xvi + 335 pages, frontispiece and 5 engraved plates, original red cloth gilt and blind decoration on the uppers, blind decoration on the back cover and gilt decoration and titling on the spine, original endpapers intact, all edges gilt. The cloth hinges are splitting and the top and bottom of the spine are chipped with some loss and the corners worn. The binding is leaning. The contents are bright.
Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography, volume 1, pages 198/9, 'A missionary's account of the Kaffir war of 1850-2. Mr. Brown was stationed at Igqibira, a small missionary settlement which had been partially destroyed in a previous Kaffir outbreak. Although hostilities broke out almost at the outset of his residence at this place, he remained there for a considerable period, but eventually the station was destroyed, the author escaping to Chumie.’
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