De Luxe Edition: Two volumes, 582 + 648 pages, frontispiece portrait, large folding colour map tipped onto the rear paste-down endpaper in volume I, 20 colour plates - 5 folding, many text illustrations, full brown leather gilt, top edges gilt, a very good set.
Number 41 of this facsimile reprint limited to 1000 copies of which 100 are bound in full leather.
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.\"\'
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- Size: 4to (285 x 220 mm)
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