Lot 43
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LATROBE, Christian Ignatius. Journal of a visit to South Africa, in 1815, and 1816, with some account of the missionary settlements of the United Bretheren, near the Cape of Good Hope, London: W. M'Dowall for L. B. Seeley, 1818. 4° (268 x 208mm.), folding engraved map (routes marked in red and blue), 16 plates, of which 12 are hand-coloured aquatints and 4 uncoloured line engravings (occasional light spotting and offsetting of text onto plates), contemporary diced russia gilt by George Gilmour of Winchester, spine in five compartments with double-raised bands, lettered in the second and fourth, the others with repeat decoration in gilt (joints worn, the upper split), bookplate of Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet (1772-1848, Stratton Park ink stamp on title). FIRST EDITION. Mendelssohn I, p.866; Abbey Travel 325.
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LATROBE, Christian Ignatius. Journal of a visit to South Africa, in 1815, and 1816, with some account of the missionary settlements of the United Bretheren, near the Cape of Good Hope, London: W. M'Dowall for L. B. Seeley, 1818. 4° (268 x 208mm.), folding engraved map (routes marked in red and blue), 16 plates, of which 12 are hand-coloured aquatints and 4 uncoloured line engravings (occasional light spotting and offsetting of text onto plates), contemporary diced russia gilt by George Gilmour of Winchester, spine in five compartments with double-raised bands, lettered in the second and fourth, the others with repeat decoration in gilt (joints worn, the upper split), bookplate of Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet (1772-1848, Stratton Park ink stamp on title). FIRST EDITION. Mendelssohn I, p.866; Abbey Travel 325.

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LATROBE, Christian Ignatius. Journal of a visit to South Africa, in 1815, and 1816, with some account of the missionary settlements of the United Bretheren, near the Cape of Good Hope, London: W. M'Dowall for L. B. Seeley, 1818. 4° (268 x 208mm.), folding engraved map (routes marked in red and blue), 16 plates, of which 12 are hand-coloured aquatints and 4 uncoloured line engravings (occasional light spotting and offsetting of text onto plates), contemporary diced russia gilt by George Gilmour of Winchester, spine in five compartments with double-raised bands, lettered in the second and fourth, the others with repeat decoration in gilt (joints worn, the upper split), bookplate of Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet (1772-1848, Stratton Park ink stamp on title). FIRST EDITION. Mendelssohn I, p.866; Abbey Travel 325.

FIRST EDITION. "The Directors of the Missions of the 'United n', having been frequently requested by the missionaries at Genadendal and Groenekloof to send a minister to visit these settlements, Mr. Latrobe was appointed for that service, and left England on October I, 1815. The Governor of the Cape had expressed a wish that a third station should be opened, and in order to choose a site the author travelled through a large part of the country [leaving Cape Town on March 5, 1816, and journeying] right up to the Fish River" (Mendelssohn).
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