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Auction #118 begins on 03 Oct 2024

South Africa : Photographs

PHOTOGRAPHS OF SOUTH AFRICA,

comprising representative views of cities, streets, churches, parliament houses, public buildings, statues, memorials, houses, huts, lighthouses, harbours; Its diamond mines, gold mines, railways, ships, farms, plantations; Its scenery, rivers, mountains, Karoo, tropical vegetation, waterfalls, social life, scenes on the "veld,....

Published: South African Photo-Publishing Company, Cape Town, 1894

Edition: First edition

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199 photographs. Oblong small quarto. Full decorated leather binding with gilding and some rubbing as normally seen. All edges gilt. Some slight spotting to preliminary pages.

Further title page information: Besides a large number of Instantaneous Photographs shewing the everyday life of the People in the various States. Collected from: Cape Colony, Natal, Orange Free State. Transvaal. Basutoland. Zululand. Swaziland, Delagoa Bay, etc.

The largest and most perfect collection of photographs of South Africa ever published. Each picture carefully and accurately described.

A splendid photographic record of Southern Africa just prior to the South African War. See Mendelssohn, volume 2, pages 345-346 who calls it a "handsome album".

  • Binding Condition: Very good
  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 22 x 30 cm
  • Sold By: Select Books
  • Contact Person: David McLennan
  • Country: South Africa
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Telephone: 021-4246955
  • Preferred Payment Methods: Credit card; EFT
  • Trade Associations: SABDA


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