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Africa.- Latrobe (Rev. Christian Ignatius) Journal of a Visit to South Africa, in 1815, and 1816, first edition, 1818.

Africa.- Latrobe (Rev. Christian Ignatius) Journal of a Visit to South Africa, in 1815, and 1816, With Some Account of the Missionary Settlements of the United Brethren, near the Cape of Good Hope, first edition, folding engraved map with routes supplied in red and blue, 4 engraved outline panoramas and 12 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 2 pp. advertisements at end, title with some offsetting and light spotting, occasional spotting or light foxing elsewhere, some offsetting, original boards, sympathetically rebacked, original paper label to spine, chipped and laid down, with loss, corners bumped, [Abbey, Travel 325; Tooley 292], a very good copy, 4to, 1818. ⁂ Latrobe was appointed by the Moravian Church to select a site for a third mission station at the Cape.

LATROBE, Christian Ignatius (1758-1836). Journal of a Visit to South Africa, in 1815, and 1816. With some accounts of the missionary settlements of the United Bretheren, near the Cape of Good Hope. London: W. M'Dowall for L.B. Seeley and R.

LATROBE, Christian Ignatius (1758-1836). Journal of a Visit to South Africa, in 1815, and 1816. With some accounts of the missionary settlements of the United Bretheren, near the Cape of Good Hope. London: W. M'Dowall for L.B. Seeley and R. Ackermann, 1818. 4υo (285 x 226 mm). 2pp. publisher's advertisements at end. 16 plates (12 hand-colored aquatints from sketches by Latrobe or Mr. Melville, 4 uncolored line engravings), engraved folding map with routes marked by hand in red or blue. (Light marginal dust soiling and darkening at beginning and end.) Modern half morocco, top edge gilt, others uncut. FIRST EDITION. Latrobe succeeded James Hutton as secretary of the Unity of the Bretheren in England in 1795, and was appointed a "senior civilis" in 1801. As an advocate of the missions of his church he visited South Africa in 1815-16. His journal includes a full description of the district of Groenekloof and of the missionary settlements about thirty miles north of Cape Town. Abbey Travel 325; Gay 3117; Mendelssohn I,p.866; Tooley 292.

LATROBE, Christian Ignatius (1758-1836). Journal of a Visit to South Africa, in 1815, and

LATROBE, Christian Ignatius (1758-1836). Journal of a Visit to South Africa, in 1815, and 1816. With some accounts of the missionary settlements of the united bretheren, near the Cape of Good Hope. London: W. M'Dowall for L.B. Seeley and R. Ackermann, 1818. 4° (285 x 223mm). 2pp. publisher's advertisements at end. 16 plates (12 hand-coloured aquatints from sketches by Latrobe or Mr. Melville, 4 uncoloured line engravings), folding engraved map with routes marked by hand in red or blue. (Some spotting to text.) Original drab paper-covered boards, paper label to spine lettered 'latrobe Visit to South Africa (double rule) Price £2:2.', uncut (backstrip torn with loss, joints splitting, extremities bumped, small split to upper cover), 20th-century red cloth box, titled in gilt on label on upper cover. Provenance: early inscription to front pastedown. FIRST EDITION IN THE RARE ORIGINAL BOARDS. Abbey Travel I,325; Gay 3117; Mendelssohn I,p.866; Tooley 292.

LATROBE, Christian Ignatius (1758-1836). Autograph letter signed, to an unnamed correspondant

LATROBE, Christian Ignatius (1758-1836). Autograph letter signed, to an unnamed correspondant, London 14 June 1817, 4pp., 4to, explaining that lack of time is the reason that he has not yet published his journal, speculating that there are already too many accounts of the area, but going on to say 'Yet if I had time, I would set about it, even under every disadvantage, to comply with the wishes of those I respect & love.' The remainder of the letter takes the form of a survey of the various United Bretheren missions: in South Africa, at the Cape of Good Hope and Genadendal ('Gnadenthal'); in the Caribbean (Barbados, Jamaica, Antigua and 'the Danish Islands'), Canada, Labrador and Greenland. Christian Ignatius LATROBE. Journal of a visit to South Africa, in 1815 and 1816. With some account of the missionary settlements of the United Brethren, near the Cape of Good Hope. New York: Clayton & Kingsland for James Eastburn & Co., 1818. 8° (214 x 133mm). Extra-illustrated with later cut-down but folding map of the south of Africa mounted onto front free endpaper. (Inner blank margins of title and 15 following leaves torn with loss.) Contemporary marbled sheep (spine worn, upper cover detatched). Provenance: Missionary Society (inscription on title). ?First U.S. edition of Latrobe's account of his visit to the two existing mission stations in South Africa and his quest for a site for a third. (2)

Latrobe, Rev. Christian Ignatius (1758-1836), Journal of a Visit to South Africa, in 1815, and 1816, with some Account of the Missionar