TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

Second Edition: 2 volumes, I.xxi - 450, II. vii - 430 pages, aquatint frontispiece - a view of Cape Town in volume 1, folding aquatint 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, half brown patterned calf, marbled paper sides, light foxing on the frontispieces, title pages and some of the plates, otherwise contents bright, a very good set.

Mendelssohn (S.) South African Bibliography, 2:493-4. '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."'