[CAPE OF GOOD HOPE]

Universal Exhibition, 1855.

Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.First edition. 8vo. Modern calf, red morocco labels, gilt, blindstamped, some water staining to boards. ix, 132pp. Capetown, Saul, Solomon & Co, 1855.

£550.00

Presentation copy with manuscript inscription by Ernest Blancheton, French Consul at the Cape of Good Hope.

A succinct overview of the Colony produced for the 1855 Universal Exhibition in Paris. This document is a collation of extant material designed to promote “the development of commercial intercourse between the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, France, and other parts of the world” (Preliminary notice). Mendelssohn 1, p442.

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