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Auction #124 begins on 03 Jul 2025

Duggan-Cronin (A.M.)

THE BUSHMAN TRIBES OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

With an introductory article on the Bushman tribes and descriptive notes on the plates by D.F. Bleek

Published: McGregor Memorial Museum, Kimberley, 1942

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $100

Approximately:

Estimate: $150/200

Bidding opens: 3 Jul 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 10 Jul 16:30 GMT

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First Edition: 14 pages + 40 full-page photogravure plates each with a captioned tissue guards, distribution map, original green cloth, a fine copy.

Intended to be uniform in format with 'The Bantu Tribes of South Africa' series publication delayed by World War II.

Wookey (D.M.), Physical Anthropology in South Africa, A Bibliography of Physical Anthropology in South Africa, 1936-1947, Cape Town 1947, no.145,  'Besides the different types of the people, these photographs show much of the original Bushman life, of the ordinary activities and amusements of the Bushmen.' 

Dictionary of South African Biography, volume 3, page 244, 'Duggan-Cronin laid a most important foundation for the scientific study of ethnology at a time when much material which has now vanished irretrievably was still available.

  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 4to (260 x 190 mm)


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