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01/10/2025

Join author, journalist and printmaker Kevin Davie at The Cape Town Club this Friday for a storytelling dinner exploring Portuguese scribe João dos Santos' extraordinary account of his travels through Southern Africa 🌍

Date: Friday, 3 October 2025
Time: 18h30 for 19h00
Menu: Two-course meal (drinks not included)
Venue: The Cape Town Club (18 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town)
Tickets: Guests R300 | Members R250

From 1580, Dos Santos spent more than a decade in modern-day Mozambique, which included travelling up the Zambezi River to Tete and to the goldfields of Zimbabwe, where he saw so much gold being mined that he thought he'd discovered the biblical King Solomon's Mines!

Remarkably, Dos Santos's account, recorded in southern Africa 70 years before the arrival of Van Riebeeck, has all but vanished from the public record. His story, documenting the interface of two great empires, Portugal and Monomotapa, is all but unknown today.

Book your tickets at bit.ly/KevinDavieDinner 🍷

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15/02/2022

00076 . Auction in Worcester Letterpress Flyer. C. 1886. R450.
626mm x 336mm. Black print. Flyer has been folded in three. Damaged. Tears and bends throughout.

15/02/2022

00113. Artists & Illustrators of the Anglo-Boer War. c.1992. R750. Greenwall, Ryno. Fernwood Press.
Hardback. Introduction by Jane Carruthers. 264pp. Folio with coloured frontispiece, title-vignette, very numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations throughout, and pictorial endpapers; green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

The definitive work on Anglo-Boer War art, as it provides detailed coverage of all the known artists and illustrators who depicted the conflict. Although many other aspects of the War have received attention, the publication of this book marks the first occasion that the artistic products of the War have been analyzed in any detail. Parts 1 to 4 provide a general overview of the main vehicules of Anglo-Boer War art - ranging from illustrated newspapers and magazines to postcards, postal covers, souvenir publications and works produced by prisoners of war. Part 5 comprised biographies of over 1100 Anglo-Boer war artists. Bibliography: p249-254. Subjects: South African War, 1899-1902 Pictorial works Caricatures and cartoons. War in art.

15/02/2022

00061. Album of S. Andrew's College, Grahamstown. C.1899. R800. Various , Rev. G.R. Gleig, M.A. Waterlow & Sons, Ltd
24 plates of College Houses, Teachers, Buildings, Sports teams, College Views and Groups with captions. Very rare. A rare and highly desirable item, with an appeal to many leading South Africans.

SABIB Vol. IV, p.111. 4 copies only. 286mm x 220mm. Hardcover. Repaired. Some soiling. Foxing.