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Auction #120 begins on 16 Jan 2025

Smith (A.H.)

CAPE VIEWS AND COSTUMES

Water-colours by H.G. de Meillon

Published: Brenthurst Press, Johannesburg, 1978

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $40

Approximately:

Estimate: $60/70

Bidding opens: 16 Jan 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 23 Jan 16:30 GMT

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134 pages, coloured frontispiece of Government House, 86 colour plates with accompanying text, brown cloth, slight foxing on the page edges, a very good copy in the dust jacket now preserved in a Brodart protector.

Complete with the supplementary booklet: Shell (Robert) DE MEILLON'S PEOPLE OF COLOUR, Some notes on their dress and occupations with special reference to Cape Views and Costumes, 16 pages, 250 x 200 mm, pictorial card wrappers.

Brenthurst Press First Series volume 3

  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: Square 4to (270 x 270 mm)


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