African Short Stories edited by A. Turner Cape Town 1991 Reader’s Digest Association
Animal biography; or, anecdotes of the lives, manners, and economy, of the animal creation, arranged according to the system of Linnæus 3 volumes London 1803 R. Phillips
(editor) Annals of Natal 1495–1845 2 volumes Cape Town [1888] T. Maskew Miller
another edition 2 volumes Pietermaritzburg 1888 P. Davis & Sons
Birding in Southern Africa Johannesburg 1989– Southern African Ornithological Society (continuation of Bokmakierie)
Sport and war: Or recollections of fighting and hunting in South Africa from the years 1834 to 1867, with a narrative of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh’s visit to the Cape London 1875 John Murray
Black’s veterinary dictionary edited by William C. Miller & Geoffrey Philip West 3rd edition London 1953 Adam & Charles Black
edited by Geoffrey Philip West 11th edition London 1975 Adam & Charles Black
A Bushman dictionary New Haven, U.S.A. 1956 American Oriental Society (Americal Oriental Series: Vol. 41)
A thousand million pounds for us or Germany? The gold of the far east Rand Johannesburg 1917 Bleloch & O’Flaherty
A voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty’s ship The Bounty London 1792 George Nicol
Blue Book for Colony see Colony of the Cape of Good Hope 1866
Blueprint for blackout: A commentary on the education policy of the Instituut vir Christelik-Nationale Onderwys Johannesburg 1949 Education League
2nd revised edition Johannesburg 1949 Education League
Farewell to innocence: A social-ethical study of black theology and black power Johannesburg 1976 Ravan Press
Dictionary, grammar and phrase book of Fanagalo (Kitchen Kafir) 4th revised edition [Johannesburg] 1957 Central News Agency (first publ. 1951)
7th edition (with title Phrase-book, grammar and dictionary of Fanagalo) Johannesburg 1968 Hugh Keartland (Publishers)
15th edition (with title Fanagalo Phrase-book, grammar, dictionary) Johannesburg 1990 J.L. van Schaik
Land and sea birds of the South-West Cape: A quick reference guide containing descriptions of all the birds of the area, with notes on their habits and every device for rapid identification Cape Town 1931 Specialty Press
Notes on Mesembrianthemum and some allied genera with descriptions of a hundred new species Cape Town 1928 Specialty Press
The orchids of the Cape Peninsula Cape Town 1888 offprint from the Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society
A book of common prayer and administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the church together with the form and manner of making, ordaining and consecrating of bishops, priests and deacons; set forth by authority for use in the Church of the Province of South Africa London 1967 Oxford University Press First publ. 1954, 10th impression 1967, 9th impression (1965) says "President" not "State President"
(editor) South African keywords: The uses and abuses of political concepts Cape Town 1988 David Philip
More tales of South Africa: An anthology of South African short stories Cape Town 1967 Howard Timmins
An auto-biographical memoir of Petrus Borchardus Borcherds, late civil commission of Cape division and resident Magistrate for Cape Town and district thereof, and Cape district: Being a plain narrative of occurrences from early life to advanced age, chiefly intended for his children and descendants, countrymen and friends Cape Town 1861 A.S. Robertson
facsimile reprint Cape Town 1963 Africana Connoisseurs Press
(editor) Veld-trails and pavements: An anthology of South Arican short stories Johannesburg 1949 Afrikanse Pers-Boekhandel
another edition Johannesburg 1952 Afrikanse Pers-Boekhandel
Our South Africa past and present: A graphic and entertaining story dealing with men and matters concerning South Africa from its first discovery by the great Portuguese navigators up to the present day Cape Town 1938 United Tobacco Cos. (South) Limited (cigarette cards)
(editor) Bottom fishing in Cape waters: A collection of hints for the guidance of the amateur, and particularly applicable to Hermanus Cape Town 1917 Maskew Miller
(editor) Infantry in South Africa 1652–1976 Pretoria 1977 Documentation Service, South African Defence Force
Wood: A manual of the natural history and industrial applications of the timbers of commerce London 1902 Edward Arnold
Speeches, letters, and selections from important papers of the late John Mitford Bowker: Some years Resident and Diplomatic Agent with certain Kafir and Fingo tribes Grahamstown 1864 Godlonton & Richards
Notes on South-African Affairs, from 1834 to 1838; with reference to the civil, political and religious conditions, of the colonists and aborigines Grahamstown 1838 Aldum and Harvey
London 1839 J. Mason
The early Cape Muslims: A study of their mosques, genealogy and origins Foreword by Achmat Davids Cape Town 1978 A.A. Balkema
A dictionary of science, literature, & art: comprising the definitions and derivations of the scientific terms in general use, together with the history and descriptions of the scientific principles of nearly every branch of human knowledge. 3 volumes London 1866 Longmans, Green and Co.
A dictionary of South African English Cape Town 1978 Oxford University Press
new edition 1980 Oxford University Press
3rd revised edition 1987
4th edition edited by J. & W. Branford 1991
The elements of English: An introduction to the principles of the study of language London 1967 Routledge & Kegan Paul
‘Sunny fountains’ and ‘golden sand’: Pictures of missionary life in the south of the ‘dark continent’ London 1888 T. Woolmer
Widnes, Cheshire 2004 Teasdale Brown
The journal of Carel Frederik Brink of the journey into Great Namaqualand (1761–62) made by Captain Hendrik Hop, and, The journal of Ensign Johannes Tobias Rhenius (1724) (translated by E.E. Mossop) Cape Town 1947 Van Riebeeck Society (No. 28)
Children of resistance: Statement from the Harare conference on children, repression, and the law in apartheid South Africa London 1988 Kliptown Books
The India guide: Or, Journal of a voyage to the East Indies, in the year MDCCLXXX, in a poetical epistle to her mother Calcutta 1785 George Gordon
The history of native policy in South Africa from 1830 to the present day Cape Town 1924 Nasionale Pers
Natal; a history and description of the Colony, including its natural features, productions, industrial condition and prospects London 1876 L. Reeve & Co.
A history of scientific endeavour in South Africa: A collection of essays published on the occasion of the centenary of the Royal Society of South Africa Cape Town 1977 Royal Society of South Africa
(editor) Management of Crown forests at the Cape of Good Hope under the old regime and under the new Edinburgh 1887 Oliver & Boyd
see Before his Majesty in Council. Cape of Good Hope. Between William Brown Master, and Andrew Spooner, supercargo of the American ship, the Five Brothers, Appellants, and Willem Stephanus van Ryneveld, Ex Officio, Attorney-General, Respondent. Appendix to the Respondent’s case
(editor) On the South African frontier: The adventures and observations of an American in Mashonaland and Matabeleland London 1899 Sampson Low, Marston & Co.
(editor) Fighting & Farming in South Africa: A narrative of personal experiences in the Colony during the years 1877–9–9 London 1880 Remington & Co.
Brown’s ‘South Africa’: A practical and complete guide for the use of tourists, sportsmen, invalids, and settlers London 1893 Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.
An abridged English-Zulu word-book Pinetown 1949
Impressions of South Africa London 1897 Macmillan
2nd edition London 1898 Macmillan
3rd revised edition London 1899 Macmillan
Animals of Africa London 1900 Sands & Co.
(editor) Great and small game of Africa: An account of the distribution, habits, and natural history of the sporting mammals, with personal hunting experiences London 1899 Rowland Ward
Gun and camera in Southern Africa: A year of wandering in Bechuanaland, the Kalahari Desert, and the Lake River Country, Ngamiland with notes on colonisation, natives, natural history and sport London 1893 E. Stanford
A history of South Africa: From the first settlement by the Dutch, 1652, to the year 1903 London 1904 William Sands
Kloof and Karroo: Sport, legend, and natural history in Cape Colony, with a notice of the game birds, and of the present distribution of the antelopes and larger game London 1889 Longmans, Green
(editor) Peddie — settlers’ outpost by Donald, Kirby et al. Grahamstown [1960] Grocott & Sherry issued by the 1820 Settlers’ Commemoration Committee of Grahamstown to mark the fifth annual pilgrimage on 5th September, 1960
Journal of a residence at the Cape of Good Hope; with excursions into the interior, and notes on the natural history, and the native tribes London 1848 John Murray
(editor) From South Africa: New writing, photographs, and art Evanston, Ill. 1987 NorthWestern University Press
Chicago 1988 University of Chicago Press
Travels in the interior of Southern Africa 2 volumes London 1822–1824 Vol I: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown; Vol II: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green
reprint 2 volumes London 1953 Batchwork Press
(editor) Growing up in a divided society: The contexts of childhood in South Africa Johannesburg 1986 Ravan Press
A reply to the ‘Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry at the Cape of Good Hope’, upon the complaints addressed to the Colonial Government and to the Earl Bathurst [written 1826] London 1827
Travels in the wilds of Africa: Being the diary of a young scientific assistant who accompanied Sir Andrew Smith in the expedition of 1834–36 edited by P.R. Kirby Cape Town 1971 A.A. Balkema
A history of medicine in South Africa up to the end of the nineteenth century Cape Town 1958 Balkema
Cape Colony for the settler: An account of its urban and rural industries, their probable future development and extension London 1903 P.S. King & Son
Maize: Its history, cultivation, handling and uses London 1914
Left-radical movements in South Africa and Namibia, 1900–1981: A bibliographical and historical study Cape Town 1986 South African Library
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Caffres and Caffre missions: With preliminary chapters on the Cape Colony as a field for emigration, and basis of missionary operation London 1858 J. Nisbet
The fellowship of the veld: Sketches of native life in South Africa London 1926 The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
The religious system of the Amazulu: Izinyanga Zokubula or, divination, as existing among the Amazulu in their own words, with a translation into English, and notes Springvale, Natal 1870 John A. Blair (originally issued in parts)
(editor) The South African way of life: Values and ideals of a multi-racial society New York 1953 William Heinemann Ltd.
The Cambridge history of the British Empire Volume VIII: South Africa, Rhodesia and the Protectorates 8 volumes Cambridge, U.K. 1936 Cambridge University Press
The Echo: a literary, scientific and critical magazine see The Echo: A literary, scientific and critical magazine
A Journey to Lattakoo, in South Africa 3rd edition London 1840 The Religious Tract Society
(editor) Voorslag: A magazine of South African life and art facsimile reprint of numbers 1, 2 and 3 (1926) Pietermaritzburg & Durban 1985 University of Natal Press & Killie Campbell Africana Library (Killie Campbell Africana Library Reprint Series: No. 5)
(editor) Natal coast gardening: With special reference to tropical and sub-tropical plants Durban 1968 Durban & Coast Horticultural Society
Cape Illustrated Magazine Cape Town 1890–1900 Dennis Edwards (continued by The South African Illustrated Magazine)
The Cape Law Journal Grahamstown 1884–1900 Richards, Slater, & Co. (continued by The South African Law Journal)
The Cape Mercury and Weekly Magazine see Cape Town Weekly Magazine
The Cape Monthly Magazine 11 volumes Cape Town 1857–1862; new series 18 vols 1870–79; new series 4 vols 1879–81
Cape of Good Hope Agricultural Journal see The Agricultural Journal of the Cape of Good Hope
The Cape of Good Hope almanac and annual register Cape Town 1837–1863 (continuation of The South African almanac(k) and directory; title varies; continued by The Cape Town directory)
Cape of Good Hope Annexures to Votes and Proceedings Cape Town 1853– (quotations taken from, inter alia, Report by the Deputy Surveyor-General, dated 6th July, 1854, upon the nature and progress of His Excellency Sir George Cathcart’s plan for the Settlement of the Eastern Frontier, Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee of the Honourable the House of Assembly, appointed on the 8th August, 1854, to inquire into the existing Pound Regulations, on the Petition of certain inhabitants of Wellington and others, Copy of Despatch, dated 17th April, 1953, from His Excellency Sir George Cathcart to the Secretary of State, upon the subject of the Kafir Police, Report from the Select Committee of the House of Assembly upon, and documents connected with, the Robben Island Establishment,Wines and Spirits. Proceedings of, and documents relative to, the working of the Ordinance No. 9, of 20th December, 1851.)
Cape of Good Hope Government Gazette Cape Town 1826–1910 (continuation of Cape Town Gazette, and African Advertiser)
see also Government Gazette/Staatskoerant
Cape Statutes see Statute law of the Cape of Good Hope, comprising the placaats, proclamations and ordinances, enacted before the establishment of the colonial parliament and still wholly or in part in force
The ‘Cape Times’ South African ‘Inquire within’ for households see The South African ‘Inquire within’ for households
The Cape Town directory Cape Town 1865–1868 (continuation of The Cape of Good Hope almanac and annual register; title varies; continued byThe general directory and guide book to the Cape of Good Hope)
Cape Town Gazette, and African Advertiser Cape Town 1800–1826 (continued by Cape of Good Hope Government Gazette)
Cape Town Weekly Magazine Cape Town 1859 (from Apr. with title The Cape Mercury and Weekly Magazine)
At home in the Transvaal 2 volumes London 1884 W. Swan Sonnenschein
new edition London 1896 Ward & Downey
The study of language: A survey of inguistics and realted disciplines in America Cambridge, Mass. 1953 Harvard University Press
The social structure of a Cape Coloured reserve: A study of racial integration and segregation in South Africa Cape Town 1966 Oxford University Press
A narrative of the loss of the Grosvenor East Indiaman, which was wrecked on the coast of Caffraria, somewhere between the 27th and 32nd degrees of southern latitude, on the 4th of August, 1782: Compiled from the examination of John Hynes, one of the unfortunate survivors… London 1791 J. Murray & William Lane
By the waters of the Letaba: A history of the Transvaal Lowveld, a land of adventure Cape Town 1974 Purnell
The dialect of Jeremiah Goldswain, Albany settler Inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Cape Town Cape Town 1955 Oxford University Press
Brutal force: The apartheid war machine London 1986 International Defence & Aid Fund for Southern Africa
Fifteen South African high forest timber trees Oxford 1935 Oxford University Press 3rd vol. of Forest Trees and Timbers of the British Empire
Journal of an American Missionary in the Cape Colony 1835 edited by Alan R. Booth Cape Town 1968 South African Library
Introduction to parasitology: With special reference to the parasites of man 4th impression (1947) New York 1944 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Travels in the interior of South Africa, comprising fifteen years’ hunting and trading; with journeys across the continent from Natal to Walvisch Bay, and visits to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls 2 volumes London 1868 Bell & Daldy
The Cape of Good Hope and the Eastern Province of Algoa Bay edited by J.S. Christophers London 1843 Pelham, Richardson
facsimile reprint Cape Town 1967 C. Struik (Africana Collectanea: Vol. 25)
(editor) The story of William Threlfall, missionary martyr of Namaqualand: With some account of Jacob Links and Johannes Jager who fell with him Cape Town 1910 Methodist Publishing Office
(editor) A merchant family in early Natal: Diaries and letters of Joseph and Marianne Churchill 1850 to 1880, with a narrative of pioneering travels to Potchefstroom and the Soutpansberg Cape Town 1979 Balkema
Out of the crucible: Being the romantic story of the Witwatersrand goldfields; and of the great city which arose in their midst London 1929 Cassell & Co. Ltd.
Church and society: A testimony of the Dutch Reformed Church Bloemfontein 1987 General Synodical Commission
Clarion Call Benmore, Johannesburg Bureau of Communication, Department of the Chief Minister, Kwazulu
The autobiography of an old drifter: The life-story of Percy M. Clark of Victoria Falls London 1936 G.C. Harrap
African portraits: A biography of Paul Kruger, Cecil Rhodes and Lobengula, last King of the Matabele London 1946 Collins
see Report of W. Coates Palgrave, Esq., special commissioner to the tribes north of the Orange River, of his mission to Damaraland and Great Namaqualand in 1876
On the threshold of central Africa: A record of twenty years’ pioneering among the Barotsi of the upper Zambesi (translated by C.W. Mackintosh) London 1897 Hodder & Stoughton
The Cape and the Kafirs: Or notes of five years’ residence in South Africa London 1852 Richard Bentley
(editor) Maiden voyages and infant colonies : Two women’s travel narratives of the 1790s l London 1999 Leicester University Press
Letter. 1855 Killie Campbell Africana Library KCM48894
Colony of Natal Native Affairs Commission 1906–1907: Evidence (Chairman: H.C. Campbell) Pietermaritzburg 1907 P. Davis
Colony of the Cape of Good Hope 1866 Cape Town 1867 Cape of Good Hope [Note This text is referred to in quotations as Blue Book for the Colony 1866]
The Cape of adventure: Being strange and notable discoveries, perils, shipwrecks, battles upon sea and land, with pleasant and interesting observations upon the country and the natives of the Cape of Good Hope / extracted from the writings of early travellers London 1912 T.C. & E.C. Jack
Commission of inquiry into the structure and functioning of the courts (Chairman: G.G. Hoexter) 3 volumes [no place] 1983 Parl. Paper R.P.78-1983
Comprehensive Northern Sotho dictionary edited by D. Ziervogel & P.C. Mokgokong Pretoria 1975 J.L. Van Schaik
The concise Scots dictionary edited by M. Robinson et al. Aberdeen, Scotland 1985 Aberdeen University Press
The constitution and canons of the Church of the Province of South Africa: And other acts of the Provincial Synod Cape Town 1870 Willilam Foster
Contrast: South African quarterly Cape Town 1960– S.A. Literary Journal title changes to New Contrast
The Cape kitchen: A description of its position, lay-out, fittings and utensils [Stellenbosch] [1973] Stellenbosch Museum
The urbanization of African performing arts in South Africa. 1980 Doctoral thesis. Indiana University, U.S.A.
