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Auction #125 begins on 14 Aug 2025

Latrobe (Rev. C.I.)

JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA IN 1815 AND 1816

Some Account of the Missionary Settlements of the United Brethren, near the Cape of Good Hope

Published: C. Struik (Pty) Ltd., Cape Town, 1969

Edition: Facsimile reprint

Reserve: $40

Approximately:

Estimate: $50/60

Bidding opens: 14 Aug 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 21 Aug 16:30 GMT

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Facsimile Reprint: 48 page introduction + 406 pages, folding coloured map as frontispiece, 12 coloured  plates and 4 uncoloured plates, brown cloth, a very good copy.

No 551 of an edition limited to 1000 copies

'South Africa in Print' comments about Latrobe that 'He has left an important volume of travels with illustrations second only to those of Burchell'. Colvin in his introduction to Mendelssohn's 'Bibliography' describes the Journals as 'written with much sweet piety and simplicity of spirit, yet (he) shows shrewdness of observation and a fine common sense.'

  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 4to (277 x 222 mm)


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