Wallis, J. P. R. et al. (Eds.)
The Oppenheimer Series Complete.
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Seller ID: 3001 Nine titles in thirteen volumes: The Matabele Journals of Robert Moffat 1829- 1860; The Matabele Mission, a Selection from the Correspondence of John and Emily Moffat, et al., 1858- 1878; The Northern Goldfields Diaries of Thomas Baines 1869- 1872; Gold and the Gospel in Mashonaland 1888: (1) The Journals of The Mashonoland Mission of Bishop Knight-Bruce and (2) The Concession Journey of Charles Dunell Rudd; Apprenticeship at Kuruman, Being the Journals and Letters of Robert and Mary Moffat 1820- 1828; The Zambesi Journals of James Stewart 1862- 1863; The Barotseland Journals of James Stevenson- Hamilton 1898- 1899; The Southern African Diaries of Thomas Leask 1865- 1870; The Zambezi Expedition of David Livingstone 1858- 1863 (Journals, Letters, and Dispatches). London: Chatto & Windus for the Central African Archives, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), 1943- 1956. Royal octavo in red publisher’s cloth, gilt titles and decoration, t.e.g. Six titles complete in dust wrappers, one partially, two without dw’s. Dw’s with occasional chipping, top and bottom spine; lightly faded cloth covers where dw’s absent; edges foxed (not extending internally). “Between 1943 and 1956, government archivists in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) collaborated with the publisher Chatto & Windus to produce a series of nine books. The collection was known as the ‘Oppenheimer Series’. The volumes were published by the Central African Archives and offered in print, for the first time, the primary sources—diaries, correspondence, notes and maps—that chronicled the first English-speaking Europeans to visit south-central Africa” (Dritsas and Haig). This set originally from the collection of H. H. Shepley of Cape Town and lately the estate of Quentin Shepley of Canada. Apparently unopened. Clean, bright, and sound. Price: $500.00
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