Die dagboek van H.A.L. Hamelberg; 1855 - 1871 uitgegee en toegelig deur Dr. F.J. du T. Spies. Met 'n Verkorte weergawe in Engels vertaal deur N.G. Sabbagha ...
by Spies, (Dr.) F.J. du T. (editor)
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, First Series, Volume 33, 1952). Original cloth, very slightly marked, pp. xxii + 275, frontispiece portrait of Hamelberg, plates, folding plan of Cape Town. Endpapers, preliminary pages and edges a little foxed, name on the front pastedown endpaper. The diarist, born in the Netherlands in 1826 and died there in 1896. He was a lawyer, member of the volksraad and a consul-general of the Orange Free State. He was unquestionably the most highly trained lawyer in the young republic, and in time built a flourishing advocate's practice. (Dictionary of South African biography, Vol. I, page 348) .
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- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
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- Title
- Die dagboek van H.A.L. Hamelberg; 1855 - 1871 uitgegee en toegelig deur Dr. F.J. du T. Spies. Met 'n Verkorte weergawe in Engels vertaal deur N.G. Sabbagha ...
- Author
- Spies, (Dr.) F.J. du T. (editor)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, First Series, Volume 33, 1952)
- Keywords
- South Africa. Orange Free State. Boer Republics. Free State
- Bookseller catalogs
- Free State;
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