Barter, Charles. - Zes maanden in Natal en onder de Hollandsche boeren van de Kaap-Kolonie. Uit het Engelsch. ["The Dorp and the Veld; or, Six Months in Natal"].

Amsterdam, P. N. van Kampen, 1853. Hardcover. Tall crown quarto. Pp. (ii) publisher's ad, (vi), 331. Plus colour lithograph view of Pietermaritzburg as frontispiece, with facing tissue-guard, foxed, small dampmark at margin. Half-title present. Bound in the original publisher's printed boards, floral shelf-label, spine worn and quires loosening, old institutional stamp. In good condition. Untrimmed, clean copy. ~ First and only Dutch edition. Very rare. Translated from the English "The Dorp and the Veld; or, Six Months in Natal", published in London in 1852. Charles Barter (1821-1904), author and Natal magistrate. "My only wish is to convey a correct impression of a land to which so many of our poor countrymen are looking in anxious and too often delusive hopes." - Preface, English edition. - Cat. NHSM p.211; Mendelssohn I, p.92 (English edition). G-4 IN .

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