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About the product 4to; original black cloth; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xii + 100, incl. index; full-colour frontis. and 34 full-colour plates. Edgeworn dustwrapper has section torn from lower panel (with loss); previous owner's name on front pastedown; some foxing to endpapers and prelims. Fair to good condition."This book is an attempt to make a few of the flowers which may be found in the Colony more readily recognisable both by the visitor to Southern Rhodesia and by Rhodesians themselves.... It is hoped that the colour plates will assist not only in identification of particular flowers, but also in revealing something of the beauty that is to be seen in the veld." Rhodesian Wild Flowers (Robert A. S. (text) Martineau, and Margaret H. Phear (illustrator))

About the product 220 x 150 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers (housed in removable protector); pp. (xvi) + 338, incl. index, + publisher's catalogue; plates; map. Trace of spotting to edges. Very good condition."Over 27,000 Boer women and children died during the Anglo-Boer War. This is the account of those who died in the concentration camps of the Orange Free State; in appalling conditions, of deprivation and starvation. From end to end, the Orange Free State lay ruined and starving.. Because they could not capture or kill the men, Roberts and Kitchener--the Lord of Chilled Steel--made war on the wives and children, driving them without food or shelter onto the wintry veld.. The shocking, brutal story of a fierce, almost forgotten struggle for freedom." Fire in the Sky. The destruction of the Orange Free State 1899 - 1902 (Owen Coetzer)

About the product 12mo; original blue boards, lettered in black to upper cover; endpaper maps; pp. 205; several photographs. Cover partially tanned and mottled; bottom fore-corner of lower board turned; merest trace of spotting. Good condition."The four booklets in the Wool Board's Educational Series, first published separately, are now combined in this volume, which covers the whole of the South African wool industry."The four parts are: Bearer of the Golden Fleece, On the Veld and Farm, From Shearing to Shipment, and, From Fleece to Fabric.