Brown cloth boards with black lettering to front, 56 pages folding colour map at front and diagram at rear. Profusely illustrated with black and white photograps. Published during the Anglo-Boer war in 1900.
Previous owner's stamp on inside front and verso of map which has tears at folds and discolored in one corner, corners bumped, else good.
From the introduction: "It may be necessary to point out that the following photographs were not selected because they made 'pictures', but were taken on account of the historic incidents attached to the places they represent, and were often made under unfavourable aspects and conditions".
"As in page after page the various battle scenes are re-visited, the disasters of the armoured train and Colenso, the mistakes of Spion Kop and Krantz Kloof, and the splendid Victory of Pieters Hill will be brought closer, and the true value of those mistakes and accidents, intermingled with glorious achievementswhich so fatefully marked the campaign in Natal, will be placed upon them; and so, as in a panorama, will pass the events with which is indissolubly bound in the splendid future of South Africa".
- Binding Condition: Good
- Overall Condition: Good
- Size: 19.5x25.5cm
- Sold By: Richmond Books and Prints
- Contact Person: John Donaldson
- Country: South Africa
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- Telephone: 081 270 8827
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