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Auction #130 begins on 09 Apr 2026

Methuen (H.H.)

LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS, or Wanderings in South Africa

Published: Richard Bentley, London, 1846

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $50

Approximately:

Estimate: $70/80

Bidding opens: 9 Apr 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 16 Apr 16:30 GMT

Ships from: South Africa

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First Edition: 318 pages, frontispiece, 2 plates, 14 text illustrations, half green morocco with marbled paper sides, signature of a previous owner on the title page and some marginal notes in ink and pencil, a very good copy.

Mendelssohn (Sydney) South African Bibliography, volume 2, page 6, 'A journal of an eight months' sporting expedition through the Eastern Province to the Orange and Vaal Rivers, Waterboer's country (Griqualand West), and thence in a north-easterly direction to the junction of the Mariqua and Limpopo Rivers as far as Moselekatse's old capital, in what was afterwards known as the Transvaal.' In Kuruman they met the missionaries Moffat, Hamilton and Livingstone who gave them 'much information ... respecting the country and its natives, and many valuable botanical and geological notes will be found in the work. The main interest of the volume, however, centres in the description of the game animals, and there are a number of well-drawn illustrations of the heads and horns of various species of antelopes met with in the course of the expedition.'

  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 8vo (205 x 130 mm)


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