First Edition: 277 pages, frontispiece, 4 hand coloured plates and 5 other plates, 29 illustrations in the text, brown pictorial cloth titled gilt on the upper cover and spine, a very good copy.
Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography, volume 1, page 471-2. "The impressions of a naturalist who, during a twelve months' business sojourn in the Transvaal ... employed the whole of his leisure ... in zoological recreation..."
On his arrival in the Transvaal he found the country suffering severely from the collapse of the "1889 boom", and observes, "Johannesburg is now in sackcloth and ashes, the occupation of the company promoter is gone, mining companies close down almost daily, mining scrip is nearly valueless and a settled apathy denotes the shareholder." 'The volume contains much valuable information respecting the birds and insects of the country, and there is an excellent account of the Magwanbas and of the Zoutpansberg.'
- Size: 8vo (230 x 150 mm)