The glamour of prospecting: Wanderings of a South African prospector in search of copper, gold, emeralds, and diamonds London 1920 Fisher Unwin
The living animals of the world: A popular natural history: An interesting description of beasts, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., with authentic anecdotes 2 volumes London 1902 Hutchinson
The rise of South Africa; a history of the origin of South African colonisation and of its development towards the east from the earliest times to 1857 6 volumes London 1910–1940 Longmans Vol I 1910; Vol II 1913
The flowering plants of the Tsitsikama Forest and coastal national park Pretoria 1967 National Parks Board of the Republic of South Africa
(editor) The South African exhibition 1885: Lectures, prize and other essays, jury reports and awards Cape Town 1886 Argus Printing & Publishing Co.
Constitution-making for a democracy: An alternative to apartheid Johannesburg 1960 (issued as a supplement to Optima)
(editor) South African Despatches: Two centuries of the best in South African journalism Johannesburg 1989 Ashanti Publishing
Fire fountains: The kingdom of Hawaii, its volcanoes, and the history of its missions 2 volumes Edinburgh 1883 William Blackwood and Sons
Five years of a hunter’s life in the far interior of South Africa. With notices of the native 2 volumes London 1850 John Murray Also called A hunter’s life in South Africa, Five years’ hunting adventures or Five years’ adventures in the far interior of South Africa
The gold mines of the world containing concise and practical advice for investors gathered from a personal inspection of the mines of the Transvaal, India, West Australia, Queensland, New Zealand, British Columbia and Rhodesia London 1899 Waterlow
A threat to freedom [no place] [1949] Private Memorandum prepared at the request of the Standing Committee of the Associated South African Church Schools
An account of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, with a view to the information of emigrants London 1819 Rest Fenner
Curtis’s botanical magazine; or flower garden displayed London 1787– From 1787-1800 (Volumes 1-14) publ. by William Curtis, from 1801-1807 (Volumes 15-26) publ. by John Sims
A sketch of the modern languages of Africa: accompanied by a language map 2 volumes London 1883 Trübner & Co.
The animal kingdom: Arranged in conformity with its organization by the Baron Cuvier; with additional descriptions of all the species hitherto names, and of many not before noticed with additional descriptions by Edward Griffith and others London 1827 Geo. B. Whittaker
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Daily News Durban 1878– (with title Natal Mercantile Advertiser1878–9 July 1886, Natal Advertiser10 July 1886–5 Mar. 1887, The Natal Advertiser and South African Mining Journal7 Mar. 1887–Dec. 1894, and Natal Daily News Aug. 1937–24 Mar. 1962; absorbed Sunday Tribune1939–47; weekend edition Saturday News merged with Weekend Mercury to form Natal on Saturday)
Daily Representative Queenstown 1927–1978 (continuation of Queenstown Daily Representative and Border Chronicle)
Travels in the interior of Africa, from the Cape of Good Hope to Morocco, from the years 1781 to 1797; through Caffraria, the Kingdoms of Mataman, Angola, Massi, Monœmugi, Muschako, &c. likewise across the great desert of Sahara, and the northern parts of Barbary (translated from Damberger’s original German) 2 volumes London 1801 T.N. Longman & O. Rees
A new voyage round the world describing particularly, the isthmus of America, 4th edition London 1699 James Knapton
Sketches representing the native tribes, animals, and scenery of southern Africa London 1820 William Daniell
The Afrikaner Bond: The history of a South African political party, 1880–1911 Cape Town 1966 Oxford University PRess
The mosques of Bo-Kaap: A social history of Islam at the Cape Athlone 1980 South African Institute of Arabic and Islamic Research
Education and race relations in South Africa Johannesburg 1955 SA Institute of Race Relations (The Hoernlé Memorial Lecture 1955)
Cape Dutch houses and farms: Their architecture and history, together with a note on the rôle of Cecil John Rhodes in their preservation Cape Town 1953 A.A. Balkema
2nd edition 1964
3rd edition 1971
A voyage round the world. Performed by order of his most Christian majesty, in the years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769 by Lewis de Bougainville (translated from the French by J.R. Forster) London 1772 J. Nourse
facsimile reprint Amsterdam 1967 N. Israel (Bibliotheca Australiana: No. 12)
A woman’s wanderings and trials during the Anglo-Boer war, by Mrs General de la Rey (translated by Lucy Hotz) London 1903 T. Fisher Unwin
English-speaking South Africa today: Proceedings of the national conference July 1974l Cape Town 1976 Oxford University Press
Rivonia: Operation Mayibuye: A review of the Rivonia trial Johannesburg 1964 Afrikaanse Pers-Boekhandel
Democracy in action: Journal of the Institute for a Democratic South Africa Cape Town 1987–1998; 2002–2003 IDASA
The discarded people: An account of African resettlement Braamfontein [c1970] Christian Institute of S.A.
another edition Harmondsworth 1971 Penguin
The blue lizard and other stories of native life in South Africa Pretoria 1928 J.L. van Schaik, Ltd.
The concentration camps in South Africa during the Anglo-Boer war of 1899–1902 Pietermaritzburg 1941 Shuter & Shooter
Cornish immigrants to South Africa: The Cousin Jacks’ contribution to the development of mining and commerce, 1820–1920 Cape Town 1978 A.A. Balkema
A dictionary of American English on historical principles edited by W.A. Craigie & J.R. Hulbert 4 volumes Chicago 1938–1944
Dictionary of gardening: A practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture edited by Fred J. Chittenden 2 volumes (The Royal Horticultural Society) Oxford 1951 Oxford University Press
Dictionary of horticulture with plant names Pretoria 1991 [National Terminology Services, Department of National Education]
Dictionary of Newfoundland English edited by G.M. Story, W.J. Kirwin & J.D.A. Widdowson Toronto 1982
Dictionary of Science & Technology edited by T.C. Collocott & Alan B. Dobson revised edition Edinburgh 1974 W. & R. Chambers
Die Volkstem Pretoria 1873–1880; 1881–1951 (first publ. as De Volksstem; with title De Volkstem 1914–15; from 1949 publ. in Johannesburg)
The history of South African rugby football (1875–1932) Johannesburg 1979 The Speciality Press of S.A. Ltd.
Diggers’ ditties: A selection from the literary scribblings of early Kimberley residents Cape Town 1989 compiled by Africana Library, Kimberley
Diseases and pests affecting sheep and goats in South Africa 5th edition Johannesburg c1929 Cooper & Nephews SA (Pty) Ltd
(editor) Zulu-English dictionary Johannesburg 1948 University of the Witwatersrand Press
2nd edition + addendum Johannesburg 1953 1964 reprint University of the Witwatersrand Press
Hortus Cantabrigiensis; or, a catalogue of plants indigenous and exotic edited by Frederick Pursh 8th edition London 1815 Richard & Arthur Taylor
Early diamond days: The opening of the diamond fields of South Africa London 1963 Longmans, Green & Co. Ltd.
Ostrich farming in South Africa: Being an account of its origin and rise, how to set about it, the profits to be derived, how to manage the birds, the capital required, the diseases and difficulties to be met with, &c. &c. London [1881] Cassell, Petter & Galpin
The great Boer War copyright edition 2 volumes Leipzig 1900 Bernhard Tauchnitz
new edition (14th impression) London 1901 Smith, Elder & Co.
another edition (final) 1903 Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd.
Sporting scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa London 1858 G. Routledge & Co.
2nd edition London 1860 Routledge, Warne & Routledge
Gogga Brown: The life story of Alfred Brown, South Africa’s hermit-naturalist, told from his journal Cape Town [1939] Maskew Miller
The large game and natural history of South and South-East Africa Edinburgh 1875 Edmonston and Douglas
facsimile reprint Salisbury 1972 The Pioneer Head
The Malay quarter and its people Cape Town 1953 A.A. Balkema (Race Relations Series, Sub-Department of Coloured Affairs, Department of the Interior: Publication No. 1)
An elementary introduction to the study of South African law: A guide for beginners Cape Town 1905 Juta
The making of racial conflict in South Africa: A historical perspective; the origins of Black-White confrontation in South Africa: An introduction Braamfontein 1990 Skotaville
Diary of a national scout 1900–1902 edited by J.P. Brits Pretoria 1974 Human Sciences Research Council
Rhodesia past and present London 1897 William Heinemann
facsimile reprint Bulawayo 1977 Books of Rhodesia (Rhodesiana Reprint Library – Silver Series: Vol. 15)
With a show through Southern Africa, and personal reminiscences of the Transvaal War 2 volumes London 1882 Tinsley Brothers
Hilda’s diary of a Cape housekeeper: Being a chronicle of daily events and monthly work in a Cape household, with numerous cooking recipes, and notes on gardening, poultry keeping, etc. London 1902 Chapman & Hall, Ltd
facsimile reprint London 1978 Macmillan South Africa
The Bantu tribes of South Africa [photographic studies] 4 volumes Cambridge, U.K. 1928–1954 Alexander McGregor Memorial Museum, Kimberley
Diary of Eliza Jane Dugmore, 1871. An account of a trip by ox wagon from Koonap to Vetberg in Albania. 1871 Private collection
Reminiscences of an Albany settler Grahamstown 1870 Richards, Glanville & Co. [quotations are from a lecture delivered in May 1870]
The history of Guernsey; with occasional notices of Jersey, Alderney, and Sark, and biographical sketches London 1841 Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
Racial separation in South Africa: An analysis of apartheid theory Chicago 1952 University of Chicago Press
The encyclopedia of missions: Descriptive, historical, biographical, statistical 2nd edition New York 1904 Funk & Wagnalls Company
A Zulu-Kafir dictionary etymologically explained Cape Town 1857
facsimile reprint Farnborough, U.K. 1967 Gregg International
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The promised land; or, Nine years (gold mining, hunting, and volunteering) in the Transvaal London 1884 Blades, East and Blades
East London Dispatch East London 1872–1925 (with title East London Daily Dispatch (and Frontier Advertiser) from 1898; continued by The Daily Dispatch)
Eastern Province Herald Port Elizabeth 1845–2001 (until 1898 with title The Eastern Province Herald and Port Elizabeth Commercial News, continued by The Herald)
Journal by Sarah Norman Eaton from leaving London, June 22d, 1818 and of a voyage to the Cape of Good Hope. On board the Garland, Capn. Brown, a brig measuring 181 tons, and from her arrival at the Cape of Good Hope 26th September 1818. 1953 Mimeograph. NLSA CT A.968.7032T/EAT
Enumeratio Plantarum Africae, Australis extra tropicae quae collectae, determinatae et expositae a Christiano Frederico Ecklon et Carolo Zeyher Hamburg 1837 Perthes & Besser
The Letters of Hannah Dennison, 1820 Settler, 1820–47. 1968 M.A. thesis, Rhodes University. Cory T 1442 Rhodes Thesis
The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, exhibiting a view of the progressive discoveries and improvements in the sciences and the arts Edinburgh (started as The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal 1819–1826, then The New Edinburgh Philosophical Journal from 1826–1864.) [1819–1864] Adam & Charles Black
Edinburgh Review Edinburgh 1802– (ceased publication in 1929, published as New Edinburgh Review 1969–1984, then title reverted to Edinburgh Review) Adam Black
A plant-ecological survey of the Tugela river basin [no place] 1967 Town & Regional Planning Commission, Natal (Botanical Survey of South Africa Memoir No. 36)
Edwards’s Botanical Register: Or, ornamental flower-garden and shrubbery: Consisting of coloured figures of plants and shrubs, cultivated in British gardens London 1815–1847 James Ridgway & Sons
The 1820: Journal of the 1820 Memorial Settlers’ Association Johannesburg 1938–1983 The 180 Settlers Association of Soutth Africa (continued by The Settler)
History of the Basuto traditions: Ancient and modern (translated by J.C. Macgregor) London 1912 Caxton
South Africa through the centuries: Told in a series of 1 100 photographs Cape Town 1930 Maskew Miller
Kraal and castle: Khoikhoi and the founding of white South Africa Yale, U.S.A. 1977 Yale University Press
English Alive: An anthology for high schools - a selection of the best school writing of the year Rondebosch, Cape Town 1967– South African Council for English Education
Entertaining with wines of the Cape Paarl 1959 Ko-operatieve Wijnbouwers Vereniging van Zuid-Afrika Beperkt
2nd revised edition Paarl 1962 Ko-operatieve Wijnbouwers Vereniging van Zuid-AfrikaBeperkt
3rd revised edition Paarl 1968 Ko-operatieve Wijnbouwers Vereniging van Zuid-AfrikaBeperkt
Prinsloo of Prinsloosdorp: A tale of Transvaal officialdom, being incidents in the life of a Transvaal official, as told by his son-in-law London [1899] Dunbar Bros.
new edition London 1908 Alston Rivers, Ltd.
Journal covering his stay at the Cape of Good Hope (1811–1814) & His part in the expedition to Florida and New Orleans (1814–1815) with an introduction by A. Gordon-Brown Cape Town 1970 C. Struik (Pty.) Ltd.
(editor) Select constitutional documents illustrating South African history 1795–1910 London 1918 George Routledge & Sons, Limited
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When in Durban: Monica Fairall’s guide to the city, Natal coast and interior Cape Town 1983 C. Struik (Pty) Ltd
Family of man: People of the world, how and where they live London 1974–1976 MarshallCavendish A Marshall Cavendish encyclopedia in 98 weekly parts
Through the Kalahari desert: A narrative of a journey with gun, camera and note-book to Lake N’gami and back London 1886 Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
facsimile reprint Cape Town 1973 C. Struik (Pty) Ltd
Workers without weapons: The South African congress of Trade Unions and the organization of the African workers Hamden, Conn. 1975 Archon Books
Final report of the Commission of inquiry into bus passenger transportation in the Republic of South Africa (Chairman: Dr P.J. Welgemoed) 1983 Government Printer RP 50/1983
To South Africa and back: Being the narrative of a journey through Cape Colony, Natal, Orange Free State, and the Transvaal, including visits to the diamond and gold fields London 1890 Ward, Lock & Co.
A crop of chaff Pietermaritzburg 1924 Natal Witness
2nd edition Pietermaritzburg 1925 Natal Witness
Kaffraria, and its inhabitants London 1853 Smith, Elder, & Co.
2nd edition London 1854 Simpkin, Marshall
The waterfalls: A phantasy of Basutoland [Bardic gold medal poem, South African Eisteddfod 1924] Morija, Basutoland [Lesotho] 1924
A voyage round the world in His Britannic Majesty’s Sloop, Resolution, commanded by Capt. James Cook, during the years 1772, 3, 4, & 5 2 volumes London 1777 B. White etc.
(editor) Social Structure: Studies presented to A. R. Radcliffe-Brown New York 1949
reprint New York 1949 Russell & Russell Inc.
The Forum (title varies as The Forum: South Africa’s first national review and The Forum: South Africa’s independent weekly news-magazine) Johannesburg 1938–1951
Detention & torture in South Africa: Psychological, legal & historical studies Cape Town 1987 David Philip
The old houses of the Cape: A survey of the existing buildings in the traditional style of architecture of the Dutch-settled regions of the Cape of Good Hope Cape Town 1965 A.A. Balkema
All about house plants: Their selection, culture and propagation, and how best to use them for decorative effect New York 1951 The American Garden Guild, Inc., & Doubleday &Company, Inc.
A tour in South Africa: With notices of Natal, Mauritius, Madagascar, Ceylon, Egypt and Palestine London 1851 John Snow
Expelled from the Randt: Notes before and after leaving Johannesburg, with experiences at Delagoa Bay Cape Town 1899 Wm. Taylor
A new account of East-India and Persia, in eight letters. Being Nine Years travels, begun 1672. And finished 1681 London 1698 Ri. Chiswell
The blood knot New York 1968 Odyssey Press
Louis Trigardt’s trek across the Drakensberg 1837–8 edited by Leo Fouché Cape Town 1932 Van Riebeeck Society (No. 13)
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Inquiries into human faculty and its development London 1907 J.M. Dent
Travels in South Africa. Narrative of an explorer in tropical South Africa: Being an account of a visit to Damaraland in 1851…also vacation tours in 1860 and 1861… London 1889 Ward, Lock & Co. later edition of Narrative of an Explorer, with additional chapters.
3rd edition London 1890 Ward, Lock & Co.
An autobiography: The story of my experiments with truth (translated by Mahadev Desai) Madras 1957 Ganesh & Co.
