Buy this book on-line Allen, Vivien : Kruger's Pretoria. Buildings and personalities of the city in the nineteenth century. With drawings by Hannes Meiring(Cape Town, A.A. Balkema, 1971)
Small folio; original green cloth; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xii + 259 (including index); black-and-white and colour photographs; drawings of old buildings. Some mild foxing, particularly to dustwrapper, prelims and endpapers. Very good internally in a good dustwrapper. "Pretoria's history is comparatively recent. It was once the capital of Kruger's Republic, a time of turbulence and insecurity; and it was the Western outpost of what in those times were the wilds of Africa. The houses and public buildings that have remained from that period are interesting from an architectural point of view because there was no local tradition or style. The visitors and settlers who were there were unusual men with strong and often eccentric personalities; the homes that they built are used by Vivien Allen as the basis for a lively and very personal history of early Pretoria." 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 Allen, Vivien : Kruger's Pretoria. Buildings and personalities of the city in the nineteenth century. With drawings by Hannes Meiring. 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 out-of-print books, incunabula, used books, libri rari and livres d'occasion. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |