Journal of a Residence at the Cape of Good Hope;

with Excursions into the Interior, and Notes on the Natural History and the Native Tribes. First edition. Frontispiece and 5 plates. 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt and blind-stamped. Spine lightly sunned. xii, 297pp. London, John Murray,

"Mr. (afterwards Sir Charles) Bunbury accompanied his friend, Sir George Napier, the Governor of the Cape Colony, on his voyage to Africa in 1837, and remained there for fourteen months, during which time he busied himself botanical research, travelling over a considerable part of South Africa." Theal considered the work to be well above the average of works on South Africa - citing his botanical observations, the account of Napier's first visit to the Kaffir border and his remarks on the Stockenstrom treaty as being accurate and interesting.Mendelssohn, p222; Theal, p50.

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