(editor) South African Methodism: her missionary witness Cape Town [c1966] Methodist Publishing House
The sunshine settlers London 1918 Books of Rhodesia
facsimile reprint (of 1918 edition) London 1971 Books of Rhodesia
Glossary of geology Washington 1972 American Geological Institute
edited by R.L. Bates & J.L. Jackson 2nd edition Falls Church, Va 1980 American Geological Institute
The general directory and guide book to the Cape of Good Hope (and its dependencies…) Cape Town 1869–1887 (continuation of The Cape Town directory; continued by The Argus annual and Cape of Good Hope directory…)
The history of the BSAP 2 volumes (Vol. I The first line of defence 1889–1903, Vol. II The right of line 1903–1939) Salisbury, Rhodesia [Harare, Zimbabwe] 1972–1974
Grasses of Southern Africa [Pretoria] 1990 Botanical Research Institute, National Botanic Gardens (Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa No. 58)
The South African garden month by month 4th impression (1988) Johannesburg 1984 Central News Agency (Pty) Ltd
Gleanings and remarks: Collected during many months of residence at Buenos Ayres…with a prefactory account of the expedition from England, until the surrender of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope Leeds, U.K. 1818
Days and nights by the desert London 1888 Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.
The great thirst land: A ride through Natal, Orange Free State, Transvaal and Kalahari Desert London [1878] Cassell, Petter & Galpin
Birds Afield: A beginner’s guide to bird watching in Southern Africa Salisbury 1973 Longman Rhodesia (Bundu Series)
3rd impression 1981
Gleanings in Africa: Exhibiting a faithful and correct view of the manners and customs of the inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope…in a series of letters from an English officer [written anonymously] London 1806 James Cundee
Eastern Cape veld flowers Cape Town c1969 Department of Nature Conservation of the Provincial Administraion of the Cape of Good Hope
Kimberlite occurrence and origin: A basis for conceptual models in exploration: A seminar organized by the Department of Geology, University of Western Australia, in co-operation with University Extension, University of Western Australia: Summary of presented papers Perth 1985 University of Western Australia
The judicial process among the Barotse of Northern Rhodesia Manchester 1955 Manchester University Press
Introductory remarks to a narrative of the irruption of the Kafir hordes into the Eastern Province of the Cape of Good Hope 1834–35 Cape Town 1836
Golden City Post see Post
The chronicle of Jeremiah Goldswain Albany settler of 1820 edited by U. Long 2 volumes Cape Town 1946–1949 Van Riebeeck Society (No. 27)
Pantologia; a new cyclopædia, comprehending a complete series of essays, treatises, and systems, alphabetically arranged; with a general dictionary of arts, sciences, and words: The whole presenting a distinct survey of human genius, learning, and industry 12 volumes London 1813 G. Kearsley et al.
The Church of the Province of South Africa. Considered in its historical, legal, and constitutional position Port Elizabeth 1891 Impey, Walton & Co.
South Africa’s navy: The first fifty years, compiled in consultation with the South African naval authorities Cape Town 1973 W.J. Flesch
Robert Jacob Gordon: Cape travels, 1777 to 1786 edited by P.E. Raper & M. Boucher 2 volumes (translated by P.E. Raper) Johannesburg 1988 Brenthurst Press (Brenthurst 2nd series, Nos. 4 & 5)
An artist’s journey along the Old Cape Post Road, 1832–33: Illustrated by 21 of his sketches, further illustrations and a map with notes and clues to the identity of the artist Cape Town 1972 A.A. Balkema
Issues in the semantics and pragmatics of Xhosa questions Grahamstown 1982 Department of African Languages, Rhodes University
Government Gazette/Staatskoerant Pretoria 1910– Union of South Africa 1910–61; Republic of South Africa 1961–
see also Cape of Good Hope Government Gazette
The Graham’s Town Journal, or, Cape of Good Hope Eastern Provincial Register see The Journal
Catalogue of the specimens of Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum Part III London 1852 British Museum
A journal of a visitation to the diocese of Graham’s Town, in July and August, 1856 London 1857 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Journals of two visitations in 1848 and 1850 London 1849–1851 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Part I: A journal of the Bishop’s visitation tour through the Cape Colony, in 1848, with an account of his visit to the island of St Helena, in 1849, published 1849; Part II: A journal of the Bishop’s visitation tour through the Cape Colony, in 1850, published 1851)
The greater dictionary of Xhosa edited by H.W. Pahl Volume 3 Alice, Eastern Cape 1989 University of Fort Hare Vol. 2 publ. 2003, edited by B.M. Mini, title The greater dictionary of IsiXhosa; Vol. 3 publ. 2006, edited by S.L. Tshabe
The Kat River Settlement in 1851, containing the substance of evidence given before the commission for investigating the rebellion: Together with an appendix, relative to the state of the Hottentots in the years 1834–5, 1838, 1846–7 &c. Graham’s Town 1853 Godlonton, White, & Co.
At daybreak for the isles Cape Town 1950 Howard B. Timmins
Beyond the city lights: The story of the Western Province – the towns and the farms, the life and the people, the folklore and the legends Cape Town 1957 Howard Timmins
Full many a glorious morning: A recent journey by rail and road in four countries of Southern Africa with the traveller going back on old tracks, striking out in new directions and moving along the highways and byways of memory Cape Town 1968 Howard Timmins
A giant in hiding: The life story of Frank Armstrong Wightman – cable operator, sailor, naturalist, author, archaelogist and hermit Cape Town 1970 Howard Timmins
Grow lovely, growing old: The story of Cape Town’s three centuries - the streets, the houses, the characters, the legends, traditions and folklore, the laughter and tears Cape Town 1951 Howard B. Timmins
I heard the old men say: Secrets of the Cape that has vanished, and little-known dramas on the fringe of living memory Cape Town 1964 Howard Timmins
Karoo: The story of the Karoos of South Africa - the Great Karoo, the Little Karoo and the far corners of the North West Cape and Namaqualand Cape Town 1955 Howard Timmins
Lords of the last frontier: The story of South West Africa and its people of all races Cape Town 1952 Howard B. Timmins
South African beachcomber: Memories of the people of the shore and the stories they told; sand and dunes and treasure, seabirds and creatures of the sea; and personal impressions of certain islands in African waters Cape Town 1958 Howard B. Timmins
A taste of South-Easter: Memories of unusual Cape Town characters, queer shops and shows, of bars, hotels and cafés and the panorama of the streets Cape Town 1971 Howard Timmins
There’s a secret hid away: Memories of unusual experiences and mysteries in Southern Africa and African isles; strange tales and legends and unrecorded adventures; and people who crossed the author's path and left him wondering Cape Town 1956 Howard Timmins
These wonders to behold: Experiences and discoveries of an author in search of the grain of truth in Africa’s strangest tales; and view on certain deep mysteries of Africa, solved and unsolved or never to be solved Cape Town 1959 Howard Timmins
Under a sky like flame: The story of West Africa, the “White Man’s Grave” – cities and seaports and islands, white exiles and black magic Cape Town 1954 Howard B. Timmins
Thank God we kept the flag flying: The siege and relief of Ladysmith 1899–1900 London 1974 Hutchinson
A decisive clash?: A short history of Black protest politics in South Africa 1875–1976 Pretoria 1988 Acacia
Grocott’s Mail Grahamstown 1870– (with title Grocott’s Free Paper 1870–1, Grocott’s Penny Mail1872–Feb. 1899 and July 1901–Apr. 1920, and Grocott’s Daily Mail Feb.–Dec. 1899 and May 1920–64; absorbed The Journal in 1920)
Groot Noord-Sotho woordeboek, Noord-Sotho, Afrikaans, Engels edited by D. Ziervogel & P.C. Mokgokong Pretoria 1975
Zulu-land; or, life among the Zulu-Kafirs of Natal and Zulu-land, South Africa London c1861 Trübner & Co.
A guide to the vertebrate fauna of the Eastern Cape Province 2 parts (Part I Mammals and birds 1931, Part II Reptiles, amphibians, and freshwater fishes 1937) Grahamstown 1931–1937 Albany Museum
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H.A.T.: Verklarende handwoordeboek van die Afrikaanse taal edited by P.C. Schoonees, C.J. Swanepoel, S.J. Du Toit & C.M. Booysen Johannesburg 1965
2nd edition edited by F.F. Odendal et al. Johannesburg 1983
A collection of original voyages: containing I. Capt. Cowley’s voyage round the globe. II. Capt. Sharp’s journey over the Istmus of Darien, and expedition into the South Seas, written by himself. III. Capt. Wood’s voyage thro’ the Streights of Magellan. IV. Mr. Robert’s adventures among the Corsairs of the Levant ; his account of their way of living ; description of the Archipelago Islands, taking of Scio, &c. ; illustrated with several maps and draughts London 1699 James Knapton
(translator) see see also Lynx: Contemporary South African writing (Time out of Time)
Allan’s wife and other tales London 1889 Spencer Blackett
another edition London [1889] Griffith Farran
On the science of language and its study: With special regard to South Africa Address delivered at the South African Public Library, 29 April 1882 Cape Town 1882 Herrmann Michaelis
Geology for South African students: An introductory text-book 4th revised edition South Africa 1960 Central News Agency
Smuts 2 volumes (Vol. I The sanguine years 1870–1919, Vol. II The fields of force 1919–1950) Cambridge, U.K. 1962–1968 Cambridge University Press
Handbook for farmers in South Africa Pretoria 1929 Department of Agriculture (& Forestry)
3rd revised edition 1937
new edition 3 volumes 1957
A handbook of hardwoods London 1956 Her Majesty’s Stationery Office
Handbook of the Mines and Works Act of the Union…and the Mines Works and Machinery Regulations Johannesburg 1954 Hortors
2nd impression with amendments London 1957 Her Majesty’s Stationery Office
A handbook on wine for retail licensees Paarl [c1955] Ko-operatieve Wijnbouwers Vereniging van Zuid-Afrika Beperkt
Mammals of Southern Africa 2nd edition Johannesburg 1976 McGraw-Hill
3rd edition Johannesburg 1980 McGraw-Hill
The wild sports of Southern Africa; Being the narrative of an expedition from the Cape of Good Hope, through the territories of the chief Moselekatse, to the Traopic of Capricorn London 1839 John Murray
Plankton, fish and man: A triplet in limnology [inaugural lecture, Rhodes University] Grahamstown 1986
Flora Capensis: Being a systematic description of the plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria, & Port Natal Capetown 1859–1860 A. S. Robertson
Wine: A guide for young people Paarl 1975 Ko-operatieve Wijnbouwers Vereniging van Zuid-Afrika Beperkt
(editor) Coloured viewpoint: A series of articles in the Cape Times, 1958–1965 by R.E. van der Ross Bellville 1984 The Western Cape Institute for Historical Research, University of the Western Cape
Language loyalty in South Africa 4 volumes Pretoria 1977–1983 South African Human Sciences Research Council (Languages Survey: First Report) Report Nos. TLK/L-6, TLK/L-8, TLK/L-10 and TLK/L-13
An account of the voyages undertaken .. for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook ..: Drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders and from the papers of Joseph Banks 3 volumes London 1773
(editor) Handbook on race relations in South Africa Cape Town 1949 South African Institute of Race Relations
The log of a native commissioner: A record of work and sport in Southern Rhodesia London 1935 H.F. & G. Witherby
facsimile reprint Bulawayo 1971 Books of Rhodesia
Common weeds in South Africa Pretoria 1966 Department of Agricultural Technical Services (Botanical Survey of South Africa: Memoir 37)
Ouma’s cookery book 1st edition, reprinted 1995 Pretoria 1940 Juta & Co. Ltd.
6th edition Cape Town 1955 Juta & Co. Ltd.
Animal diseases in South Africa 2 volumes Vol 1. Bacterial and Protozoal Diseases, Vol II Virus and Deficiency Diseases, Plant Poisons [Johannesburg] 1932 Central News Agency, Ltd (South African Agricultural Series: Vols XI and XII)
South African Flowering Plants for the use of beginners, students and teachers London 1903 Longmans, Green, and Co.
Herald: George and Knysna see George and Knysna Herald
Amaryllidaceæ; preceded by an attempt to arrange the monocotyledonous orders, and followed by a treatise on cross-bred vegetables London 1837 James Ridgway and Sons
Het Suid-Western see Oudtshoorn Courant and Het Suid-Western
Het Suid-Western see Oudtshoorn Courant and Het Suid-Western
Cape cookery: Simple yet distinctive 2nd edition Cape Town 1890 Darter Bros. & Walton
new edition (illustrated) Cape Town 1973 David Philip
A brief history of the Transvaal secret service system: from its inception to the present time, its objects, its agents, the disposal of its funds, and the result as seen today - war against Great Britain 2nd edition Cape Town 1899 Wm Taylor
Memoirs edited by A. Spencer 4 volumes Vol I 1749–75, Vol II 1775–82, Vol III 1782–90, Vol IV 1790–1809 London [1918] Hurst & Blackett
Household cookery for South Africa 2nd edition Johannesburg 1919 Specialty Press
8th edition Johannesburg 1939 R L Esson & Co Ltd
9th edition Johannesburg 1941 Central News Agency, Ltd.
Hobson-Jobson: A glossary of Anglo-Indian colloquial words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive edited by H. Yule & A.C. Burnell London 1886
new edition edited by W. Crooke London 1903
reprint London 1969
(editor) L. De Camoëns’s The Lusiad; or, the discovery of India (translated by W.J. Mickle, first publ. 1776) 5th revised edition London 1889 George Bell & Sons
Trekking the Great Thirst: Travel and sport in the Kalahari desert London 1912 T. Fisher Unwin
facsimile reprint Johannesburg 1977 Africana Book Society
They built a theatre: The history of the Johannesburg Repertory Players Johannesburg 1980 AD. Donker
History of the colony of Natal, South Africa: To which is added, an appendix, containing a brief history of the Orange-River sovereignty and of the various races inhabiting it, the great lake N’Gami, commandoes of the Dutch Boers, &c., &c. London 1855 Alexander Heylin
Seven years in South Africa: travels, researches, and hunting adventures, between the diamond-fields and the Zambezi (1872–79) (translated by E.E. Frewer) London 1881 Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
The Holyoke Diaries 1709–1856 Introduction and annotations by G.F. Dow Salem, Mass. 1911 The Essex Institute
Our place in history: A comparative history of South Africa in relation to other countries Cape Town 1909 J.C. Juta & Co.
Cape drives London 1974
The journals and papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins edited by Humphry House, completed by Graham Storey - no quots London 1959 Oxford University Press
(translator) Common Veld Flowers Salisbury, Rhodesia [Harare, Zimbabwe] 1940 Rhodesia Scientific Association (Look Around You Series: No. 1)
Action, reaction, and counter-action: A brief review of non-white political movements in South Africa Johannesburg 1963 South African Institute of Race Relations
Grasses: A guide to their structure identification, uses, and distribution in the British Isles 1959 reprint Harmondsworth 1954 Penguin
2nd edition 1968
3rd edition 1984
A feature in South African frontier life, based upon the wanderings of a frontier family, but embracing a complete record of the Kafir war of 1850–-51 Port Elizabeth 1852 John Paterson
The complete book of South African wine 2nd edition Cape Town 1988 Struik Publishers first first edition, see Kench et al.
another edition 1992
Rinderpest in South Africa: A short description of its history, general characters and methods of treatment Cape Town 1902
The economics of the colour bar: A study of the economic origins and consequences of racial segregation in South Africa London 1964 Andre Deutsch
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(editor) Our green heritage: A book about indigenous and exotic trees in South Africa, about trees and timber in our cultural history and about our extensive silvicultural, forestry and timber industries Cape Town 1973 Tafelberg
Impact: Newspaper of the Progressive Federal Party Cape Town [1980–1981] Progressive Federal Party [published as Progress 1967–1979]
Imperial blue books see United Kingdom. Parliamentary papers
A wealth of people: The story of the Trade Union Council of South Africa Johannesburg 1979 The Council
Indigenous trees and shrubs for your garden Durban 1974 Wildlife Society of Southern Africa, Natal Branch
Inside South Africa: South Africa’s News (analysis) magazine Cape Town 1987–1989 International Research and Information Services
The intellectual observer: Review of natural history, microscopic research, and recreative science London 1862–1868 Groombridge and Sons
An introduction to the South African wine industry Paarl [c1980] Ko-operatieve Wijnbouwers Vereniging van Zuid-Afrika Beperkt
A field guide to the Natal Drakensberg Durban 1980 Wildlife Society of Southern Africa
2nd edition fully revised Grahamstown 1992 Rhodes University
Echoes of the past: An army surgeon’s experiences in South Africa 1843–46 edited by H.B. Newham London 1927 (reprinted from Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps)
Travels and adventures in Eastern Africa, descriptive of the Zoolas, their manners, customs, etc. 2 volumes London 1836
edited by L. Herrman 2 volumes Cape Town 1936–1937 Van Riebeeck Society (Nos 16 and 17) Vol I - 1936, Vol II - 1937
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The ethnic composition of the Ciskei and Transkei Cape Town 1975 Department of Bantu Administration and Development Ethnological Publications No. 53
A dance in the sun London 1956 Weidenfeld & Nicolson
A practical method to learn Sesuto, with exercises and a short vocabulary Morija 1928 Sesuto Book Depot
A fragment of church history, at the Cape of Good Hope [written anonymously] Cape Town 1827 W. Bridekirk
facsimile reprint Cape Town 1979 South African Library (Reprint Series: No. 8)
Jazz Research see Jazzforschung / Jazz Research
Jazzforschung / Jazz Research Graz 1969– Institut für Jazzforschung an der Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in cooperation with the International Society for Jazz Research
(translator) The memorandum of Commissary J.A. de Mist containing recommendations for the form and administration of government at the Cape of Good Hope, 1802 Cape Town 1920 Van Riebeeck Society (No. 3)
Amazlu: The Zulus, their past history, manners, customs, and language with observations on the country and its productions, climate etc., the Zulu war, and Zululand since the war London 1882 W.H. Allen
facsimile reprint Pretoria 1968 State Library
The concise trilingual dictionary in English, Xhosa, Afrikaans 2nd edition Lovedale, Eastern Cape 1962
Statute Law of the Transvaal 1839–1910 2 volumes Pretoria 1910 Government Printing and Stationery Office
Cornucopiae: Or, Diuers Secrets: Wherein is Contained the Rare Secrets in Man, Beasts, Foules, Fishes, Trees, Plantes, Stones and Such Like, Most Pleasant and Profitable, and Not Before Committed to Bee Printed in English. Newlie Drawen Out of Diuers Latine Authors Into English London 1596 W. Barley
An outline of English phonetics Leipzig 1922 B.G. Teubner
4th edition Cambridge 1934 W. Heffer & Sons Ltd.
