Facsimile reprint: 582 + 648 pages, frontispiece portrait, large folding colour map loosely inserted, 20 colour plates - 5 folding, many text illustrations, brown cloth, light dust soiling on the page edges, a good set.
Mendelssohn (S.) 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."'
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