Publisher's green cloth binding with gilt titles to front board and spine. Uncut pages edges. This copy is in good condition.
xxi + 443 pages. Large fold-out map of South Africa at rear.
The author was the State Secretary of the Transvaal Republic.
Includes a fold-out facsimile of the original contract between Voortrekker leader Piet Retief and Zulu king Dingaan. Retief negotiated, on behalf of the Voortrekkers, for land in Natal. The king gave his permission and even signed the treaty presented to him by Retief. However, shortly afterwards, when Dingaan proclaimed they were now friends in perpetuity, he had the whole delegation murdered.
'A statement of the case of the Boers against the British up to the time of the first annexation and the London Convention. "The internal politics of the Republics are not mentioned, but special attention has been given to the relations of the Boers with the natives, when these brought the Boers in to contact with Great Britain." Dr. Leyds is very bitter against Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, and constantly declaims his work, "The Transvaal from Within," which he avers is "an account of things as they were not," and he remarks that "Mr. Chamberlain . . . rewarded Fitzpatrick for his indictment of the Boers . . . by conferring upon him what is sometimes described as the honour of knighthood." - Mendelssohn Vol.I, pages 896-7
- Binding Condition: Very good
- Overall Condition: Good
- Size: 17 x 24 cm
