Frewen Richard (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. General wear to boards. Content mainly clean with light even toning. No DJ.

Hardcover. Ex-Library copy; with typical markings. Library label on front board and a label ghost on the spine tail. Spine lean. Spine very slightly sunned. A bit of light rubbing. Previous owners inscription inked on the front flyleaf. Some foxing on the first several pages. Else pages clean, but for library markings. No dustjacket. Two maps at rear; one folding. Outer edge of map creased; margin only, does not affect image. ; WHH17B; 212 pages; Ex-Library.…

First Edition. First Edition. from the dustwrapper:" These two journals are complementary and throw much new light on the decade 1871-80 in Southern Rhodesia, a period about which very little has hitherto been published. Frederick Barber was a colonial hunter and the second artist of any competence to paint the Victoria Falls on the spot. Richard Frewen was an aristocratic English traveller and would-be explorer, who stirred up much trouble in Matabeleland and was responsible for worsening British-Matabele relations. Mr. Tabler is a well-known historian of the pre-pioneer period of Southern Rhodesian history, and the author of several books and articles such as The Far Interior, Recollections of Wm. Finaughty." The Robins Series No. 1. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine in black. red and white dustwrapper. Frontispiece portrait plus 8 plates and 2 maps one folding, pp. xii, 212 pages, 6.25 X 9.5 inches.Very good book with some spotting to the page edges and occaisonally on the pages in a good dustwrapper with a few edge tears.…

Plates & folding map.8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches), 212-pages. Original cloth; very good in price clipped dust jacket which has been protected by a plastic sleeve which has been sellotaped to the front and rear pastedowns. Please excuse the reflection in the photograph.