CAMP LIFE AND SPORT IN SOUTH AFRICA. Experiences of Kafir Warfare with the Cape Mounted Rifles
CAMP LIFE AND SPORT IN SOUTH AFRICA. Experiences of Kafir Warfare with the Cape Mounted Rifles

CAMP LIFE AND SPORT IN SOUTH AFRICA. Experiences of Kafir Warfare with the Cape Mounted Rifles

(London: Chapman and Hall, 1878).

FIRST EDITION OF THIS SCARCE WORK ON MILITARY AFFAIRS AND SPORT IN SOUTH AFRICA. Lucas served in the Cape Mounted Rifles and was present and active in the worst of the hostilities between white and black in the mid-1800's. The author writes also of various hunts he engaged in. There are chapters on the Zulus and Zulu land, the diamond fields, the peculiarities of warfare against the native peoples, on some of the animals present such as ostrich, lion and the area of Bloem Fontaine. Item #70104

First Edition. Illustrated with four full page lithographic colourplates. 8vo, publisher's original forest green cloth, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt and black, the upper cover lettered and pictorially decorated with a leaping antelope in gilt, and blocked in black, original coated yellow end-leaves. [1], xiii, [1], 258, 32 publisher's catalogue pp. A very good and bright copy, the cloth in pleasing condition with only minor evidence of age or use, the text-block sound and clean, Lifford Reading Society list of books tipped in, generally speaking, a very well preserved copy of this rare book.

Price: $695.00