Portrait of Bloemfontein 1860-1910 (English and Afrikaans; 1987)

Schoeman, Karel

Description:

This copy would have been even more highly rated had it not had a dedication in pen that takes up almost half the front free endpaper and had it not had some very small crush marks at the top of its laminated dustjacket.

This very useful and comprehensive book, illustrated by almost 500 photographs, offers an invaluable record from the start in 1860 to the Act of Union a hundred years ago of what is today one of South Africa's more attractive cities -- not only the capital of the Free State, the seat of the Appeal Court and the location of South Africa's third-oldest surviving school (Grey College), but a city -- "the City of Roses" -- that has remained modest in size and neat and ordered in the layout and conservation of its buildings and open spaces.

As with all this author's non-fiction works, this book, honouring his home Province, was the subject of painstaking research.

 

Details:

  • Publisher: Human & Rousseau
  • Publisher Place: Cape Town
  • Date of Publication: 1987
  • Edition: First
  • Jacket Condition: VG+
  • Binding Condition: Fine
  • Overall Condition: Fine
  • Size: 280 x 220
  • Lot No: 320
  • Hammer Price: $40
  • Bids: 1
  • Visits: 13
  • Estimate: $80
  • Reserve: $40

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Seller Details:

  • Name: Fontein Books
  • Address: 27 Voortrekker Street, Philippolis 9970
  • Contact Person: Richard Proctor-Sims
  • Country of Origin: South Africa
  • Email: fontein@wol.co.za
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  • Trade Association: AA Approved
  • 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.