Opmaak 1 - Gert Jan Bestebreurtje

170 THOMPSON, George. Travels and adventures in Southern Africa.
Comprising a view of the present state of the Cape Colony, with observations on the
progress and prospects of the British emigrants. London, Henry Colburn, 1827.
4to. Contemporary blind-tooled half calf gilt, gilt lettering to spine. With folding map
of South Africa (small tear on fold) and plans of Cape Town (double-page) and
Graaff-Reinet (folding,small tear on fold), 17 wood-engraved vignettes and 20
aquatint plates (light marginal spotting; 1 double-page depicting 'Table Mountain
from the parade'). XVIII,(2),493 pp. € 2.450,00
First edition; with armorial bookplate. - George Thompson (1796-1889) a merchant
and traveller, resided at Cape Town as the representative and shareholder of a large
London company. 'In 1821, Mr. Thompson made a six weeks 'excursion to Albany 'to
examine into the prospects of the British emigrants' .. he visited Port Elizabeth ('then
a hamlet of only three or four houses'), Uitenhage, Graham's Town, Bathurst, George,
and many other districts and settlements .. In 1823 and 1824 he proceeded to the
Orange River and Bechuanaland, and his account of these regions is recognised as the
most important description of this part of the continent published in the early part of
the nineteenth century. The third division of the work comprises a review of the condition
'of the Dutch and British inhabitants, of the agricultural, commercial, and
financial circumstances of the country and of its adaption of further colonisation. ..
This valuable work contains a number of excellent engravings, some of which were
contributed by the naturalist Wehdemann, and others by Mr. De Meillon and Dr.
Heurtley' (Mendelssohn II, p.494). ' His Travels provides valuable descriptions of the
geography, history and natural history' (Howgego II, p.586). 'Both Thompson's
'Travels' and his illustrations stand high in the field of Africana' (Gordon-Brown,
Pictorial Africana, p.230). - A fine copy.
Mendelssohn II, p.494-495; SAB IV p.490; Abbey, Travel, 330 (2nd ed. only); Gay
3058. – See illustration.
171 TODD, John. California and its wonders. New edition. London, T. Nelson and
Sons, 1880.
Sm.8vo. Original decorated gilt cloth. With frontispiece and 16 wood-engraved plates
(several double-page). 208 pp. - A nice copy. € 95,00
172 TOMBE, CH(arles) F(rançois). Voyage aux Indes Orientales, pendant les
années 1802, 1803, 1804,1805 et 1806, contenant la description du Cap de Bonne-
Espérance, des îles de France, Bonaparte, Java, Banca et de la ville de Batavia .. la
campagne du Contre-Amiral de Linois dans les mers de l'Inde et à la côte de
Sumatra; des remarques sur l'attaque et la défense de Colombo dans l'île de Ceylon,
lors de sa reddition aux Anglais; enfin un vocabulaire des langues française et malaise.
.. Revu et augmenté de plusieurs notes et éclaircissemens, par M. Sonnini. Paris,
Arthus Bertrand, 1810.
– See illustration.