Search
Close this search box.

KOLBE Pierre Description du Cap de Bonne-Espérance; où l’on trouve tout ce qui concerne l’histoire naturelle du pays, la Religion, les Moeurs et les Usages des Hottentots; et l’établissement des Hollandais.

VENDU

Amsterdam, Jean Catuffe, 1741

3 voumes, 8vo (152 x 94 mm) of 1 engraved frontispiece, 11 unn.l., 370 pp., 1 unn.l. and 9 plates (unclinding 1 belonging to the second volume) for the volume I; 6 unn.l, 228 pp, 5 maps and 2 plates for the volume II; 9 unn.l., 280 pp. and 14 plates for the volume III. Contemporary speckled calf, special seashell irons at the corners.

Catégories:
1800,00 

1 in stock

Gay, 3142; cf. Nissen, ZBI, 2281 for the first German edition.

French translation by J. Bertrand. The German naturalist Kolbe spent ten years in South Africa. He drew up the first attempt at a complete fauna and flora of this region. 

His observations on the Hottentots also contain valuable details.

Category Tag

Vous pourriez également être intéressés par ...

This site is registered on wpml.org as a development site. Switch to a production site key to remove this banner.