Publisher's hardcover binding with green cloth spine and original paper label still present. At the lower end of the spine another paper label has been affixed with the number "341". The same number appears on the front endpaper, which is most likely the number given to the copy when it was in the library of Julius Jeppe.
xix + 333pp + 8pp (publisher's catalogue).
Neat and short inscription by the author at the top of the title page, "from the Author, August. 1841." Underneath the author's inscription is a pencilled name "Mr. Beverley", who in both the Mendelssohn and Halkett Bibliographies was assumed to have been the author. Later research has shown it to have been Ambrose George Campbell (1799-1884), an 1820 settler who came from Inverness, Scotland.
This copy is from the library of early Johannesburg Rand Mining Magnate Julius Jeppe (1859-1929) and contains his bookplate on the front paste down. In his early life he took part in the war against Sekhukhune I and the First Anglo-Boer War 1880-'81. When gold was discovered on the Witwatersrand Julius and his brothers moved to Johannesburg and bought claims on Randjeslaagte (an area located between Commissioner street and Hospital Hill). Their first mining venture failed and they converted the land into town plots at £15 per site. This venture flourished in the rapidly growing mining town and soon their investments returned to mining with the establishment of the South African Townships, Mining, and Finance Corporation.
- Binding Condition: Good
- Overall Condition: Good
