Heritage Collection

59 Titles

This is a free access collection of earliest publications by Unisa Press.

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White main title and subtitle lettering on a plain bright orange background, with a line drawing in deep red of a staff

Julius Caesar: Die Galliese Oorlog

J T Benade
December 31, 1984
Orange background with brown lettering and detailed line drawing of classical temple (with eagle on roof) and symbolic sculpture in the foreground. The Áfrikaans book title: Vergilius: Die Aeneis' appears at the top right.

Die Aenaes

J T Benade
December 31, 1975
Duotone sepia photo in high-contrast style of kneeling African man in white robe, planting a wooden cross, with book title in brown lettering at the bottm left, and subtitle in black lettering. The author's name , ML Daneel, is in black lettering at the top left of the book cover.

African Earthkeepers Volume 2: Environmental mission and liberation in Christian perspective

Marthinus L Daneel
January 30, 1999
Beige title and author information at top of cover with African geometric textile pattern as background design

African Mosaic: A Festschrift for J A Louw on his 75th birthday

Rosalie Finlayson (ed)
June 30, 1999
Greyscale photo of thorn tree at top, fading to grey at bottom, with white and deep red lettering of book title on front cover

African Proverbs Series : Volume 2: AKAN PROVERBS: hearing and Keeping

Kofi Asare Opuku; John S Mbiti
December 31, 1997
Sepia-toned photo of African priest in white cloak bending over a person with outstretched neck, and at the bottom of the cover is a black band with white lettering of the main title, subtitle and author name

All things hold together: Holistic Theologies at the African Grassroots: Selected essays by ML Daneel

ML Daneel
December 30, 2007
Black lettering of author name at top with book title in middle on white block. Background photographic image of torso of male African figure, from 2 different angles (2 side views, one frontal), combined with horizontal white band and black line mediveal drawing of one-eyed cyclops figure

The Anatomy of Power: European Constructions of the African Body

Alexander Butchart
June 30, 1997
The book title is written in plain black capital letters at the top, and the author's name is at the bottom of the cover, all against a plain brown background.

Antonio Soler's keyboard sonatas

Klaus F Heimes
December 31, 1969
Plain black lettering of the book main title at the top, followed by the author's name, a Unisa logo in black linework, and at the bottom of the page, the university of South Africa indicated in both Afrikaans and in English, followed by the word 'Pretoria' and the publication date on a plain cream

Aristoteles en die Macedoniese Politiek

H J De Vleeschauwer
December 30, 1956
Pale green background with subtitle in green at top, and vertical main title in decorative lettering on the right-hand side of the book. at the bottom, a list of languages used in the book is placed.

Beyond the He-man Approach: Guidelines for gender-inclusive language

Wendy Martyna
June 30, 1996
Book title in yellow lettering at top and author's name below, on a soft blue background shaded to green with oval horizontal drawing of a multi-coloured smiling family on a picnic blanket

Bringing up parents and children

Lily Gerdes
December 31, 1998
Sepiatone historic illustration of a ship with British flag sailing on the sea against a horizon line of mountains and clouds, with green letters (in white outline) of the main book title at the top, and the author's name at the bottom

The Cape of Good Hope and foreign contacts 1735-1755

Maurice Boucher
December 30, 1985
Light purple background with white main title in capital letters and white design of a stethoscope, and at the bottom, white subtitle lettering.sthetoscope design

Caring for patients with AIDS: A nursing and other support service perspective

Charlotte Searle
June 30, 1988
abstract design in deep orange/brown and turquoise background design with white lettering on front cover of book title (and name of author at bottom, in dark orange lettering)

Cataloguing and Classification for school media centres

Sandra Olen
June 30, 1996
Mauve 2-tone design on white background with central rectangle, design based on a medieval print of a congragation, book title at top in maroon and authorname at bottom, both in mauve shades of scripted lettering

Catholic thought since the alignment: A survey

Aidan Nichols
December 31, 1998
Golden script lettering of main title at the top, with subtitle in white lettering in the middle and the author's name at the bottom of the page, in a decorative gold frame with a border inside and outside, all on a deep indigo blue background.

