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The Present State of the Cape of Good-Hope: Or, a particular account of the several nations of the Hottentots: their religion, government, laws, customs, ceremonies and opinions; their art of war, possesions, language, genius &c. Together with a short account of the Dutch settlement at the Cape, 2 volumes, 1st English edition, 1732, engraved frontispiece to each, folding map, 28 engraved plates, some spotting and marginal water stains, contemporary calf, gilt morocco rebacks, a little rubbed, 8vo (Mendelssohn I, pp. 844-845), together with Wanderings and Adventures in the Interior of Southern Africa, by Andrew Steedman, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1835, engraved titles, folding linen-backed map, 12 lithograph and wood-engraved plates, scattered spotting, previous owner inscription, bookplates, contemporary green half calf gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, plus Ten Years in South Africa: Including a Particular Description of the Wild Sports of that Country, by Lieut. J.W.D. Moodie, 21st Fusiliers, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1835, lithograph frontispieces (spotted), two engraved plates of music, light marginal toning, top edge gilt, modern green half morocco gilt, spines a little faded, 8vo, with others including John Campbell's Travels in South Africa, Undertaken at the Request of the Missionary Society, 1815, [and] 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, 2 volumes, 1822, Mungo Park's Travels in the Interior of Africa in the Years 1795, 1796, 1797, Abridged from the Original Work, 2nd edition, corrected, 1800 and Hugh Murray's Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Africa, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, 1818 (20)