TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA FROM THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE TO MOROCCO

Damberger, Christian Fredéric

Numéro d'objet: 5051
Date: 1801
Genre: Livre
Lieu: Londres
Sujet: Voyages

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1801. Damberger, Christian Frederic, « Carpenter and native of Sch.** » - Travels in the interior parts of Africa from the Cape of Good Hope to Morocco – through Caffraria, the kingdom of Mataman, Angola, Bahahara, and from thence across the Great Desert of Sahara and the Northern parts of Barbary – performed during the years 1781 and 1797. 8vo, pp. 390, 3 col., plates and a map by Ch. J. Goldbach of Leipzig dated Oct. 11, 1800. Two other Engl. trans. in same year.
Also a French translation by L.H. Delamarre in Paris and Strasbourg, An ix., 2 vols., 8vo, pp. 298 : viii. + pp. 375, with Goldbach's map, and three beautifully engraved plates from imaginative designs by Collet, « élève de David. »
The original work, which we have not met with in any library, was printed by Martini at Leipzig ( 2 parts, 1801). But though in some respects comparable with the writings of Defoe, it is now known to have been, to use Isaac Disraeli's language, « the ideal voyage of a member of the German Grub Street obout his own garret » [viz : Zacharias Taurinius, a Wittemberg printer (aided by Junge and Tillesius ?), who under the name of Schrödter, issued other fabrications].