9th edition Cambridge 1972 Heffer
The Journal Grahamstown 1831–1920 (with title The Graham’s Town Journal, or, Cape of Good Hope Eastern Provincial Register 1833–64; absorbed by Grocott’s Mail)
The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland London 1872–1965 From 1872-1906 publ. by the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Merger of: Journal of anthropology; Anthropological Society of London. Memoirs, and: Journal of the Ethnological Society of London. Absorbed in part by: Man.
The life of a South African tribe 2 volumes Neuchatel 1912–1913 Imprimerie Attinger Frères
2nd revised edition 2 volumes London 1927 Macmillan & Co. Ltd.
Vutlhari bya Vatsonga (Machangana): The wisdom of the Tsonga-Shangana people 2nd revised edition Johannesburg 1957 Swiss Mission in South Africa
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The Kairos document: Challenge to the church 2nd revised edition Johannesburg 1986 Kairos theologians
Johannesburg: images and continuities: A history of working class life through pictures, 1885–1935 Johannesburg 1986 Ravan Press
Kamus Harian Federal Malay-English-Malay dictionary edited by M.S. Daud & A.H. Omar Kuala Lumpur 1977
(editor) From protest to challenge: A documentary history of African politics in South Africa, 1882–1990 5 volumes Stanford, Calif. 1972–1977 Hoover Institution Press
Kathay’s unabridged new Crown dictionary of national language: Malay-English English-Malay Singapore 1964
Travels and researches in Caffraria: Describing the character, customs, and moral condition of the tribes inhabiting that portion of Southern Africa: With historical and topographical remarks illustrative of the state and prospects of the British settlement in its borders, the introduction of Christianity, and the progress of civilization London 1833 J. Mason
Africa 2 volumes Vol I North Africa, Vol II South Africa London 1895 Edward Stanford (Stanford’s Compendium of Geography and Travel)
2nd edition Volume II (with title South Africa) London 1904
A voyage to South America and the Cape of Good Hope; in his Majesty’s gun brig 'The Protector' London 1819 J.B.G. Vogel (first publ. 1810)
Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa Cape Town 1988 Oxford University Press
The coming revolt of the English in the Transvaal, with an account of the sieges of Johannesburg and Pretoria, and the annexation of the two South African republics to the British Empire London 1891 J. Kelly
Cape Dutch homesteads with photographs by D. Goldblatt & M. Courtney-Clarke Cape Town 1981 C. Struik
Stratigraphy of South Africa: Handbook 8. Part 1: Lithostratigraphy of the Republic of South Africa, SOuth West Africa/Namibia, and the republics of Bophuthatswana, Transkei, and Venda Pretoria 1980 South African Committee for Stratigraphy
South Africa: A short history London 1949 Hutchinson
3rd edition 1963
The far interior: A narrative of travel and adventure from The Cape of Good Hope across the Zambesi to the Lake regions of Central Africa 2 volumes London 1886 Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington
Cape Peninsula Cape Town 1983 Botanical Society of South Africa (South African Wild Flower Guide No. 3)
Letters from the island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies London 1777 J. Nourse
Tree-planting in South Africa 1951 (reprinted from Journal of the South African Forestry Association No. 21, Oct. 1951)
Campaigning in Kaffirland: Or scenes and adventures in the Kaffir war of 1851–2 London 1853 Saunders & Otley
In haunts of wild game: A hunter-naturalist’s wanderings from Kahlamba to Libombo Edinburgh 1896 William Blackwood and Sons
The musical instruments of the native races of South Africa London 1934 OUP
2nd edition Johannesburg 1965 Witwatersrand University Press
On the power, wisdom and goodness of God as manifested in the creation of animals and in their history, habits and instincts London 1835 William Pickering
Reports of cases argued and determined before the committees of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council, appointed to hear appeals and petitions 1829 to 1831 London 1831 J. &W.T. Clarke
The present state of the Cape of Good Hope (translated by Guido Medley) London 1731 W. Innys (Vol. I: or, a particular account of the several nations of the Hottentots: their religion, government, laws, customs, ceremonies, and opinions; their art of war, professions, language, genius, &c. Together with a short account of the Dutch settlement at the Cape. Vol. II: containing, the Natural History of the Cape; or, a particular Description of all the Sorts of Animals and Vegetables in that Neighbourhood; as of Beasts, Birds, Insects, Sea- and River-Fish; Trees, Shrubs, Plants, Herbs, Roots and Flowers. Likewise an Account of the Mineral Productions, and of the Sea-, River-, and Spring-Waters there. Together with some Observations on the CAPE-Winds and Air. To which is prefix’d, A Topographical Account of the Colonies there; as, of their Extent, Rivers, Springs, Mountains Roads, Places of Note &c.)
Travel journal Cape to Zululand: Observations by a collector and naturalist 1838–40 (translated and edited by O.H. Spohr) Cape Town 1973 A.A. Balkema
Lognormal-de Wijsian geostatistics for ore evaluation Johannesburg 1978 South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
The realm of a rain-queen: A study of the pattern of Lovedu society Oxford, U.K. 1943 Oxford University Press
Wortschatz der Khoi-Khoin (Namaqua-Hottentotten) Berlin 1889
facsimile reprint Farnborough, U.K. 1971
A Kaffir-English dictionary Lovedale 1899 Lovedale Mission Press
2nd edition edited by R. Godfrey Lovedale 1915 Lovedale Mission Press (title now spelled A Kafir-English dictionary)
Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems: The role of nutrients Berlin 1983 Springer-Verlag (Ecological Studies: No.43)
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(editor) Pietermaritzburg 1838–1988: A new portrait of an African city Pietermaritzburg 1988 University of Natal Press and Shuter & Shooter
The Basutos: The mountaineers & their country, being a narrative of events relating to the tribe from its formation early in the nineteenth century to the present day 2 volumes London 1909 Hutchinson
A tavern of the ocean: Being a social and historical sketch of Cape Town from its earliest days Cape Town [1926] Maskew Miller
(editor) The history and genealogy of the Talbots, Sweetnams, and Wiggills (including autobiographies on South African life). 1953 [written in Utah, U.S.A.] Cory MS6658
(translator) A. Small’s Kanna he is coming home. a1985 Unpubl. translation. University of New York ??
Journal of a visit to South Africa in 1815 and 1816, with some account of the missionary settlements of the United Brethren, near the Cape of Good Hope London 1818 L.B. Seeley
2nd edition London 1821 L.B. Seeley
facsimile reprint Cape Town 1969 C. Struik (Pty) Ltd
Southern and Central Namibia in Jonker Afrikaner’s time Windhoek, South West Africa [Namibia] 1987 National Archives
The sylviculture of the indigenous forests of the Union of South Africa Pretoria 1937 Department of Agriculture & Forestry (Forestry Series: No. 7)
The birds of South Africa: A descriptive catalogue of all the known species occurring south of the 18th parallel of south latitude London 1867 J.C. Juta
new edition revised and augmented by R. Bowdler Sharpe London 1884 Bernard Quaritch
Namaqualand Cape Town 1988 Botanical Society of South Africa (South African Wild Flower Guide No. 1)
New Travels into the interior parts of Africa, by the way of the Cape of Good Hope, in the years 1783, 84 and 85. (translated from French) 3 volumes London 1796 G.G. and J. Robinson
Travels from the Cape of Good-Hope, into the interior parts of Africa, including many interesting anecdotes. With elegant plates, descriptive of the country and inhabitants (translated from French by Elizabeth Helme) 2 volumes London 1790 William Lane
Travels into the interior of Africa via the Cape of Good Hope Cape Town 2007 Van Riebeeck Society (No. II-38)
Leadership Cape Town 1982–1995 Churchill Murray Publications (from 1982 to 1992 with title Leadership South Africa; also publ. in Johannesburg)
The Southern African diaries of Thomas Leask 1865–1870 edited by J.P.R. Wallis London 1954 Chatto & Windus
Field crops in South Africa Johannesburg 1923 Central News Agency, Limited (South African Agricultural Series: No. 1)
Fifty fighting years: The Communist Party of South Africa 1921–71 London 1971 Inkululeko Publications
3rd revised edition London 1987
Among the Zulus and Amatongas: With sketches of the natives, their language and customs; and the country, products, climate, wild animals, &c.; being principally contributions to magazines and newspapers edited by W.H. Drummond Glasgow 1875 Edmonston & Douglas
another edition Glasgow 1875 printed for private circulation
(editor) Firetalk: Selected short stories from the entries to the 1989 Sanlam Literary Award Cape Town 1990
The 'Prep' Story: Which tells the story of St. Andrew’s Preparatory School Grahamstown from 1885–1970 Grahamstown 1975 Grocott and Sherry
A field guide to the mushrooms of South Africa Cape Town 1985 C. Struik
2nd edition Cape Town 1985 C. Struik
Early 19th century architecture in South Africa: A study of the interaction of two cultures, 1795–1837 Cape Town 1963 Balkema
A historical & philosophical sketch of the discoveries & settlements of the Europeans in northern & western Africa, at the close of the eighteenth century Edinburgh 1799 J. Moir
revised edition (enlarged & completed by Hugh Murray) Edinburgh 1817 George Ramsay and Company
Adventures in the far interior of South Africa including a journey to Lake Ngami and rambles in Honduras to which is appended a short treatise on the best mode of skinning and reserving birds, animals, &c.; also receipts for making preservatives London 1866 George Routledge and Sons
facsimile reprint Cape Town 1972 C. Struik (Pty.) Ltd.
Travels in Southern Africa in the years 1803, 1804, 1805 and 1806 (translated by Anne Plumptre) 2 volumes London 1812–1815 Henry Colburn
Cape Town 1928–1930 Van Riebeeck Society (Nos 10 and 11)
Cape floral kingdom: The story of South Africa’s wild flowers, and the people who found, named and made them famous the world over Cape Town 1960 Juta & Company Limited
Adamantia: The truth about the South African diamond fields, or, A vindication of the right of the Orange Free State to that territory, and an analysis of British diplomacy and aggression which has resulted in its illegal seizure by the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope London 1873 W.H. & L. Collingridge
The treasury of botany: A popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms London 1873 W.H. & L. Collingridge
London 1874 Longmans, Green & Co.
Lives of the Lindsays; or, a memoir of the Houses of Crawford and Balcarres, to which are added extracts from the official correspondence of Alexander sixth Earl of Balcarres, during the Maroon War; together with personal narratives by his brothers, the Hon. Robert, Colin, James, John, and Hugh Lindsay; and by his sister, Lady Anne Barnard Volume III London 1849 John Murray
The 1920 diary of R.H. Lindsey-Renton edited by I.P. Lindsey-Renton Bryanston, Johannesburg 1979 I.P. Lindsey-Renton
South Africa: A sketchbook of men, manners and facts: With an appendix upon the present situation in South Africa and upon the affairs of Zululand, the Transvaal and Bechuanaland with special reference to the Boer mission to England 2 volumes London 1884 W. Swan Sonneschein
Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries; and of the discovery of the lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858–1864 London 1865 John Murray
The last journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to his death. Continued by a narrative of his last moments and sufferings, obtained from his faithful servants Chuma and Susi by Horace Waller 2 volumes London 1874 John Murray
The influence of Low Dutch on the English vocabulary London 1936 Oxford University Press (Humphrey Milford) Publications of the Philological Society
(translator) Diaries of the Jesuit missionaries of Bulawayo 1874–1881 Salisbury, Rhodesia [Harare, Zimbabwe] 1939
An account of the trade in India: Containing rules for good government in trade, price courants, and tables: With descriptions of … London 1711 Samuel Crouch
How to speak Dutch: A simple method of learning to speak, read and understand the language 2nd edition Cape Town 1899 Jacques Dusseau & Co. with translations into Cape Dutch of all sentences and conversations by J.F. van Oordt
The dispossessed: A study of the sex-life of Bantu women in urban areas in and around Johannesburg London 1959 Jonathan Cape
Looking back: The journal of the Historical Society of Port Elizabeth Port Elizabeth 1961– Historical Society of Port Elizabeth
(editor) Africana short stories: An anthology from South Africa’s past Johannesburg 1970 Varia Books
An encyclopædia of plants; comprising the description, specific character, culture, history, application in the arts, and every other desirable particular respecting all the plants indigenous, cultivated in, or introduced to Britain London 1829 Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green
(editor) A field guide to the Eastern Cape coast Grahamstown 1988 Grahamstown Centre of the Wildlife Society of Southern Africa
(editor) Vegetation and ecology of Kwaaihoek: Site of the Dias Cross Grahamstown 1988 Rhodes University
Organize or starve: The history of the South African Congress of Trade Unions London 1980 Lawrence & Wishart
Zululand and Cetewayo, containing an account of Zulu customs, manners, and habits, after a short residence in their kraals, with portrait of Cetewayo, and 28 illustrations from original drawings 2nd edition London 1882 Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.
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Se-Suto-English and English-S-Suto vocabulary: With an elementary sketch of se-Suto grammar 2nd edition with an elementary sketch of se-Suto grammar by E. Jacottet Morija, Basutoland [Lesotho] 1893 Morija Sesuto Book Depot
Southern Sotho-English dictionary 6th edition rev. and considerably enlarged by H. Dieterlen Morija, Basutoland [Lesotho] 1937 Morija Sesuto Book Depot
(translator) Basuto traditions: Being a record of the traditional history of the more important of the tribes which form the Basuto Nation of to-day up to the time of their being absorbed London [1905] Argus Printing & Publishing
Day-dawn in dark places: a story of wanderings and work in Bechwanaland London [1883] Cassell & Company, Limited
Diary written in various places…including Cape Town 1809 and Boschberg (Somerset East) 1816. 1806–1816 Cory MS7336
Birds of eastern and north eastern Africa Volume 2 London 1955 Longmans, Green and Co (African Handbook of Birds: Series 1)
A compendium of Kafir laws and customs reprint Grahamstown 1906 (first publ. 1858)
facsimile reprint Pretoria 1968
A proper degree of terror: John Graham and the Cape’s eastern frontier Johannesburg 1986 Ravan Press
Bantu, Boer, and Briton : The making of the South African native problem London 1929 Faber & Gwyer
revised edition Oxford, U.K. 1963 Oxford University Press
Manual of practical orchard-work at the Cape Cape Town 1896 Cape of Good Hope Department of Agriculture
Ah big yaws by 'Rawbone Malong' Cape Town 1972 David Philip
4th impression Cape Town 1973 David Philip
(editor) Educational adaptations in a changing society: Report of the South African Education Conference held in Capetown and Johannesburg in July, 1934, under the auspices of the New Education Fellowship Cape Town 1937 Juta
What they said, 1795–1910: A selection of documents from South African history Cape Town 1971 Maskew Miller Longman
No easy walk to freedom: Articles, speeches, and trial addresses of Nelson Mandela edited by Ruth First London 1965 Heinemann
revised edition London 1990 Mandarin
(editor) The Colony of Natal: An account of the characteristics and capabilities of this British dependency London [1859] Jarrold & Sons
Proeve van deen Kaapsch-Hollandsch idioticon, met toelichtingen en opmerkingen betreffende land, volk en taal Cape Town 1884 Cyrus J Martin
The Cape Coloured People, 1652–1937 London 1939 Longmans Green
another edition Johannesburg 1957 Witwatersrand University Press
Dictionary of the common names of plants with list of foreign plants cultivated in the open Cape Town 1917 Speciality Press
Letters from a Boer parsonage: Letters of Marguaret Marquard during the Boer War edited by L. Marquard Cape Town 1967 Purnell
The concentration camps 1900–1902: Facts, figures, and fables Cape Town [1957] Howard Timmins (No publication date given, but foreword dated 1957)
(editor) History of surveying and land tenure in South Africa: Collected papers Cape Town 1984 University of Cape Town (Vol 1. Surveying and land tenure in the Cape 1652–1812)
South Africa at war: Military and industrial organization and operations in connection with the conduct of the war, 1939–1945 Cape Town 1979 Purnell
History of Southern Africa: Comprising the Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, Seychelles, &c. London 1836 John Mortimer (No. 3 in the British Colonial Library series)
History of the colonies of the British Empire in the West Indies, Asia, Australi-Asia, Africa, and Europe: Comprising the area, agriculture … of each colony, with the charters and the engraved seals: From the official records of the Colonial Office London 1843 Wm. H. Allen & Co.
