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Author - Sonia Clarke Binding - Hardcover. Gilt lettering. Book Condition - Near fine. Deep rose tint on the top-edge is faded in areas. Book Number - QB-010939 Edition - 1st edition Jacket Condition - Good. Some edge-wear. Sunning to spine and part of the front panel. Rubbing to covers and folds. Location - Kalk Bay Shop Published Year - 1991 Published Place - Johannesburg Publisher - The Brenthurst Press Size - 4to. 223pp   Standard edition of 850 copies bound in cloth. 87 illustrations including the frontispiece.  

Standard edition of 850 copies bound in cloth. Accounts of two sieges, 1899 to 1900, being the South African War experiences of William Thwaites, Steuart Binny, Alfred Down and Samuel Cawood. Illustrated end papers. Magenta tint to top edge. Includes 63 plates with frontispiece and 5 Maps. Publisher: The Brenthurst Press Date Published: 1983 Publication Place: Houghton, Johannesburg Condition: Near fine. Binding: Hardcover. Gilt lettering. Jacket Condition: Very good. Sunning to spine. Some light edge-wear to spine and folds. Small pink mark on verso of flyleaf. Dimensions: 4to. 275pp

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The Flora Capensis of Jakob and Johann Philipp Breyne By: Mary Gunn & Enid du Plessis A Brenthurst series nbr 4 hardcover standard edition published by Brenthurst in 1978 Fawn cover boards with gold writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, light foxing to front & rear flyleaves insect stain to end pages, dustjacket is complete agewear & agecolour, brown mark on front of jacket Postage within South Africa R70.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation Abe #

 A Soldier in South Africa 1899 to 1902 in Good acceptable condition with dust jacket fair minor tears that been fixed. Slight minor water damaged     About this Item:  (Johannesburg: The Brenthurst Press, 1989) 0909079439, 1989. Brenthurst Second Series, number 6. Standard edition limited to 850 copies. Large 4to; original red cloth; pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; tinted top edge; silk markers; pp. 207+ (i), incl. index; profusely illustrated with maps, facsimiles, and reproductions of contemporary artwork and photographs."Lieutenant Eustace Abadie of the 9th Lancers arrived in South Africa on 10 October 1899. The next day the South African War broke out and his regiment moved northward as part of Lord Methuen's advance on the beleaguered Kimberley. It was at this time that Abadie experienced his baptism of fire, at the battle of Belmont. The twenty-two-year-old cavalry officer fought also at the battles of Graspan and Modder River and some weeks later was present at Magersfontein when Boer commandos inflicted a severe defeat on Methuen's army. Thereafter, Abadie was directly involved in the dramatic events which led to the relief of Kimberley on 15 February 1900 and the subsequent fall of Bloemfontein on 13 March. From mid February 1900 until the end of the war he served on the staff of Major-General French who commanded the cavalry division on the march to Pretoria and beyond, and who later took charge of mobile operations in the Cape. As a member of French's staff, Abadie had men of the calibre of Douglas Haig as colleagues and he found himself close to where decisions were taken at command level. His position enabled him to meet the most senior officers - such as Lords Roberts and Kitchener. This is the previously unpublished story of one man's experience of three years of war, written in the heat of the moment. Not subject to any form of military censorship, Abadie's account of the conflict, the country and the people he encountered, is frank, critical and perceptive. Together with accompanying contemporary illustrations, this work vividly portrays an imperial war at the turn of the century as seen through the eyes of an observant young cavalryman. It is a valuable addition to existing accounts of the South African War."

About the product Brenthurst Second Series, number 2. Standard edition limited to 850 copies. Large 4to; original crimson cloth; laminated pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; tinted top edge; silk markers; pp. 275 + (i), incl. index; several reproductions of contemporary illustrations, in monochrome and full colour. Earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper. A few fox spots to fore-edge, else fine."The name of John Blades Currey (1829-1904) is seldom mentioned in histories of southern Africa. Indeed, the young Englishman who arrived at the Cape in 1850 made little direct impact on its story. He was nonetheless to become a profound influence on some of the Cape's most famous men and an astute chronicler of the political and social events of his time. His memoirs, published here for the first time, cover half a century of Cape history, from 1850 to 1900. Soldiering, farming, copper-mining - Currey tried all these; then, on the advice of governor Sir George Grey he joined the Cape civil service. While in its employ in the late 1860s he was entrusted with the task of introducing to a sceptical Europe southern Africa's first diamond, the'Eureka'. Later, as secretary to the government of Griqualand West, he chose the new name of' Kimberley 'for the burgeoning diamond-fields town of New Rush. But in 1875 Currey was blamed for the diggers'rebellion there, and this led to his dismissal from office and blighted his subsequent public career. While he was in Kimbeley Currey befriended two young fortune-hunters, both of whom were to become renowned premiers of the Cape: Cecil John Rhodes and John X. Merriman. To both of them Currey was to remain a lifelong friend and counsellor.. He is revealed in the account not as a politician but as a man who helped to shape politicians, not as a man who made history but rather as one who was passionately part of it. The manuscript forms part of The Brenthurst Collection, as do the majority of the contemporary illustrations which complement the text." Books: John Blades Currey 1850 to 1900: Fifty Years in the Cape Colony