The Past and Future of the Kaffir Races

Number 645 of an edition limited to 750 copies. Text facsimile of the edition published for the author in 1866. 8vo; original blue rexine, lettered in gilt on spine, and with publisher's gilt warrior device to upper cover; no dustwrapper; pp. (viii) + xii + 516 + 11, incl. index; folding tables and map; plates. Cover slightly rubbed; ex-library copy with label scar to front endpaper and title page, pocket to rear pastedown, stamp and codes to title leaf; trace of foxing to edges. Good. "[A] complete and connected account . of all the tribes and races from Port Elizabeth to Delagoa Bay. . the author's long experience in the Cape Colony and Natal admirably fitted him for the task of preparing the book, which is recognised as one of the standard works on South African natives in the middle of the nineteenth century . " - Mendelssohn.