NATALIA : A Condensed History of the Exploration and Colonisation of Natal & Zululand. (1897)

"NATALIA : A Condensed History of the Exploration and Colonisation of Natal & Zululand. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day" by J. Forsyth Ingram.

First edition published by Dunbar Brothers in Cape Town in 1897.

Publisher's blue cloth binding with embossed gilt design on front panel. Contents clean. Old bookplate of on front pastedown. 197pp.

'This volume was published in celebration of the Fourth Centenary of Natal, and contains a sketch history of the discovery and development of the colony. The author points out "that almost from the beginning of authentic history the English and the Dutch have stood shoulder to shoulder in that grand struggle of civilisation against barbarism which has culminated in the firm establishment of the colony as it stands today," and the conviction is expressed "that the time draws near when, by assimilation, the kindred white races of South Africa will, in the natural course of events, become welded together into a Power which will be not only a glory to the Motherland, but a safeguard to that peace which is so essential to the prosperity of a new land and a new people." The publication contains upwards of fifty full-page engravings in addition to a large number of illustrations and portraits in the text, and a plate depicting a group of 174 of the old pioneers and colonists of Natal.' - Mendelssohn vol. I, page 758.