Travels in South Africa, Undertaken at the Request of the Missionary Society.

London: Black, Parry and T. Hamilton, 1815. Third edition, corrected (pp. xv, 400). Octavo (21 cm) in polished calf, gilt titles and decoration; (the famous) frontispiece, map, and ten plates as called for, showing Bethelsdorp, Lattakoo, Griquatown, etc. “Being advised not to go far up country during the fiercest heat of the summer, Mr. Campbell filled up his time by paying visits to Stellenbosch, Caledon and Genadendal. In March he arrived at Bethelsdorp, the main station of the London Society He proceeded to Albany, and pushing through Kaffraria, saw a good deal of the resident Boers of the interior .Near Graaff-Reinert the party met the celebrated traveller Burchell, and later on they journeyed through the Snewburg and "Bushmen's Country" till they reached Klaar Water, from which place they pushed on for Lattakoo. There is an interesting account of the chief and his people, with some notes on the Wankentzens, an adjoining tribe who, seven years before had massacred Dr. Cowan and a party of over twenty Europeans. A visit was paid to Namaqualand, and there are some notes upon that country and Damaraland” (Mendelssohn). Bookplate of Tory politician Henry Goulburn (1784- 1856), PC FRS, Chancellor of the Exchequer, etc., under Wellington and Peel. A near Fine copy.