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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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"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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