Fairbridge (Dorothea)

HISTORIC FARMS OF SOUTH AFRICA

The wool, the wheat, and the wine of the 17th and 18th centuries

Published: Oxford University Press : Humphrey Milford, London, 1931

Edition: First Edition

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First Edition: 194 pages, colour frontispiece, 3 maps, 2 plans, 1 colour and numerous black & white plates and illustrations, brown buckram gilt, light foxing on the page edges, a very good copy in dust jacket now preserved in a Brodart protector.

Historic Farms of South Africa is a companion volume to Fairbridge's Historic Houses of South Africa (1922). It examines the great wine, wheat, and wool farms of the Cape during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, tracing the development of the agricultural economy.

  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: Small 4to (265 x 195 mm)
  • Name: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
  • Contact Person: Paul Mills
  • Country: South Africa
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