Lucas (Captain Thomas J.)

PEN & PENCIL REMINISCENCES OF A CAMPAIGN IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Published: Day & Son, London, No date (1861)

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Illustrated with Twenty-one Beautiful Colour-tinted Lithographs. By Captain Thomas J. Lucas, Cape Mounted Rifles.

35 pages of letterpress, hand coloured lithographic frontispiece, additional hand coloured title page and 19 hand coloured plates each with tissue guards, half brown calf (upper hinge splitting but holding firmly)with brown cloth sides, marbled endpapers (2 bookplates on the front paste-down endpaper), top edge gilt. Some light foxing mainly in the margins of the plates. Overall a good well coloured copy.

  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: 4to (290 x 210 mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
  • Contact Person: Paul Mills
  • Country: South Africa
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Telephone: 021 794 0600
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  • Trade Associations: ABA - ILAB, SABDA


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