Christiaan Rudolf de Wet 1854-1922 (Afrikaans; 1954)

Van Schoor, M C E, and others (compilers)

Description:

The book was compiled by Van Schoor, S I Malan and J J Oberholster and published on the order of the "General de Wet statue unveiling committee". The frontispiece illustrates a representation of the statue.

The drawn-on patterned ivory paper boards with facsimile of De Wet's signature to the panel, are present but detached, chipped and torn. The 176 pp book, profusely illustrated in the text and side-stitched, is unmarked, crisp and undiscoloured. The half-title page has an erasure at the top-right.

 

Details:

  • Publisher: National Women's Monument Commission
  • Publisher Place: Bloemfontein
  • Date of Publication: 1954
  • Edition: First
  • Binding Condition: Poor to Fair
  • Overall Condition: Very Good
  • Size: 180 x 250
  • Lot No: 201
  • Hammer Price: $25
  • Bids: 1
  • Visits: 93
  • Estimate: $35
  • Reserve: $25

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  • Name: Fontein Books
  • Address: 27 Voortrekker Street, Philippolis 9970
  • Contact Person: Richard Proctor-Sims
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  • Additional Information: Fontein Books has for several years participated in Antiquarian Auctions and its predecessor. It specialises in historical and contemporary books on the Free State and Northern Karoo, and is also an active buyer and seller on commission in these and other fields. Fontein's owner, Richard Proctor-Sims, was an editor, writer and small publisher until 2005, when he moved from Johannesburg to Philippolis, the first settlement (1822) north of the Gariep or Orange River, where he opened his first physical bookshop (to which buyers and sellers are welcome), with reasonable holdings in Africana, both Anglo-Boer wars, biography, history, military history, natural history and travel. He regularly visits Bloemfontein, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town and offers to deliver heavy or valuable books or sets to these cities on such visits. Richard Proctor-Sims retains the copyright of Fontein's Antiquarian Auction descriptions and these may not be reproduced without permission and acknowledgment.