HISTORY OF RHODESIA (1900) - inscribed by the author

Publisher's red cloth binding with gilt titles on front panel and spine.

xix + 381pp. Index + Fold-out map at rear being "The latest official map of Rhodesia".

Inscribed on the half-title page: "With the Author's Compliments, Howard Hensman, 25.10.00, A mark of esteem to Frank Scott."

Binding sound. Contents clean with some foxing on the prelims. Contemporary bookplate on front paste down with the motto "Crescit Sub Pondere Virtus" and the name J. J. Chapman. Fold-out map at rear in good condition with some paper reinforcement along one of the folds on the verso.

A very scarce title.

'This is the earliest history of the British colony of Rhodesia. Written only eight years after the first white settlement and based on exclusive access to the files of Cecil John Rhodes's British South Africa Company, this book became the benchmark for all other works. It is more than the exciting history of the Pioneer Column: it details the tumultuous events of the Matabele Wars, the last stand of Allan Wilson, Rhodes's personal intervention to the Matabele to halt the fighting, and much more. Written by one of Britain's leading war correspondents, A History of Rhodesia is a book of its time: unashamedly jingoistic, pro-Empire, anti-Boer and anti-Matabele, it provides a remarkable insight into the personalities and mindset of the builders of the British Empire. "It is, unfortunately, so easy to sit at home in a comfortable arm-chair and pour forth vigorous denunciations on the heads of those of one's countrymen who are battling with hordes of savages in a distant land."' - Goodreads.com

'In the Appendices will be found a record of the gold output in Rhodesia up to June 1900, and a table showing the ruling rates for skilled labour in the country at this period. The volume contains "the latest official map of Rhodesia," and an index.' - Mendelssohn Vol.I, page 704