Commandeur de la Côte. Enrichie d’un grand nombre
de figures. A
Utrecht: chès
Antoine
Schouten
,
1705.
First Edition of this
translation. 12mo. 268 leaves, 2 engraved frontispieces, the first a portrait,
engraved plates, folded.
Not in Quérard.
Van der Aa III,
1034.
Boucher de la Richarderie IV, 132.
Gay
2808.
Entered by
Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
5.
Willem Bosman, born in Utrecht in 1612, was
inspired with the desire to travel by his choice of reading matter when young.
Service with the Dutch East India Company gave him the opportunity he needed,
and he lived on the West Coast of Africa for fourteen years. The first edition
of his work was published (in
Dutch) in Utrecht in 1704. This is
the first edition of the translation into
French, and the book was
translated also into English, German and Italian. The illustrative plates are
of exceptional interest.
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9
Description du Cap de Bonne Esperance
par Kolbe.
3. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 121, no. 45, as
above.
KOLB,
Peter.
Description du Cap de Bonne-Esperance;
où l’on trouve tout ce qui concerne l’Histoire-Naturelle du Pays; la Religion,
les Mœurs & les Usages des Hottentots; et l’Etablissement des Hollandois.
Tirée des Memoires de Mr. Pierre Kolbe, Maitre ès Arts,
Dressés pendant un séjour de dix Années dans cette Colonie, où il avoit été
envoyé pour faire des Observations Astronomiques & Physiques. Tome
Premier. [-Troisieme.]
A
Amsterdam:
chez
Jean Catuffe,
m. dcc. xliii.
[1743.]
3 v.
12mo. 228, 139 and 170 leaves, titles printed in red and black, engraved
frontispiece, numerous plates and folded maps.
Barbier I, 902.
This edition not in
Quérard, Brunet, Graesse, Ebert.
Boucher de la Richarderie IV,
228.
Gay 3142.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript
catalogue with the price
4.10.
Peter Kolb, 1675-1726, German traveller and
scientist. In 1704 he was sent to the Cape of Good Hope to make astronomical
observations. In 1712 his eyesight failed, and becoming almost blind he
returned to Germany, and wrote this book, originally issued in Nuremberg in
folio, 1719. Jean Catuffe’s first edition was
printed in Amsterdam in 1741.
Jean
Bertrand
, 1708-1777, a native of Switzerland, where his
French ancestors had taken refuge after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes,
was the translator of this work.
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10
Voiage de Dubois aux isles Dauphine, de
Bourbon etc.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 121, no. 48, as
above.
[DUBOIS.]
Les Voyages faits par le Sievr D. B. aux Isles
Dauphine ou Madagascar, & Bourbon, ou Mascarenne, és années 1669. 70. 71.
& 72. Dans laquelle il est curieusement traité du Cap Vert de la Ville de
Surate des Isles de Sainte Helene, ou de l’Ascention. Ensemble les mœurs,
Religions, Forces, Gouvernemens & Coûtumes des Habitans desdites Isles,
avec l’Histoire naturelle du Païs.
A
Paris: Chez
Claude Barbin,
m. dc. lxxiv
. Avec
Permission. [1674.]
DT7
.D8
