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Auction #127 begins on 06 Nov 2025

RC de Jong, G-M van der Waal, DH Heydenrych

NZASM 100 - The Buildings, Steam Engines and Structures of the Netherlands South African Railway Company

Published: Chris Van Rensburg Publications, Melville, 1988

Edition: First

Reserve: $40

Approximately:

Estimate: $55

Bidding opens: 6 Nov 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 13 Nov 16:30 GMT

Ships from: South Africa

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Publisher's brown hardcover binding with dust jacket. Maps to endpapers. Contains Roll of Honour. Complete with maps, photographs, data and information. 

265pp. Illustrated. Book and jacket in good condition.

'NZASM 100 maps the valiant efforts of the first railway company to establish an extensive railway network in an isolated country in Africa. At the close of the nineteenth century when the Boers of the 'Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek' (ZAR) were still living in a pre-industrial timeframe and had never seen a train, a railway company, the 'Nederlandsche Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg Maatschappij' (NZASM), laid the foundation of a modern transport system. Together with the gold-mining industry in the Eastern Transvaal and on the Witwatersrand the railways inaugurated the industrial revolution in a country managed by an agrarian people. This book encapsulates the rich technical, political and above all, the architectural history of the NZASM for the first time.'

  • Jacket Condition: Good
  • Binding Condition: Very good
  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: 23 x 28 cm


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