AFRICAN HUNTING AND ADVENTURE FROM NATAL TO THE ZAMBESI.

Including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert, Etc., from 1852 to 1860including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert, Etc., from 1852 to 1860.

Second edition (published in the same year as the first edition): 451 pages, folding map, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, 6 tinted lithographic plates by Wolf, 40 wood engraved plates and text illustrations, contemporary full calf (bound by Jenkins & Cecil, Bloomsbury St.), red leather title label, spine decorated in gilt in panels, marbled edges and endpapers, occasional light foxing, a good copy.

Dictionary of South African Biography, volume 3, pages42/3. ‘Baldwin arrived in Durban in 1851 having been attracted to South African by Cumming’s 'Five Years of a Hunter’s Life' published in 1850. He made several hunting expeditions to Zululand, Marico, Matabeleland and Lake Ngami. In April 1860 he again left for Potchefstroom intent on reaching the Victoria Falls, which he succeeded in doing more by luck than good management on August 3rd. He was the second white man to see the falls, the first to have reached them from the east coast (Natal), and the first to describe them with exactness and give their true dimensions, the accuracy of which he vouched for to David Livingstone himself, when the great explorer arrived about 8th or 9th August.’