reprint London 1967 Dawsons of Pall Mall
The extra pharmacopoeia: Incorporating squire’s companion 22nd edition London 1941 Pharmaceutical Press
24th edition London 1958
25th edition London 1967
26th edition London 1972
27th edition London 1977
29th edition London 1989
A sketch of the development of rural education (European) in the Cape Colony (1652–1910) Grahamstown [1922]
Life with the Zulus of Natal South Africa London 1855 Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans
facsimile reprint London 1968
Prehistory of the Transvaal: A record of human activity Johannesburg 1962 Witwatersrand University Press
(editor) The reminiscences of Thomas Stubbs; including Men I have known Cape Town 1978 A.A. Balkema (The Graham’s Town Series: No. 4)
Indian Delights Durban 1961 Women’s Cultural Group
revised edition 1970
revised edition (enlarged super) 1982
Townsmen or tribesmen: Conservatism and the process of urbanization in a South African city Cape Town 1961 Oxford University Press (Xhosa in Town Series: No. II)
A history of the African people of South Africa: From the early iron age to the 1970s Cape Town 1986
The reminiscences of Thomas Stubbs, 1820–77. 1868 M.A. thesis, Rhodes University, 1965. Appendices include Reminiscences and Men I have known RU T 1196 Rhodes Thesis
Xhosa beer drinks and their oratory. 1986 Doctoral thesis, Rhodes University, Grahamstown. Cory TR 87-25
No easy ride: The rise and future of the black taxi industry Johannesburg 1990 South African Institute of Race Relations
Reminiscences of the last Kafir war: Illustrated with numerous anecdotes Grahamstown 1871 Richards, Glanville & Co.
reprint Cape Town 1970 Struik (quotations are taken from the 1970 reprint, but dated simply 1871)
Narrative and journal of Gerald McKiernan in South West Africa, 1874–1879 edited by P. Serton Cape Town 1954 Van Riebeeck Society (No. 35)
The Mediator Cape Town 1837–1839 (continuation of The Moderator, or, Cape of Good Hope Impartial Observer)
Meet the South African Transport Services Johannesburg 1982 Publicity & Travel Department, South African Transport Services
A geographical and topographical description of the Cape of Good Hope Part I 1921, Part II 1925 (both tr. by H. Mandelbrote, Part III (tr. by G.V. Marais and J. Hoge) 1944 3 volumes Cape Town 1921–1925 Van Riebeeck Society (Nos 4, 6 and 25)
(editor) The grasses and pastures of South Africa (Part I A guide to the identification of grasses in South Africa by L.K.A. Chippindall, Part II Pasture management in South Africa by J.D. Scott, J.J. Theron, D. Meredith, et al.) [Johannesburg] 1955 CNA
The case against the suspension of the constitution of the Cape Colony; being a speech delivered in the House of Assembly on the 11th day of September, 1902 [Cape Town] 1902 National Press Agency? not given
The Cape journals of Archdeacon N.J. Merriman 1848–55 edited by D.H. Varley & H.M. Matthew Cape Town 1957 Van Riebeeck Society (No. 37)
Desegregating education in South Africa : White school enrolments in Johannesburg, 1985-1991 : Update and policy analysis Johannesburg 1991 Educational Policy Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
The new colony of Port Natal: With information for emigrants 3rd edition London 1850 Houlston & Stoneman
facsimile reprint [Durban] [1968] University of Natal
Life in the wilderness; or, Wanderings in South Africa London 1846 Richard Bentley
2nd edition London 1848 Richard Bentley
Sixty years ago; or, reminiscences of the struggle for the freedom of the press in South Africa, and the establishment of the first newspaper in the Eastern Province Cape Town 1885 Saul Solomon & Co.
facsimile reprint Cape Town 1963 Africana Connoisseurs Press
Soweto Zulu slang: A sociolinguistic study of an urban vernacular in Soweto. 1990 Honours thesis, University of South Africa. DU
A breath from the veldt 2nd edition London 1895 Henry Sotheran & Co
3rd edition London 1899 Henry Sotheran & Co
(editor) Foot-prints of the creator: Or, the asterolepis of Stromness London 1849 Johnstone and Hunter
The Role of African clergy in the reorientation of Xhosa society to the plural society in the Cape Colony, 1850–1915. 1975 (PhD thesis, University of California. Imprint: Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1983,) Cory
The Poetical Works of John Milton: with translations of the Italian, Latin and Greek poems from the Columbia University Edition edited by Helen Darbishire London 1958 Oxford University Press
The mineral resources of the Union of South Africa: With a summary of the mineral resources of South West Africa Pretoria 1936 Department of Mines
3rd edition Pretoria 1940 Office of the Geological Survey
Mineral resources of the Republic of South Africa edited by C.B. Coetzee 5th edition Pretoria 1976 Department of Mines
Miners' dictionary: English-Fanakalo, Afrikaans-Fanakalo 1981 reprint Johannesburg 1978 Chamber of Mines Services
Miner’s companion in English, Afrikaans, Sesuto and Mine Kaffir Johannesburg 1938 Prevention of Accidents Commission, Rand Mutual Assurance Co. Ltd
Mining dictionary / Mynbouwoordeboek: English - Afrikaans Pretoria 1983 Terminology Bureau, Department of Education
The mining industry: Evidence and report of the industrial commission of enquiry, with an appendix containing the letter of the Chamber of Mines to the commission, the principal laws of the Republic affecting the mining industry, and other documents of interest appertaining to the evidence given at the enquiry Johannesburg 1897 The Witwatersrand Chamber of Mines
Missionary Notices: Relating principally to the Foreign Missions, first established by the Rev. John Wesley… Volume III London 1821–1822
What every housewife should know: A collection of useful and economical directions on household subjects. Also recipes on home-made soaps Cape Town [1928] Juta
Selections from the correspondence of Percy Alport Molteno 1892–1914 edited by V. Solomon Cape Town 1981 Van Riebeeck Society (No. II-12)
The reminiscences of John Montgomery edited by A. Giffard Cape Town 1981 A.A. Balkema (The Graham’s Town Series: No. 6)
(editor and translator) The Record, or a series of official papers relative to the condition and treatment of the native tribes of South Africa Cape Town 1838–1841 A.S. Robertson
photostatic reprint Amsterdam 1960 A.A. Balkema Parts I, III and V
The history of the battles and adventures of the British, the Boers and the Zulus, etc., in Southern Africa, from the time of Pharoah Necho, to 1880 2 volumes Cape Town 1888 Murray & St Leger
Land of Good Hope London 1911 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
3rd edition London 1918 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
Outeniqua, Tsitsikamma and eastern Little Karoo Cape Town 1982 Botanical Society of South Africa (South African Wild Flower Guide No. 2)
The delights of Holland or, A three months travel about that and the other provinces. With observations and reflections on their trade, wealth, strength, beauty, policy, [etc.] Together with a catalogue of the rarities in the anatomical school at Leyden London 1696 John Sturton and A. Bosvile
Afrika my music: An autobiography 1957–1983 Johannesburg 1984 Ravan Press
Natives Land Act 1913: Specific cases of evictions and hardships, etc. Cape Town 1996 Friends of the South African Library
Memoirs of Senator the Hon. G.G. Munnik: Covering eighty years of thrilling South African history, politics and war Cape Town [1934] Maskew Miller
A narrative of the military operations, on the Coromandel coast, against the combined forces of the French, Dutch, and Hyder Ally Cawn, from the year 1780 to the peace in 1784 London 1789 T. Bensley
The Diamond-Field Keepsake Cape Town 1873 R.W. Murray
facsimile reprint (with added index and introduction by Brian Roberts) Kimberley 1979 Historical Society of Kimberley
Handbook on stock diseases Cape Town 1956 Nasionale Boekhandel Beperk
2nd impression Cape Town 1958 Nasionale Boekhandel Beperk
2nd edition Cape Town 1976 Tafelberg
Lectures on the science of language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in April, May, & June, 1861 4th edition London 1864 Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green,
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Excursions in Southern Africa, including a history of the Cape Colony: An account of the native tribes etc. 2 volumes London 1849 William Shoberl
The Natal Agricultural Journal [Pietermaritzburg] [1898–1911] [Natal Department of Agriculture] (from 1911 continued by The Agricultural Journal of the Union of South Africa)
Natal Daily News see Daily News
(The) Natal Mercury Durban 1852– (first publ. as Natal Mercury and Commercial and Shipping Gazette; weekend edition Weekend Mercury merged with Saturday News to form Natal on Saturday))
The Natal Witness Pietermaritzburg 1846– (with title Natal Witness, and Agricultural and Commercial Advertiser?1863–73)
The native tribes of South West Africa with contributions by C.H.L. Hahn, L. Fourie, & H. Vedder Cape Town 1928 Cape Times
The native tribes of the Transvaal London 1905 Harrison & Sons
The Natives and their missionaries, by a Native Minister see
reprint Pretoria 1962 University of Pretoria
The road to Avalon Cape Town 1944 Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd.
7th edition Cape Town 1945 Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd.
Economic influences on the South African frontier, 1652-1836 Stanford, Calif. 1957 Stanford University Press
New Coin Poetry (publ. by South African Poetry Society; later by Institute for the Study of English in Africa) Grahamstown 1965–
A new English dictionary on a historical basis: The compact edition of the Oxford English dictionary 2 volumes Oxford, U.K. 1971
A new English dictionary on historical principles; founded mainly on the material collected by the Philological Society edited by J.A.H. Murray, H. Bradley, W.A. Craigie & C.T. Onions 10 volumes Oxford, U.K. 1888–1928
see also The Oxford English dictionary
New Nation Johannesburg [1985–] South African Catholic Bishops Conference (with Sunday edition Sunday Nation)
New South African Writing Cape Town c1964–1968 South African Centre of the International P.E.N. Club (series of 5 annual volumes) Purnell; and: Hillbrow, Johannesburg 1977 Lorton Publications
see also South African P.E.N. year book
A dictionary of birds London 1899 Adam and Charles Black publ. originally in four parts, 1893-96, cheap issue publ. October 1899
The Khoikhoi rebellion in the Eastern Cape: 1799–1803 Cape Town 1981 Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town (Communications No. 5)
Fifty years in South Africa: Being some recollections and reflections of a veteran pioneer London 1898 W.W. Greener
The sportsman in South Africa: The haunts, habits, description, and the pursuit of all game, both fur and feather, found south of the Zambesi (including the Cape Colony, Transvaal, Bechuanaland, Natal, and Damaraland), at the present day, with brief notices of the best known fresh and salt-water fish London 1892 British & Colonial Publications and Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent
Among the Boers: Or, notes of a trip to South Africa in search of health London 1880 Remington and Co.
new edition London 1882 Remington and Co.
Descriptive handbook of the Cape Colony: Its condition and resources Cape Town 1875 J.C. Juta
(editor) Illustrated official handbook of the Cape and South Africa: A resume of the history, conditions, populations, productions, and resources of the several colonies, states, and territories Cape Town 1893 J.C. Juta & Co.
With the Boers in the Transvaal and Orange Free State in 1880-1 London 1882
facsimile reprint Johannesburg 1976 Africana Book Society
How Kimberley was held for England: The story of a four months' siege Cape Town [1900] The S.A. "Electric" Printing & Publishing Co.
Now everyone is afraid: The changing face of policing in South Africa London 1988 Catholic Institute for International Relations
The peoples of Southern Africa and their affinities Oxford, U.K. 1985 Clarendon Press (Research monographs on human population biology)
Nusas talks to the ANC Cape Town c1986 National Union of South African Students Reportback on meeting between the National Union of South African Students and the African National Congress, held from Sunday 31 March to Tuesday 2 April 1986 in Harare, Zimbabwe
[Synodical government] 1870–1970: The making of a tradition (centenary lecture delivered by the Revd. Michael Nuttall) Johannesburg 1970 [CPSA/SPCK]
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A grammar of the Sindebele dialect of Zulu with numerous examples and a key to the exercises Bulawayo [1912] Ellis Allen
Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls: A naturalist’s wanderings in the interior of South Africa London 1889 Kegan Paul, Trench
The Cape house and its interior: An inquiry into the sources of Cape architecture, & a survey of built-in early Cape domestic woodwork Stellenbosch 1985 Stellenbosch Museum
Official place names in the Union and South West Africa Pretoria 1952 Place Names Committee, Department of Education, Arts, & Science
Official year book of the Union and of Basutoland, Bechuanaland Protectorate, and Swaziland Pretoria c1917–c1961 Union Office of Census & Statistics; later, Bureau of Census & Statistics
Africa: Being an accurate description of the regions of Ægypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, the land of Negroes, Guinee, Æthiopia, and the Abyssines, with all the adjacent islands, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern, or Oriental Sea, belonging thereunto. London 1670 Tho. Johnson
The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language: a complete encyclopedic lexicon, literary, scientific, and technological edited by Charles Annandale new edition 4 volumes London 1882 Blackie & Son
A beginner’s guide to our birds Durban 1978 Wildlife Society of Southern Africa, Natal Branch
2nd edition Durban 1980 Wildlife Society of Southern Africa, Natal Branch
Savannah syncopators: African retentions in the blues 2nd edition (1974 reprint) New York 1970 Stein and Day
Transvaal Lowveld and Escarpment, including the Kruger National Park Cape Town 1984 Botanical Society of South Africa (South African Wild Flower Guide No. 4)
The Open Universities in South Africa Johannesburg 1957 Witwatersrand University Press publ. on behalf of the conference of representatives of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, held in Cape Town on 9, 10 and 11 January 1958
Notes and descriptions of a few injurious farm & Fruit Insects of South Africa London 1889 Simpkin, Marshall & Co.
A practical treatise on diseases of the skin for the use of students and practitioners [Philadelphia] 1915 Lea & Febiger
History of the Basutus of South Africa Cape Town 1857 Cape Argus
Salute the sappers 2 volumes Johannesburg 1981–1982 (South African forces: World War II series: Vol. VIII Part 1)
Our first half century 1910–1960: Golden Jubilee of the Union of South Africa Johannesburg 1960 Da Gama
Outpost: Stories of the police of Rhodesia with illustrations by P. Miller Cape Town 1970 Books of Africa
Outpost: Stories of the police of Rhodesia with illustrations by P. Miller Cape Town 1970 Books of Africa
A voyage to Suratt in the year 1689 London 1696 Jacob Tonson
edited by H.G. Rawlinson London 1929 (first publ. 1696; quotations are taken from the 1929 edition, but dated simply 1696)
The diary of the Reverend Francis Owen, M.A.: Missionary with Dingaan in 1837–38, together with extracts from the writings of the interpreters in Zulu, Messrs Hulley and Kirkman edited by G.E. Cory Cape Town 1926 Van Riebeeck Society (No. 7)
Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta, under the direction of Captain W.F.W. Owen, R.N., by command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty 2 volumes London 1833 Richard Bentley
The Oxford English dictionary 2nd edition prepared by J.A. Simpson & E.S.C. Weiner 20 volumes Oxford, U.K. 1989
Oxford English dictionary additions series edited by J.A. Simpson & E.S.C. Weiner 2 volumes Oxford, U.K. 1993
The Oxford History of South Africa edited by Monica Wilson & Leonard Thompson 2 volumes Oxford, U.K. 1969–1971 Clarendon Press
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P.E.N. 1960: New South African writing and a survey of fifty years of creative achievement Johannesburg 1960 South African Centre of the International P.E.N. Club
see also New South African Writing see also South African P.E.N. year book
see Report of W. Coates Palgrave, Esq., special commissioner to the tribes north of the Orange River, of his mission to Damaraland and Great Namaqualand in 1876
Pan-African congress on prehistory see Proceedings of the Pan-African congress on prehistory
Papers presented at symposia on ethnomusicology Grahamstown 1980– International Library of African Music
Floræ Capensis Medicæ Prodromus; or, an enumeration of South African indigenous plants, used as remedies by the colonists of the Cape of Good Hope Cape Town 1850 A.S. Robertson
2nd edition Cape Town 1857 W. Brittain
3rd edition Cape Town 1868
South African sports: Cricket, football, athletics, cycling, tennis, racing, polo, golf, gymnastics, boxing, shooting, etc.: An official handbook, with portraits of leading athletes and officials London 1897 Sampson Low, Marston, and Company
A voyage round the world, in the Gorgon Man of War: Captain John Parker. Performed and written by his widow; for the advantage of a numerous family (bound with A narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay by Captain Watkin Tench , and A voyage round the world, in his majesty's frigate Pandora by Mr George Hamilton) London 1795 John Nichols
(editor) Lives, letters and diaries Cape Town 1971 Purnell (English literature in South Africa Series: Vol. I)
(editor) A dictionary of forces' slang 1939–1945 London 1948 Secker & Warburg
A narrative of four journeys into the country of the Hottentots, and Caffraria, in the years 1777, 1778, and 1779: Illustrated with a map, and seventeen copper-plates London 1789 J. Johnson
2nd edition 1790
Apartheid and the Archbishop: The life and times of Geoffrey Clayton, Archbishop of Cape Town Cape Town 1973 David Philip
Sponono: A play in three acts New York 1965 Charles Scribner’s Sons
another edition Cape Town 1983 David Philip
Patriot-Woordeboek Paarl 1902 D.F. Du Toit & Co.
