JAMESON’S RIDE TO JOHANNESBURG

77 pages with several additional pages of commercial advertisements at the front and back, original pictorial paper covers – frayed at the top and bottom of the spine, stamp of ‘C.P. Burckhardt, Johannesburg, S.A.R.’ at the top of the front cover, staple bound, a good copy.

Mendelssohn (Sydney) South African Bibliography, volume II, pages 239/40, ‘This account of the Jameson Raid is preceded by the manifesto of the “Transvaal National Union,” and there is a detailed description of the scenes in Johannesburg after the issue of that document. The account of the battle of Doornkop was furnished to the author by Mr. Beavan and eye-witness of the engagement, who was arrested by the Boers for complicity, but afterwards released. The result of the fight appears to have been hastened by the jamming of the Chartered Company’s Maxims a little before the Boer artillery arrived. There is also an account of the fight by Mr. Percy Farrar, who was taken prisoner at Doornkop although only an onlooker, but was released soon afterwards by General Joubert. It is stated that “The last words uttered by Dr. Jameson when the flag of truce went up were, ‘There goes my life!'”