Cape of Good Hope - Proceedings by The Commission on Native Affairs, 1865

Octavo. Brown cloth. Gilt tiles to spine. 1/2 title xxvii + 177 pages + two appendices 213 pages & 86 pages. Ex-Libris F.W. Hosken with his bookplate on the front paste-down. Slight foxing on first and last 4 pages. The minutes of evidence are a valuable source of information on the system of administration applied to tribes in the Colony and the treatment of Native customary law. - (Schapera I. Select Bibliography of South African Native Life and Problems - 1941)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         An early print from Grahamstown. Robert White, partner in the firm Godlonton, White &  Co., left for England and the partnership became Godlonton & Richards. The new partner was W.A. Richards, stepson of Robert Godlonton. (South African Printers and Publishers 1795-1925 - Fransie Rossouw)