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WILLEM BOSMAN (b.1672)
Nauwkeurige beschryving van de Guinese Goud-Tand en Slavekust... Amsterdam: J. