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Lot 209
Sale 2721 - Books & Manuscripts
May 28, 2020
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[Travel & Exploration] [South Africa] Wilmot, Alexander The History of Our Own Times in South Africa
London, etc.: J. C. Juta & Co., 1897-99. In three volumes. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 382; viii, 362, (2); viii, 361 pp. Publisher's red cloth, lightly worn, stamped in blind and in gilt; offsetting from endpapers to half-titles and final leaves, otherwise only lightly and evenly toned. From the Baron H.M. Rapacki-Warnia's lending library and with his book-plate in each volume. He was known to have been a representative of the Orange Free State, and was interned by the British during the First World War. Rare.