Author: (BRINK, Carel Frederik).
Title: Nouvelle description du Cap de Bonne-Espérance, avec un journal historique d'un voyage de terre, fait par ordre du gouverneur .. Ryk Tulbagh dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, par une caravane de quatre-vingt-cinq personnes, sous le commandement du captain Henri Hop.
Description: Amsterdam, J.H. Schneider, 1778.2 volumes in 1. Contemporary half calf, spine lettered in gilt. With engraved printer's device on title-page 16 engraved folding plates depicting animals. (8),130; 100 pp. First French edition, first published in Dutch the same year. - The first part of the work contains a description of the Cape and the Hottentots, edited by J.N.S. Allamand, professor at Leiden and J.C. Klöckner, a physician residing at Amsterdam. The second part is a journal kept on a journey to Namaqualand which extended from July 16, 1761, to April 27, 1762. The party was led by Hendrik Hop, captain from Stellenbosch. Other members included Carel Frederik Brink to keep the journal, and Jacobus Coetsé as a guide. Including reports on the fauna, natives and minerals. Theal observes that these reports were drawn up by men who 'were diligent observers. This document is therefore not only highly interesting, but of great permanent worth'. - A fine copy of a fascinating account of the Cape of Good Hope.Tiele 118; Cat. NHSM I, p.207; Mendelssohn I, p.185-186; SAB I, p.283; Rookmaaker, The zoological exploration of Southern Africa 1650-1790, p.36-37; Kennedy, Africana Repository, p.66-67; South Africa in print 61.
Keywords: Africa Dutch travel South Africa
Title: Nouvelle description du Cap de Bonne-Espérance, avec un journal historique d'un voyage de terre, fait par ordre du gouverneur .. Ryk Tulbagh dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, par une caravane de quatre-vingt-cinq personnes, sous le commandement du captain Henri Hop.
Description: Amsterdam, J.H. Schneider, 1778.2 volumes in 1. Contemporary half calf, spine lettered in gilt. With engraved printer's device on title-page 16 engraved folding plates depicting animals. (8),130; 100 pp. First French edition, first published in Dutch the same year. - The first part of the work contains a description of the Cape and the Hottentots, edited by J.N.S. Allamand, professor at Leiden and J.C. Klöckner, a physician residing at Amsterdam. The second part is a journal kept on a journey to Namaqualand which extended from July 16, 1761, to April 27, 1762. The party was led by Hendrik Hop, captain from Stellenbosch. Other members included Carel Frederik Brink to keep the journal, and Jacobus Coetsé as a guide. Including reports on the fauna, natives and minerals. Theal observes that these reports were drawn up by men who 'were diligent observers. This document is therefore not only highly interesting, but of great permanent worth'. - A fine copy of a fascinating account of the Cape of Good Hope.Tiele 118; Cat. NHSM I, p.207; Mendelssohn I, p.185-186; SAB I, p.283; Rookmaaker, The zoological exploration of Southern Africa 1650-1790, p.36-37; Kennedy, Africana Repository, p.66-67; South Africa in print 61.
Keywords: Africa Dutch travel South Africa
Price: EUR 2915.00 = appr. US$ 3168.16 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 37122
- Book number: 37122