Dorothea Bleek Notes Introduction (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Large quarto bound in red, brick-colored cloth and paper-covered boards. Illustrated with B&W and collotype plates and map. Condition: heavy bump to upper corner of covers and book block; minor wear & rubbing to binding; spine label chipped, although an extra spine label is tipped-in at the back of the book; minor toning to endpapers; else very good. Pages: xx, 28 plates and map.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Two volumes. Lg. Quarto. 12 3/4 x 10 1/4 ".Volume I: vii- xxviii. Plus 72 plates and map In coloured collotype from drawings copied by George William Stow ; Volume II: v-xx, plus 28 plates in coloured and monotone collotype from drawings copied by J&M Van Der Reit. Plates are printed on one side with descriptions opposite. Most plates in first volume have tissue guards, some of which have worn edges. Printed paper covered boards with 1/4 red cloth spines. Some foxing mostly to endpapers and first and last few pages. Ownership signature. Offsetting and grey spot to free-endpapers of Volume II. Dust jackets are soiled and spotty and have edge wear and edge tears. "George William Stow, a trader and geologist who was much interested in South African native races, particularly in the Bushmen. By birth a Warwickshireman, Stow emigrated to South Africa at the age of twenty-one, and spent his life in the Eastern Province of the Cape Colony, in Griqualand West, and in the Orange Free State. His travels, undertaken chiefly for the purpose of trading or of geological survey, led him into places where rock-engravings and rock-paintings abounded, and his interest in the Bushmen led him to copy the most striking figures or groups he found on the rocks." Google books.