Author: John Noble [Ed.]
Title: Official Handbook: History, Productions, and Resources of the Cape of Good Hope
Description: Cape Town, Saul Solomon & Co. 1886 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of this interesting handbook on the Cape of Good Hope, with folding maps and illustrations. First edition. Bound in the publisher's original quarter calf with paper covered boards. Published for The Colonial & Indian Exhibition Committee. This informative 'Official Handbook' presents a history of the Cape of Good Hope, a region located in the Cape Peninsula of South Africa. With chapters on early history, occupation by Great Britain, agriculture, mining, nature, and much more. Edited by John Noble, clerk of the House of Assembly. Illustrated with twenty-five plates, some of which are in colour, including six folding plates and a folding map of the Cape. Collated, complete.With two tables presenting statistics on population, revenue, commerce and customs. With publisher's advertisements to the rear and to the endpapers. In the publisher's quarter calf with paper covered boards. Externally, slight worn, with rubbing to the boards and extremities. Boards lightly soiled. Rubbing to the spine, with a tear to the head of the front joint. Internally, binding is tender in places, particularly to the front of the work, with a gathering detached between p160-177. Binding is split after the contents. Pages generally bright, with the occasional spotting, heavier to the folding plates. Ink inscription to the reverse of the frontispiece. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

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