Facsimile edition: 582 + 648 pages, frontispiece portrait of Burchell, large folding colour map loosely inserted (carelessly folded), 20 colour plates - 5 folding, many text illustrations, brown cloth, titled gilt on the spine, foxing on the page edges, a good set.
Book plate of Edna and Frank Bradlow on the front paste-down end paper.
Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography volume 1, page 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 in his 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."'
No 162 of a limited edition of 1000 copies.
- Overall Condition: A Good Set
- 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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