1 volume. First edition 1891. Scarce first edition copy.
Publishers pictorial brown boards.
Gilt motif on cover with gilt titles
Gilt title to spine.
[5], 480 pages, 15 page publishers catalogue.
2 fold-out colour maps [fold repair to large map].
Sporadic foxing/spotting.
Edward Peter Mathers was a correspondent for the
Scotsman & Daily News during the Zulu War in 1879.
Intrigued by the discovery of gold in South Africa in
the 1880s, Mathers made several treks through
South Africa and Rhodesia, some of which he recounts
in this work. He became quite the authority on the
Witwatersrand goldfields and was an early exponent
of the economic opportunities presented by the south
of Africa. Mathers later founded the Natal Advertiser and
the weekly newspaper "South Africa," a "Home Colonial"
journal for those interested in South African affairs.
Recorded shipping weight 1500g.
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