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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

Bowker, John Mitford

Speeches, Letters, and Selections from Important Papers, of the Late John Mitford Bowker,

Some Years Resident and Diplomatic Agent With Certain Kafir and Fingo Tribes.

Published: Grahamtown, Godlonton and Richards, 1864

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Demy octavo, original wrappers, pp. (i) + ix + 275.Wrappers chipped and creased, unopened, small marginal water-stain in top fore-corners, some fishmoth damage to margins only and last blank. Otherwise, generally good and clean.A scarce, early product of the Eastern Province press.

Mendelssohn, i. p. 168 (Royal Colonial Institute Library): ‘There is a short biographical sketch of Mr. Bowker, who died in the midst of the Kaffir War of 1847. Chapter I. contains an epitome of Frontier History, and Chapter II. private correspondence with Sir B. D’Urban, and the other chapters record speeches and letters to officials and private friends respecting the state of the Eastern Province from 1837–1847. It is stated that the volume will be found to contain “a picture by an eye-witness, an actor and a sufferer, of the life of a British Colonial subject in the Eastern Province of the Cape of Good Hope.”’ South African Bibliography … to 1925, i, p. 266.

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