Important South African & International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 16 March 2015
Cape & Colonial Silver, Furniture & Dec Arts, The Harvey Collection of Africana & SA & Int Art
Lot Estimate Change Currency
ZAR 55 000 - 70 000
Selling Price
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Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 125 048
Auction Catalogue
About this Item
Burchell, William John
Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, Volumes I and II
(1822 and 1824) London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, first edition, twenty aquatint plates, folding map, hints on emigration to the Cape of Good Hope, 4to, contemporary calf rebacked, some offsetting and light foxing, contained in a solander box with morocco spine
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Notes
"The most valuable and accurate work on South Africa published up to the first quarter of the nineteenth century."
Sidney Mendelssohn. (1968) Mendelssohn's South African Bibliography, Volume I, London: The Holland Press. Page 224.
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