Buy this book on-line ALEXANDER, Sam : Photographic Scenery of South AfricaSam Alexander, 1880
Very good in the original pictorial dark green leather, lacking spine, extremities of boards rubbed, the richly gilt pictorial image on front board in fine state. All edges gilt. The binding strong and tight. The 100 photographs are clean and bright; the original tissue guards all present and lightly foxed, as are the card borders of the thick leaves on which the photographs are mounted. An extremely scarce title. Mendelssohn (Sidney) SOUTH AFRICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY Volume 2 page 345: 'A collection of photographs published by subscription. There are 100 views, and a letterpress extending to fifty-six pages, describing the various colonies, public institutions and prominent men connected with the Cape at this period'. Sam Alexander visited South Africa early in 1880 to collect the photographs for this album. He advertised the book in the Cape Argus of 20th April 1880 stating, 'The Photographs will all be from First-class artists, and no portion of the Western and Eastern Provinces of the Cape Colony, Natal, Diamond Fields, worthy of a place in the book will be unrepresented. There is Scenery both of Woodland and Rock in South Africa vying in beauty and grandeur with that of any portion of the known world, but the chief part of which has as yet never been subjects for the artists, and it is therefore little known... S. ALEXANDER has been fortunate in securing the Patronage of His Excellency SIR HENRY BARTLE EDWARD FRERE, to whom the work will be dedicated, by his Excellency's express permission. PRICE; - 5 GUINEAS TO SUBSCRIBERS'. There are fine views of all the major S.A. cities and towns and of Mozambique. Zululand views include 'Isandwahla', 'Fort Pearson', 'The Spot where Prince Imperial fell' and the 'Graves of Coghill and Melville'. Two particularly outstanding photographs portray an as yet unreconstructed Rorke's Drift, showing the clear signs of the struggle which had taken place there in the previous year. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of ALEXANDER, Sam : Photographic Scenery of South Africa. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres rares, first editions, libri rari, livres anciens and collectables. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |