Publisher's hardcover binding with dust jacket.
116pp. Illustrated. Edition limited to 1000 copies only.
Book and jacket in good condition. Book is clean internally with only some markings of page 34 (see image). Dust jacket with moderate age-associated edge wear and faint tape ghosts on verso.
'The first recorded hint of the name Johannesburg occurs in a Sunday letter written by Capt. Carl von Brandis, and dated 3 October 1886.
What is its historical significance, and what is the relationship of this naming to the events of the time?
In a fascinating study, the author presents an original and convincing thesis. The name, given by President Paul Kruger in 1886, was only later, in 1891, ascribed to the combined names of Johann Rissik and Christiaan Johannes Joubert. Its basis in 1886 had nothing to do with either of these personalities.
By suggesting that the guiding thought behind the naming had to be concealed for political reasons, which he describes in detail, the author presents a radical revision of the conventional picture.'
- Jacket Condition: Good
- Binding Condition: Very Good
- Size: 8vo.
