WITH THE BOERS IN THE TRANSVAAL AND ORANGE FREE STATE

First Edition. 387 pages, folding map, brown cloth with blind decoration on upper cover, slight foxing throughout, spine gilt and frayed at the top and bottom, original brown endpapers intact with a bookplate on the front paste-down, fore-edge uncut.

Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography vol. 2 page 99: An account of the Boer War of 1880-1, together with some preliminary chapters referring to the history of the South African Colonies and Republics up to this period. The author expresses the hope that the publication of the volume will conduce to the development of a more liberal feeling towards our future colonists, the Boers, the early pioneers of civilisation, colonisation, and European dominion in South Africa. He considered that the causes of the war were due partially to the peculiarities and untractableness of the Boers themselves; but, principally, to the undoubted mismanagement and wilful blindness of the Imperial authorities both at home and out here, as evidenced by the various and contradictory policies pursued by successive governors.