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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Wagener, G W

Deutscher Volkskalender fur Sudafrika auf das Jahr 1887

1e Jahrgang

Published: Verlag Herrmans Michaelis, Cape Town, 1887 [1886]

Edition: First

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  • In German

Grey cloth-boards with printed paper sheets pasted to the upper and lower boards, plain endpapers - with a printed note on the front pastedown and the back endpaper clean

The 287 pp of prelims and text are dominated by almanac entries and advertisements - although there is some other text and several half-tone illustrations, including a portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm I as frontispiece and the first German church in Cape Town (see images)

The front printed paper is damp-stained but the pasted-down advertisement on the back cover is clean; there is an ink signature on the title-page with "1886" - the year before the almanac year; the contents are generally clean, with some occasional light foxing

  • This is a rare book and the almanac seems not to have been issued for later years; we have been unable to find copies of Wagener's South African almanac for later years; the publishers, however, announce a different book in preparation (see image)
  • Binding Condition: Good +
  • Overall Condition: Good +
  • Size: 210 x 140
  • Sold By: Fontein Books
  • Contact Person: Richard Proctor-Sims
  • Country: South Africa
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Telephone: 051 773 0050/048 079 546 4032
  • Preferred Payment Methods: Eft (South Africa), SWIFT (rest of world), or $ checks for US or Australian buyers
  • Trade Associations: AA Approved


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