Hottentot Corn-Threshing from Kolben from Thomas Astley's voyages 1745-47

ASTLEY, Thomas. Hottentot Corn-Threshing (from Kolben) / Hottentot Marriage (from Kolben).
 
London, in A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. II, 1745-47.
 
Copper engraving, two subjects on one plate; captioned in the plate “Hottentot Corn-Threshing from Kolben” and “Hottentot Marriage from Kolben.” Plate 204, No. 116, Vol. 2, p. 415. Image area approx. 200 × 150 mm (within larger sheet, untrimmed). Toned/handled sheet with a central vertical crease; scattered light spotting and surface dust; edgewear with small nicks/short marginal tears.
 
Two ethnographic scenes after Kolben’s Present State of the Cape of Good Hope, depicting Khoikhoi agricultural labour and marriage ceremony, engraved for Astley’s influential English-language synthesis of global exploration.