Auction 185-186

Lot 1953
Latrobe, Journal of a visit to South Africa

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15th Nov. 2017 session starting 3:45 p.m.

Latrobe, C. I. 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. London, Seeley u. Ackermann, 1818. 4to (28,5:22,5 cm). Mit 1 gefalt. gest. Karte, 12 kol. Aquatintafeln u. 4 lith. Tafeln. VII, 406 S. Hldr. d. 19. Jh., beschabt.

Abbey, Travel 325; Tooley, Books with Col. Plates 292; Mendelssohn I, 886f. - Erste Ausgabe. Latrobe wurde 1815 von der Leitung der Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine nach Südafrika geschickt, um die dortigen Gemeinden Gnadenthal und Groenekloof zu visitieren. "The Govenor of the Cape expressed a wish that a third station should be opened, and in order to choose a site the author travelled through a large part of the country right up the Fish River. There is a full description of the district of Groenekloof, and of the missionary settlements, about thirty miles north of Cape Town" (Mendelssohn). Die 1738 gegründete und 1792 wiedergegründete Missionsstation Gnadenthal (Genadendal) ist die älteste im südlichen Afrika. Die schönen Tafeln meist mit Ansichten. Mit einer zusätzlichen kolorierten lithographierten Karte (Map comprehending the Colony of Good Hope). - Text stellenw. stockfleckig.

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