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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Editions. Hardbacks. 2 vols, 8vos, pp viii, 341; vi, 347, (1) imprint; vignette on title-pages, portrait frontispiece (author) and folding map in rear of Vol 1, coloured lithographic frontispiece Vol 2, Original publisher's purple blind stamped cloth lettered gilt at the spine. "The author gives some account of the Cape Colony and of St Lucia, Zululand, Delagoa Bay, and the Portuguese settlements on the East Coast of Africa, together with a description of Mozambique and some details respecting the slave traffic. A full narrative is given of the seizure of the 'Charles et Georges', and of the subsequent attack of the negroes on the British Consulate." Abbey 277. Spine of first vol slightly dulled with loss of gilt to one word, neat contemporary name on pastedown, very slight spots to a few prelimiinary pages else sound clean vg with second volume very good indeed with its attractive colour plate of Mozambique.