Latrobe (Rev. C.I.)
JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA IN 1815 AND 1816
Some Account of the Missionary Settlements of the United Brethren, near the Cape of Good Hope
Published: Cape Town, (1818) 1969
Stock Number: #5824/3
Price: R750
Approximately:
48 page introduction + 406 pages, 4to (277 x 222 mm), folding coloured map as frontispiece, 12 coloured plates and 4 uncoloured plates, brown cloth, a very good copy. Facsimile reprint, No 491 of an edition limited to 1000 copies
'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.'