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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Stevenson-Hamilton (Lieut. Col. J.)

THE LOW-VELD AND ITS PEOPLE.

With a Foreword by Lt.-Gen. The Right Hon. J.C. Smuts, P.C., K.C.

Published: Cassell and Company, Ltd., London, 1929

Edition: First Edition

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287 pages, frontispiece, map on endpapers, 16 illustrations (plate at page 148 is frayed along the bottom edge and has been reattached with tape), brown cloth gilt. The binding is a little loose and the cloth worn along the edges of the spine. 

'Colonel Stevenson-Hamilton....has identified himself with that corner of South Africa (the Transvaal Low-Veld) as no other man has done. For twenty-six years now he has been in charge of it, and his efforts on behalf of its fauna have resulted in the statutory establishment of the Kruger National Park, which will ever remain a monumnet to him personally.' Foreword.

  • Binding Condition: Good
  • Overall Condition: Good`
  • Size: 8vo (225 x 152mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
  • Contact Person: Paul Mills
  • Country: South Africa
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