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PICTORIAL ALBUM OF CAPE TOWN
Bowler (Thomas W.)
Description:
With Views of Simon's Town, Port Elizabeth, and Graham's Town. From Original Drawings by T.W. Bowler. With Historical and Descriptive Sketches by W.R. Thomson.
44 pages of letterpress and 12 coloured plates, descriptive booklet in pocket in back cover by Frank Bradlow, green cloth titled and decorated gilt on the upper cover, bookplate removed from the front endpaper leaving a slight residue, a good copy.
The edition of this album is limited to 750 numbered copies. Numbers 1 – 100 are bound in full leather. This is number 559.
Details:
- Publisher: Struik (Pty) Ltd.
- Publisher Place: Cape Town
- Date of Publication: (1866) 1966
- Edition: Facsimile reprint
- Binding Condition: Very good
- Overall Condition: Very good
- Size: Oblong 4to ( 285 x 380 mm)
- Lot No: 302
- Hammer Price: $48
- Bids: 4
- Visits: 44
- Estimate: $60/70
- Reserve: $40
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Seller Details:
- Name: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
- Address: P.O. Box 186, Constantia, (Cape Town), 7848, South Africa
- Contact Person: Paul Mills
- Country of Origin: South Africa
- Email: africana@clarkes.co.za
- Website: www.clarkes.co.za
- Preferred Payment Methods: Visa & Mastercard, Bank tranfers
- Trade Association: ABA - ILAB, SABDA
- Additional Information:
Phone: 0027 21 794 0600
Founded in 1958, Clarkes specialises in Africana and general antiquarian books, prints, maps and ephemera. Africana Catalogues are issued four times a year. All subjects are covered including, African exploration and travel, missionary endeavour, ethnography, Bushmen and rock art, big-game hunting, military history, the Anglo Boer War, Boer War ephemera, Zulu War and the First World War in East Africa and South West Africa, natural history (botany, ornithology, etc.), Mining (particularly diamonds and gold), Natal & Zululand, Namibia, art & architecture, literature & politics. Also Maps, prints and ephemera. We offer an active search service for all antiquarian and secondhand books.
