Africa.- Lichtenstein (Henry) Travels in Southern Africa, in the Years 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806, 2 vol., first edition in English, stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece, folding engraved map, 8 engraved plates, one folding, with 4pp. 'Explanation of the Map' and 2pp. advertisements at end of preliminaries of vol.2, foxing (sometimes severe, particularly in vol.1), some offsetting from plates, map torn (partly repaired), contemporary half calf, rubbed, rebacked, new endpapers, 4to, 1812-1815.
⁂ Lichtenstein was employed as tutor to the son of the new Governor of the Cape Colony, General Janssens. The work includes an account of Janssens' travels to Kaffaria, journeys to the western and northern parts of the colony, and much information on natural history, a narrative of the capture of the colony by the British, and vocabularies of native languages.
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