edited by H.J.J.M. van der Merwe Pretoria 1968 J.L. van Schaik Bpk
In the heart of the whore: The story of apartheid’s death squads Halfway House 1991 Southern Book Publishers
The reminiscences of Richard Paver edited by Andrew H. Duminy & L.J.G. Adcock Cape Town 1979 A.A. Balkema (The Graham’s Town Series: No. 5)
The dead will arise: Nongqawuse and the great Xhosa cattle-killing movement of 1856–7 Johannesburg 1989 Ravan Press
An account of the Cape of Good Hope; containing an historical view of its original settlement by the Dutch, its capture by the British in 1795, and the different policy pursued there by the Dutch and British governments. Also a sketch of its geography, productions, the manners and customs of the inhabitants, &c. &c. with a view of the political and commercial advantages which might be derived from its possession by Great Britain London 1804 C. and R. Baldwin
reprint New York 1804 Negro Universities Press
Africanderisms: A glossary of South African colloquial words and phrases and of place and other names London 1913 Longmans, Green and Co. [Note Some of the quotations used in this book are cited verbatim in the dictionary, with Pettman acknowledged in parentheses]
Philipps, 1820 settler: His letters edited by A. Keppel-Jones Pietermaritzburg 1960 Shuter & Shooter
An introduction to the study of the South African grasses with notes on their structure, distribution, cultivation, etc. [Johannesburg] 1931 CNA (South African Agricultural Series: Vol. 6)
The freshwater fishes of the Kruger National Park Johannesburg 1968 National Parks Board of South Africa
another edition 1978
Pietersburg English Medium School Magazine [Pietersburg] [1954–1959] [Pietersburg English Medium School]
The journals of Sophia Pigot 1819–21 edited by Margaret Rainier Grahamstown 1974 Albany Museum history division (The Graham’s Town Series: No. 3)
British Indians in the Transvaal: Trade, politics and imperial relations 1885–1906 London 1976 Longman
The cabin boy: Being the memoirs of an officer in the Civil Department of H.M. Navy, well known by the name of "Billy Pitt," and who died at Malta in the month of August, 1839 London 1840 Hamilton, Adams, and Co.
The Boer War diary of Sol T. Plaatje: An African at Mafeking edited by J.L. Comaroff Johannesburg 1973 Macmillan
The Zulu in three tenses: Being a forecast of the Zulu’s future in the light of his past and present Pietermaritzburg 1905 P. Davis
Book of South African Wines (title varies as John Platter South African Wines, John Platter’s South African Wine Guide etc.) Somerset West, later Hermanus 1980– John & Erica Platter, later Andrew McDowell
Cape Colony (Cape Province): Its history, commerce, industries and resources London 1910–1911 The Foreign and Colonial Compiling and Publishing Co.
A subaltern’s sick leave, or…a visit in search of health to China and the Cape of Good Hope Calcutta 1837
The Zulu companion, offered to the Natal colonist, to facilitate his intercourse with the natives Pietermaritzburg 1850 D.D. Buchanan
Post Durban 1955– (with title Golden City Post 1955–60; numerous editions; Transvaal edition (1977–80) absorbed (The) Bantu World in 1955, continued by Sowetan)
Characteristics and uses of selected trees and shrubs cultivated in South Africa Pretoria 1984 Directorate of Forestry
The journals of Elizabeth Lees Price written in Bechuanaland, Southern Africa 1854–1883, with an epilogue: 1889 and 1900 edited by Ursula Long London 1956 Edward Arnold
Friends and foes in the Transkei: An Englishwoman’s experiences during the Cape Frontier War of 1877–8 London 1880 Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
African sketches London 1834 Edward Moxon
Proceedings of a Conference of writers, publishers, editors and university teachers of English held at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg from the 10-12 July, 1956 Johannesburg 1957 Witwatersrand University Press
Proceedings of, and evidence taken by, the Commission on Native Affairs Grahamstown 1865 Cape of Good Hope
Proceedings of the Languages for All Conference: Towards a Pan South African Language Board: 27–28 May 1994 Pretoria 1994
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London London 1833–1965 Zoological Society of London (continued by Journal of zoology)
Progress through separate development: South Africa in peaceful transition New York 1965 South African Department of Information
another edition New York 1967 South African Department of Information
2nd edition (international) New York 1968 South African Department of Information
4th edition New York 1973 South African Department of Information
Hakluytus posthumus, or Purchas his pilgrimes 5 volumes London 1625 Henrie Fetherstone
20 volumes Glasgow 1905 James MacLehose and Sons
The Purple Renoster Johannesburg 1956–1972; independent publication nos. 1-8, 1956-1968, Kraus reprint, Nendeln/Liechtenstein 1974; independent publication nos. 9-12, 1969-1972 Kraus reprint edition Nendeln/Liechtenstein 1978
South Africa: Its peoples, progress and problems: A handbook for the present situation London 1896 Chapman & Hall
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Quarry '78–9: New South African writing edited by L. Abrahams Pretoria 1979 A.D. Donker Quarry '80–82: New South African writing edited by W. Saunders Pretoria 1982 A.D. Donker Quarry: New South African writing Johannesburg 1976–1982 A.D. DonkerQuarry: New South African writing Johannesburg 1976–1982 A.D. Donker
see also New South African Writing
Quarterly Bulletin of the South African Library (title varies) Cape Town 1946– South African Library
Queenstown Daily Representative and Border Chronicle Queenstown 1865–1927 (merged with Queenstown Free Press to become Queenstown Daily Representative and Free Press 1901; title varies as Daily Representative and Free Press 1905–23, and Queenstown Daily Representative and Free Press 1923–7; continued by Daily Representative)
Queenstown Free Press Queenstown 1859–1901 (merged with Queenstown Daily Representative and Border Chronicle)
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(editor) The records of a pioneer family, being letters and diaries of Alfred Essex, William Rabone, and Harriet Rabone Cape Town 1966 Struik
Race relations survey Johannesburg 1946– South African Institute of Race Relations (title varies as (A) survey of race relations (in South Africa))
Malaboch, or, notes from my diary on the Boer campaign of 1894 against the Chief Malaboch of Blaauwberg, District Zoutpansberg, South African Republic, to which is appended a synopsis of the Johannesburg crisis of 1896 London 1898 Sampson Low, Marston
Malaboch, or, notes from my diary on the Boer campaign of 1894 against the Chief Malaboch of Blaauwberg, District Zoutpansberg, South African Republic, to which is appended a synopsis of the Johannesburg crisis of 1896 London 1898 Sampson Low, Marston
(editor) Beschryvinge van Kaap der Goede Hoope, met de zaaken daar toe behoorende, door François Valentyn, 1726 2 volumes Cape Town 1971–1973 Van Riebeeck Society (Nos II-2 and II-4)
Daughter of yesterday: A pioneer child looks back at early Johannesburg Cape Town 1975 Howard Timmins
War’s brighter side: The story of The Friend newspaper: Edited by the correspondents with Lord Roberts’s forces, March-April, 1900 London 1901 Arthur Pearson
another edition Johannesburg 1901 Juta
Gentlemen of the law: An account of some of the legal firms and practitioners of the Eastern Cape Lovedale 1982 Lovedale Press
Dictionary of Southern African place names 1st edition Johannesburg 1987 Lowry Publishers
2nd edition Johannesburg 1989 Jonathan Ball Publishers
[Published as New Dictionary of South African place names.] 3rd edition Johannesburg 2004 Jonathan Ball Publishers
Before Van Riebeeck: Callers at South Africa from 1488 to 1652 Cape Town 1967 Struik
The voyages of Diogo Cão and Bartholomeu Dias, 1482–88 (reprinted from Geographical Journal Vol. 16 No. 6, Dec. 1900) London 1900 W. Clowes and Sons
reprint Pretoria 1986 The State Library
The Reader: A step to better English Johannesburg 1979– (until Aug. 1979 with title – – : a paper in easy English)
Reader’s Digest complete guide to gardening in South Africa 2 volumes Cape Town 1971 Reader’s Digest Association
2nd edition 1974
Reader’s Digest family guide to the law in South Africa Cape Town 1982 Reader’s Digest
edited by C. Walton 3rd edition Cape Town 1986 Reader’s Digest
Reader’s Digest illustrated guide to southern Africa edited by Vic Mayhew Cape Town 1989 Reader’s Digest Association
Reader’s Digest illustrated history of South Africa: The real story edited by Dougie Oakes Cape Town 1988 Reader’s Digest Association
edited by D. Oakes 2nd edition 1989
The Collegiate School for Girls, Port Elizabeth 1874–1974 Port Elizabeth 1974 The Collegiate School for Girls
The regional services councils Pretoria 1988 Bureau for Information
The bush-boys; or, the history and adventures of a Cape farmer and his family in the wild Karoos of Southern Africa London 1856 David Bogue
another edition Boston 1857 Ticknor and Fields
Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope and up the Red Sea, with Travels in Egypt, through the deserts & c. in the course of the last war Manchester, U.K. 1804 J. Watts
2nd edition Manchester, U.K. 1813 M. Wilson
Report by the Chief Commissioner of police for the Union of South Africa, for the year 1911 1913 [Parl. Paper UG62-1912]
Report of Commission of Enquiry into legislation affecting utilization of manpower (Chairman: F.H. Odendaal) Parl. Paper R.P.12-1964
Report of Commission of Enquiry into South West Africa Affairs 1962–1963 (Chairman: F.H. Odendaal) Parl. Paper R.P.12-1964
Report of the Ciskei Commission [appointed in terms of Government Notice 14, Ciskei Official Gazette Vol. 6 No. 177 of 4 August 1978] Silverton 1980 Conference Associates (Chairman: G.P. Quail)
Report of the Commission appointed to enquire into acts of violence committed by Natives at Krugersdorp, Newlands, Randfontein and Newclare (Chairman: J. de V. Louw) 1950 Parl. Paper UG47-1950
Report of the Commission for the socio-economic development of the Bantu areas within the Union of South Africa see Summary of the report of the Commission for socio-economic development of the Bantu areas within the Union of South Africa
Report of the Commission of Enquiry in regard to the provision of separate training facilities for non-Europeans at universities (Chairman: J.E. Holloway) 1954
Report of the Commission on Native education 1949–1951 (Chairman: W.M. Eiselen) 1951 Parl. Paper UG53-1951
The report of the Committee of the Wesleyan-Methodist Missionary Society for the year ending April, 1872 London 1872 Wedleyan Missionary Society
Report of the director of nature and environmental conservation No. 34 1977–78 Cape Town 1978 Department of Nature & Environmental Conservation
Report of the National Road Board for the calendar year 1938 (Chairman: P.I. Hoogenhout) 1939 Parl. Paper UG19-1939
Report of the Native Laws Commission 1946–48 (Chairman: H.A. Fagan) Pretoria 1948 Government Printer Parl. Paper UG28–1948
Report of the Natives Affairs Commission appointed to enquire into the working of the provisions of the Natives (Urban Areas) Act relating to the use and supply of Kaffir beer (Chairman: G.H. Nicholls) Pretoria 1942 Government Printer
Report of the proceedings of the Natives Representative Council held at Pretoria in November, 1938 (Chairman: D.L. Smit) [1939] Parl. Paper UG10-1939
Report of the Railways & Harbours Board for the year ended 31st December, 1937 1938 Parl. Paper UG41-1938
Report of the Railways & Harbours Board for the year ended 31 December, 1938 1939 Parl. Paper UG21-1939
Report of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science Cape Town 1909– South African Association for the Advancement of Science
see also South African Journal of Science
Report of W. Coates Palgrave, Esq., special commissioner to the tribes north of the Orange River, of his mission to Damaraland and Great Namaqualand in 1876 Cape Town 1877 Saul Solomon and Co. Cape Parl. Paper G.50–'77
reprint Pretoria 1969 The State Library
Reports of the commissioners of inquiry on the Cape of Good Hope I. Upon the administration of the Government at the Cape of Good Hope; II. Upon the finances at the Cape of Good Hope Cape Town 1827
Republic of South Africa. Parliament. House of Assembly. Debates Cape Town 1961– [Note The name Hansard is used in quotations to refer to South African parliamentary debates since Union in 1910]
Voyage of the United States Frigate Potomac, under the command of Commodore John Downes, during the circumnavitation of the globe, in the years 1831, 1832, 1833, and 1834 New York 1835 Harper & Brothers
Contemporary social pathology 1st edition Pretoria 1966 Academica
2nd revised edition Pretoria 1978 Academica
(editor) A dictionary of international slurs (ethnopaulisms): With a supplementary essay on aspects of ethic prejudice Cambridge, Mass. [1944] Sci-Art Publishers
The birds of South Africa London 1940 H.F. & G. Witherby
6th impression London 1948
Mission life among the Zulu-Kafirs: Memorials of Henrietta Robertson edited by Anne Mackenzie Cambridge 1866 Deighton, Bell, and Co.
Noah’s Ark; or, "Mornings in the Zoo." being a contribution to the study of unnatural history London 1882 Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
A life time in South Africa, being the recollections of the firstpremier of Natal London 1900 Smith, Elder & Co.
Pretoria 1968 State Library
On trek in the Transvaal; or, over berg and veldt in South Africa 4th edition London 1878 Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington
The Black Sash: The story of the South African Women’s Defence of the Constitution League Johannesburg 1956
Melina Rorke: Her amazing experiences in the stormy nineties of South Africa’s story London 1939 Harrap
James Rose Innes: Chief Justice of South Africa, 1914–27: Autobiography edited by B.A. Tindall Oxford, U.K. 1949 OUP
African Switzerland Cape Town 1948 Juta & Co.
Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa London 1961 Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd
2nd edition 1964
3rd edition 1965
4th edition 1967
6th edition 1973
General de Wet: A biography Cape Town 1946 Unie-Volkspers
Dassie edition [Johannesburg] [a1956] (first publ. 1946; quotations are taken from the Dassie edition, but dated simply 1946)
Meet me at the Carlton: The story of Johannesburg’s old Carlton Hotel Cape Town 1972 Howard B. Timmins
Diary of the siege of Mafeking October 1899 to May 1900 edited by Brian P. Willan Cape Town 1980 Van Riebeeck Society (No. II-11)
Adam Kok’s Griquas: A study in the development of stratification in South Africa Cambridge, U.K. 1976 Cambridge University Press
Letters on the elements of botany. Addressed to a lady (translated by Thomas Martyn) 2nd edition London 1787 B. White and Son
Natal: The land and its story: A geography and History for the Use of Schools Pietermaritzburg 1891 P. Davis and Sons
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S.A. Medical Journal Cape Town 1932– (incorporating the 'S.A. Medical Record' and 'Medical Journal of S.A.') Medical Association of South Africa
(translator) Fryke & Schweitzer’s A relation of two several journeys made into the East-Indies by Christopher Fryke .. and Christopher Schewitzer [sic] London 1700
S.W. Silver & Co.’s handbook to South Africa London 1880 S.W. Silver & Co.
3rd edition London 1887 S.W. Silver & Co.
(editor) Herman Charles Bosman as I knew him: S.A. Opinion-Trek Anthology Johannesburg 1971 Dial Press
(editor) Never a young man: Extracts from the letters and journals of the Rev. William Shaw Cape Town 1967 HAUM
A voyage to Abyssinia, and travels into the interior of that country, executed under the orders of the British Government, in the years 1809 and 1810 London 1814
Sam Sly’s African Journal: A register of facts, fiction, news, literature, commerce and amusement Cape Town 1843–1849 (continuation of The South African Advocate and Cape Town Spectator; continued by The African Journal)
Eight months in an ox-waggon: Reminiscences of Boer life London 1880 Griffith & Farran
facsimile reprint Johannesburg 1975 Africana Book Society
Saturday News see Daily News
Saturday Star see The Star
(editor) Apprenticeship at Kuruman: Being the journals and letters of Robert and Mary Moffat, 1820-1828 London 1951 Chatto & Windus (Oppenheimer Series: No. 5)
The Bantu-speaking tribes of South Africa: An ethnographical survey 4th impression (1953) London 1937 Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.
(editor) The early Cape Hottentots: Described in the writings of Olfert Dapper (1668), Willem ten Rhyne (1686) and Johannes Gulielmus de Grevenbroek (1695) / the original texts, with translations into English by I. Schapera … and B. Farrington; edited, with an introduction and notes, by I. Schapera Cape Town 1933 Van Riebeeck Society (No. 14)
Journal of a lady of quality; being the narrative of a journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the years 1774 to 1776 edited by Evangeline Walker Andrews & Charles McLean Andrews New Haven 1921 Yale University Press
(translator) E. Kaempfer’s The History of Japan: Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam 1690–92 [London] 1727
reprint Glasgow 1906 James MacLehose and Sons
The concise illustrated South African Encyclopaedia Johannesburg 1980 Central News Agency (Pty) Ltd.
