Author: Dorothea Fairbridge
Title: Historic Farms of South Africa the Wool, the Wheat, and the Wine of the 17th and 18th Centuries
Description: London, Oxford University Press, 1931. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated historical study on South African farms and their produce by Dorothea Fairbridge. The first edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and forty-five monochrome and colour plates. Collated compete.This work was written by South African author and co founder of the 'Guild of Loyal Women', Dorothea Ann Fairbridge. This work provides a historic account of South African farming during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The work discusses the produce and weather conditions, as well as the African agriculture calendar. In the publisher's original cloth. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally generally smart with damp staining to the boards, fading to the spine and rear board and bumping to the extremities with a very small closed tear to the cloth to the head of the spine. Front hinge starting slightly with spotting to the endpapers. Internally firmly bound with generally bright pages and spotting throughout. Marks to pp. 78 and the plate opposite and the occasional tidemark. Good . Ill.: None stated. Good .
Keywords: First edition History Africa Farming History Illustrated Colour plates None stated
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Title: Historic Farms of South Africa the Wool, the Wheat, and the Wine of the 17th and 18th Centuries
Description: London, Oxford University Press, 1931. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated historical study on South African farms and their produce by Dorothea Fairbridge. The first edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and forty-five monochrome and colour plates. Collated compete.This work was written by South African author and co founder of the 'Guild of Loyal Women', Dorothea Ann Fairbridge. This work provides a historic account of South African farming during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The work discusses the produce and weather conditions, as well as the African agriculture calendar. In the publisher's original cloth. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally generally smart with damp staining to the boards, fading to the spine and rear board and bumping to the extremities with a very small closed tear to the cloth to the head of the spine. Front hinge starting slightly with spotting to the endpapers. Internally firmly bound with generally bright pages and spotting throughout. Marks to pp. 78 and the plate opposite and the occasional tidemark. Good . Ill.: None stated. Good .
Keywords: First edition History Africa Farming History Illustrated Colour plates None stated
Price: GBP 40.00 = appr. US$ 57.12 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 895Z5
- Book number: 895Z5
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