TRAVELS IN EUROPE, AFRICA, AND ASIA

Second edition with volume IV: 4 volumes, I. 317, [xviii index]; II. [xiv], 316; [xvi index], III. xiii, 285, [xv index], 31 vocabulary of the Japanese language, [i] errata; VI. xix, 293, [xvi index], [i] publisher's advertisement; pages, 11 plates including: engraved frontispiece in volume I and 2 other plates – 1 folding (Arms and Implements of the Hottentots), 4 plates in both volumes 2 & 4 each with a one-leaf explanation of the plates, contemporary mottled calf with wear at the top and bottom of the spines and at the corners, bookplate of the Wickwar Institution for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge on the front pasted-down endpaper of each volume (presented by Thos Garlike Esq.) and the library numbers 124-127 on each spine, library stamps on the free endpaper and title page of volume II, a very good set.

Volume I Containing a Voyage to the Southern Parts of Europe, and to the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, in The Years 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773.
Volume II Containing Two Expeditions to the Interior Part of the Country Adjacent to the Cape of Good Hope, and a Voyage to the Island of Java, performed in the Years 1733, 1774 and 1775.
Volume III Containing a Voyage to Japan, and Travels in Different Parts of that Empire, in the Years 1775 and 1776.
Volume IV Containing Travels in the Empire of Japan, and in the Islands of Java and Ceylon, Together with The Voyage Home.

A South African Bibliography, volume 4, page 505, ‘Volume VI was published in the same year as the second edition of vol. I-III and is found both with the first and with the second edition as vol.IV of the set.According to Prof. V.S. Forbes the translator of Thunberg Travels was Charles Rivington Hopson.