PHOTOGRAPHS OF SOUTH AFRICA

200pp .Original black/very dark brown fully padded leather cover with gilt illustrated design with lettering to front board. Three raised ribs with gilt decoration to spine. All edges gilded. Endpapers reinforced. Stored in its own black custom board case. 

Outer case worn, leather and gilt in very good condition. First and last few text pages are foxed. Photographs are mostly unanaffected . 

A good to very good copy. 

Photographs of Its Cities, Streets, Churches, Parliament Houses, Public Buildings, Statues, Memorials, Houses, Huts, Lighthouses, Harbours; Its Diamond Mines, Gold Mines, Railways, Ships, Farms, Plantations; Its Scenery, Rivers, Mountains, Karoo, Tropical Vegetation, Waterfalls, Social Life, Scenes on the "Veld", Natives. 

Also a large number of Instantaneous Photographs showing the everyday life of the People in the various provinces. Collected from Cape Colony, Natal, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Basutoland, Zululand, Swaziland, Delagoa Bay, etc. 

The largest and most perfect collection of photographs of South Africa ever published. Each picture is carefully and accurately described. 

A splendid photographic record of Southern Africa just prior to the South African War. See Mendelssohn, volume 2, pages 345-346 who calls it a "handsome album".