Robert Jacob Gordon: Cape Travels, 1777 to 1786 (Two volumes). Raper, Peter E. and Boucher, Maurice

Robert Jacob Gordon: Cape Travels, 1777 to 1786 (Two volumes)

Raper, Peter E. and Boucher, Maurice

Item Description: The Brenthurst Press, Johannesburg, 1988. Dark, Green Cloth. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Brenthurst, second series, volumes 4 and 5. Volume 4 : 226 pp. Volume 5 : 233 - 466 pp. Both volumes profusely illustrated in colour. Both volumes have double ribbon-markers. No visible defects to either volumes. Limited print run, llimited to 850 standard, unnumbered copies. "Robert Jacob Gordon, a Dutchman of Scottish descent, can be considered as perhaps the most important of the eighteenth-century travellers in southern Africa. Head of the Dutch garrison at the Cape, he penetrated the Cape interior further than any known European predecessor or contemporary, and as one of the first explorers to reach the Orange River, named it in 1777. On his travels, he kept detailed and meticulous records of the geology, geomorphology, flora and fauna of the Cape, as well as observations on the indigenous peoples he encountered, namely Khoikhoi, San, Tswana and Xhosa. Many drawings executed by him and the artists who accompanied him are reproduced courtesy of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam". Size: Quarto. Hard Cover. Bookseller Inventory # 04793

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