Recently rebound in black buckram with gilt titles to the spine and new end papers. The new binding is not sympathetic to the age of the book but has had the benefit of preserving the contents very well. Contemporary owner’s name to the title page and some notes to the back fep dated June 1816.

Numerous colour illustrations

Reed’s inscription and signature in ink on title page. Minimal wear to book and dw.

Inscribed by the author. Illustrations of a knot, taped to the fep. Some edge wear to the dw.

General wear to the dw. Internally the book is in fine condition. From the birth of the party to 1954.

Die Geskiedenis van Oom Kootjie Emmer van Witgatworteldraai. Light edge wear to the dw.

An account of legal practices & practitioners in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, many of them part of the original settler families who arrived in the Bathurst-Grahamstown area of Albany in 1820; covers personalities & law firms in an informal style. Green stiff card covers, white titles & illus, Near Fine. Eps have maps of the nearly 50 Magisterial Districts in this province. Many group and individual photos from the late 19th C. One of 700, but unnumbered.

Dust jacket has minor wear to edges. Slight browning to endpapers. Delightfully illustrated

Blue card cover. Foxing. Elizabeth Cloete’s poems about living in South Africa

A plate from The Bantu Tribes of South Africa: The Vachopi of Portuguese East Africa. Published 1936

Image size: 14 x 19.5cm

Inscription on fep, blacked out. The account of the 1969 earthquake in the Ceres Valley.

February 1938, Volume V, Number 2. A monthly newspaper delivering African anecdotes and traveller’s stories.

The recollections of the daughter of Sir Herbert Baker and wife of MP Harry Lawrence.

Open tears to top and bottom of dw. Damage to front board. Ink inscription to inside of front board.

Damage to top and bottom of dw taped up inexpertly. Slight discolouration to edges of pages.