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Auction #119 begins on 14 Nov 2024

[Phillipps (T.)]

SCENES AND OCCURRENCES IN ALBANY AND CAFFER-LAND, SOUTH AFRICA

Published: William Marsh, London, 1827

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $400

Approximately:

Estimate: $500/600

Bidding opens: 14 Nov 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 21 Nov 16:30 GMT

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214 pages, folding hand coloured lithographic frontispiece, recent half dark brown morocco with marbled paper sides, a good copy.

The frontispiece was erroneously published with the title 'Entrance to the Rownie River'. This copy has the corrected title pasted down - 'Entrance to the Kowie River'. Anonymously published selection from the letters of the 1820 settler, Thomas Phillips, to his sister, Mrs Catherine Richardson.

See A South African Bibliography, volume 3, page 667.

  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 8vo (190 x 120 mm)


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