A NARRATIVE OF FOUR JOURNEYS INTO THE COUNTRY OF THE HOTTENTOTS, AND CAFFRARIA

In the years one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, eight and nine

Illustrated with a map and seventeen copper-plates

First edition:171 pages (+ iii pages index and 1 leaf errata and directions for placing of the plates), 17 engraved plates, folding map, full contemporary calf rebacked preserving the original red leather title label, neat repairs to corners, slight off-setting from some plates, a single worm hole penetrates most of the volume in the top margin, otherwise a good copy.

Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography volume 2 page 143 -144: Mr. Paterson accompanied Colonel Gordon (Commander of the Troops of the Dutch East India Company in South Africa) and Jacob van Reenen in several trips to the interior. He remarked that he does not give a description of the Cape as he would be only repeating what Sparrman and Masson had already communicated in their publications. In the course of his travels the author penetrated as far as Namaqualand on the west, and the Great Fish River on the south-east. Although the principal feature of ' the work is a description of the botanical specimens collected and noted by Mr. Paterson, there are many interesting notes respecting the natives, with a few remarks on the Dutch Colonists. The coloured plates mainly depict botanical specimens, but there is a curious illustration entitled " Boschemens Habitations."