Thompson (George): TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA, by George Thompson, Esq., eight years a resident at the Cape, comprising a view of the Present State of the Cape Colony, with observations on the progress and prospects of the British emigrants

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Thompson (George) : TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA, by George Thompson, Esq., eight years a resident at the Cape, comprising a view of the Present State of the Cape Colony, with observations on the progress and prospects of the British emigrants

2 volumes, 450 + 430 pages, 8vo (225 x 145 mm), aquatint frontispiece - a view of Cape Town in volume 1, folding aquatint view of Table Mountain from the Parade as frontispiece in volume 2, folding map with Thompson’s travels outlined in red, 2 folding plans of Graaff Reinet and Cape Town, 18 aquatint plates, 17 engraved vignettes, recent half brown morocco, marbled paper sides, marbled edges,contained in a leather-lipped slip case with cloth sides and marbled paper edges, with the bookplate of Sir Robert Peel in both volumes, an unusually fresh copy. Second Edition

Mendelssohn 2:493-4. 'This valuable work was written by a Cape Town merchant who resided in South Africa for many years, and who travelled throughout the greater part of the Cape Colony and a considerable part of Bechuanaland "partly for the motive of business and partly for the impulse of curiosity." In 1823 and 1824 he proceeded to the Orange River and Bechuanaland and his account of these regions is recognised as the most important description of this part of the continent published in the early part of the nineteenth century. The third division of the work comprises a review of the condition "of the Dutch and British inhabitants, of the agricultural, commercial, and financial circumstances of the country and of its adaptation for further colonisation."'

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