Napier Lt Colonel E Elers (2 results)

First Edition. Octavo. In two volumes, engraved frontispieces and seven other illustrations Vol. 1; xxx, 359pp. contains a table of contents for volume one and a list of plates for both volumes, Vol. 2; iv table of contents, 456pp. A history of the Cape of Good Hope Colony, its inhabitants, religion beliefs, and how to deal with the Convict systems in Southern Africa. The author also proves who started the Kaffir war. A very good set, though ex-library with embossed library stamp and withdrawn stamp to recto of frontispieces, they were tastefully rebound in light brown cloth, double red leather labels gilt, some scattered foxing the frontispieces.…

including a History of the Cape Colony, an Account of the Native Tribes, Etc. First edition. 2 vols. Five engraved plates, with further illustrations in the text. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spines elaborately gilt. xxx, 359; iv, 456pp. London, William Shoberl, Ostensibly a history of the Cape Colony from settlement to the Kaffir War of 1876-7, the work is a critique of the British Government in the Cape. Indeed, the original draft was, according to the author, rejected by several publishers on the grounds that it was too outspoken on the failures of its subject. Mendelssohn II, p75.…