Napier Lt Colonel E (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Pages are age tanned, quite well used, with intermittent foxing. Binding is internally very good. Front cover is detached. Leather spine and green marbled boards are quite worn. Not illustrated.Approximately 5 1/2" X 9". 224 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Volume 1: Publication of 320 pages. Frontispiece, with a protective tissue guard // Volume 2: Publication of 354 pages. Frontispiece is missing. /// Drawings taken from Nature. Complete with all Plates, except the frontispiece in Volume 2. Bookplate from the previous owner tipped in on the front inner boards, in both volumes. No edition stated. The spines of both book have mostly been replaced, retaining some of the old spine. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and a touch edge worn. There are age related marks and foxing within both the books. The text remains legible. The binding is strong. In good condition considering the age of the book (1844). Set Of Two Volumes. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

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 A very good set, though ex-library with embossed library stamp and withdrawn stamp to recto of frontispieces, they were tastefully rebound in light brown cloth, double red leather labels gilt, some scattered foxing the frontispieces.…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.…