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Auction #124 begins on 03 Jul 2025

Mossop, (E.E.)

OLD CAPE HIGHWAYS

Published: Maskew Miller, Cape Town, No date (circa 1927)

Edition: First

Reserve: $50

Approximately:

Estimate: $65

Bidding opens: 3 Jul 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 10 Jul 16:30 GMT

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Publisher's grey cloth binding. 

Contents clean with no inscriptions. Corners sharp. Binding tight. The original dust jacket is present but worn and in poor to fair condition.

202pp. Illustrated. Six maps of which four fold-out. This copy is in very good condition.

The author was a member of the Van Riebeeck Society and worked as the compiler, editor and translator on issues 12, 15, and 28 of the first series.

Dr Mossop follows all the early major routes out of Cape Town. Here is the first South African book to explore the very routes the early explorers used- and to examine why those were the routes they took.

Tulbagh Kloof (Roodezand), Hottentot Holland Pass, Bain's Kloof, East to Swellendam, Piekernier's Kloof, Oliphants River, Copper Mountain of the Amacquas, Karoo Poort, Forgotten Highway. 

  • Jacket Condition: Fair
  • Binding Condition: Very good
  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 8vo (220 x 150 mm)


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