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Auction #128 begins on 15 Jan 2026

Her Majesty's Stationary Office

BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY RELATED PUBLICATIONS

Published: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, London & South Africa, 1890 onwards

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $100

Approximately:

Estimate: $125/150

Bidding opens: 15 Jan 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 22 Jan 16:30 GMT

Ships from: United States

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A collection of 4 published documents concerning The British South Africa Company.

ACTION OF PORTUGAL IN MASHONALAND AND IN THE DISTRICT OF THE SHIRE AND LAKE NYASA.

231 pages.  Published February 1890.  Paperback.  Cover is clean and undamaged.  Pages are browning with age.  Pages are clean. Very Good condition.

All treaties, understandings and official correspondence.

32cm x 20cm.

FURTHER CORRESPONDENCES RELATED TO AFFAIRS IN MATABELELAND, MASHONALAND & THE BECHUANALAND PROTECTORATE

83 pages.  Paperback.  Published March 1894. Damage to cover (as seen in photos).  Contents are clean and binding tight.   Very Good condition.

Published as continuation of a prior similar publication from 1893.

32cm x 20cm

IN THE PRIVY COUNCIL: SPECIAL REFERENCE IN THE MATTER OF SOUTHERN RHODESIA.

85 pages.  No cover.  Possibly published c. 1920's.  Good Condition.  Pages are clean and binding tight.

Legal brief and Counter Case of the British South Africa Company filed in The Privy Council.

Makes fascinating reading and a great record of events determining the future of the country.  From 1890-1923 the company was run by The BSAC, whereafter it became a self-governing Colony of Great Britain.

32cm x 20cm

ORDINANCES MADE BY THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY

7 pages.  Hardbound. Cloth covered board, in Very Good condition. Published 1892.  Pages are brown with age but clean and binding tight.  

Contains:

Ordinance No 1 of 1891:  "Ordinance to provide for the Maintenance of Discipline and Good Order in the British South Africa Company's Police Force."  Approved July 3, 1891

Ordinance No 2 of 1891: "Regulating Trading and the Delivery of Firearms."  Approved July 31, 1891

Ordinance No 3 of 1891: "Regulating Coinage and Weights and Measures."  Approved July 31, 1891.

The collection is a veritable collection of the history and events and the running of Rhodesia in from its first days.

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  • Binding Condition: Very Good
  • Overall Condition: Very Good
  • Size: 320 x 200 mm


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