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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Jarvis (Colonel Weston)

JOTTINGS FROM AN ACTIVE LFE.

Published: Heath Cranton Limited, London, 1928

Edition: First edition

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256 pages, frontispiece portrait, 27 plates, original brown cloth, title in black on the spine, a very good copy. 

Includes a chapter on the Matabele War and two on the Anglo-Boer War. A long chapter on Sport includes eight pages on Big Game in Rhodesia in which he describes ‘spending a week or ten day wth Colonel Napier, the “Bill” Napier of Rhodesian pioneer fame, who was then managing, for Willoughby’s Consolidated Company, a charming estate of some four hundred thousand acres upon which the company was gradually building up a herd of cattle….We had capital sport…’ 

  • Binding Condition: Very good
  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 8vo (220 x 140 mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
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  • Country: South Africa
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