TRAVELS IN SOUTH AFRICA, Undertaken At the Request of the Missionary Society, Being a Narrative of a Second Journey in the Interior of That Country
Rare and modern books
Campbell
Francis Westley,
1822
TRAVELS IN SOUTH AFRICA, Undertaken At the Request of the Missionary Society, Being a Narrative of a Second Journey in the Interior of That Country
Rare and modern books
Campbell
Francis Westley,
1822
1925.00 €
(Newburyport,
United States of America)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1822
- Place of printing
- London
- Author
- Campbell
- Publishers
- Francis Westley
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT EARLY WORK ON SOUTH AFRICA. This
- Languages
- English
- First edition
- True
Description
2 volumes. First edition. With a hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece to each volume, large hand-coloured folding map and 10 additional hand-coloured, aquatint plates. 8vo, handsomely bound to style in three-quarter calf over brown cloth sides, spines gilt ruled between raised bands, with brown morocco labels lettered in gilt and volume numbers gilt on red morocco labels. xii, 322, [6]; 384. Errata bound into the first volume, pp. A handsome copy of this scarce set. Ownership stamps to the verso of the plates and title-pages not affecting the images, one title page reinforced at the gutter. The colouring is very strong and very beautifully accomplished on all plates.
