A narrative of four journeys into the country of the Hottentots, and Caffraria : in the years one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, eight, and nine : illustrated with a map, and seventeen copper-plates
A 1789 London travel narrative by William Paterson, published by J. Johnson, recounting four journeys into the country of the Hottentots and Caffraria in South Africa, with copper-plate illustrations for a general readership. The pictures are hand-coloured botanical and natural history plates of euphorbia, aloe dichotoma and a weaver bird with its seed pod, plus a group of Khoikhoi figures shown in a landscape, so a designer could draw on their precise botanical drawing and soft washed palette.
