The Colony of Natal. An Official Illustrated Handbook and Railway Guide

(London: Published by authority [printed by Sir Joseph Causton and Sons], 1895). 8vo; original printed red cloth; pp. xii + 273 + adverts.; folding diagram and folding table; LACKS large folding map; numerous monochrome photographic illustrations. Cloth mottled and worn; backstrip fragmented; inscription to front pastedown reads "With the Compliments of the Agent General for Natal"; earlier bookseller's blind stamp to front free endpaper; hinges starting; endpapers somewhat foxed, occasional foxing minor elsewhere. Fair condition. (Mendelssohn I, p. 757; SABIB 2, p. 648) 'The Introduction states that the purpose of the volume "is to provide, in a condensed form, not only a reliable guide to the Natal Government Railway System, but a handbook to the colony, which will be of practical utility to the settler and traveller." It is asserted that Natal has not been brought so prominently forward as other colonies, owing mainly to its isolation, but events have marched rapidly in the State during the past decade. In addition to a large mass of valuable information on all matters connected with the colony, the work possesses a great number of beautiful illustrations, which are not altogether confined to Natal, but include some views of the Transvaal. There is a "railway altitudinal and production map of Natal," and a diagram of the Natal Government Railway, giving many statistics relating to the railway system of the colony.' - Mendelssohn. .