细节
PERCIVAL, Robert. An Account of the Cape of Good Hope ... with a view of the political and commercial advantages which might be derived from its possession by Great Britain, London: C.& R. Baldwin, 1804. (some light spotting) [bound with the same author's:] An Account of the Island of Ceylon, containing Its History, Geography, Natural History, with the Manners and Customs of its Inhabitants; to which is added, the Journal of an Embassy to the Court of Candy. Second Edition, London: C. & R. Baldwin, 1805. 2 works in one volume, 4° (260 x 210mm.), engraved frontispiece, 4 folding maps and charts (one with route marked in red), 4 plates (plates browned, frontispiece and one chart shaved, some spotting), 19th-century calf gilt, red morocco lettering-pieces on spine (some scuffing to extremities), bookplate of Christopher Turnor (Stoke Rochford library). Brunet IV, 490, 489; Mendelssohn II, p. 152.
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST WORK which contains a great deal of information about the state of the colony at the close of the 18th century. It also gives an account of the capture of the Cape and the Dutch fleet in 1795, a description of the country within a radius of fifty miles from Cape Town and much information concerning the manners and customs of the native tribes.
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST WORK which contains a great deal of information about the state of the colony at the close of the 18th century. It also gives an account of the capture of the Cape and the Dutch fleet in 1795, a description of the country within a radius of fifty miles from Cape Town and much information concerning the manners and customs of the native tribes.
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