Palgrave william coates (2 Ergebnisse)

Cape Town, 1990. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. XXXIV,441pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 21. - William Coates Palgrave (1833-1897) was active in South West Africa (Namibia) over a period of 25 years. As Special Commissioner to Hereroland and Namaland, he undertook 5 consecutive commissions to that country on behalf of the Cape government. This volume, containing the official journals, or minutes and reports produced during the commissions, records the life of a country on the brink of colonisation.…

8vo, pp. [2], 117, [1 (blank)], iv (index), xli ('annexures'), [1 (blank)]; with large coloured folding map; some damp staining to upper margins, occasional toning, tear (without loss) to fold of map; good in recent blue/white paste paper boards, printed label to upper cover.Uncommon first edition. 'From 1869 until his retirement, Palgrave held a number of posts in the Cape Colony administration and on 16.3.76 was appointed Cape special commissioner for Namaland and Hereroland. Over the next nine years he would travel widely throughout Namibia in connection with British moves to annex the country, undertaking no fewer than five official missions, during which he conducted complex negotiations with both local chiefs and European settlers' (Howgego P4). This report covers Palgrave's important first commission. …