Sixty years ago

Buy Sixty Years Ago / Reminiscences of the Struggle for the Freedom of the Press in SA - L.H. Meurant for R120.00

About the product Number 458 of an edition limited to 510 copies. Text facsimile of the Saul Solomon printing of 1885. 8vo; original brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, with publisher's device in blind to upper cover; pp. (vi) + 107 + (i) + 5, incl. index. Occasional fox spot. Near-fine condition."Louis Henry Meurant combined enterprise and ability with high ideals, and his activities during his long and varied life illuminate many aspects of the history of South Africa during the nineteenth Century.. In 1828 he moved to Graaff-Reinet, and from there accompanied a party of hunters across the Orange River. On his return he bought the printing press of Godlonton and Stringfellow, which had previously been confiscated by Governor Donkin, and set up a Printing Works in Grahamstown, when only twenty years of age. The border Settlers immediately implored him to bring out a newspaper, and he decided to establish the Graham's Town Journal. Sixty Years Ago gives an interesting account of all that this involved, and includes many light-hearted anecdotes of life on the frontier in those perilous days. The first number appeared on December 30th 1831, and in 1832 Godlonton joined Meurant as partner, and was thus re-united with the printing press that had originally been his." L. H. Meurant: Sixty Years Ago; or, Reminiscences of the Struggle for the Freedom of the Press in South Africa and the Establishment of the First Newspaper in the Eastern Province

The history of the establishment of the first S A Newspaper and the struggle of the freedom of the press. Hardcover. English. Africana Connoisseur Press. 1963. ISBN: 0. 107 pp plus index. Very good condition in hardcover, no dw. Book No: 1024062

SIXTY YEARS OF POWER by the Earl of Swinton                                 (R135) Hard cover with d/w – 215x145mm – Hutchinson & Co 1966 1 st Edition 253 pages, no index – pencil sketches of all personages involved V/Good cond: mild shelf wear; spine/corners mildly bumped; clean; tightly bound; no inscriptions.   D/W: Fair cond: closed tears; u/l/spine frittered; some minor paper loss, 95% complete; front foldover corner torn off.

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  1953 softcover with dustjacket  45 pages, dustjacket is in a VERY POOR condition, softcover has one or two marks, a piece was  cut out at the front end  pag e- see image below, several spots in book, text is clean and binding good -NO overseas shipping  

Hardback. English. The Standard Bank Of South Africa. 1953. In fair condition. 45pp. The story of the coming of the Standard Bank to Rhodesia & Nyasaland with some account of its early days there. Book No: 2001645

Into the Millennium Anglo Boer War Today and 100 Years Ago Compiled by: Maureen Richards The images provided form part of the description Hardcover with no Dust Jacket. I Send by Ordinary mail and supply a tracking number. Because of postage costs it is sometimes better to to order more than one book, as I charge by weight and combine postage it is more cost effective. I combine postage. I also combine postage with Jessies. For Book Condition see images below. Please quote Username or order number when making a payment  

 Life at the Cape over a hundred years ago - By a lady - Illustrations by Thomas Bowler - Struik - 1998 - Paperback in god, clean and tight condition.  

Life At The Cape A Hundred Years Ago... by a Lady illustrated by Thomas Bowler A reprint hardcover published by Centaur in 1983 Brown cover boards with white writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, no marks or inscriptions, dustjacket is complete but with nick & tear to spine top & bottom & fade to spine, Postage within S Africa R60 thru P Office Overseas buyers can contact us for a postal quote

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About the product Small 8vo; original paper over boards, with pictorial onlay and title label on spine, a little sunned, and slightly worn at extremities; past owner's hand stamp on front free endpaper; pp. viii + 108; some browning to endpapers; black-and-white plates. Good condition."The Cambridge undergraduate of to-day would hardly recognise his prototype of a hundred years ago, if the latter could be brought to life. The past century has wrought a vast change in his appearance, vernacular, sobriety, diversions, and general behaviour. We can congratulate ourselves, however, that a better type has been evolved, although we can still recognise to-day modified (and improved) specimens of the men who were in residence in the early twenties." Books: The Cambridge Undergraduate 100 Years Ago. Compiled, with Extracts and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources by Oskar Teichman D.S.O., M.C., M.A.