Author: H. WILSON FOX
Title: The British South Africa Company. Memorandum containing Notes concerning the Development of Estates and Industries by the Company with Accompanying Papers and Maps.
Description: Printed for the Board by Waterlow & Sons, 1914. Folio. pp. viii, 336> 5 maps, most folding. Original wrappers, lacking rear wrapper. Rare with the Bodleian as the sole worldwide location listed. "Strictly Private and Confidential" issued for the use of The British South Africa Company, the primary agency for Cecil Rhodes' colonial expansionist ideas. This extensive study covers the economic future of the region later to be known as Southern Rhodesia and is accompanied by some of the earliest maps of the region. These comprise: Map of the Rhodesdale Estate [330 x 190 mm.], Map of the Southern Ranching Areas [330 x 430 mm.], Map Showing Mazoe Valley Irrigation Scheme [770 x 510 mm.], Map of Umtali River Valley, showing irrigation proposals [330 x 410 mm.] and Map of Salisbury, Mazoe and Lomagundi Districts showing certain farms valued by Mr. C.D. Wise [495 x 640 mm.].

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