To which is annexed an Account of a Journey, made in the Years 1801 and 1802, to the Residence of the Chief of the Booshuana Nation, being the Remotest Point in the Interior of Southern Africa to which Europeans have hitherto penetrated. The facts and descriptions taken from a manuscript journal. With a chart of the route
xviii, (i directions for the placing of the plates), 447 pages, 18 hand coloured aquatint plates after by W. Alexander and Samuel Daniell, engraved by T. Medland, 2 double page panoramas of Rio de Janeiro both split at the second fold and repaired with tape, a chart of the Southern Extremity if Africa with the author's journey indicated in red (splitting at the folds), bound in the original dark blue pebble grained cloth with a red leather title label on the spine, light blue paper covered boards, without the half title page, edges uncut giving spacious margins, title page lightly browned, some staining around the edges of the first few leaves, otherwise the contents and plates are bright.
Abbey (J.R.) Travel, in Aquatint and Lithography, 1770-1860, number 514 (pages 469/70), ‘Barrow probably met Samuel Daniell while at the Cape….The aquatinting is of excellent quality, number 10 in particular being technically interesting, since it appears to be printed in as many as three colours with one colour added by hand, while number 11 is printed in green, with other colours added by hand.’
‘Barrow was attached on the first British embassy to China from 1792–94 as comptroller of the household to Lord Macartney. He soon acquired a good knowledge of the Chinese language, on which he subsequently contributed interesting articles to the Quarterly Review; and the account of the embassy published by Sir George Staunton records many of Barrow's valuable contributions to literature and science connected with China.’ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Barrow,_1st_Baronet)
- Size: 4to (295 x 230 mm)
