Cape Town & Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema, 1977
Large Fo, unpaginated. Half-leather hardcover binding, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt inlaid publisher’s device on front board. 6 full-page full-colour plates. With an introduction and descriptive notes by F.R. Bradlow.
Limited Edition, Copy no 60 of 100. Signed by F.R. Bradlow.
Thomas Baines (1820 – 1875) was an English artist and explorer of British colonial southern Africa and Australia. In 1858 Baines accompanied David Livingstone along the Zambezi, and was one of the first white men to view Victoria Falls. In 1869 Baines led one of the first gold prospecting expeditions to Mashonaland in what later became Rhodesia.
From 1861 to 1862 Baines and James Chapman undertook an expedition to South West Africa. Chapman's Travels in the Interior of South Africa (1868) and Baines' Explorations in South-West Africa (1864), provide a rare account of different perspectives on the same trip. This was the first expedition during which extensive use was made of both photography and painting, and in addition both men kept journals in which, amongst other things, they commented on their own and each other's practice. Baines made some of the drawings for the engravings illustrating Alfred Russel Wallace's 1869 book The Malay Archipelago. In 1870 Baines was granted a concession to explore for gold between the Gweru and Hunyani rivers by Lobengula, leader of the Matabele nation. (wikipedia.com)
Condition: Very good, slight wear to corners of boards. Text and plates are clean. Well bound.
- Overall Condition: Very Good
- Size: Folio
