The New Republic in South Africa 1884-1888 [Nieuwe Republiek Zuid-Afrika 5-8-1884 till 20-7-1888] (signed and with a letter from the author) . . .

" . . . A historical overview and an in-depth investigation on its stamps and postal history"

This major (251 pp) history of New Republic - the Boer enclave around Vryheid which existed for four years - followed the same author's 1988 published monograph on the subject. This update was published "for private circulation and presented as a free gift".

This was the copy of the late Andre Bezuidenhout, one of South Africa's leading philatelists of the period, in whose collection was the unpublished MS on the Nieuwe Republiek by Leon de Raay, the Dutch authority on the period, who died in the 1930s. This and other information is referred to in the 2-pp letter from the author to Bezuidenhout loosely inserted in this copy.