South Africa Past and Present (1900) & The South African Scene (1910) - 2 x first editions

1.) SOUTH AFRICA PAST AND PRESENT (1900)

An Account of its History, Politics and Native Affairs, followed by some Personal Reminiscences of African Travel during the Crisis preceding the War. With Portraits and Historical Chart.

First edition published by Smith, Elder, & Co. in 1900.

Publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt design on front board of Table Mountain. xii + 450pp. and historical chart at rear.

2.) THE SOUTH AFRICAN SCENE (1910)

First edition published by Smith, Elder & Co. in 1913.

Publisher's red cloth binding with titles in gilt on the spine and titles in black on front panel. viii + 450pp. Bookplate of Africana book collector James Hamilton Russel on front paste down. Binding tight contents clean with some light foxing on the prelims.

Some of the contents include:

In Basutoland, The Edge of the White Waters, On a Matabele Location, The Country of the Van Der Stels, Opening of the Union Parliament, South Africa after the War, Racialism and the Language Question, Hertzogism and Political Parties, The Coming of the Native, Black and White in South Africa, The Asiatic Difficulty, Rhodesia and the Charter etc.