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.
Alternate 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
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
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, 127Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 328BAC: 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.
Contents:
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.
Subject Terms:
London Missionary Society. | South Africa -- Description and travel. | South Africa -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | Indigenous peoples -- South Africa. | Missions -- South Africa. | London Missionary Society -- Publisher. | Waugh and Innes -- Publisher. | Chalmers and Collins -- Publisher. | Hansard, T.C. -- Printer.