Latrobe (Rev. C.I.): 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

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Latrobe (Rev. C.I.) : 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

406 pages, 4to (280 x 222 mm), folding coloured map as frontispiece with the author’s outward and return journeys outlined in red and blue, 12 fine hand coloured aquatint plates drawn by R. Cocking from sketches by the author, and 4 uncoloured plates, later brown paper covered boards (corner of lower board repaired) with a paper title label on the spine, title page soiled at the corners, a tall uncut copy (corresponding in size to Abbey's copy), some light spotting in the text, overall a very good copy

'South Africa in Print' comments about Latrobe that 'He has left an important volume of travels with illustrations second only to those of Burchell'. Colvin in his introduction to Mendelssohn's 'Bibliography' describes the Journals as 'written with much sweet piety and simplicity of spirit, yet (he) shows shrewdness of observation and a fine common sense.'

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