2 volumes, 582 + 648 pages, frontispiece portrait, large folding colour map loosely inserted, 20 colour plates - 5 folding, many text illustrations, brown cloth, a good set.
Facsimile reprint, number 563 of an edition limited to 1000 copies.
Mendelssohn 1.224. \'The most valuable and accurate work on South Africa published up to the first quarter of the nineteenth century, and embracing a description of a large part of the Cape Colony and Bechuanaland at this period. Theal ("History of South Africa, 1795-1834") remarks that the author was "a man of talent, an easy writer, and scrupulously exact in his descriptions," and according to Sclater he was "a most skilful and well-trained zoologist and botanist, and his observations are all accurate and methodical."\'
- Binding Condition: Good
- Overall Condition: Good
- Size: 4to (285 x 220 mm)
- Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
- Contact Person: Paul Mills
- Country: South Africa
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: 021 794 0600
- Preferred Payment Methods: Visa & Mastercard via PayGate secure links and Bank transfers.
- Trade Associations: ABA - ILAB, SABDA
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