Eight Months in an Ox-Waggon

xii + 402 + 24 pp publisher’s advertisements, original green pictorial cloth boards, gilt decorations to front and spine. The original map is not present, the map from the facsimile edition (The Standard Africana Book Society edition, published in 1975) is inserted loose, inscription in ink on flep, end papers rubbed, cloth on spine creased, scattered foxing on first and last pages, front board separated from spine, two leafs loose, first text blocks intact but beginning to separate from boards, else complete.

‘A rather interesting account of a tour throughout South Africa from March to October 1878. The author, who was in search of health, started from Pietermaritzburg, and enjoyed some good shooting en route; amongst other places visited were Spitzkop and Lydenburg, and there is an excellent description of the goldfields at this period, together with notes on the Boers and the natives. Some particulars are afforded respecting the campaign with Sekukuni, and there is a reproduction of a Royal Proclamation calling for volunteers, which shows the extraordinary methods adopted by the Government in order to induce the inhabitants to enlist.’ - Mendelssohn, Sydney; South African Bibliography, Vol 2, page 267.