Travels into the interior of southern Africa
Subtitle: in which are described the character and the condition of the Dutch colonists of the Cape of Good Hope, and of the several tribes of natives beyond its limits : the natural history of such subjects as occurred in the animal, mineral and vegetable kingdoms; and the geography of the southern extremity of Africa : comprehending also a topographical and statistical sketch of Cape Colony; with an inquiry into its importance as a naval and military station, as a commercial emporium; as a territorial possession
By: by John Barrow ; in two volumes
Contributors: Daniell, Samuel, 1775-1811, ill; Medland, Thomas, 18th/19th cent., ill; University of the Witwatersrand; Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries)
Edition: 2nd ed., with additions and alterations, illustrated with several engravings and charts.
Publisher: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davis
Published: 1806
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 17
Subjects: Description and travel
Other titles: Barrow's travels in South Africa; Travels in southern Africa; Account of travels into the interior of southern Africa, in the years 1797 and 1798.
Notes: First edition published, 1801-1804, under title: An account of travels into the interior of southern Africa, in the years 1797 and 1798.

On verso of t.p.'s: Strahan and Preston ... London.

Plates signed: S. Daniell del, T. Medland sculpt.

Leaf of publisher's advertisements at end of v.2.

Includes index.

Mendelssohn, S. South African bib., v.1, p. 142

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SCNHRB copy (v.1: 39088012038493; v.2: 390880120385011) has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. The Russell E. Train Africana Collection.

SCNHRB copy has bookplate of the Library of the University of the Witwaterstrand, presented by Dr. F.E. Kanthack.

SCNHRB copy has some hand-colored plates.

SCNHRB copy has sprinkled calf bindings; title in gilt on red leather spine labels. Bookdealer's label: Thorold's Africana Books ... Johannesburg. Letter of possession from the bookdealer laid-in, now removed to the Train manuscript file.