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LATROBE, Christian Ignatius (1758-1836). Journal of a Visit to South Africa in 1815, and 1816. With some account of the missionary settlements of the United Brethren, near the Cape of Good Hope, London: L. B. Seeley & R. Ackermann, 1818.

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LATROBE, Christian Ignatius (1758-1836). Journal of a Visit to South Africa in 1815, and 1816. With some account of the missionary settlements of the United Brethren, near the Cape of Good Hope, London: L. B. Seeley & R. Ackermann, 1818.

4°, folding engraved frontispiece map, 14 plates of which 12 are hand-coloured aquatints, drawn by R. Cocking from the original sketches of C. Latrobe (marginal browning throughout, stronger towards the end with a few small stains or light soiling), contemporary half morocco (joints a little rubbed and with a few scuff marks, lower corners bumped), t.e.g.; bookplate of E. Grahame Johnstone.

FIRST EDITION. Latrobe succeeded James Hutton as secretary of the Unity of the Bretheren in England in 1795, and was appointed a 'senior civilis' in 1801. As an advocate of the missions of his church he visited South Africa in 1815-16. His journal includes a full description of the district of Groenekloof amd of the missionary settlements about thirty miles north of Cape Town. Abbey Travel 325; Mendelssohn I, p. 886-887. Tooley 292.
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