DESCRIPTIVE HANDBOOK OF THE CAPE COLONY, ITS CONDITION AND R...

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R1,300

DESCRIPTIVE HANDBOOK OF THE CAPE COLONY, ITS CONDITION AND RESOURCES (PUBLISHED 1875) by John Noble

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Cape Town: J. C. Juta, 1875

Small 8vo, ix + 315pp. Recased copy in original green hardcover binding, new endpapers, speckled edges, gilt lettering to spine. Large fold-out plate of ‘Table Bay Breakwater and Cape Town Docks’, plate of Port Elizabeth’s Town Hall and Market Square facing p.170, and a large full-colour fold-out map of South Africa at rear of book.

A scarce and early Juta publication, a vintage handbook on the old Cape Colony.

*Location: Johannesburg branch

Condition: Very good. Ex-library copy, withdrawn. From the South African Library in Cape Town. Light rubbing to the boards and spine. Old library slip fixed to rear board. Several library stamps. Small repairs made to front fold-out plate. Slight glue residue to top edge of textblock. Text is clean. Solidly bound.