Barrow, John

Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa. In Which are Described the Character and the Condition of the Dutch Colonists of the Cape of Good Hope, and of the Several Tribes of Natives Beyond its Limits: The Natural History of Such Subjects as Occurred in the Animal, Mineral, and Vegetable Kingdoms; and the Geography of the Southern Extremity of Africa, Comprehending Also a Topographical and Statistical Sketch of the Cape Colony: With an Inquiry into its Importance as a Naval and Military Station as a Commercial Emporium; and as a Territorial Possession. [Second edition with the plates.]

London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806. Quarto. 215 x 280 mm. 2 volumes with the plates loose in a separate matching portfolio. Bound in elegant brown mottled goatskin with leather labels and 5 raised bands by the celebrated Russian-American binder Alexander (Sasha) Mosalov.
xvi, 426; [vi], 372, [2] pp. Some of the brittle pages repaired with translucent archival tape. 8 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 9 folding maps and charts, 3 coloured or coloured in outline. Abbey, Travel, 322.

The plates are
A Boor’s wife taking her Coffee
Broad tailed Sheep
A Hottentot
Passing a Kloof
Kaffer Woman
The Gnoos
A Bushman in Armour
The African Rhinoceros

General Chart of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.
Military Plan of he Cape Peninsula
Chart of Table Bay
False Bay at the Cape of Good Hope
Coast of Africa from Table Bay . . . to Saldanha Bay
Mossel Bay
Chart of the Knysna
Plettensbergs Bay
Algoa Bay. Item #51-1211

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