AFRICAN VILLAGE & FATHER OF KINDNESS AND FATHER OF HORSES

A fine lot of foundational ethnographic, architectural, and trading history studies by the renowned material culture scholar James Walton F.S.A.

1.African Village

xi, 170pp followed by 55 pp b/w plates. Features 113 monochrome photographic plates and architectural plans. Hardcover with original pictorial dust jacket. The book is internally clean with a strong binding. The original dust jacket shows a section missing from the bottom left corner. A good copy.

The book is a comprehensive, heavily illustrated study documenting the stone hut settlements and traditional structural layouts of indigenous African peoples.

From the dustjacket ‘African Village provides for the first time a comprehensive story of the settlement of Southern Africa. It is an account of the homes and villages of the African peoples from Prehistoric times up to the time when European influence began to alter their established pattern of life. Cave dwellings, the stone hut settlements of the Orange Free State and Transvaal, and the Zimbabwe ruins of Southern Rhodesia are all included in the wide panorama of African folk building.'

2. Father of Kindness and Father of Horses — Ramosa Le Ralipere: A History of Frasers Limited

48 pp, maps to end papers. B/w frontispiece and photographs. Stiff pictorial card cover with original pictorial dust jacket .

The text block is completely clean and tight.
Previous owner's small stamp to front cover and 3 front pages. A good copy.

This book is a scarce, foundational commercial history detailing the expansion of the Frasers trading post network across colonial Basutoland (Lesotho), tracking the pioneer traders Donald and Douglas Fraser.