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Cape Town, South Africa: A. A. Balkema. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Endpapers foxed, jacket lightly . wrinkled.. Date: 1973. First Printing. Hardcover. 0869610309 . Translated, edited and with a biographical introduction by Dr O. H. Spohr. Brown paper quarter-bound in dark brown cloth with red topstain. viii, 113pp. Black and white illustrated frontispiece acknowledgments, black and white illustrations, map, notes, and index. A history of the discovery and colonization of Southern Africa - fragment of an unpublished manuscript written circa 1811 and a translation of Uber der Beetjuanas. From the title page. A volume in the South African Biographical and Historical Studies Series. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall . 1973. A. A. Balkema ISBN 0869610309 9780869610305 [US]
Lichtenstein W. H. C. author and O. H. Spohr translator and editor
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(Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, 1973) 0869610309. Title continues: Being a history of the discovery and colonisation of Southern Africa - fragment of an unpublished manuscript written circa 1811, and, A translation of 'Ueber der Beetjuanas', originally published in 1807. 8vo; original rexine-backed papered boards, with spine lettered in gilt, and gilt publisher's monogram to upper cover; dustwrapper; tinted top edge; pp. viii + 113, incl. index; monochrome illustrations; map. Lightest edgewear to dustwrapper, which has slightly sunned spine panel; trace of foxing to endpapers and edges. Very good condition. 'W.H.C. Lichtenstein was a remarkable German medical doctor who visited South Africa in 1802, and undertook a most impressive research program that ended in 1806. Characteristic of the scientific attitudes of his time, he planned to "give a regular description of the country, as to its topography, political situation, natural history and ethnography ... and a general history." In fact, he achieved all but his last objective, his "Reisen im südlichen Afrika' was published in 1811-12, and has maintained a status of considerable importance to this day. In addition to this work, Lichtenstein wrote in 1810 (but did not publish) a fragment of what was the first history of South Africa. The uncommon manuscript is here published for the first time. The late Dr W.J. de Kock described as the most important section that "in which Lichte ...
Lichtenstein, W. H. C. (author), and O. H. Spohr (translator and editor)
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ISBN10: 0869610309, ISBN13: 9780869610305, [publisher: (Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, 1973) 0869610309] Hardcover Title continues: Being a history of the discovery and colonisation of Southern Africa - fragment of an unpublished manuscript written circa 1811, and, A translation of 'Ueber der Beetjuanas', originally published in 1807. 8vo; original rexine-backed papered boards, with spine lettered in gilt, and gilt publisher's monogram to upper cover; dustwrapper; tinted top edge; pp. viii + 113, incl. index; monochrome illustrations; map. Lightest edgewear to dustwrapper, which has slightly sunned spine panel; trace of foxing to endpapers and edges. Very good condition. 'W.H.C. Lichtenstein was a remarkable German medical doctor who visited South Africa in 1802, and undertook a most impressive research program that ended in 1806. Characteristic of the scientific attitudes of his time, he planned to "give a regular description of the country, as to its topography, political situation, natural history and ethnography . and a general history." In fact, he achieved all but his last objective, his "Reisen im südlichen Afrika' was published in 1811-12, and has maintained a status of considerable importance to this day. In addition to this work, Lichtenstein wrote in 1810 (but did not publish) a fragment of what was the first history of South Africa. The uncommon manuscript is here published for the first time. The late Dr W.J. de Kock de ...
ISBN10: 0869610309, ISBN13: 9780869610305, [publisher: A. A. Balkema, Cape Town] Hardcover First Edition [Basel, Switzerland] [Publication Year: 1973]
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