Original red-brown boards with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Marbled leaf design endpapers.
A description of the Cape Colony, with some notes on the South African trade outlets, and the railways and agriculture, together with accounts of Kimberley, Cape Town, and Johannesburg.
There is a chapter on " Mining Disabilities in the Transvaal," and another on Pretoria and President Kruger, who was visited by the author. Mr.Edwards also interviewed Messrs. Woolls Sampson and Karrie Davis in their prison at Pretoria.
SOURCE: Mendelssohn. Volume 1. Pages 512-3.
Contains a pink, compliment slip stamped. With Ellis Edwards' compliments.
Compliment slip. Frontispiece. Tissue Guard & Title. Preface. List of Illustrations. Contents. 6 Photo plates. Cr. 8vo. Slight offset to page 122.
Very clean copy.
- Binding Condition: Very Good
- Overall Condition: Very Good
- Size: 19.5 X 13.5cm
- Sold By: Quathlamba Winds Books
- Contact Person: Ian & Yvonne Halford
- Country: United Kingdom
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: 01743 361772
- Preferred Payment Methods: Paypal-Cheques-Direct Transfer to UK Bank.
- Trade Associations: SABDA
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