TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

In two volumes

Second Edition: 2 volumes, xxi, 450 + 430 pages, frontispiece - a view of Cape Town in volume 1, folding view of Table Mountain from the Parade as frontispiece in volume 2, folding map with Thompson’s travels outlined in red, 2 folding plans of Graaff Reinet and Cape Town, 18 aquatint plates, 17 engraved vignettes, light foxing, rebound in half brown morocco with tan boards, marbled endpapers and edges, black title label on the spine of volume 1,  the title label on volume 2 is missing, a good set.

Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography vol. 2 pages:493-4.This valuable work was written by a Cape Town merchant who resided in South Africa for many years, and who travelled throughout the greater part of the Cape Colony and a considerable part of Bechuanaland \"partly for the motive of business and partly for the impulse of curiosity. In 1823 and 1824 he proceeded to the Orange River and Bechuanaland and his account of these regions is recognised as the most important description of this part of the continent published in the early part of the nineteenth century. The third division of the work comprises a review of the condition of the Dutch and British inhabitants, of the agricultural, commercial, and financial circumstances of the country and of its adaptation for further colonisation.