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Incwadi Yami Or Twenty Years' Personal Experience in South Africa. by MATTHEWS, Josiah Wright
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Incwadi Yami Or Twenty Years' Personal Experience in South Africa.
by MATTHEWS, Josiah Wright
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New York, Rogers & Sherwood, 1887. 8vo. Original dark green pictorial cloth, patterned endpapers; pp. 542, highly illustrated with plates in various techniques, light rubbing to cloth, rear inner hinge strengthened; a very good and clean copy;provenance: the De Beers copy. First edition. The author, a medical doctor, South African colonist and partner in several diamond fields was 'for many years closely identified with every social and political movement on the Fields, and his description of the diamond fields, and his references to the 'Illicit Diamond Trade', are particularly interesting. There are particulars of 'The Kimberly Company and Share Mania of 1881', 'The early History of the Diamond Fields', 'An account of the Black Flag Riot', together with sketches of the author's adventures in Basutoland, Swaziland, and the Transvaal, where he eventually settled' (Mendelssohn, III p. 282).
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Incwadi Yami, Or, Twenty Years' Personal Experience in South Africa
by Josiah Wright Matthews
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Incwadi Yami Or Twenty Years' Personal Experience In South Africa
by MATTHEWS, Josiah Wright [1841-1916]
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London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1887., 1887. 8vo. pp. vii, [1], [9]-542. 31 plates & 20 text illus. decorative headpieces. contemporary half roan, gilt back (leather chafed, neat gilt institutional crest on upper cover & lower spine, faint dampstaining to edge of upper margins, occasional light foxing & minor stains). First Edition. The author left England in 1864 as surgeon superintendent of the emigrant ship Tugela and secured the position of district surgeon to Victoria County (Natal). He was "for many years closely identified with every social and political movement on the Fields, and his description of the diamond fields, and his references to the 'Illicit Diamond Trade', are particularly interesting. There are particulars of 'The Kimberly Company and Share Mania of 1881', 'The early History of the Diamond Fields', 'An account of the Black Flag Riot', together with sketches of the author's adventures in Basutoland, Swaziland, and the Transvaal, where he…
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