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Upon front free endpaper is a gift plate which reads "With appreciation and kindest regards" below which is hand-written "Sincerely, Anton Rupert". Dr. Rupert (1916-2006) was an influential South African billionaire businessman and a founding member of the WWF (World Wildlife Fund). "The socio-historian, the student of architecture and the layman will all profit from this record of our world-famous heritage, the homesteads of the Cape. Painstakingly gathered in long hours of dedicated study, the sixty full-page photographs in colour and monochrome show the distinctive Cape Dutch style in all the natural glory of its form and its setting. Ray Ryan has produced a photographic essay inspired in its conception, definitive in its content and professional in its excecution." - from dust jacket. Oblong 11" x 14". Book clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Small label removal blemish inside back board. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound and special copy of this significant work. Book