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BURCHELL (WILLIAM J.) Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Longman, Hurst, 1822 image 1
BURCHELL (WILLIAM J.) Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Longman, Hurst, 1822 image 2
BURCHELL (WILLIAM J.) Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Longman, Hurst, 1822 image 3
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BURCHELL (WILLIAM J.)
Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, FIRST EDITION, 1822

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BURCHELL (WILLIAM J.)

Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, errata slip, 20 hand-coloured aquatint or engraved plates (some folding), large folding engraved map, illustrations in the text, without the 4pp. "Hints on Emigration" (as often), some spotting and off-setting in volume 1, contemporary diced calf, covers detached, lacks spine to volume 3 [Abbey Travel 327; Mendelssohn I, p.224; Tooley 116], 4to, Longman, Hurst, 1822

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First edition of "The most valuable and accurate work on South Africa published up to the first quarter of the nineteenth century" (Mendelssohn).

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Should read lacks spine to volume 2, NOT 3

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