Cape Travels, 1777 to 1786, edited by Peter E. Raper & Maurice Boucher.
2 volumes, 465 pages continuously paginated, colour frontispiece portrait of Gordon in volume 1 and a colour frontispiece in volume 2, 90 colour plates, 4 maps, green cloth, a very good set in the dust jackets.
Brenthurst Press Second Series, volume 4 & 5. The Standard Edition limited to 850 copies.
Perhaps the most important of the volumes produced by the Brenthurst Press to date. Gordon, a Dutchman of Scottish descent, can be considered as the most prominent of the eighteenth century travellers in southern Africa. He made five journeys into the Cape interior penetrating further than any other known predecessor or contemporary.
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- Size: 4to (305 x 245 mm)
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