The Cave of Adullam or anchor, a door of hope?

Chris Botha
June 30, 1990
Greyscale photo in background of a landscape with a bridge, with modern red lettering of the book title at the top against a white background. Th author's name is at the bottom in thin black lettering.

Ceres van gister en eergister

Francois Botma
June 30, 1997
high-contrast wine red photo rendering of the face of the man to whom the book is dedicated, CPT Naude, in a square block. the background is gret, and the book title lettering is in winered, and the 2 editors; names are placed in grey lettering at the bottom of the cover.

Charistion CPT Naude

Ursula Vogel-Weidemann (ed), Jan Scholtemeijer (ed)
December 30, 1993
Naive-styled colour painting of the Christ figure on the cross, in bright colours, and with white lettering of the book title and author name at the bottom of the front cover

Christ Divided: Liberalism, Ecumenism and Race in South Africa

David Thomas
December 30, 2002
Red lettering of main title in top left-hand corner on high-contrast black-and-white photocollage of a church building montaged against a South African coastline shape, filled with photographic landscape imagery, including a tall palm tree, right. Author's name is in red lettering at bottom right of cover.

Christian Mission in South Africa: Political and Ecumenical

Willem Saayman
January 1, 1991
Black lettering of book title in English, left, and Afrikaans, right, at top. IN the centre of the cover, the author names are listed. The background is plain beige.

Computer Exercises in French - Rekenaaroefeninge in Frans

Louise Broccardo, Rochelle Sadowsky , Celia van der Pluym; Peter Haffter
January 1, 1978
White book title at top and author names in the middle, against a photo collage of a modern cityscape with roads and railways prominent in the foreground.

Crime and crime prevention on public transport

Oliver Page, Prudence Moeketsi , Willem Schurink , Leseli Molefe , David Bruce
December 31, 2001
Blue main title lettering at top right, beneath a blue photorealistic feather quill/imitating a pen/writing action on a blue triangular page-like watery surface, against a green background forming a horison line, on which white lettering of subtitle is placed.

Culture in retrospect: Essays in honour of ED Prinsloo

A.P.J. Roux, P.H. Coetzee; J Margolis , D.F.M. Strauss, A.M.T. Meyer , P Duvenage , P.H. Coetzee, P Higgs, W Kistner , W.J. Jordaan , J Heidema , W Labuschagne , A.J. Antonites , M Faure , F.C. de Beer , J Wilkinson, M Schoeman , J Hund, M Macnamara, Z Postma-de Beer, J Broodryk
June 30, 2001
Full-colour photo of 4 large cycad plants outlined against a bright blue sky, with bilingual black italicised lettering of the main title at the top (left in English and right in Afrikaans)

The Cycad Garden of Unisa: Broodboomtuin van Unisa

B P Barkhuizen
June 30, 1975
Top three-quarters of the cover is a full-colour photo of a dancing crowd with strobe lights from above, with a purple colour band at the bottom, interrupted with a circular-shaped e-embossed tablet forming part of the title lettering, or the e in rave (the lettering is white, italicized capital letters); the subtitle is smaller, also in white lowercase letterign, on the purple colour band background, with the author's name in bright blue lettering at the bottom of the cover.

The E in Rave

Fanitsa H Zervogiannis
June 30, 2003
white main title lettering in capital letters at the top of the cover, against a bright green background. At the bottom of the cover is a silhouettepen sketch of a pastoral scene, with 2 flute-playing men herding cattle, with the one carrying a load on his back. At the bottom corner of the drawing is a small buck and the outline of a plant.

