SIGNED AND NUMBERED! `GRAAFF REINET - A CULTURAL HISTORY 1786-1886` CG HENNING

SIGNED AND NUMBERED! "GRAAFF REINET - A CULTURAL HISTORY 1786-1886" CG HENNING, 1975 FIRST EDITION, 272 PAGES, INCLUDING MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS, IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. THE BOOK INCLUDES ADDITIONAL EPHEMERA SUCH AS SEPARATE LOOSE LEAF INSERTS ON GRAAFF REINET AND THE DROSTDY HOTEL, APPROXIMATELY 9 UNUSED POSTCARDS COVERING THE DROSTDY HOTEL AND SURROUNDING TOWN OF GRAAFF REINET AND SIMILAR MATERIAL.

A magisterial work covering the history of this culturally and historically important frontier town, which served as a gateway to the unknown interior of South Africa in the early days of the Cape Colony. The story of Graaff-Reinet ,of its founding and growth, is in essence the history of pioneering in South Africa. From this outpost the frontiers of the Cape Colony were secured and the interior explored, civilized and developed.( from the foreword). Appendices include lists of officials (1780-1848), officers of the Graaff-Reinet Volunteer Rifle and Cavalry Corps, freemasons, shops (1885), hotels (1850-1886), distillers, families residing (1856) and others.

This is one of the scarcer books published by T. V. Bulpin, who is perhaps better known for the many books he wrote on South African history.