First edition: 202 pages, colour frontispiece portrait, 8 maps, 62 colour plates with descriptive text, original green cloth boards with black title label gilt on the spine, a very good copy in the dust jacket.
Brenthurst Press First Series Volume 6. Standard edition- limited to 850 copies.
Editor’s note: Although a version which differs from this text was published in Paterson’s lifetime, this original record of his Cape travels is here published for the first time – a triumph of understatement, a laconic tour de force, and a marked contrast to the flamboyant verbosity of his immediate successor, Francois le Vaillant. It is the first full-length account in English of extensive travel in the interior of Southern Africa and it records the ceremony of naming the Orange River, the first finding of fossils in southern Africa, and the first journey along the diamond coast.
- Overall Condition: A very good copy
- Size: square 4to (270x270 mm)
- Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
- Contact Person: Paul Mills
- Country: South Africa
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: 021 794 0600
- Preferred Payment Methods: Visa & Mastercard via PayGate secure links and Bank transfers.
- Trade Associations: ABA - ILAB, SABDA
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