Closer Union: A letter on the South African Union and the principles of government Cape Town 1960 A.C. Fifield (first publ. 1909)
The nettle: Political power and race relations in South Africa Johannesburg 1964 South African Institute of Race Relations
The new South Africa: A journey up the Chobe and down the Okobango rivers. A record of exploration and sport New York 1897 Heinemann
The Kalahari and its native races: Being the account of a journey through Ngamiland and the Kalahari, with a special study of the natives in that area London 1928 Witherby
The mammals of South Africa 2 volumes London 1900–1901 R.H. Porter (Fauna of South Africa) Vol 1 (1900): Primates, Carnivora and Ungulata; Vol. II (1901): Rodentia, Chiroptera, Insectivora, Cetacea and Edentata
Between sun and sand: A tale of an African desert London 1898 Methuen & Co
Reading the signs [inaugural address delivered at Rhodes University on 24 May 1976] Grahamstown 1976 Rhodes University
Select Committee Report on Mission to Damaraland see Report of W. Coates Palgrave, Esq., special commissioner to the tribes north of the Orange River, of his mission to Damaraland and Great Namaqualand in 1876
Races of Africa London 1930 Thornton Butterworth, Ltd.
1st revised edition 1939 Thornton Butterworth Ltd.
3rd edition 1957 Oxford University Press
A hunter’s wanderings in Africa: being a narrative of nine years spent amongst the game of the far interior of South Africa containing accounts of explorations beyond the Zambesi, on the River Chobe, and in the Matabele and Mashuna countries, with full notes upon the natural history and present distribution of all the large mammalia 2nd edition London 1890 Richard Bentley & Son
Setswana dictionary: Setswana-English and English-Setswana edited by J. Tom Brown 3rd edition Johannesburg 1925 (first publ. c1875)
reprint with new preface by J.D. Jones dated 1965 Johannesburg 1982 Pula Press
The settler Johannesburg 1938–1983 The 180 Settlers Association of Soutth Africa (continuation of The 1820)
The private diary of the village harbour-master 1875–97 edited by Clare Dalton Storrar Plettenberg Bay 1983 Ladywood Publisher
The pocket English-Hindustani dictionary (containing words of everyday use) Karachi [c1944] The Educational Publishing Co.
Memorials of Southern Africa London 1840 J. Mason
another revised edition including appendix London 1841 J. Mason
General Zoology or Systematic Natural History 14 volumes London 1800–1826 G. Kearsley Vol.II, Part 1: Mammalia (1801)
Diary. 1820–1829 Typescript. Cory MS 1132
The works, in verse and prose, of William Shenstone, Esq; containing letters to particular friends, from the year 1739 to 1763 London 1769 J. Dodsley
2nd edition 1769
Memoirs of the extraordinary military career of John Shipp, late a Lieutenant in his Majesty’s 87th regiment 2nd edition Volume 1 London 1830 Hurst, Chance, and Co. (first publ. 1828)
(editor) Some protected birds of the Cape Province Cape Town 1962 Department of Nature Conservation, Cape Provincial Administration
another edition 1967
Flowering trees and shrubs for use in South Africa Johannesburg 1919 Specialty Press of S.A. Ltd.
A dictionary of trade products, commercial, manufacturing, and technical terms: with a definition of the moneys, weights, and measures, of all countries, reduced to the British standard new edition London 1858 G. Routledge & Co.
new edition London 1863 Routledge, Warne, & Routledge
(editor) Black Mamba Rising: South African worker poets in struggle Durban 1986 Worker Resistance and Culture Publications
African insect life Cape Town [1953] Longmans Green and Co.
new edition edited by J. Ledger Johannesburg 1979 Struik
Historical mammal incidence in the Cape Province 2 volumes Cape Town 1980 Cape Provincial Administration
Malay magic being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay peninsula London 1993 Macmillan and Co., Limited
A complete guide to the freshwater fishes of Southern Africa Halfway House 1993 Southern Book Publishers
Our trees: Identification of fifty common trees indigenous to the Eastern Cape Province Port Elizabeth 1974 Express Litho Services
The slang dictionary; or the vulgar words, street phrases, and 'fast' expressions of high and low society edited by J.G. Hotten London 1872
Andrew Smith’s journal of his expedition into the interior of South Africa, 1834–6: An authentic narrative of travels and discoveries, the manners and customs of the native tribes, and the physical nature of the country edited by W.F. Lye Cape Town 1975 A.A. Balkema
A contribution to South African materia medica, chiefly from plants in use among natives Lovedale, Eastern Cape 1885 Lovedale Mission Press
2nd edition Lovedale, Eastern Cape 1888
3rd edition Lovedale, Eastern Cape 1895
The diary of Dr. Andrew Smith, director of the 'Expedition for exploring Central Africa,' 1834–1836 edited by P.R. Kirby 2 volumes Cape Town Vol I 1939, Vol II 1940 Van Riebeeck Society (Nos 20 and 21)
Illustrations of the zoology of South Africa: Consisting chiefly of figures and descriptions of the objects of natural history collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa, in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836 5 volumes London 1849 Smith, Elder & Co. (Aves, Invertebratæ, Mammalia, Pisces, Reptilia)
Conversations, introducing poetry: Chiefly on subjects of natural history. For the use of children and young persons London 1863 T. Nelson and Sons
Common names of South African plants edited by E. Percy Phillips & Estelle Van Hoepen Pretoria 1966 Department of Agricultural Technical Services (Botanical Survey Memoir No. 35)
A dictionary of popular names of the plants which furnish the natural and acquired wants of man, in all matters of domestic and general economy. Their history, products, & uses London 1882 Macmillan
Common and scientific names of the fishes of Southern Africa (Part I Marine Fishes by Smith, Part II Freshwater Fishes by Jackson) Grahamstown 1975 Rhodes University
The beadle another edition (Travellers' Library) London 1926 Jonathan Cape
another edition (Travellers' Library) London 1929 Jonathan Cape
The great gold lands of South Africa: A vacation run in Cape Colony, Natal, the Orange Free State, and the Transvaal London 1891 Ward, Lock, and Co.
Horticulture: A guide to amateurs in the fruit, vegetable and flower garden, greenhouse, conservatory and stoep Uitenhage [1898] Smith Bros.
South Africa delineated; or, sketches, historical and descriptive, of its tribes and missions, and of the British colonies of the Cape and Port-Natal London 1850 John Mason
Land mammals of Southern Africa: A field guide Braamfontein 1986 Macmillan South Africa (Publishers) (Pty) Ltd
The sailor’s word-book: An alphabetical digest of nautical terms, including some more especially military and scientific, but useful to seamen; as well as archaisms of early voyagers, etc. London 1867 Blackie and Son
Some protected wild flowers of the Cape Province Cape Town 1967 Department of Nature Conservation, Cape Provincial Administration
Somerset budget [incorporating Winterberg News, and Fort Beaufort Advocate] Somerset East 1991– Somerset Budget
William Somerville’s narrative of his journeys to the Eastern Cape frontier and to Lattakoe, 1799–1802 edited by E. Bradlow & F. Bradlow Cape Town 1979 Van Riebeeck Society (No. II-10)
South Africa in the Sixties: A socio-economic survey edited by H.T. Andrews et al. Cape Town 1962 South Africa Foundation
South Africa: Last stronghold of steam Johannesburg 1982 Publicity & Travel Department, South African Transport Services
2nd revised edition Cape Town 1965 South Africa Foundation
South Africa: Official yearbook of the Republic of South Africa Johannesburg c1975– Department of Information; later, Information Service of South Africa, Department of Foreign Affairs & Information, Bureau for Information
South Africa Speaks London 1962 Director of Information, South African Embassy, London ('Reports on the State of South Africa' No. 21 — a selection of the South Africa House columns that appeared in the Sunday Times, London, between December 1960 and February 1962)
The South African Advocate and Cape Town Spectator Cape Town 1843 (continued by Sam Sly’s African Journal)
South African Agricultural Journal see The Agricultural Journal of the Union of South Africa
The South African almanac(k) and directory Cape Town 1827–1835 (continuation of (The) African court calendar (and directory); title varies; continued by The Cape of Good Hope almanac and annual register)
The South African Consumer see The SA Consumer/Die SA Verbruiker
South African Garden Manual: Hitherto known as the S.A. Garden Annual, in which form four editions were printed: A compendium of garden practice under S. African conditions 7th edition Cape Town 1937 The Speciality Press of S. Africa Ltd.
The South African Illustrated Magazine Cape Town 1900–1906 (continuation of Cape Illustrated Magazine; continued by The South African Magazine)
South African Journal of Science Cape Town 1909– See also Report of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science
South African Labour Bulletin Johannesburg 1974– (until 1982 publ. in Durban) Institute for Industrial Education
The South African Law Journal Cape Town 1901– (continuation of The Cape Law Journal; until 1910 publ. in Grahamstown)
The South African Magazine Cape Town 1906–1907 (continuation of The South African Illustrated Magazine)
South African P.E.N. year book Johannesburg 1954–1957 South African Centre of the International P.E.N. Club
South African P.E.N. year book 1956–1957 Cape Town 1957 South African Centre of the International P.E.N. Club see also New South African Writing see also P.E.N. 1960: New South African writing and a survey of fifty years of creative achievement
South Africa’s heritage: How our forefathers lived, worked and played, from Van Riebeeck to XIXth century times 5 volumes Cape Town 1960–1964 Caltex
The South and East African year book and guide with atlas and diagrams London 1894– Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.
The South Western Herald/Suidwestelike Herald George 1971–1978 (continuation of George and Knysna Herald; continued by The Herald Phoenix)
South Africa’s Transkei : The political economy of an "independent" Bantustan New York 1983 Monthly Review Press
A voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the antarctic polar circle, and round the world: But chiefly into the country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the year 1772, to 1776. (translated from the Swedish original by George Forster) 2 volumes London 1785 G.G.J. and J. Robinson
2nd edition 2 volumes London 1786 G.G.J. and J. Robinson
edited by V.S. Forbes (based on the English editions of 1785-1786 published by Robinson, London; translation revised by J. & I. Rudner) 2 volumes Cape Town 1975–1977 Van Riebeeck Society (Nos II-6 and II-7)
Doorstep-baby: An autobiography Cape Town 1959 Juta
see Before his Majesty in Council. Cape of Good Hope. Between William Brown Master, and Andrew Spooner, supercargo of the American ship, the Five Brothers, Appellants, and Willem Stephanus van Ryneveld, Ex Officio, Attorney-General, Respondent. Appendix to the Respondent’s case
Standard hospital diets in use at the Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town Cape Town 1943 Paul Koston
The Congo and the founding of its Free State: A story of work and exploration London 1885 Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington
The Star Johannesburg 1889–1900; 1901– (continuation of The Eastern Star; with title Comet 25 Mar.–13 Apr. 1897; weekend editions Saturday Star and Sunday Star)
The birds of South Africa 4 volumes London 1900–1906 R.H. Porter (Fauna of South Africa) Vol 1 (1900): Passerines; Vol. II (1901); Vol. III (1903): Picarians, Parrots, Owls and Hawks; Vol. IV (1906): Game-Birds, Shore-Birds and Sea-Birds
State of South Africa: Economic, financial and statistical year-book for the Republic of South Africa Johannesburg 1962–1978 Da Gama Publications
State of South Africa: Economic, financial and statistical year-book for the Republic of South Africa 1967 Johannesburg c1967 Da Gama Publications
State of the Union: Economic, financial and statistical year-book for the Union of South Africa 1959–60 Johannesburg c1960 Da Gama Publications
The statute law of Southern Rhodesia (from the Charter to DFecember 31, 1898) Salisbury 1899 Argus Printing and Publishing Company edited and annotated by Morgan O. Evans
Statute law of the Cape of Good Hope, comprising the placaats, proclamations and ordinances, enacted before the establishment of the colonial parliament and still wholly or in part in force Cape Town 1862
Statutes of Natal…being a compilation of the statutes of the Colony of Natal from the years 1845 to 1899 edited by R.L. Hitchins & G.W. Sweeney 3 volumes Pietermaritzburg 1900–1902 P. Davis & Sons
Statutes of the Cape of Good Hope passed by the first parliament during the sessions 1854–1858 Cape Town 1883
Statutes of the Cape of Good Hope passed by the third parliament during the sessions 1864–1868 Cape Town 1868 Saul Solomon & Co.
Statutes of the Cape of Good Hope passed by the fourth parliament during the sessions 1869–1873 Cape Town 1879
Statutes of the Cape of Good Hope passed by the fifth parliament during the sessions 1874–1878 Cape Town 1882
Statutes of the Republic of South Africa see Republic of South Africa. Parliament. Statutes
Voyages to the East-Indies (translated by S.H. Wilcocke) Vol. I 1768–1771, Vol. II 1774 & 1775, Vol. III 1775–1778 3 volumes London 1798 G.G. & J. Robinson
reprint 3 volumes 1969 Dawsons of Pall Mall
Wanderings and adventures in the interior of Southern Africa 2 volumes London 1835 Longman & Co.
facsimile reprint Cape Town 1966
General Zoology or Systematic Natural History commenced by the late George Shaw [no place] 1819 J. Walker et al.
The Low-veld London 1929
A visit to the south seas, in the United States’ ship Vincennes, during the years 1829 and 1830; including scenes in Brazil, Peru, Manilla, the Cape of Good Hope, and St Helena London 1947 Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley
The toxicology of plants in South Africa together with a consideration of poisonous foodstuffs and fungi South Africa 1934 Central News Agency, Limited
Travels through Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Sicily (translated from the German by Thomas Holcroft) London 1797 G.G. and J. Robinson
The story of the Johannesburg stock exchange 1887–1947 Johannesburg 1948 Committee of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Narrative of the loss of the ship ‘Hercules’, commanded by Captain Benjamin Stout, on the coast of Caffraria … London 1798 J. Johnson
reprint Port Elizabeth 1975 Historical Society of Port Elizabeth
The native races of South Africa: A history of the intrusion of the Hottentots and Bantu into the hunting grounds of the Bushmen, the Aborigines of the country edited by George McCall Theal London 1905 Swann Sonneschein
Journal. His early life, notes on the 1819 war and detailed journal of the 1834–35 war. 1825–1835 Cory MS 14,558
Recollections of adventures: Pioneering and development in South Africa, 1850–1911 edited by his daughter, Edith Cape Town 1920 T. Maskew Miller
Hunting journal 1852–1856 in the Zulu kingdom and the Tsonga regions edited by P.L. Merrett & R. Butcher Pietermaritzburg 1991 University of Natal Press
Fashion in South Africa 1652–1900: An illustrated history of styles and materials for men, women and children, with notes on footwear, hairdressing, accessories and jewellery Cape Town 1975 Balkema
Summary of the report of the Commission for socio-economic development of the Bantu areas within the Union of South Africa (Chairman: F.R. Tomlinson) 1955 Parl. Paper UG61-1955
Sunday Nation see New Nation
Sunday Star see The Star
Sunday Tribune Durban 1935–1939; 1947– (absorbed by Natal Daily News 1939–47;with title Sunday Tribune and Sunday Post 1951–69)
(editor) Bantu prophets in South Africa London 1948 Lutterworth Press (Missionary Research Series: No. 14)
A supplement to the Oxford English dictionary edited by R.W. Burchfield 4 volumes Oxford, U.K. 1972–1986
(A) survey of race relations (in South Africa) see Race relations survey
Memoir respecting the Kaffers, Hottentots, and Bosjemans, of South Africa 2 volumes Cape Town 1845–1846
SWA/Namibia today Windhoek, South West Africa [Namibia] 1980 South West Africa/Namibia Information Service
Africanderisms: A supplement to the Rev. Charles Pettman’s ‘Glossary of South African colloquial words and phrases and of place and other names’. 1934 M.A. thesis, University of South Africa. [Note Some of the quotations used in this thesis are cited verbatim in the dictionary, with Swart acknowledged in parentheses. Note Page numbers in the glossary have been stamped, but there is an error after page 168: page 169 has been stamped 196. Correct page numbers have been handwritten in, and these numbers have been used in the quotations.] Cory 439.36 PET
With Plumer in Matabeleland: An account of the operations of the Matabeleland Relief Force during the rebellion of 1896 Westminster, U.K. 1897 Archibald Constable
facsimile reprint Bulawayo, Rhodesia [Zimbabwe] 1972
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A relation of the voyage to Siam, performed by six Jesuits, sent by the French King, to the Indies and China, in the year 1685: With their astrological observations, and their remarks of natural philosophy, geography, and history: Published in the original, by the express orders of His most Christian Majesty, and now made English, and illustrated with sculptures London 1688 J. Robinson & A. Churchil
Zoovwr: The world of a wildlife vet London 1976 George Allen & Unwin Ltd
Tobacco culture with special reference to South African Conditions South Africa 1924 Central News Agency Ltd (South African Agricultural Series: No. 4)
Ag pleez Daddy and other hits [record] [Johannesburg] 1980 Teal Record Co. Ltd.
