Author: Schoonees, Pieter.
Title: Inscriptions on Padroes, Postal Stones, Tombstones and Beacons.
Description: South African Cultural History Museum. Cape Town 1991. Printed wraps 71pp illustrated b/w. Bookplate to title page else VG+ condition. ISBN: 0620162864 Early seafarers passing the Cape left engraved stones covering their letters to be picked up by ships passing in the opposite direction. All the items depicted in this work are in the museum's collection of such artifacts.

Keywords: postal africa african south southern cape town of good hope diogo cao bartolomeu dias bartholomew diaz vasco da gama pedro alvares cabral


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