The History of Our Own Times in South Africa.
First edition of Alexander Wilmot's The History of Our Own Times in South Africa
The History of Our Own Times in South Africa.
WILMOT, Alexander.
$400.00
Item Number: 116824
London: J. C. Juta & Co, 1897-1899.
First edition of Wilmot’s authoritative history of the development of South Africa. Octavo, three volumes, original cloth with gilt titles to the spines. In near fine condition with rubbing to the extremities.
Wilmot's The History of Our Own Times in South Africa covers the period of exponential growth between 1872 and 1899 when the discoveries of diamonds and gold in the Transvaal, Kimbereley and Rhodesia made the country a destination and intensified British efforts to gain control of it.
