Handbook No. 9.
First edition. Folding coloured map of South Africa. 8vo. Original printed wrapper, string-bound, browned, small split along lower outer spine. Stamp to front wrapper. In remarkably good condition. 29pp. London, Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode for her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1889.
Rare; OCLC lists only one copy in libraries worldwide.
The Emigrants’ Information Office “has been established under the supervision of the Colonial Office for the purpose of supplying intending emigrants with useful and trustworthy information respecting emigration to the British Colonies” (from the font wrapper). The Office regularly issued these handbooks for various British colonies. The present handbook has an interesting disclaimer: “No pains are spared to make the information as correct as possible (…)”.
