from drawings made by the late Mr. Samuel Daniell, engraved by William Daniell. Comprising 48 engraved plates without text or title page. Large oblong folio. Original green blind-embossed boards with gilt label, a little rubbed, and with backstrip splitting away from spine. Free endpapers torn. London, Taylor, 1820.
This copy includes 2 pencil sketches probably by Daniell laid in (4 river vessels on one sheet, one on the other).Daniell accompanied Dr. Somerville and John Barrow on an expedition into the interior of South Africa. Their expedition reached Lataku, the furthest point reached by Europeans at that time. All of the images in this work were drawn on the expedition. Daniell always insisted on drawing live subjects to better understand, and thus depict, them. Abbey 326; Mendelssohn, p413.
