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Auction #120 begins on 16 Jan 2025

George McCall Theal

HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA SINCE SEPTEMBER 1795

With Sixteen Maps and Charts.

Published: Swan Sonnenschein & Co, London, 1908

Edition: First [5 volume] edition

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5 volumes. First edition 1908.  Comprehensive History of South Africa.

Publishers blind stamped cover with gilt medallion.

Gilt top page edges.

Coloured endpapers.

Bookplate in each volume.

Some repair to bottom pages of volume one.

A very nice clean five volume set.

Volume I.

The Cape Colony from 1795 to 1828.

The Zulu Wars of Devastation, and the Formation of the Bantu Communities.

xviii, [1], 503 pages + 5 charts.

Volume II.

The Cape Colony from 1828 to 1846. Natal from 1824 to 1845.

Proceedings of the Emigrant Farmers from 1836 to 1847.

xiii, 504 pages + 4 charts.

Volume III.

The Cape Colony from 1846 to 1860. Natal from 1845 to 1857.

British Kaffraria from 1847 to 1860, and the Orange River Sovereignty

and the Transvaal Republic from 1847 to 1854.

xiv, [1], 505 pages + 3 charts.

Volume IV.

The Orange Free State, the South African Republic, Zululand, Basutoland,

Betshuanaland, and Matabebeland from 1854 to 1872.

xvi, 504 pages + 2 charts.

Volume V.

The Cape Colony and Natal in 1872, Griqualand West to 1880,

Great Namaqualand, Damaraland, Transkei, Tembuland, and Griqualand

East to 1885, Pondoland and the Portuguese Territory to 1894.

xv, [1], 498 pages + 2 charts.

Recorded shipping weight 6000g.

Shipped and insured by recorded delivery.

  • Binding Condition: Very good
  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 22 x 16 cm
  • Sold By: West Clare Rare Books
  • Contact Person: Tom Moloney
  • Country: Ireland
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Telephone: 0657087803
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