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LATROBE (CHRISTIAN IGNATIUS) Journal of a Visit to South Africa, FIRST EDITION, L.B. Seeley, 1818
14 November 2023, 14:00 GMT
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LATROBE (CHRISTIAN IGNATIUS)
Journal of a Visit to South Africa, in 1815, and 1816. With some account of the missionary settlements of the United Brethren, near the Cape of Good Hope, FIRST EDITION, 12 hand-coloured aquatint plates after sketches by the author himself and John Melville, Government Surveyor of the Cape, 4 lithographed plates, folding engraved map (hand-coloured in outline), advertisement at end, light spotting to text and off-setting onto title, contemporary calf gilt, neatly rebacked to match with red and brown gilt morocco spine labels [Abbey Travel 325; Mendelssohn I, p.866; Prideaux, p.240; Tooley 292], 4to, L.B. Seeley, 1818
Footnotes
Latrobe was secretary to the Moravian Brethren's Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel to the Heathen from 1787 until 1834, during which time he undertook a successful expedition in 1815–16 to the mission at the Cape of Good Hope, during which he travelled extensively throughout the country.
Provenance: William Orme Foster (1814-1899), Apley Park bookplate. Foster, an iron master and Member of Parliament for South Staffordshire from 1857-1868, purchased the Apley Park estate near Bridgnorth in 1868; by descent to the present owner.

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