TRAVELS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

2 volumes: 383+(32) & 368+(28) pages, folding map in volume 2, engraved frontispiece portrait of Henry Lichtenstein in volume 1, with offsetting on the title page, folding frontispiece engraving in volume 2: 'A View of the Karree Mountains with Ostriches and Quaggas,' 6 engraved plates, full contemporary calf, decorated gilt on the spines, the text in volume 1 is a little browned but pages 225-232 (Signature Gg) are not as heavily spotted as usual but 328-345 (Signatures Uu & Yy) are affected by the usual foxing, the text in volume 2 is clean and bright, bookplates on front paste-down endpapers, silk markers, there is a scratch on the leather on the upper cover of volume 2, a very good set.

Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography vol. 1 page 899: Dr Lichtenstein was tutor to the son of Governor Janssens of the Cape Colony. The author offers a criticism of Barrow in his references to earlier travellers, accusing him of being 'totally unacquainted with the general habits and mode of life of the colonists...' Lichtenstein travelled with the Governor through the interior. Bushmen and Bechuanas are described and the information about the wild life and their natural surroundings is recorded in detail.