Lot #04/07 Lady trader: a biography of Mrs. Sarah Heckford by Vivien Allen

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Lot #04/07 Lady trader: a biography of Mrs. Sarah Heckford by Vivien Allen.  The biography of an extraordinary women who challenged the taboos of her time, nursing, travelling, trading & farming in the Transvaal in the last quarter of the 19th century. The account spans both Anglo-Boer Wars, including quite a bit about besieged Pretoria during the First Boer War. London, Collins, 1979. First edition. 8vo. Hardcover. Dust jacket. Pp. ix,243, photo-plates, portraits. Dust jacket rubbed & frayed, signature on end-paper, foxing. Good. Reserve price: R200.00 bids welcome