Author: Cory, G.E.
Title: The Rise of South Africa. Volume 1. From the Earliest Times to the Year 1820.
Description: "In Four Volumes". Vol. 1. Longmans Green & Co. London 1910. Gilt title on blue cloth boards. 420pp illustrated 8vo. foldout map of the Cape Colony to 1820. 1.2kg. A worn copy, spine ends frayed to card, insect attack to map fold. a sound and clean reading copy. "A History Of The Origin Of South African Colonisation And Of Its Development Towards The East From The Earliest Times To 1857". This first volume of the earlier 4-volume edition of Cory's work deals extensively with the history of the Eastern Cape. Starts with a brief introductory on the earlier history of the Cape leading up to the establishment of Graaff Reinet in 1786 from which date the Eastern Province is considered to have had official existence. Cory deals with subsequent events in the large drostdy that this covered in detail, including unrest in and around Graaff Reinet, Slagter's Nek, and The Battle Of Grahamstown.

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