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Auction #119 begins on 14 Nov 2024

Johnston, R.H

EARLY MOTORING IN SOUTH AFRICA - A Pictorial History

SIGNED

Published: C. Struik, Cape Town, 1975

Edition: First

Reserve: $40

Approximately:

Estimate: $55

Bidding opens: 14 Nov 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 21 Nov 16:30 GMT

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Brown cloth boards, a very good pictorial dust jacket, 224 pages. Signed on title page.

A nostalgic and informative look at the first 40 years of the motor-car in Southern Africa - the good years before the servant became the master, but also the years of frustration and disappointment, bad roads, rough terrain and economic depression. Spanning the period 1897 to 1939 there are over 425 photographs, most of which are unique.       

 Here are the first horseless carriage, the motoring giants and pioneers followed by the motorised farmers and townsmen, the record-breakers and adventure-seekers                                                                                                                                                                                                       

  • Jacket Condition: Good
  • Binding Condition: Very good
  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: 4to (295 x 225 mm)


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