Author: The Duke of Argyll; E. F Knight; A. G. Davison etc
Title: South Africa and Its Future Including the Commercial & General Gazetteer of South Africa Based on the Latest Data, and on Information Collected from Authorities Resident in the Various Localities
Description: Cape Town, D. E. M'Connell & co. c1890. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this illustrated work on South Africa and its future, bound in crushed half morocco. The first edition. Illustrated with a full colour frontispiece, a folding map, six full colour plates and numerous monochrome vignettes and plates. Collated complete. This work was written as a collaboration between a host of authors, including the Duke of Argyll. The work discusses the future of South Africa by covering topics such as politics, the Railways, Law and Produce, with a large scale map depicting the country and its products and resources. Undated, dated by copies found on Jisc. In the publisher's original crushed half morocco, with cloth to the boards. Externally sound with fading to the spine, rubbing and bumping to the extremities, minimal loss and closed tears to the leather to the head of the spine, rubbing to the raised bands and joints with front joint starting to the tail and marks to the boards. Internally firmly bound with lightly age toned pages and the odd spot, heavier to the front blanks, and the odd minor handling mark. Stamp to pp. iii and pp. 1. Good . Ill.: None stated. Good .

Keywords: First edition Illustrated South Africa Africa Illustrated None stated


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