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Auction #131 begins on 21 May 2026

Harris (William Cornwallis)

NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION INTO SOUTHERN AFRICA DURING THE YEARS 1836, AND 1837

From the Cape of Good Hope through the territories of the Chief Moselekatse to the Tropic of Capricorn, With a sketch of the recent emigration of the border colonists and a zoological appendix. Illustrated by a map and drawings

Published: Printed at the American Mission Press, Bombay, 1838

Edition: First edition, third issue

Reserve: $1,000

Approximately:

Estimate: $1250/1500

Bidding opens: 21 May 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 28 May 16:30 GMT

Ships from: South Africa

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First edition, third issue: xviii, 406 pages, frontispiece - Moselekatse, King of the Amazooloo, 3 lithographic plates, folding map (strengthened at hinge) with Harris's routes hand coloured, original green pebble-grained cloth with a printed paper title label on the spine - both front a rear boards are detached, the contents are clean and free of foxing. In this issue the plates are printed by Dean & Monday, lithographers, 40 Threadneedle Street, London, all with titles, the text is the same as the first issue with the list of subscribers.

E.C. Tabler in Africana Notes and News volume 12 no 2 June 1956 pages 63.

  • Size: 8vo (230 x 130 mm)


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