Simpson, Charles - A YANKEE`S ADVENTURES IN SOUTH AFRICA

1st Edition, 1897, Thos. W. Jackson Publishing Company, Chicago. 1897. Octavo, 7¾-9¾ inches, 233pp. + 4 pages of Publishers advertisements at rear. Illustrated with b/w frontispiece, and b/w full page line drawings throughout, including portraits of Cecil Rhodes and Barney Barnato. Biographical Addendum of Rhodes and Barnato at the end. Library stamps and cards on fep and ffep. In good antiquarian condition.

Mendelssohn II, p. 320 [1905 printing]: At the end of the volume there are accounts of Cecil John Rhodes and Barney Barnato. These chapters bristle with misstatements; Rhodes is alluded to as Sir Cecil, and it is asserted that Barnato controlled upward of a billion dollars or £200,000,000, more than the combined wealth of the Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, and Goulds. (Mr. B. Barnato's will was proved at under one million sterling.)