Author: NAPIER, E. ELERS.
Title: Excursions in Southern Africa, including a history of the Cape Colony, an account of the native tribes, etc.
Description: London, William Shoberl, 1849. 2 volumes. Original embossed red cloth, spines later half morocco, lettered in gilt. With engraved frontispiece view of Cape Town, 2 portraits and 6 woodengravings. XXX,359; IV,456 pp. First edition; with bookplate of I. & F.W. Hosken. - An account of the Cape Colony from the earliest period of settlement down to the Kaffir War of 1876-7. The work is a critique of the British Government in the Cape and the original draft was, according to the author, rejected by several publishers on the grounds that it was too outspoken on the failures of its subject (Mendelssohn II, p.75). An expose of misgovernment at the Cape by the incumbent governor and this made publication of the work very difficult. An uncommon work.- Added an autograph letter by Napier. - Fine. SAB III, p.429.
Keywords: Africa South Africa
Title: Excursions in Southern Africa, including a history of the Cape Colony, an account of the native tribes, etc.
Description: London, William Shoberl, 1849. 2 volumes. Original embossed red cloth, spines later half morocco, lettered in gilt. With engraved frontispiece view of Cape Town, 2 portraits and 6 woodengravings. XXX,359; IV,456 pp. First edition; with bookplate of I. & F.W. Hosken. - An account of the Cape Colony from the earliest period of settlement down to the Kaffir War of 1876-7. The work is a critique of the British Government in the Cape and the original draft was, according to the author, rejected by several publishers on the grounds that it was too outspoken on the failures of its subject (Mendelssohn II, p.75). An expose of misgovernment at the Cape by the incumbent governor and this made publication of the work very difficult. An uncommon work.- Added an autograph letter by Napier. - Fine. SAB III, p.429.
Keywords: Africa South Africa
Price: EUR 544.50 = appr. US$ 591.79 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 34997
- Book number: 34997