RENSHAW, Richard.
Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, the Indian Ocean, and up the Red Sea, with travels into Egypt, through the desert, &c. Giving an interesting account of the cities of Grand Cairo and Alexandria, and an analysis of the religion of Mahomet. The whole interspersed with moral and religious reflections ... To which is added an appendix, containing the natural history of the principal wild animals of those extensive regions, with anecdotes ... Third edition. Manchester, M. Wilson, 1821.
Small 8vo, pp. v, [3], [8 (list of subscribers)], [ix]-xii, [13]-270; with folding engraved frontispiece (foxed, short splits at folds); toned, a few stains, text block splitting in a few places, erased inscription on title; good in later blue cloth-backed marbled boards, spine label; bookplates of Effie Mackenzie and I. & F.W. Hosken.
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Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, the Indian Ocean, and up the Red Sea, with travels into Egypt, through the desert, &c. Giving an interesting account of the cities of Grand Cairo and Alexandria, and an analysis of the religion of Mahomet. The whole interspersed with moral and religious reflections ... To which is added an appendix, containing the natural history of the principal wild animals of those extensive regions, with anecdotes ... Third edition.
First published in 1804. ‘This new edition will be found to contain not only most of the matter published in the first and second edition, but from eighty to one hundred pages of additional information, both historical and sentimental. The new historical matter is principally selected from the travels of that interesting adventurer Ali Bey; and a pretty copious account will be found in addition to my former observations of the City of Alexandria, once the great emporium of Egypt’ (Preface).
‘Forty-two pages are devoted to notes on the Cape, where the author was stationed from 1796 to 1801. He gives some account of the forts in Cape Town and its vicinity, with a description of the Hottentots and Kaffirs, and the wild beasts found in the colony’ (Mendelssohn). According to SAB, a pencilled note in the Johannesburg Public Library copy of the first edition states: ‘R. Renshaw was born in Manchester in 1769 and died at Iowa Falls, U.S.A., Sept. 5, 1859’.
Hosken p. 167; Mendelssohn II p. 209; SAB IV p. 23.