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Auction #125 begins on 14 Aug 2025

Fairbridge (Dorothea)

HISTORIC HOUSES OF SOUTH AFRICA

With a preface by General J.C. Smuts

Published: Oxford University Press, London, 1922

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $50

Approximately:

Estimate: $60/70

Bidding opens: 14 Aug 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 21 Aug 16:30 GMT

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First Edition: 191 pages, colour frontispiece and 10 colour plates reproduced from Gwelo Goodman oil paintings, numerous black & white photographs by Arthur Elliott, many diagrams and text illustrations, presentation inscription on a front free end paper, blue gilt decorated cloth, a very good copy.

Chapters on Constantia, the Castle, Table Valley, Stellenberg, Eerste River, Vergelegen, Stellenbosch, Simonsberg, Mulders Vlei, Groot Drakenstein, Waggon-Maker's Valley, Waveren, old Cape Dutch furniture and the land itself.

  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 4to (300 x 220 mm)


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