TOWARDS PRETORIA

First edition 1900, pictorial cloth binding, 381 pages, folding map. Bookplate of I. & F.W. Hosken on fep. A copy in very good condition.

The historical foreword affords some particulars respecting " The Dutch in South Africa " and the Boer armament and ultimatum, and there are notes on the refugees in Cape Town, and the attitude of the Dutch and British residents. The description of the campaign (which is reproduced from Mr.Ralph's letters to the Daily Mail) includes accounts of the battles of Belmont, Graspan, Modder River, and Magersfontein the investment of Ladysmith, and the siege and relief of Kimberley.