Very good copies in the original series pebble-grained cloth. Volume II has some bubbling of the cloth at the top of the front board.
Vol.I covers the surnames starting from A-E (Page 1 to 440), Vol.II covers the surnames starting from F-O (pages 441 to 879).
Copies belonged to Frikkie Botha, a South African diplomat and Africana book collector. In the early 70's he was the S.A. ambassador to the U.S.A. His bookplate is in vol.I.
A South African publishing curiosity as the first two volumes were all that were originally published. Mendelssohn states in 1909 that volume three was yet to be published, it appeared 80 years later.
"These volumes form a section to the Annexures to the Minutes of the Council of Policy, and will be found to contain much of permanent historical interest . . . When I commenced this work some years ago, my principal object was to comply with the expressed wish of many, to frame as complete a list as possible of the earlier colonists and their birthplaces, but the reader will also find, besides, most important portions of our Colonial History imbedded in many of these memorials, which now see the light of day for the first time." - from the preface as quoted by Mendelssohn
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