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THOMPSON, George. Travels and Adventures in Southern Africa comprising a view of the present state of the Cape Colony, with observations on the progress and prospects of the British emigrants, London: S. & R. Bentley for Henry Colburn, 1827. 4° (270 x 208mm), 20 aquatint plates (one double-page), 2 lithographed plans (one double-page, one folding), one folding lithographed map, 17 wood-engraved illustrations (some spotting, tears to folds of map), contemporary calf gilt by Henington of London (spine faded, extremities rubbed, upper joint split), bookplate of Joseph Dart.
FIRST EDITION. A second edition (in 2 octavo volumes) was published in the same year. "This valuable work was written by a Cape Town merchant who resided in South Africa for many years, and who had travelled through the greater part of the Cape Colony and a considerable part of Bechuanaland", Mendelssohn II, p. 494; cf. Abbey Travel 330 (2nd edition only).
FIRST EDITION. A second edition (in 2 octavo volumes) was published in the same year. "This valuable work was written by a Cape Town merchant who resided in South Africa for many years, and who had travelled through the greater part of the Cape Colony and a considerable part of Bechuanaland", Mendelssohn II, p. 494; cf. Abbey Travel 330 (2nd edition only).
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