
Lot 125•
BURCHELL (WILLIAM) Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Longman, Hurst, 1822-1824
1 February 2017, 13:00 GMT
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BURCHELL (WILLIAM)
Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, 20 hand-coloured aquatint or engraved plates (some folding), one large engraved map hand-coloured in outline, numerous engraved vignettes, errata slip, and 4-pages of "Hints on Emigration to the Cape of the Good Hope", some off-setting and browning, contemporary half calf, worn with small loss to one headband [Abbey Travel 327; Mendelssohn I, p.224; Tooley 116, "the errata slip is frequently missing, as is also the half-title to vol. 1"], 4to, Longman, Hurst, 1822-1824
Footnotes
"The most valuable and accurate work on South Africa published up to the first quarter of the nineteenth century... the illustrations are characterised by great beauty and accuracy"" (Mendelssohn).
Provenance: Physikalisch-ökonomische Gesellschaft, Königsberg, ink stamp on titles.