Portuguese and Dutch in South Africa 1641-1806
by Welch, Sidney R
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- Hardcover
- Signed
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Cape Town: Juta, 1951). 8vo; original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; no dustwrapper; pp. (vi) + 944, incl. index. Backstrip sunned; cloth very slightly rubbed; bump to bottom fore-corners; name of earlier owner, illustrator Alba Bouwer, signed on front free endpaper; trace of foxing to endpapers; light browning to edges. Very good condition. This volume continues on from Welch's 'Portuguese Rule and Spanish Crown in South Africa 1581-1640', which is one of several works by the author on the history of Portuguese involvement in the region. The parameters of the present study are the end of Spanish authority over Portugal in 1641 and the British occupation of the Cape in 1806. .
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- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7654
- Title
- Portuguese and Dutch in South Africa 1641-1806
- Author
- Welch, Sidney R
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (Cape Town: Juta, 1951)
- Keywords
- Portuguese. South Africa. Exploration. Sofala. Mozambique. Monomotapa. Dutch East India Company. V.O.C. African History
- Bookseller catalogs
- African History;
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About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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