AN EXPEDITION OF DISCOVERY INTO THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA.

Through the hitherto undescribed Countries of the Great Namaquas, Boschmans, and Hill Damaras, performed Under the Auspices of Her Majesty's Government, and the Royal Geographical Society.

2 volumes: xxiii,302 + viii,306 pages,  engraved frontispieces in each volume, folding map, 6 engraved plates and 7 engravings in the text, original light blue cloth, blind decorated on the upper cover and titled and decorated gilt on the spines. Volume I has been rebacked preserving the original back strip, the lower hinge of volume II has been repaired. The original endpapers have been preserved. The plates are oxidised as is often the case with the associated off-setting on the facing pages, otherwise the contents are bright. Page edges uncut. Private library stamps on each title and following page, book plate of Norman Owen Howell on each front paste-down endpaper.

Mendelssohn (Sydney) South African Bibliography, volume 1, pages 20-21: 'He proceeded to Namaqualand and Damaraland, which countries were very little known at the time. Leaving Cape Town in 1836, he traversed these regions in an ox wagon, and went through a large part of South West Africa arriving at Walvisch Bay almost exhausted with the difficulties of travel and want of water. He succeeded in obtaining a good collection of zoological and other specimens, many of which were at that time unknown to the scientific world. The volumes contain an account of the social condition of the Namaquas, Bushmen and Damaras.'