ROBERT JACOB GORDON

2 volumes: 465 pages – continuous pagination, colour frontispieces, 90 colour plates, 4 maps, green cloth titled gilt on the spines, a fine set in the dust jackets.

Brenthurst Second series volumes 4 and 5.

Editor's Note: Gordon was one of the first of Europe's Explorers to reach the Orange River, naming it as such in 1777; he was the first European to reach the river's mouth and was the first to record a discovery of fossils in southern Africa. He initiated wool farming at the Cape, and indirectly in Australia too.

Shipping weight of 3 kilograms.