Sale 6623
London
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24 September 2002
Price realised
GBP 1,554
Estimate
JOHN BARROW (fl. 1735) Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa. In which are Described the Character and the Condition of the Dutch Colonists of the Cape of Good Hope, London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806. 2 volumes, 4° (262 x 200mm.). 8 hand-coloured aquatint plates by T. Medland after S. Daniell, 8 folding engraved maps, 3 hand-coloured (a few spots on title of vol. one and at a few margins, maps lightly offset onto text and title of vol. II), 19th-century polished calf by Morrell, covers with triple gilt fillet borders, spines gilt in compartments with red and green morocco lettering pieces (a few very light scuff marks), gilt edges. Provenance: Edward Joseph Dent (armorial bookplate). Second edition. Abbey Travel 322; Gay 2996; Mendelssohn, Vol. One, pp. 88-9; Prideaux p. 327; Tooley (1954) 85. (2)
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