TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

by George Thompson, Esq., eight years a resident at the Cape, comprising a view of the Present State of the Cape Colony, with observations on the progress and prospects of the British emigrants.

Second Edition: 2 volumes, 450 + 430 pages, aquatint frontispiece - a view of Cape Town in volume 1, folding aquatint view of Table Mountain from the Parade as frontispiece in volume 2, folding map with Thompson’s travels outlined in red, 2 folding plans of Graaff Reinet and Cape Town, 18 aquatint plates, 17 engraved vignettes, half brown morocco, marbled paper sides (a little rubbed) and endpapers, top edges gilt, other edges uncut, bookplate of Hans Sauer on each front paste-down endpaper, foxing on the plates, contents crisp, a good tall set.

Mendelssohn (S.) South African Bibliography, 2:493-4. \'This valuable work was written by a Cape Town merchant who resided in South Africa for many years, and who travelled throughout the greater part of the Cape Colony and a considerable part of Bechuanaland \"partly for the motive of business and partly for the impulse of curiosity.\" In 1823 and 1824 he proceeded to the Orange River and Bechuanaland and his account of these regions is recognised as the most important description of this part of the continent published in the early part of the nineteenth century. The third division of the work comprises a review of the condition \"of the Dutch and British inhabitants, of the agricultural, commercial, and financial circumstances of the country and of its adaptation for further colonisation.\"\'