Old Cape Highways
by Mossop, E. E
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Cape Town, South Africa
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About This Item
Maskew Miller, Limited, Circa 1927. Fascinating history of the South African country roads. Contents include: the Table Valley; Over the Cape Flats; Tulbagh Kloof, Hottentots Holland Pass, Bain's Kloof; Highway East to Swellendam; Northern Route t Piekenier's Kloof; Along the Oliphants River; To the Copper Mountain of the Amacquas; From Tulbagh Kloof to Karoo Poort and The Forgotten Highway which was once part of the great road to the north-east used by farmers across the Bokkeveld Karoo. 3 sketch maps, 5 fold-out maps; 21 b&w photographs. Bookplate on fixed end paper. Light foxing to prelims with a mild scatter of foxing to contents. Top and fore-edges foxed. 202 Pages. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. Binding: Hardcover. Edge-wear mostly to spine edges with some splitting to the header area.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quagga Books (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 306050
- Title
- Old Cape Highways
- Author
- Mossop, E. E
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Maskew Miller, Limited
- Date Published
- Circa 1927
- Bookseller catalogs
- Africana; Local History;
Terms of Sale
Quagga Books
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About the Seller
Quagga Books
Biblio member since 2018
Cape Town
About Quagga Books
We have been in business for over 25 years. Situated in Kalk Bay, Cape Town at the Southern tip of Africa, we deal in all types of collectable books. Over the years we have been featured in Time Magazine, The New York Times, Louis Vuitton Travel Guide, The Guardian and numerous others.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...