ISAACS, Nathaniel.

Travels and adventures in eastern Africa, descriptive of the Zoolus, their manners, customs, etc. etc. With a sketch of Natal.

London, Edward Churton, 1836. 2 vols, 8vo (205 x 125 mm), pp. xxiii, 356, [1, directions to the binder]; [iv], 402, [2, advertisements], with four lithographed plates (two damp-stained) and a folding map; some soiling and spotting; original boards, old cloth reback with paper labels; worn but sound; the Hosken copy, with bookplates. First edition. A scarce and important work on south-eastern Africa, containing a description of the Zulu kingdom. ‘My journal will embrace a space of nearly seven years, being the period of my peregrination in the Zoola and Fumos countries, besides a short visit to the Comoro Islands’ (p. xxi).Hosken p. 106; Mendelssohn I p. 760 (a long note); Theal p. 148.

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