A voyage to East-India; wherein some things are taken notice of, in our passage thither, but many more in our abode there, within that rich and most spacious empire of the Great Mogul: Mixt with some parallel observations and inferences upon the story, to profit as well as delight the reader Reprinted from the edition of 1655 with copper-plates London 1777 J. Wilkie, W. Cater, S. Hayes and E. Easton
The beginning of South African history London 1902 Fisher Unwin
Ethnography and condition of South Africa before A.D. 1505: Being a description of the inhabitants of the country south of the Zambesi and Kunune Rivers in A.D. 1505, together with all that can be learned from ancient books and modern research of the condition of South Africa from the earliest time until its discovery by Europeans 2nd edition London 1919 Allen & Unwin
History and ethnography of Africa south of the Zambesi, from the settlement of the Portuguese at Sofala in September 1505 to the conquest of the Cape Colony by the British in September 1795 3 volumes London 1907–1910 Sonnenschein
History of South Africa under the Administration of the Dutch East India Company (1652-1795) 2nd edition London 1897 Swann Sonnenschein & Co.
The Portuguese in South Africa : With a description of the native races between the river Zambesi and the Cape of Good Hope during the sixteenth century London 1896 Fisher Unwin
(editor) Journal of Jan van Riebeeck 3 volumes (Vol. I tr. by W.P.L. Van Zyl (pp. 315–383 tr. by L.C. Van Oordt), Vol. II tr. by J. Smuts, Vol. III tr. by C.K. Johnman & A. Ravenscroft) Cape Town 1952–1958 Van Riebeeck Society
Eleven Years in central South Africa: A journey into the interior; sketch of recently discovered diamond and gold fields; Umzilikazi, his country and people; a brief history of the Zambesi missions London 1872 John Snow
Matabele Thompson: An autobiography edited by his daughter, Nancy Rouillard London 1936 Faber & Faber
Travels and adventures in Southern Africa London 1827 Henry Colburn
2nd edition 2 volumes London 1827 Henry Colburn
edited by V.S. Forbes 2 volumes 1967 Van Riebeeck Society (Nos 48 and 49)
The sea fisheries of the Cape Colony from Van Riebeeck’s days to the eve of the Union Cape Town 1913 T. Maskew Miller
Poems, essays and sketches, with a memoir Thomson 1832-1867, book publ. posthumously, date must be ante 1868 Cape Town 1868 Juta
A thousand ways to die: The struggle for safety in the gold mines Johannesburg [1986] Learn & Teach Publications, for the National Union of Mineworkers
Travels at the Cape of Good Hope 1772–1775 edited by Vernon Siegfried Forbes (with revised translation by J. & I. Rudner) Cape Town 1986 Van Riebeeck Society (No II-I7)
Two lectures on Great Namaqualand and its inhabitants, delivered before the Mechanics’ Institute, Cape Town Cape Town 1856 G.J. Pike
Coastal dunes of South Africa Pretoria 1985 Foundation for Research Development, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
(editor) Khoisan linguistic studies 3 Johannesburg 1977 African Studies Institute, University of Witwatersrand (A.S.I. Communication No. 6)
Transactions of the South African Philological Society
Transactions of the Zoological Society of London London 1835–1985 Zoological Society of London (absorbed by Journal of Zoology)
Transvaal Agricultural Journal Pretoria 1902–1910 Department of Agriculture (continued by Agricultural journal of the Union of South Africa)
The Cape of Good Hope: A review of its present position as a colony, information…of advantage to the intending settler by a traveller Glasgow 1844 David Bryce
Handbook of Colonial Criminal Law. Being a compendium of the common and statute law of the Cape of Good Hope with regard to crimes, and of the procedure incident thereto Cape Town 1897 J. C. Juta and Co.
2nd edition Cape Town 1904 J. C. Juta and Co.
Trial of Andries Botha Field-cornet of the Upper Blinkwater, in the Kat River Settlement, for high treason, in the Supreme Court of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, on the 12th May, 1852 and subsequent days Cape Town 1852 Saul Solomon & Co.
Tribal natives and trade unionism: The policy of the Rand Gold Mining Industry Johannesburg 1946 The Transvaal Chamber of Mines
Old Cape Colony London 1903 Archibald Constable & Co Ltd (author’s name incorrectly printed ‘Mrs. A. P. Trotter’ on title page)
True Love Cape Town 1974–1979 Elephant Publications (continued by True Love and Family (1979-95), continued by True Love (1995–) )
The Joint Matriculation Board: Seventy five years achievement in perspective (translated by P.R.T. Nel) Joint Matriculation Board
Our beautiful peninsula: An appreciation of the charms of scenery and interesting associations of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa Cape Town [1913] Edwards
The practical cookery book for South Africa 17th edition Cape Town 1944 Nasionale Pers
28th edition Cape Town 1951 Nasionale Pers
Crying in the wilderness: The struggle for justice in South Africa 1985 reprint Grand Rapids, Mich. 1982 William B. Eerdmans
Piet Kolonel and his men: A personal record of the 1st South-West African Infantry Battalion (March, 1940, to March, 1943) Durban 1944 The Knox Printing & Publishing Co.
Tweetalige woordeboek Engels-Afrikaans edited by D.B. Bosman, I.W. van der Merwe en ander Cape Town 1931 Nasionale Pers, Beperk
Tweetalige woordeboek/bilingual dictionary 7th edition edited by D.B. Bosman, I.W. van der Merwe & L.W. Hiemstra Cape Town 1984 Tafelberg
Tweetalige woordeboek/bilingual dictionary 8th revised edition edited by P.A. Joubert & J.J. Spies Cape Town 1984
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Union of South Africa. Parliament. House of Assembly. Debates Cape Town 1910–1961 [Note The name Hansard is used in quotations to refer to South African parliamentary debates since Union in 1910]
United Kingdom. Parliamentary papers London [1840–] [Note These are referred to collectively in quotations as Imperial Blue Books]
United service magazine (with which are incorporated Army and navy magazine; and Natal and military journal) London 1829–1920
In the era of Shepstone: Being a study of British expansion in South Africa, 1842-1877 Lovedale 1933 Lovedale Press
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Headlong from heaven Cape Town [c1936] Unie-Volkspers Bpk. "probably published between 1926 and 1958"
Jan Venter, S.A.P.: A plain narrative of everyday life at a South African Police out-station Cape Town [1929] Maskew Miller
‘Van Dale’ groot woordenboek der Nederlandse taal edited by C. Kruyskamp ’s-Gravenhage, Netherlands 1961
Die polisiediens in die Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek Pretoria 1980 Government Printer (in Argiefjaarboek vir Suid-Afrikaanse Geskiedenis: 1975)
Bible route: Mozambique! Roodepoort 1977 The Bible Centre (first published under the title Tears and Prayers in August 1976)
Education and the native Cape Town 1934 Paper read at the conference of the South African Teachers’ Association on 28th June, 1934
Orange days: Memoirs of eighty years ago in the old Orange Free State written 1960 Pietermaritzburg 1965 University of Natal Press Foreword by Colin de B. Webb
The Wreck of the Grosvenor: Containing a narrative of the loss of the Grosvenor, East Indiaman wrecked on the coast of Caffraria, 1782 / compiled by George Carter from the examination of John Hynes, one of the survivors ; with a preface by C. Graham Botha. Journal of a journey from the Cape of Good Hope in 1790 and 1791, undertaken by Jacob van Reenen and others in search of the wreck of the Grosvenor (translation and introduction to Van Reenen’s Journal by Edward Riou) Cape Town 1928 Van Riebeeck Society (No. 8)
Their paths crossed mine: Memoirs of the Commandant-General of the Ossewa-Brandway [Johannesburg] 1956 Central News Agency Ltd.
Daghregister gehouden by den oppercoopman Jan Anthonisz van Riebeeck edited by D.B. Bosman & H.B. Thom 3 volumes Cape Town 1952–1957 Van Riebeeck Society
see Before his Majesty in Council. Cape of Good Hope. Between William Brown Master, and Andrew Spooner, supercargo of the American ship, the Five Brothers, Appellants, and Willem Stephanus van Ryneveld, Ex Officio, Attorney-General, Respondent. Appendix to the Respondent’s case
(editor) Contributions towards Venda history, religion and tribal ritual Pretoria 1932 Government Printer
The practical book of herbs: Growing and using herbs in Southern Africa Cape Town 1986 Chameleon Press
The world encompassed by Sir Francis Drake: Being his next voyage to that to Nombre de Dios; collated with an unpublished manuscript of Francis Fletcher; with appendices illustrative of the same voyage and introduction London 1854 Hakluyt Society
Verbeterde drietalige woordeboek: Venda-Afrikaans-Engels edited by P.J. Wentzel & T.W. Muloiwa Pretoria 1982
(translator) Meridiana: The adventures of three Englishmen and three Russians in South Africa (translated from the French) London 1873 Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle
(translated by Ellen E. Frewer) another edition London 1886 Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
A genuine and universal system of natural history; comprising the three kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals, arranged under their respective classes, orders, genera, and species 14 volumes London c1794–c1813
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I.D.B. or the adventures of Solomon Davis on the diamond fields and elsewhere London 1887 Chapman & Hall
Travel journals (and some letters) South Africa and Namibia/Botswana, 1838–1856 (translated by Michael Roberts) edited by Adrian Craig & Chris Hummel Cape Town 1994 Van Riebeeck Society (No. II-23)
Signs of the wild: Field Guide to the tracks and signs of the mammals of Southern Africa Johannesburg 1981 Natural History Publications
3rd edition Cape Town 1985
The hippo poacher, in talks with Domenic Dunn London 1967 Cassell
The Cape and the Kaffirs: A diary of five years’ residence in Kaffirland; with a chapter of advice to emigrants, based on the latest official returns, and the most recent information regarding the colony 3rd edition London 1851 Henry G. Bohn
Records of big game, containing an account of their distribution, descriptions of species, lengths and weights: Measurements of horns and field notes, for the use of sportsmen and naturalists London 1896 Rowland Ward
The sportsman’s handbook to practical collecting, preserving, and artistic setting-up of trophies and specimens. To which is added A Synoptical Guide to the Hunting Grounds of the World 3rd edition London 1883 Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.
6th edition London 1891 Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Co., Limited
Witwatersrand mining practice Johannesburg 1932 Transvaal Chamber of Mines, Gold Producers’ Committee
Orchids: Their culture and management, with descriptions of all the kinds in general cultivation London 1890 L. Upcott Gill
The medicinal and poisonous plants of Southern Africa: Being an account of their medicinal and other uses, chemical composition, pharmacological effects and toxicology in man and animal Edinburgh 1932 E. & S. Livingstone
2nd edition Edinburgh 1962 Churchill Livingstone
Isaac Williams Wauchope: selected writings, 1874–1916 Cape Town 2008 Van Riebeeck Society (No. II-39)
(editor and translator) The James Stuart archive of recorded oral evidence relating to the history of the Zulu and neighbouring peoples 5 volumes Pietermaritzburg 1976–2001 University of Natal Press (Killie Campbell Africana Library: Manuscript series)
An American dictionary of the English language: Thoroughly revised, and greatly enlarged and improved 2 volumes Springfield, Mass. 1865 G. & C. Merriam
Narrative of a voyage to the southern Atlantic Ocean, in the years 1828, 29, 30, performed in H. M. Sloop Chanticleer, under the command of the late Captain Henry Foster, F.R.S. &c. 2 volumes London 1834 Richard Bentley
Webster’s third new international dictionary of the English language edited by Philip Babcock Gove et al. London 1961 G. Bell & Sons Ltd.
Weekend Argus see The Argus
Weekend Mercury see (The) Natal Mercury
Weekend Post see Evening Post
The Weekly Mail Johannesburg 1985–1993 (includes Southern African edition of The Guardian Weekly; continued by Weekly Mail & Guardian)
Weekly Mail & Guardian Johannesburg 1993– (continuation of The Weekly Mail; publ. in association with The Guardian Weekly)
Portrait of a people: A personal photographic record of the South African liberation struggle London 1981 International Defence & Aid Fund for Southern Africa
South Africa: A planned tour of the country today London 1939 J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd
London 1947 J.M. Dent
Stewart of Lovedale: The life of James Stewart London 1908 Hodder & Stoughton
4th edition London 1909 Hodder & Stoughton
The roots of segregation: Native policy in colonial Natal, 1845–1910 Cape Town 1971 Oxford University Press
Wesleyan Missionary Reports see The report of the Committee of the Wesleyan-Methodist Missionary Society for the year ending April, 1872
Bishops and prophets in a black city: African independent churches in Soweto, Johannesburg Cape Town 1975
Abantu: An introduction to the black people of South Africa Cape Town 1976 Struik (photography by Jean Morris)
A Popular History of Mammalia; Comprising a Familiar Account of Their Classification and Habits London 1850 Reeve and Benham
Language and the study of language: Twelve lectures on the principles of linguistic science London 1884 N. Trübner & Co.
The journal of Hendrik Jacob Wikar (1779) etc. English translation by A.W. van der Horst edited by E.E. Mossop Cape Town 1935 Van Riebeeck Society (No. 15)
Mercantile Law of South Africa Johannesburg 1917 W.E. Hortors & Co., Ltd.
11th edition Johannesburg 1945 Hortors Ltd.
The diamond mines of South Africa: Some account of their rise and development New York 1902 Macmillan
The downfall of Lobengula: The cause, history, and effect of the Matabeli war London [1894] African Review
facsimile reprint Bulawayo 1971 Books of Rhodesia
Preliminary check list of flowering plants & ferns of Griqualand West (Southern Africa) Cambridge 1946 Deighton-Bell & Co., Ltd
Diamonds and the South African diamond fields Cape Town 1869
A Cape traveller’s diary, 1856 edited by P. Lewsen Johannesburg 1984 Ad. Donker (University of the Witwatersrand Friends of the Library Publication Series: No. 2)
Reminiscences of a Frontier armed & mounted police officer in South Africa Grahamstown 1866 C.T. Campbell
South African memories: Social, warlike & sporting, from diaries written at the time London 1909 Edward Arnold
The thousand years before Van Riebeeck Johannesburg 1970 Witwatersrand University Press for the Institute for the Study of Man in Africa (Raymond Dart Lecture No. 6)
Memories of a game- ranger Johannesburg 1948 Central News Agency
Johannesburg 1950 Central News Agency
Homes without hands: Being a description of the habitations of animals, classed accoreding to their principle of construction London 1866 Longmans, Green & Co.
Through Matabeleland: The record of a ten months’ trip in an ox-wagon through Masonaland and Matabeleland London 1893 Richards, Glanville
Natal birds (including the species belonging to Natal and the Eastern Districts of the Cape Colony) Pietermaritzburg 1899 P. David & Sons
World Johannesburg 1932–1944; 1945–1977 (as (The) Bantu World, 1932–55, absorbed by Transvaal edition of Post and continued by Sowetan)
The ostrich industry in South Africa. 1930 M.A. thesis, Transvaal University College (University of Pretoria). Cory RARE 636.61 WOR
The reconstruction of the new colonies under Lord Milner 2 volumes London 1913 Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd.
(editor) Teaching English literature in South Africa: Twenty essays Grahamstown 1990 Institute for the Study of English in Africa, Rhodes University
Report upon the mineral and geological structure of South Namaqualand and the adjoining mineral districts Cape Town 1857 Saul Solomon & Co.
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Methodist Church in Africa: History of the church Grahamstown 1989 Rhodes University, Cory Library for Historical Research
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Your gardening questions answered edited by Anne Turner & Vincent Leroux Cape Town 1989 Reader’s Digest Association
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A field guide to the antelope of Southern Africa Durban 1979 Wildlife Society of Southern Africa, Natal Branch
3rd revised edition 1979
Zoo-Historical Gazetteer: Annals of the Cape Provincial museums edited by C.J. Skead Grahamstown 1973 Albany Museum
About the Bibliography
This bibliography lists those works most frequently consulted when compiling the dictionary. Typically they are referenced in abbreviated form under the quotations listed for each entry as attestations of South African English words in use. The select bibliography includes 2458 published monographs, 292 newspapers and magazines, and 65 unpublished manuscripts, dated between the late 16th- and late 20th-centuries.
The earliest work listed is Thomas Johnson’s 1596 monograph, Cornucopiae: Or, Diuers Secrets: Wherein is Contained the Rare Secrets in Man, Beasts, Foules, Fishes, Trees, Plantes, Stones and Such Like [etc.], cited under the entry wolf.
Styling Conventions
Unpublished titles are not italicized. The precise location of unpublished material is generally given. In particular, reference is made to the following resource centres:
Resource Centres
- Albany Museum, Grahamstown
- Cory Library for Historical Research, Rhodes University, Grahamstown
- Dictionary Unit for South African English, Grahamstown (DU)
- Killie Campbell Africana Library, Durban (Killie Campbell)
- Amazwi South African Museum of Literature (formerly National English Literary Museum, Grahamstown) (NELM)
- Private collections
- The National Library of South Africa, Cape Town (NLSA)
Further information on material held by the Dictionary Unit for South African English, or in private collections, is available from the Unit.