1866 COMPENDIUM OF KAFIR LAWS AND CUSTOMS: GENEALOGICAL IN SOUTH AFRICA

Very scarce edition.. Hardcover.Olive cloth cover. Binding fair. Pages lightly foxed but only a few pages. Please note a flower bookmark impression to a few front pages. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 1866, 168 pages plus 3 folding tables. Original cloth with the printed paper title-label on the spine, all edges browned from age; front cloth lightly marked, Printed Saul Solomon & Co Cape Town 1866 including Genealogical Tables of Kafir Chiefs and Various Tribal Census Returns: Compiled by Direction of Colonel MacLean, C.B. Chief Commissioner in British Kaffraria. Printed for the Governemnt of British Kaffraria. 3 folding tables. "This volume, the results of the author's efforts to form a compilation of facts concerning the native races, is regarded as one of the best in the subject, and contains many valuable papers by the Rev. H. H. Dugmore, and Messrs. Warner, Brownlee, and Ayliff. The geography, government, laws, and customs of the natives are fully described,..." - [Mendelssohn: I, 960]. In a contemporary or publisher's olive cloth with the remains of a paper label to spine, Outside South Africa shipping will be R150   Cape Town Saul Solomon and Co.1866