History of the Boers in South Africa by George McCall Theal (numbered edition)

HISTORY OF THE BOERS IN SOUTH AFRICA OR THE WANDERINGS AND WARS OF THE EMIGRANT FARMERS FROM THEIR LEAVING THE CAPE COLONY TO THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THEIR INDEPENDENCE BY GREAT BRITAIN

Number 140 0f an edition of 1000, Struik publishers, Cape Town, 1973,  facsimile reprint of the 1887 edition, 3 maps, also maps to endpapers, index, 392 pages, condition: as new.

George McCall Theal was the most prolific and influential South African historian, archivist and genealogist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Theal's knowledge of the Bantu was so extensive that in 1877 he was requested by Sir Bartle Frere to persuade belligerent Bantu chiefs to moderate their attitude. Theal's success in this role led to his being offered a post in the Treasury. He accepted this position, aware that he would then have access to the State archives which were housed in the Surveyor-General's office.