Author: LATROBE, Charles Ignatius.
Title: 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, W. M'Dowall for L.B. Seeley and R. Ackermann, 1818. 4to. With folding map (53 x 27 cm), partly hand-coloured, showing the tracks of the expedition, 12 full-page hand-coloured aquatints, and 4 full-page engravings of coastal views. Later half calf.
Description: VII, [1], 406, [2] pp.First edition of a voyage to South Africa by Latrobe on behalf of the Moravian Church to visit the missionaries at Genadendal and Groenekloof and to search for locations to establish new missionaries. There is a full description of the district of Groenekloof and of the missionary settlements north of Cape Town. Latrobe travelled from Genadedal via Zwellendam, Zeekogat, Welgelegen, Uitenhage to the Witter River and thence to the Little Fish River, visiting Plettenberg Bay and Mossel Bay on the way back. The fine plates show mostly scenic views. Some browning and spotting. A good copy.l Abbey, Travel 325; Gay, Bibl. de l'Afrique et l'Arabe 3117; Gordon-Brown, p. 22, 105; Mendelssohn I, pp. 866-867; Prideaux, pp. 240, 342; Tooley, Coloured plates 292.

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