Sale 6890
London
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7 - 8 April 2004
Price realised
GBP 2,270
Estimate
The Natal Almanac and Yearly Register for A.D. 1863. Pietermaritzburg: P. Davis & Son, 1862. 12° (184 x 120mm). Contemporary South African binding of maroon half calf gilt, 63 pages ads. Provenance: J.W. Turnbull (1829-1902), Natal Judge, inscribed by him on front paste-down. FIRST ISSUE OF THE NATAL ALMANAC AND FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. The Colony of Natal which "hitherto depended upon the Cape of Good Hope, or the Mother Country, for its almanac now should have its own." Mendelssohn II, 76.
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