(Bulawayo: Books of Rhodesia, 1977) 0869201530. Rhodesiana Reprint Library Silver Series, Volume 15. Text facsimile of the Heinemann edition of 1897, with a new foreword and index. 8vo; original brown boards, lettered in silver gilt on spine, with silver gilt ox-waggon device to upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (xiv) + xv + (iii) + 218 + (ix), incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper a little sunned on spine panel; trace of spotting to top edge; top fore-corner of lower board slightly turned. Very good condition. "The purpose of Du Toit's series of firsthand observer 'sketches' was to report progress on Rhodesia - then only four years old - to the South African public. Little escaped his notice and his comments on travel, agricultural opportunities, flora and fauna, the early settlers (with particular reference to Afrikaners), mining prospects, the first urban settlements, African tribal life, and Rhodes's new telegraph and railway, make fascinating reading." .

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Bookseller: Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 9911
Title: Rhodesia Past and Present
Author: Du Toit, S. J
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0869201530
ISBN 13: 9780869201534
Publisher: (Bulawayo: Books of Rhodesia, 1977) 0869201530
Place of Publication: Bulawayo
This edition first published: 1977
Keywords: Rhodesia
Bookseller catalogs: Rhodesia;

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