2 volumes (xxiv, 470, x pages; xxiii, 498, xv pages): illustrations (1 folding in volume 2), portrait in volume 1, folding map in volume 2. (Van Riebeeck Society publications. First series; 10 & 11). Pictorial cloth. Book plates laid down on front free endpapers. Reprint of the 1812-15 edition.
Henry Lichtenstein, "Doctor in medicine and philosophy, and professor of natural history in the University of Berlin, member of several learned societies, and formerly in the the Dutch service at the Cape of Good Hope" [title page] managed to travel extensively in the four years he spent at the Cape, and his observations are free of much of the prejudice which coloured many of his contemporaries' writings.
- Binding Condition: Very good
- Overall Condition: Very good
- Size: 22 x 14 cm
- Sold By: Select Books
- Contact Person: David McLennan
- Country: South Africa
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: 021-4246955
- Preferred Payment Methods: Credit card; EFT
- Trade Associations: SABDA
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