JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA IN 1815 AND 1816 (FIRST E...

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JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA IN 1815 AND 1816 (FIRST EDITION, 1818) by Rev. C. I. Latrobe

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Subtitle: With Some Account of the Missionary Settlements of the United Bretheren near the Cape of Good Hope

London: L. B. Seeley, 1818

First Edition, published 1818.

4to, viii + 406pp. Half leather hardcover binding, 5 raised bands, gilt lettering to spine, marbled boards. With 3-coulour fold-out map at front of book, and 16 plates, 12 of which are hand-coloured aquatints, collated and complete.

Christian Ignatius Latrobe (1758-1836) was an English clergyman of the Moravian Church, as well as an artist, musician and composer. As a promoter of the missionary activity of the Church, in 1815 Latrobe voyaged to the Cape of Good Hope to visit the Moravian mission stations there. Once there, he journeyed from Genadendal to George, Uitenhage, and the Great Fish River. He planned the founding of a new mission station called Enon on the Witrivier near Kirkwood. He described his journey with coloured illustrations in “Journal of a Visit to South Africa in 1815 and 1816”.

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