Travels in South Africa : undertaken at the request of the London missionary society : being a narrative of a second journey in the interior of that country / by the Rev. John Campbell ; witha map and coloured prints.

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Campbell, John, 1766-1840, Travels in South Africa , 1822

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Creator:: Campbell, John, 1766–1840
Title(s):: Travels in South Africa : undertaken at the request of the London missionary society : being a narrative of a second journey in the interior of that country / by the Rev. John Campbell ; witha map and coloured prints.
Additional Title(s):: Campbell's second journey in Africa
Published/Created:: London : Printed for the Society. Published and sold by Francis Westley ... and sold by Black and Co. ; 1822.
Edinburgh : Waugh and Innes ; 1822.
Glasgow : Chalmers and Collins, 1822.
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
DT756 .C36 1822+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1731468
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Title on publisher's original printed spine labels: Campbell's second journey in Africa. Twelve coloured plates. Two volumes. Royal paper. Price £I : 10 s.
Colored aquatints by John Heaviside Clark (see Abbey); after John Campbell.
Printed by T.C. Hansard, Peterborough-Court, Fleet-Street.
Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790-1860, 127
Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 328
BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in original paper-covered boards with publisher's printed spine labels. Bookseller's ticket of S. Payne, Dursley, in volume 1.
Subject Terms:: Chalmers and Collins -- Publisher.
Hansard, T.C. -- Printer.
Indigenous peoples -- South Africa.
London Missionary Society -- Publisher.
London Missionary Society.
Missions -- South Africa.
South Africa -- Description and travel.
South Africa -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Waugh and Innes -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:: Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1822.
Contributors:: Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863, engraver.
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Contents of the plates: [Map of] South Africa
The author's method of travelling in the interior of South Africa
The King's district of the city of Kurreechane, in the Marootzee Country
Houses and yard of Sinosee, in Kurreechane
Moeelway, young King of the Marootzee
Liqueling, Regent of the Marootzee Nation
Interior of Sinosee's house, Kurreechane
[Native houses, pottery and utensils]
Head of a unicorn, killed near the city of Mashow
Mahootoo, Queen of Lattakoo in full dress
City of Mashow, from the west, with adjacent villages, &c. Burders Place, New Lattakoo, containing mission houses and church
A Lattakoo chief and his wife
Dress worn by females at the annual circumcision feast at Lattakoo. The Rainmaker's wife at Kurreechane.

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