Excursions in Southern Africa

2 volumes. Scarce second edition.

Bookplate of Charles William Orde.

Nunnykirk.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunnykirk_Hall

Publishers blind-stamped red cloth boards.

Gilt title on spine. Untrimmed page edges.

Decorative blue endpapers with gilt designs.

Both volumes protected in mylar covers.

Some spotting on plates.

Volume I.

[2], xxx, 359 pages.

Frontispiece + portrait plate with tissue-guards.

1 full-page + 2 in-text illustrations.

Volume II.

iv, 456 pages.

Tissue-guarded frontispiece.

1 full-page plate with tissue-guard.

2 in-text illustrations.

"An account of the Cape Colony from the earliest period of

settlement down to the Kaffir War of 1876-7. The second

volume gives a record of the campaign - the War of the Axe

in which Lieut.-Colonel Napier was engaged as supernumerary

officer in charge of the irregular forces. The author states that

he was unimpressed by the previous misgovernment of the colony,

and with 'the numerous wrongs it had suffered - owing chiefly

to shameful intrigues and gross misrepresentations', and the

work, as originally written, appears to have been a very

outspoken exposé of the shortcomings of the British

Government at the Cape. The author states that no publisher

would undertake to issue the work in its original form, but

finally it was subjected to careful modification and published in

its present form." (Mendelssohn, Vol II, p. 75).

Recorded shipping weight 2000g.

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