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Thomas Boteler
Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery to Africa and Arabia, performed in his Majesty's ships Leven and Barracouta from 1821 to 1826, London: Richard Bentley, 1835. 2 volumes, 8° (226 x 140mm.). 2 lithographed frontispieces and one plate. (p.399 with clean tear in vol. one, occasional spotting and browning.) Original cloth-backed boards, paper label on spines (joints and spines splitting, rubbed with loss). FIRST EDITION. Mendelssohn p. 157.
With Peter Kolben's The Present State of the Cape of Good Hope: or a particular account of the several nations of the Hottentots (London, 1731, vol. one only, of 2, lacking 2 plates), Robert Godlonton's A Narrative of the Irruption of the Kafir Hordes into the Eastern Province of the Cape of Good Hope, 1834-35 (Graham's Town, 1836) and John Campbell's Journal of Travels in South Africa; among the Hottentot and other tribes in the years 1812, 1813, and 1814 (London, 1840). (5)
Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery to Africa and Arabia, performed in his Majesty's ships Leven and Barracouta from 1821 to 1826, London: Richard Bentley, 1835. 2 volumes, 8° (226 x 140mm.). 2 lithographed frontispieces and one plate. (p.399 with clean tear in vol. one, occasional spotting and browning.) Original cloth-backed boards, paper label on spines (joints and spines splitting, rubbed with loss). FIRST EDITION. Mendelssohn p. 157.
With Peter Kolben's The Present State of the Cape of Good Hope: or a particular account of the several nations of the Hottentots (London, 1731, vol. one only, of 2, lacking 2 plates), Robert Godlonton's A Narrative of the Irruption of the Kafir Hordes into the Eastern Province of the Cape of Good Hope, 1834-35 (Graham's Town, 1836) and John Campbell's Journal of Travels in South Africa; among the Hottentot and other tribes in the years 1812, 1813, and 1814 (London, 1840). (5)
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