Author: CAMPBELL, John.
Title: Travels in South Africa, undertaken at the request of the London Missionary Society; being a narrative of a second journey in the interior of that country.
Description: London, Francis Westley, 1822.2 volumes. Later half morocco. With folding hand-coloured map (top of map missing) and 12 hand-coloured aquatint plates after the author by Clark. XII,322; 370 pp. (pp.371-384 missing). With errata slip.First edition. - John Campbell (1766-1840), Scottish missionary and explorer, visited the missions in the Cape Colony and Kaffraria for the second time during his second journey in 1820. 'Few Englishmen at that time had performed such a feat, and on his return his appearances on missionary platforms in London and throughout the country were received with enthusiasm' (DNB). With fine hand-coloured plates. Mendelssohn I, p.255-256; SAB I, p.375; Abbey, Travel, 328; Tooley, Coloured plates, 127; Howgego II, p.105-106.

Keywords: Africa South Africa mission