Twelve Hundred Miles in a Waggon by Alice Blanche Balfour - 1970 Collectors Edition | Good condition

Twelve Hundred Miles in a Waggon

By Alice Blanche Balfour

Pioneer Head 1970.

This copy is No 140 of a Limited Edition Printing of 1500 copies.

Numbers 1-140 are Collector's Editions, 141-150 are Presentation Copies and numbers 151-1500 are the Ordinary Edition. This is a Collectors Edition copy in a slip case.

The only other copy of the Collectors Edition is being sold for R2175 ($150).

The book is in good condition though the spine and the slip case shows some wear as per photos.

 Alice Blanche Balfour (20 October 1850 12 June 1936) was a Scottish entomologist, naturalist, scientific illustrator and one of the earliest pioneers in the science of genetic. She was the sister of Arthur James Balfour, who became Prime Minister of England and later the 1st Earl of Balfour.

In 1895 she published the book Twelve Hundred miles in a Waggon which describes the leisurely journey taken by herself, H. W. Fitzwilliam, Albert Grey and his wife, and Albert Grey's cousin George Grey from Kimberley to Umtali. It is extremely readable with many impressions of early Rhodesian personalities. She also talks about the journey from Southampton to Cape Town. 

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