or, Twenty-Three Years in South Africa
First edition:355 pages, frontispiece, 28 illustrations, folding map, neatly recased preserving the original endpapers and backstrip, back titled and decorated gilt and slightly faded, stamped blind on the upper cover, light foxing on the title page and frontispiece, 'With the publisher's compliments' in ink on the front free endpaper, bookplate on the front paste-down endpaper, a good copy.
Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography vol 1 page 307: The volume is divided into two Parts, (I.) " Journeys of Exploration — Labours"; (II.) "Manners and Customs of the Basutos," and there is an Introduction giving a sketch of early general South African history, with some description of the native races. Mr. Casalis arrived in South Africa in 1833, accompanied by Messrs. Arbousset and Gosselin, who were destined to be his companions in forming a French Protestant Mission in the interior.
- Overall Condition: A good copy
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