vii + 511 pages, lithographic frontispiece after Thomas Baines, 5 engraved plates, table (Table of reciprocal distances of principal military posts, ports, Etc. on Eastern Frontier), diagram, half brown leather with marbled boards, scuffed and worn, title gilt on spine, simply repaired on the spine, frontispiece loose, adhesive label removed from the front paste down end endpaper, pages 76-78 incorrectly bound, light soiling and foxing and some pence under lining, housed in a brown cloth solander box with black title label on spine
A SOUTH AFRICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY Volume 2 page 363 (no. 4): See also 'QUARTERLY BULLETIN OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN LIBRARY Volume 8 1954 pages 94 - 103, for an analysis of the plates in the various editions by R.F. Kennedy.
Mendelssohn (Sidney) SOUTH AFRICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY volume 1 page 614 :The "Advertisement " Pages iv - v alludes to the work as " the first volume," but it is the only one that was issued.
3 copies listed in A SOUTH AFRICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY Volume 2 page 363
Book plate of Edna and Frank Bradlow on front free endpaper.
- Size: 8vo (210 x 145 mm)
- Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
- Contact Person: Paul Mills
- Country: South Africa
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