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Auction #118 begins on 03 Oct 2024

Bird (John)

THE ANNALS OF NATAL, 1495-1845;

[by the late Mr John Bird, of the Natal Civil Service]

Published: C. Struik, Cape Town, 1965

Edition: Facsimile reprint

Reserve: $75

Approximately:

Estimate: $100

Bidding opens: 3 Oct 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 10 Oct 16:30 GMT

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2 volumes (xiv, 754; xv, 497 pages). (Africana Collectanea; volumes 14 & 15). Skivertex, dust wrappers slightly spotted. Facsimile reprint of the 1885 edition. Set 151 of an edition limited to 750 sets.

Covers the period between the visit to the region by Vasco da Gama and the formal establishment of Natal as a British colony in 1845. Sources include government reports and correspondence, Cape newspapers, Moodie's Records, Flynn's papers and "…quotations from nearly every writer dealing with Natal from the earliest times. There is a copious index to each volume… the [record] is of the greatest value as a thoroughly unbiassed [sic] and accurate production." Mendelssohn, vol. 1, p. 126, on the original edition.
 
 

 

  • Jacket Condition: Excellent
  • Binding Condition: Excellent
  • Overall Condition: Excellent
  • Size: Both volumes 25 x 16 cm


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