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.

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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.

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1800,00 

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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.

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