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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 Title continues: Being a history of the discovery and colonisation of Southern Africa - fragment of an unpublished manuscript written circa 1811, and, A translation of 'Ueber der Beetjuanas', originally published in 1807. 8vo; original rexine-backed papered boards, with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…
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Foundation of the Cape. About the Bechuanas Hardcover - 1973
by Hinrich Lichtenstein
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- Title Foundation of the Cape. About the Bechuanas
- Author Hinrich Lichtenstein
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Publisher A. A. Balkema, Cape Town
- Date 1973
- ISBN 9780869610305
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Cape Town, South Africa: A. A. Balkema. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Endpapers foxed, jacket lightly . wrinkled.. 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 A history of the discovery and colonization of Southern Africa - fragment of an unpublished manuscript written circa 1811 and a translation of Uber der Beetjuanas.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 .
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