R1,300 - R1,500
A LOT OF 2 BOOKS ON SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY
1.) The Portuguese in South Africa by George. M. Theal
London: T Fisher Unwin, 1896
8vo +324pp. Grey Cloth Boards with Gilt lettering on spine and front, various maps throughout, With a description of the Native Races Between the River Zambesi and The Cape Of Good Hope During the Sixteenth Century.
2.) The Beginning of South African History
Cape Town: T. Maskew Miller, 1902
8vo+ xxvi + 502pp. 5 maps, 1 plate, maroon cloth titled gilt on the spine, with gilt device on the upper cover.
"Practically an amended and extended edition of the work entitled The Portuguese in South Africa, with additional notes on the remains of Palaeolithic Man in South Africa, and a very greatly amplified description of the Bantu races. Much of the work has been entirely rewritten, and the eight chapters in the earlier publication have been increased to twenty in the new version. The scope of the volume has been extended , to the arrival of D'Anaya in Sofala in 1505, a period 150 years before the arrival of Van Riebeek, which was taken " as an initial point " in The Portuguese in South Africa. The work contains photographic reproductions of an ancient plan of Sofala and the "Baptism of the Monomotapa," the latter having been taken from a picture in the Dominican House, Rome" South African Biography by Sidney Mendelssohn, vol 2. pp 486.
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