THE KAFIR WARS AND THE BRITISH SETTLERS IN SOUTH AFRICA

1 volume. First edition 1865. Extremely scarce title.

The volume is dis-bound in preparation for rebinding.

There are some water marks on the plates as can be

seen from the photographs.

All plates, text pages and tissue-guards are present.

Text is bright and clean.

Triple tinted lithographic frontispiece. 

19 double tinted lithographic plates on India paper.

Each plate with accompanying text and tissue-guard.

Publishers blind stamped green pebble-grained cloth with gilt title.

Gilt page edges.

"In his preface Thomson writes, the artist visited and sketched every one of the

localities in this series with no other object than faithfully to portray scenes,

not only in themselves beautiful and picturesque, but of personal and historic

interest to many families in and beyond the colony. The title of the work was

a sufficient guide to the choice of subjects. With the exception of the frontispiece,

they are all confined to the Eastern Province of the colony and the British Kaffraria,

and are illustrative of the country occupied by the British settlers of 1820, and

especially of such scenes as have become famous in colonial history during the

successive wars which have been waged against the original possessors of the soil,

the indomitable Caffres."

The subjects of the plates are:

Cape Point, H.M.S. "Birkenhead".

Main Street, Port Elizabeth; Market Square, Port Elizabeth;

Graham's Town from the Bay Road; Kowie, Looking Seaward;

Fort Beaufort; Fuller's Hoek, Waterkloof in the Distance;

Blinkwater Hill; Mount Misery, Waterkloof; Macomo's Den, Waterkloof;

Blinkwater Drift; Fort Armstrong, Kat River; Peffer's Kop;

Chumie; Kieskamma, Near Fort Cox, Amatola in the Distance;

Burns' Hill Missionary Station; Yellowwood Drift, Lenye Valley;

Wolf River; Boma Pass and King William's Town.

Recorded shipping weight 2000g.

Shipped and insured by recorded delivery.