THE WAR OF THE AXE, 1847. Basil le Cordeur and Christopher Saunders

Hard cover without dust cover. Illustrated endpapers. Colour frontispiece plus 287 pages text with 54 plates and four maps. Good condition. Tightly bound and clean inside. Two stamps of former owner in front. The hard cover has some wear at the spine and some minor marks. The top edges also has some minor stains - not on the pages. Over 1kg. 

Brenthurst, 1st Series No 7. Corresondence between the governor of the Cape Colony, Sir Henry Pottinger, and the commander of the British forces at the Cape, Sir George Berkeley, and others. In 1846 a man was caught stealing an axe in Fort Beaufort, a small eastern-frontier town of Britain's Cape Colony. The group escorting the thief was attacked by a party of Xhosa who killed a guard and released the prisoner. This incident sparked off hostilities which became known as th War of the Axe, or the Seventh Frontier War.