Publisher's original green cloth binding with blind-tooled design on front and rear panels. Titles in gilt on spine.
xiv + 535pp. Complete with all plates, illustrations and maps except the plate on page 88 (Melon Dance, Hottentot Girls) which is missing.
There is an interesting pagination anomaly in all first editions where additional pages were inserted by the publishers between pages 457 & 458. These pages are numbered in brackets [390-457]. This means there are in fact a total of 603 pages. Baines's father explains in the preface that additional manuscript material was received by the publishers when the last portion of the book was already in type. It was found necessary to insert this narrative which now forms Chapter XV.
'The journey was started on March 20, 1861, and the author was joined by his fellow-traveller, Mr. J. Chapman, on the 20th of July. The volume contains an interesting account of hunting and exploration in the country of the Namaquas and Damaras, and the illustrations are very spirited; there is a good description of the flora and fauna of the country, together with an account of the habits of the natives. It is stated that Livingstone, who had travelled over some of these regions, was often indistinctly understood by the natives, and that he made errors in consequence, the natives themselves averring that Scotchmen, however perfectly they may understand the language of the country, invariably speak it with an idiom that renders them more or less unintelligible.' - Mendelssohn Vol.I, pages 69-70
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