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By: N/A
Price: $475.00
Publisher: Cape of Good Hope: Ministerial Department of Native Affairs / Saul Solomon & Co., Cape Town: 1880
Seller ID: 83ro
Condition: Very Good
98 pages (complete). Half morocco with blue cloth covered boards. Gilt titling, borders and decoration. The leather corners and spine are most handsome and attractive. The boards are healthy, smart, elegant. The contents are paginated by hand (in pencil). The contents have evidence of use throughout. There are some very few annotations (pencil). The title page and others have handling marks, age-related marks. By far, and overwhelmingly, the contents are clean, clear, authoritative, certain, confident, tidy, assured, most agreeable. fk View more info
By: N/A
Price: $190.00
Publisher: Cape Times Limited, Government Printer, Cape Town: 1905
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 58rw
Condition: Near Fine
375 pages (complete). A pleasingly hale copy. Half-leather. Marbled boards. Gilt titles on leather patch on front board. The leather corners and spine are much worn, scuffed, marked from storage, age. The boards are worn about the edges from shelving. There is scuffing, scratching, fading. However, the boards and spine are steady and confident. The end papers have some wear and fading. Included: a large complimentary slip from the Colonial Secretary's Office (tanned). The contents are most pleasing. They are fresh, bright, very clean and clear, very confident - as if almost new thr... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $285.00
Publisher: T R Harrison / W Clowes and Sons: 1847
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 80rz
Condition: Good
Complete. An aged copy. The first paper relates to Convicts in Australia, the other papers relate to Convicts in the Cape Colony. Half leather. The boards are scruffy. They are much worn, scuffed, marked, scratched. The leather corners and spine are also worn, scuffed. Gilt titling and decoration on the spine (worn) with much wear to the head and foot. The spine and the boards are comfortable and steady. The paper-edges are a little tanned. The early and later pages are blotched and marked by age and foxing. Overwhelmingly the contents, whilst there are occasional age-related marks a... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $570.00
Publisher: Saul Solomon & Co., Cape Town: 1879
Seller ID: 43rx
Condition: Very Good
Complete bound set of issues of The Government Gazette for the Cape of Good Hope administration, for the second half of 1879. VERY RARE!. In English and Dutch. Bound in half-leather. Marbled boards. The leather corners and spine have wear, scuffing all around. The boards have much wear along the edges, scuffing, rubbing, marks and all about. The spine has wear to the head and along its length. The boards and spine are sound and sure. Within, there are previous owner ink-stamps (State Library/ Staatsbiblioteek, Pretoria). The guttering along the frontispage is cracked, the inside front ... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $570.00
Publisher: Saul Solomon & Co., Cape Town: 1879
Seller ID: 44rx
Condition: Very Good
Complete bound set of issues of The Government Gazette for the Cape of Good Hope administration, for the first half of 1879. VERY RARE!. Bound in half-leather. Marbled boards. The leather corners and spine have wear, scuffing all around. The boards have wear along the edges, scuffing, rubbing, marks. The spine has wear to the head and along its length. The boards and spine are sound and sure. Within, there are previous owner ink-stamps (State Library/ Staatsbiblioteek, Pretoria). The guttering along the frontispage is cracked, the inside front cover has wear and light marks. The cont... View more info
By: Leibbrandt, HCV
Price: $213.75
Publisher: W A Richards & Sons, Cape Town: 1895
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 28sd
Condition: Very Good
Two volumes (complete). Two benign copies from the library of R F Thorold (whose ex-libris plates are on the front pastedowns). The boards of both are scuffed, worn, marked by handling and storage. The spines have handling marks and wear, wear to the heads and feet and along the seems. Vol I: The front and end papers have mild wear, some age-related tanning and marks. The contents are amenable, clean and clear. Vol II (pub 1900): Attached is an author's compliments slip. The front and late papers have age-related tanning and wear. The pages have pools of foxing, some occasional user we... View more info
