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Auction #125 begins on 14 Aug 2025

Singleton (John)

THE BATTLE-FIELDS OF NATAL RE-VISITED

Published: John Singleton, Durban, 1900

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $60

Approximately:

Estimate: $100

Bidding opens: 14 Aug 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 21 Aug 16:30 GMT

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Brown cloth boards with black lettering to front, 56 pages, folding colour map at front and diagram at rear. Well illustrated with black and white photograps. Published during the Anglo-Boer war in 1900.

Some discoloration to the fold-out map, minor spotting to boards, else very good+.

From the introduction: "It may be necessary to point out that the following photographs were not selected because they made 'pictures' but were taken on account of the historic incidents attached to the places they represent and were often made under unfavourable aspects and conditions".

"As in page after page the various battle scenes are re-visited, the disasters of the armoured train and Colenso, the mistakes of Spion Kop and Krantz Kloof, and the splendid Victory of Pieters Hill will be brought closer, and the true value of those mistakes and accidents, intermingled with glorious achievements which so fatefully marked the campaign in Natal, will be placed upon them; and so, as in a panorama, will pass the events with which is indissolubly bound in the splendid future of South Africa".

  • Binding Condition: Very Good
  • Overall Condition: Very Good
  • Size: 19.5x25.5 cm


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