TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF SOUTH AFRICA

Chapman (J.)

Description:

Comprising Fifteen Years' Hunting and Trading; with journeys across the continent from Natal to Walvisch Bay, and visits to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls.

2 volumes, 454 + 480 pages, wood engraved frontispiece in each volume, 2 folding maps partly coloured and Chapman's journeys traced in red, 8 plates and 19 illustrations in the text, errata leaves in each volume, original green pebble-grained cloth, titled gilt on the spines, both volumes have been recased (new endpapers), edges slightly worn and corners bumped. The large folding map at the beginning of volume I has been strengthened at each fold, the second folding map in volume II  (route from Walvisch Bay to Sanamani’s Town via Lake Ngami and The Victoria Falls in 186– 3) is in good condition, generally the contents are bright.

A few marginal notes in an old hand. A longer note in the same had at the end of chapter I at page 19 in volume I  discusses ‘…the charges of slavery and cruelty made against the Boers as regards the natives…’

Mendelssohn (S.) A South African Bibliography, volume 1, pages 321-2. 'Starting from Natal, Mr Chapman traversed the eastern portion of the Orange Free State by three distinct routes, and pursuing his travels through the Western Transvaal and Bechuanaland, penetrated up to the almost unknown regions of Matableland. He also visited Walvisch Bay and Lake Ngami, and journeyed through the country of the Namaquas and Damaras.' Kennedy, Africana Repository, page 40, 'Baines….then joined Chapman's expedition through South West Africa to the Victoria Falls….This expedition up to August 1862 he described in Explorations in South-West Africa (London 1864)….Chapman was very angry with Baines because he published first and had acquired fame by exhibiting his pictures of the Victoria Falls. In a preface to Chapman's book acknowledgement is made to Charles Bell 'for drawings and sketches used in illustrating these volumes'. Some of the illustrations are undoubtedly after Bell, who was not a member of the expedition; some of the pictures are by Baines, but without acknowledgement. It was a pity they quarrelled because they had been friends from their first meeting in Potchefstroom in 1850’.

Details:

  • Publisher: Bell & Daldy
  • Publisher Place: London
  • Date of Publication: 1868
  • Edition: First edition
  • Binding Condition: Fair
  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: 8vo (214 x 140mm)
  • Lot No: 155
  • Hammer Price: $750
  • Bids: 1
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  • Estimate: $1000/1250
  • Reserve: $750

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