TRAVELS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

Translated from the Original German by Anne Plumtre

Two volumes: I. xii, 183, (xxxi  appendix and index). II. xiv, 368, (xxvii  appendices and index) pages, folding map, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author in volume I, 8 engraved plates – 2 folding (the folding plate in volume  II  'A View of the Karree Mountains with Ostriches and Quaggas,' is usually bound in as the frontispiece but in this copy appears at page 209), bound in full brown leather with gilt titling and decorations on the spines. In volume I, there is staining on the frontispiece portrait and plates, curiously the two sections (pages 225 - 232 (Signature Gg) & 329 - 346 (Signatures Uu & Xx)) are not as heavily foxed as usual but the contents of the entire volume are browned and lightly foxed throughout. Volume II, the plates are stained and foxed, the folding map is torn at the first fold and other tears have been repaired, generally the browning and foxing in this volume is less than in volume I. A very good copy.

Mendelssohn (S.) South African Bibliography, volume 1, page 899. ‘Dr Lichtenstein was tutor to the son of Governor Janssens of the Cape Colony. The author offers a criticism of Barrow in his references to earlier travellers, accusing him of being 'totally unacquainted with the general habits and mode of life of the colonists...' Lichtenstein travelled with the Governor through the interior. Bushmen and Bechuanas are described and the information about the wild life and their natural surroundings is recorded in detail.’

See also - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinrich_Lichtenstein - for biographical details of Lichtenstein.