Eclogae en Georgica

JT Benade
December 31, 1983
Greyscale photo of tree branches at top of cover, facing into grey mist towards the bottom of the cover. In the middle of the cover, the African Proverbs Series wording is inserted (vol 5) and at the bottom of the cover, the book title in blue, with a light blue banner holding the black subtitle wording. The author's name is at the bottom of the cover in light blue.s the

Embracing the Baobab Tree: The African Proverb in the 21st Century

Willem Saayman; EJ Alagoa, E Amoah, PA Bennett, M Chindongo, G Cotter, A Dalfovo, H Kimmerle, JN Kudadjie, J Mbiti, W Mieder, J Mkuchu, M Mokitimi, TN Ntshinga, BO Olayinka, KA Opoku, J Penfield, G Sawadogo, W van Heerden, G Wanjohi
December 30, 1997
large colour photo of CR Snyman set at 45 degree angle placed on grey background, and at the bottom the book title and authors are printed in deep grey with the 'C R Snyman' part in decorative lettering repeated in the background.

Essays in honour of /Huldigingsbundel vir C R Snyman

J J Joubert ; R Mare , S A Strauss , P M Bekker , J Burchell , F Cassim , L C Coetzee , J A Faris , S Hoctor , B Huber , L Jordaan , S Lotter , HC F-C Schroeder , O Sibanda, P Swanepoel , K van Rooyen
December 31, 2008
Plain capital letters main title and author name in lowercase, placed on simple plain light grey background.

The Historian's net

S B Spies
December 30, 1981
White lettering is used for the book's main title placed against a plain cerise pink background. At the bottom of the cover, the authors' names are in white lettering. The cover has 3 horizontal bands filled with thin horizontal stripes alternating white, navy and cerise pink. The subtitle is in italics and in navy blue.

Die Historiese Opvoedkunde: Enkele Eietydse Vraagstukke

IA Coetzer, AE Van Zyl
December 31, 1989
three-coloured line drawing in wine red, deep blue and gold, of a formal lithurgical hierarchy inside a church, from 2 angels at the top, to 5 top officials directly below, to centrally placed priest, to 5 congregation members at the bottom tier. The main title lettergin is in gold on the central pane, with the author's name also in gold at the bottom. The drawing is framed within a medieval decorative vine leaves frame.

Die Klementynse Liturgie

J A A A Stoop
December 31, 1992
Background is a white and black collage of newspaper clippings reporting on AIDS deaths, with a large solid red splash outline shpae at the top of the book cover, in which white lettering is place of the main book title. The Editor's title is placed at the bottom of the cover in black lettering on the newspaper collage background.

Living in an AIDS culture

Jan de Jongh van Arkel ; Margie Beukes , Robert Mckay, Gawie van der Walt , Alta van Dyk , Christa van Wyk
December 30, 1991
Hazy greyscale image of thorn tree branch at top fading into grey at bottom, with book title lettering in white and orange

Lugbara Wisdom: African Proverbs Series Volume 3

Albert T Dalfovo (ed), John S Mbiti (ed)
December 31, 1997
Brown capital lettering at the top for the main titpe, with subtitle in lowercase below, against a lime green background. IN the middle is a sepia brown historic replica of an original confesional document's front page. The name of the author is at the bottom of the page, also in brown.

Die Nederlandse Geloofsbelydenis: Onstaan, Skrifgebruik en Gebruik

H L Bosman (ed), J W Hofmeyr (ed), E Van Niekerk (ed), E H Scheffler (ed), I J Van Eeden (ed)
December 31, 1987
Red main title lettering on right, with an airplane maked with the South African flag colours, is flying downwards towards another globe. Ths Author's name is in white at the bottom, right. The book subtitle is in blue lettering on the bottom right of the cover.globe

The New Great Trek: The story of South Africa's white exodus

Johann Van Rooyen
June 30, 2000
Sepia brown lettering of main title in capital letters with brown line drawing of a map on the green background. The name of the author is in brown lettering at the bottom of the cover, and on the left-hand side is a brown line drawing of a large oxwagon wheel.

Die oorsprong van die Groot Trek

C F J Muller
June 30, 1987
White lowercase lettering of the main title and the author's name are placed left aligned at the top of the cover and against a plain bright blue background. At the lower part of the cover, a stylised silhouette of a child walking up stairs is shown, with one hand reaching to an adult fogure, leading the child up the staircase of ascending stairs and to the right of the cover. The figures are outlined in white and filled with plain bright pink , and the staircase is rendered in plain white with a bring blue outline around each ascending step.

Die opvoedeling en sy self-aktualisering

J D Vrey
December 31, 1979
Beige background, with brown outline drawing of a classical style building (with overlay in centre of oval cameo head-and-shoulders sepia-tone photo of central figure of the book, Cross) with brown lettering at top (title) and bottom (author name)

Ours is the frontier: A life of GW Cross, Baptist pioneer

K E Cross
January 1, 1986
Main book title in mustard brown script lettering on a blue-toned photo of a woman gazing downwards. The author's name is smaller and on the bottom left-hand side.

The Piety of Afrikaans Women

Christina Landman
June 30, 1994
Brown lettering on yellow background, with book title at top, and graph line horizontally across, with a brown line drawing of the scales of justice and a line drawing of a scientist holding in one hand a test tube while peering directly into its contents. The author's name is placed at the bottom right.

The Right to Life: Issues in Bioethics

W S Vorster
June 30, 1988
Deep pink background with white lettering for title and author's name, with a stylised white outline image of an adult reaching down one hand to help a child to climb up a white staircase.

The Self-actualising Educand

J D Vrey
June 30, 1979
White lettering for main title at the top of the book cover, with the author's name in smaller white lettering at the bottom - all lettering is centred and placed a=on a plain dark brown cover. IN the centre of the cover is a historic pen sketch of a mountain range surrounding the town of Philippolis, with some primitive rural architectural structures and silhouettes of people visible.

Die sendingstasie Phillippolis 'n Histories-opvoedkundige studie

I S J Venter
December 15, 2025
The book cover has a top wine red band with 2 white lines, followed by a lime green plain background, on which the English and Afrikaans titles are displayed in large white lettering , with the number 3 large and in wine red on green. The names of the two editors are printed in small wine red letters at the bottom part of the book cover.and volume

South African Theological Bibliography Vol 3 : Suid-Afrikaanse Teologiese Bibliografie 3

CFA Borchardt; W S Vorster
June 30, 1988
At the top of the cover, white outline lettering for the main title, with lowercase wine red subtitle lettering, and the author's name also in wine red lettering below subtitle, followed by a stippled-style line drawing in wine red of various religious symbols (from Hindu to Islam to a Christ figure on the cross), all on a background of plain muted musk pink

Studying Religion

J S Krüger
June 30, 1982
artwork of 3 dieties bowing in front of a priest at top, with an adult dressed in a classical Greek style wrapped cloth dress, with a child reading a tablet with scripture. The book title is in capital letters in the middle, with the author's name at the bottom in white capital letters.

Subject Didactics of Biblical Studies

C B Borst
June 30, 1991
Times Roman capital letters used for the main title, with lowercase text and University of South Africa logo lower, centre of the cover, on a plain white background

Summaries of theses accepted by the University of South Africa in 1965

P Haffter
December 30, 1965
Olive green background with black line drawing on left of a traditional indigenous hut made of reeds, with a palm tree, left and in front a topless indigenous woman wearing a grass skirt, and holding a naked baby on her hip. She is standing in front of a heap of large vegetables, and behnd her are 2 baskets. Part of the book title, `trobriand gardening'' is in white outlined capital letters. The author's name is at the bottom right, in black italics lettering.

The symbolic role of women in Trobriand gardening

Marianne Brindley
June 30, 1984
White capital and lowercase letters for main title at the top, and author's name at the bottom in white lowercase letters, with a colour photo of a ancient Greek open-air arena in the middle of the book cover

Syracuse in Antiquity

Richard J Evans
June 30, 2009
Main title in small capital letters at top, followed by lowercase small black lettering for author's itiials and surname, with a Unisa logo in black line in middle, and small black lettering at the bottom, on a plain cream colour background.

Three papers on Tragedy

F D Sinclair
May 30, 1960
The cover background is of a brick orange wall with a writing board, with a simplified silhouette of a male teacher pointing to the lettering on the writing board in dark brown. At the bottom of the cover, aligned left is the main book title in dark brown, and the author's name is placed at the bottom right of the cover.

Die toerusting van die voorligtingonderwyser as opvoeder

HC Petrick
December 31, 1985
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