- 1267
Thompson, George
Estimate
500 - 800 GBP
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Description
- Travels and Adventures in Southern Africa. London: Henry Colburn, 1827
- Paper
FIRST EDITION, 4to (265 x 205mm.), xviii, [ii], 494pp., [ii pp. adverts], 3 maps & plans, 20 aquatint plates, illustrations in text, contemporary blind-tooled and gilt half russia, marbled boards, endpapers and edges, short split in upper joint
Literature
Mendelssohn (1957) II, p.493 ("[a] valuable work... [which] contains a number of excellent engravings"); Mendelssohn (1979) IV, p.490; cf. Abbey, Travel 330 (for a 2 volume octavo edition of the same year)