Barrow South Africa

John Barrow,
Charte det Südspize von Africa oder des Hottentotten und Caplands.
Prague, 1811. 310 x 410mm.
£195
An unusual Bohemian edition of John Barrow's map. Accompanying Lord Macartney, who had been sent to Cape Town in 1797 as the first governor of Britain’s new colony, Barrow travelled extensively into the interior. His task was to reconcile disputes among the Boers, Hottentots, and Kaffers, who were each striving to graze and hunt over the same territory, and to map the troubled area. His two-volume account in London between 1801 and 1804. BARR0001