Campbell, John, 1766-1840, Travels in South Africa , 1822
- 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 ManuscriptsDT756 .C36 1822+ OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- 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.
- Export:
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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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