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Presentation Bindings
[Brenthurst Series. Third Series] 1. The Jameson Raid: A Centennial Retrospective by Greg H. Cuthbertson. 2 Brian Warner and John Rourke. Flora Herscheliana: Sir John and Lady Herschel at the Cape 1834 to 1838 by Brian Warner and John Rourke. 3. The Siege of Mafeking, Vol. 1, edited by Iain R Smith. 4. The Siege of Mafeking, Vol. 2. 5. François Levaillant and the Birds of Africa by L. C. Rookmaker et al.
Johannesburg, South Africa: Brenthurst Press, 1996-2004.
Price: $3,750.00
About the item
Copy E of 25 (later 20) copies in full binding, for Robert S. Pirie. Numerous colour illustrations. 5 vols. Large 4to. Presentation Bindings. Full publisher's navy Nigerian Sokoto goatskin, t.e.g. Bookplate of Robert S. Pirie. Loosely inserted engraved cards from "Mr Harry Oppenheimer, Brenthurst, Johannesburg” or compliments slip from Mary Slack (Harry Oppenheimer's daughter). As new in leather backed folding box.
Item #305141
Choice set of the third series of Brenthurst Library works on the history and natural history of South Africa, in finely executed presentation bindings (variously by John Mitchell, Woking; Peter Carstens, Johannesburg; and Roger and Ivy Bolton, Warrington).
Presented by Harry Oppenheimer and his librarian to the distnguished New York investment counselor and famed book collector Robert S. Pirie.
