280 pages, original half green leather with marbled paper boards - the leather corners are scuffed and worn, top edge gilt, decorative gilt with red title label gilt on the spine, bookplate on front pasted down endpaper, marbled endpapers, starting to wear at the front hinge, very good copy.
Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography vol. 1 pages 416-417 Das Neves who visited the Transvaal in 1860 in order to hunt elephant and trade in ivory, records his impressions of the Transvaal during this period. He describes his experiences hunting game including hippopotamus, lion, and buffalo, and he also records the oral history of local Shangaan and Swazi regarding the events surrounding the assassination of Dingane.
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