Universal Exhibition, 1855.

£550 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

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.

• Year: 1855

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