With an introduction by A. Gordon Brown
Facsimile Reprint. 582 + 648 pages, frontispiece portrait, large folding colour map loosely inserted, 20 colour plates - 5 folding, many text illustrations, brown cloth titled gilt on the spine, a very good set.
The edition of this facsimile reprint is limited to 1000 numbered copies. This is no. 221.
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 ("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."'
- Overall Condition: A very good set
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