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Rock Art
by Woodhouse, H. C.
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(Cape Town: Purnell, 1978) 0360004857. A booklet in the "Pride of South Africa" series. 230 x 172 mm; saddle-stitched pictorial wrappers; pp. 24; map; illustrations in colour and monochrome. Wrappers slightly sunned and rubbed; earlier owner's hand-stamp to first page; occasional fox spot. Good to very good condition. "Paintings and engravings on the walls of caves or on rocks in… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Visit to the White Lady of the Brandberg
by Pager, Shirley-Ann
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- 9789991675053
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(Windhoek: the author, 1999) 9991675051. 240 x 170 mm; saddle-stitched pictorial wrappers; pp. 24; illustrations in colour and monochrome; central fold-out illustration of the entire White Lady panel; colour map. Fine condition. "The White Lady of the Brandberg is the most famous of all African rock paintings. It was discovered in a place of natural grandeur, in a mountain gorge… Read more about this item Item Price
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People of the Eland. Rock Paintings of the Drakensberg Bushmen as a Reflection of their Life and Thought
by Vinnicombe, Patricia
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- 9781868144976
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(Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2009) 9781868144976. 240 x 260 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. xxii + 377, incl. index; maps; tables; lavishly illustrated with historical photographs and reproductions, in full-colour and monochrome, of rock art. Fine condition. "People of the Eland aimed to gain an insider's view of the rock art using San understandings of the world. While following this… Read more about this item Item Price
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'When Animals Were People': A-Z of Animals of Southern Africa as the Bushmen saw and thought them and as the camera sees them today
by Woodhouse, Bert
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(Johannesburg: Chris van Rensburg, 1984) 08684632X. Oblong 4to; original brown boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. 120; photographs, largely in colour, of animals and Bushman rock art. Some foxing to reverse of dustwrapper and outermost leaves. Good to very good condition. "In this book Bert Woodhouse (H.C. Woodhouse) has combined the Bushman folklore about animals and their pictorial records… Read more about this item Item Price
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Rock Art of Southern Africa
by Cooke, C.K.
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(Cape Town: Books of Africa, 1969). Small 8vo; original pictorial boards; pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pp. (x) + 166, incl. index; 12 colour plates; 16 black-and-white plates; line drawings. Dustwrapper very slightly edgeworn, with trace of sunning to spine panel; earlier owner's name signed on front pastedown; a little foxing to endpapers, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good… Read more about this item Item Price
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Contested Images: diversity in Southern African rock art research
by Dowson, Thomas A., and David Lewis-Williams (editors)
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- 9781868142460
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(Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 2001) 1868142469. 219 x 149 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. (x) + 437; numerous illustrations, maps, tables. Earlier owner's name signed on half-title. Fine condition. "The volume brings together the work of a number of scholars who have critically examined what has come to be known as the 'trance hypothesis'. Though they reach consensus about the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Hunter's Vision. The Prehistoric Art of Zimbabwe
by Garlake, Peter
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- 9780714125183
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(London: British Museum Press, 1995) 0714125180. 4to; original green boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp.176, incl. index; map; colour plates; monochrome illustrations in text. Dustwrapper a little sunned on spine panel; some fox spots to edges. Very good condition. "This personal exploration of an artistic tradition that has hitherto been disregarded or misunderstood reveals… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Guide to the Rock Art of Rhodesia
by Cooke, C. K.
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- 9780582641655
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(Salisbury: Longman Rhodesia, 1974) 0582641659. 195 x 238 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 64; full-colour plates; some maps and monochrome illustrations. Cover very slightly tanned. Very good condition. "This small book has been written more for the tourist than for the student of rock art. Therefore, accessibility has been the keynote in selecting the twenty-two caves and shelters presented here, rather… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Bushman Art of Southern Africa
by Woodhouse, H.C.
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- 9780868430294
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(Cape Town: Purnell, 1979) 0868430293. 4to; original black boards, lettered in white on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; decorative endpapers; pp. 125, incl. index; liberally illustrated in colour and monochrome. Dustwrapper rubbed and edgeworn; edges of boards very lightly rubbed; trace of foxing to edges. Good condition. "The art-lover will admire the elegance of the draughtsmanship, the portrayal of… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Bushman Art of Southern Africa
by Woodhouse, H.C.
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- 9780868430294
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(Cape Town: Purnell, 1979) 0868430293. 4to; original black boards, lettered in white on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; decorative endpapers; pp. 125, incl. index; liberally illustrated in colour and monochrome. Dustwrapper slightly rubbed and edgeworn; edges of boards very lightly rubbed. Very good condition. "The art-lover will admire the elegance of the draughtsmanship, the portrayal of the movement and… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Hunter and His Art. A Survey of Rock Art in Southern Africa
by Rudner, Jalmar and Ione
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(Cape Town: Struik, 1970). Oblong 4to (254 x 300 mm); original mustard cloth with gilt titles and gilt Bushman hunter device on upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. xi + (i) + 278, incl. index; lavishly illustrated with marginal and full-page monochrome and polychrome reproductions of rock art. Dustwrapper ever so slightly rubbed and edgeworn; previous owner's name… Read more about this item Item Price
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Fragile Heritage. A Rock Art Fieldguide
by Lewis-Williams, David, and Geoffrey Blundell
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- 9781868143320
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(Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1998) 1868143325. 220 x 150 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. viii + 224; profusely illustrated with full-colour photographs, location maps, line drawings and diagrams. Fine condition. "South Africa is well known for its magnificent rock art. An important cultural heritage, it strikes chords in almost all who are fortunate enough to see it… Read more about this item Item Price
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Rock Paintings of the Drakensberg, Natal and Griqualand East
by Willcox, A. R.
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- 9780869770269
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(Cape Town: Struik, 1973, 2nd enlarged edition) 0869770268. Number 158 of an edition limited to 275 copies, signed by the author. The second, enlarged edition is, furthermore, somewhat elusive. 4to; original brown quarter leather, with textured cloth sides; gilt device to upper cover; pp. 96, including index; numerous colour photographs. Spine gilt indistinct; extremities lightly rubbed; earlier… Read more about this item Item Price
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Exhibition of prehistoric art in southern Africa; sponsored by The South African Association of Arts and The South African Archaeological Society
by Goodwin, A.J.H.
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(Cape Town, 1946). Wraps, pp. 20, few text illustrations. Slight creasing, some foxing opposite the inside wraps and in margins. . Item Price
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Beyond the Bounds of History. Scenes from the Old Stone Age
by Breuil, Henri
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(London, P.R. Gawthorn, 1949). Translation by Mary E. Boyle. 4to; original cloth; pictorial dustwrapper foxed and edgeworn; scattered foxing throughout, quite pronounced in endpapers and prelim's; gift inscription on front free endpaper; pp. 100, incl. index; illustrated with black-and-white photographs and colour reproductions of rock art. Fair condition. "The Abbé Breuil's classic works on the prehistoric paintings… Read more about this item Item Price
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