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Very Good in Very Good jacket. xvi + 387pp + viii index, Black & white plates, 3 folding maps and plans. Africana Reprint Library Vol.6, a facsimile reprint of the 1882 edition with new foreward, illustrations and index. Colour frontispiece of General Joubert with tissue guard and old engravings reproduced as endpapers. Bookplate of previous owner else unmarked, clean and tight. 'An account of the Boer War of 1880-1, together with some preliminary chapters referring to the history of the South African Colonies and Republics up to this period. The author expresses the hope that the publication of the volume will conduce "to the development of a more liberal feeling towards our future colonists, the Boers-the early pioneers of civlisation, colonisation, and European domination in South Africa." He considered that the causes of the war were due partially "to the peculiarities and untractableness of the Boers themselves; but, principally, to the undoubted mismanagement and willful blindness of the Imperial authorities both at home and out here, as evidenced by the various and contradictory policies pursued by successive governors. '-Mendelssohn. A nice copy. G12.
