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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, L.B. Seeley, 1818 image 1
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, L.B. Seeley, 1818 image 2
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, L.B. Seeley, 1818 image 3
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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
London, Knightsbridge

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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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