Mount Coke [South Africa]: Wesleyan Mission Press, Printed for the Government of British Kaffraria, 1858 .
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Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 168pp, plus three folding charts. Original brown cloth with printed paper spine label. Early owner name dated in 1865, thin partial split at the lower hinge but tight and stable, corners a little bumped and some rubbing on the spine label, else a handsome near fine copy of an uncommon title.
The Eastern Cape Mount Coke mission was established in 1825. A printing press was purchased in 1849 and used to print the first Xhosa Bible in 1853. Mount Coke was proclaimed a National Monument in 1959. “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 on the subject, and contains many valuable papers by the Rev. H. H. Dugmore, and Messrs. Warner, Brownlee, and Ayliff. The geography, government, laws, and [marriage] customs of the natives are fully described.” *Mendelssohn's South African Bibliography* I, 960.
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