John Bull & Co. The Great Colonial Branches of the Firm: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa
Cheap, contemporary trade binding, slight lean to the spine. XX and 322 pages.
Cheap, contemporary trade binding, slight lean to the spine. XX and 322 pages.
Dust jacket has some scuffing and minor wear to edges. Very slight foxing to end papers. Biography of the man who campaigned for a free press in South Africa
Light foxing in some areas of the book. Some darkening of the leaves due to aging. Boards show wear, especially along the edges and spine. Some ink and pencil marks to the boards. Ink inscription to the front fep.
Ex-library with bookplate and stamps to the fep’s only. Shelf mark to the spine. Original calf boards with a newer spine in 6 compartments. Prelims have come loose and there is minor tape staining to the page edges. With a folding map frontis in very good condition, showing Latrobe’s journey from the Cape to the Great Fish River and back. 10 (of 12)fine hand coloured aquatints of the various mission stations visited, by R. Cocking, from the author’s sketches, and 4 uncoloured plates. Some minor foxing.
Edited and annotated by Allan R. Booth. Dust jacket in good condition with slight foxing. Very slight foxing to endpapers only. American Missionary to Zululand 1835-1839.
One thousand numbered copies constitute the limited edition of which this book is number 83.
General shelf wear
Paperback with minor wear to edges and foxing to end papers. A history of the Swazi state
Green cloth cover, with wear to edges, and scuffing. Some insect damage to spine.Foxing to endpapers and fore-edge. Bookstamp ‘ex libris franmere’ stamped into endpapers.
Past owner’s name in red ink on front fep. Past owner’s neat stamp on title page. Text clean and binding firm. Boards edge worn, corners torn and bumped. Sides of spine rubbed, and top and bottom edges torn.
Ink inscription on fep. Slight browning to pages with tear to DW alongside top of spine.
Some chipping to the dw. Some minor pencil marginalia and small ink inscription on the fep.