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Auction #125 begins on 14 Aug 2025

Hutchinson (Mrs)

IN TENTS IN THE TRANSVAAL

Published: Richard Bentley and Son, London, 1879

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $100

Approximately:

Estimate: $125/150

Bidding opens: 14 Aug 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 21 Aug 16:30 GMT

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First Edition: 225 pages, half red Morocco, matching buckram cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, bookplate on front paste down endpaper, a very good copy. 

Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography, volume I, page 751, 'An account of the adventures of a lady who accompanied her husband during nine months' camp life in Natal and the Transvaal. There is a lively description of the discomforts of life in the veld, which appear to have been borne with philosophic good humour, and there are many characteristic delineations of natives, for whose manners much admiration is expressed, the writer remarking that " even the humbler classes have a natural politeness of manner which contrasts strikingly with the swagger and vulgarity too often found in certain orders in more civilised societies. I should suppose that such a thing as a vulgar Kaffir is absolutely un- known."’ 

  • Overall Condition: A very good copy
  • Size: 8vo (225 x 145 mm)


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