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Auction #131 begins on 28 May 2026

[Carruthers (Jane) Editor]

THE JAMESON RAID

A Centennial Retrospective

Published: Brenthurst Press, Johannesburg, 1996

Edition: De luxe edition

Reserve: $200

Approximately:

Estimate: $300/400

Bidding opens: 28 May 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 4 Jun 16:30 GMT

Ships from: South Africa

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De Luxe Edition: 264 pages, frontispiece portrait of Leander Starr Jameson, numerous plans, maps, black and white and colour illustrations, top edge gilt, bound by master binder Peter Carstens in half dark blue Morocco with marbled paper sides,  a fine copy in matching blue leather and marbled paper slip case.

Brenthurst Press Third series no 1.

Colophon reads:150 de luxe copies bound in half leather numbered 1 to 150

This copy is number 42

Editor's note: 'This book revisits the events of the Jameson Raid and reviews evidence which has accumulated about it, offering a broad overview of one hundred years of enquiry into an episode which has been regarded as one of the critical turning points of empire, as indeed one of its darker moments.'

  • Overall Condition: Fine
  • Size: 4to (310 x250mm)


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