Researches in South Africa;

PHILIP (John).

Researches in South Africa;

illustrating the Civil, Moral, and Religious Condition of the Native Tribes: including Journals of the Author’s Travels in the Interior; together with detailed Accounts of the Progress of the Christian Missions, exhibiting the influence of Christianity in promoting Civilization. [with] Pamphlet requesting assistance in promoting Subscription to Dr Philip’s Relief.First edition. 2 vols. Folding map, plan & single frontispiece. 8vo. Original boards, with paper labels on spines, some browning to title pages & frontispiece, with quarter morocco drop-back box, gilt. viii, 450; xxxv, 403pp. London, James Duncan, 1828.

£1,500.00

“Few books on South African matters have been the subject of such fierce denunciation and bitter criticism as these volumes… condemned in the Cape Colony as a biassed and partial production” (Mendelssohn).

Philip’s work is an extended critique of both the Dutch and the British relations with the Hottentots and Bushmen, whom he believes were cruelly oppressed. Theal disputes many of the work’s claims to truth, but does not deny that it was well received by a large section of British society.

The 10pp pamphlet, dated 1830, puts forwards “a brief review of [Dr Philip’s] previous labours at the Cape of Good Hope.” Mendelssohn II, p160; Theal, p234.

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