STANLEY, Henry Morton.
Through South Africa...
Through South Africa...
being an account of his recent visit to Rhodesia, The Transvaal, Cape Colony, and Natal...
Stock Code 111892
London, Sampson Low, 1898
The inscription reads: 'The surrender of the Boer king / now completed I recommend the reading / of Chap V of this little book, I would give / a great deal to know the myriad thoughts / of the "choleric & obstinate old man" who / is the chief subject of that chapter / Henry M Stanley / London, June 1902.
The 'choleric & obstinate man' was Paul Kruger whom Stanley met in 1897 and to whom he took a strong dislike. The inscription, to the professional book collector James Young, was made just after the conclusion of the Second Boer War on 31st May 1902.
First edition; 12mo, xx, 140, portrait frontispiece with Stanley's inscription to recto, 11 photographic plates, folding colour map, original yellow cloth lettered in black, a fine, bright copy.
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