The Rock-Engravings of Griqualand & Bechuanaland, South Africa

Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, 1968

4to, xii, 77pp., 70 plates, collated and complete. Original cloth covered hardcover binding, with gilt lettering to spine, and inlaid gilt publisher’s device on front board. With fold-out map at rear. With dust jacket.

Maria Wilman (1867- 1957) was a South African geologist and botanist. She was the first director of the McGregor Museum in Kimberley, South Africa and the second female South African to attend the University of Cambridge in England. In 1906 she undertook an important journey up to Kimberley, the Vryburg region and further north, collecting specimens, and amassing data on rock engravings which was the start of a project culminating nearly three decades later in her publication ‘Rock engravings of Griqualand West and Bechuanaland’. It remained the standard text on rock art in South Africa for nearly five decades. (wikipedia.com)

Condition: Very good. The dust jacket has some rubbing and light edgewear. Minor bumps to top corners of the boards, and very light bumping to top corners of the pages. Previous owner’s bookplate fixed to front endpaper. Text and plates are clean, and copy is well bound.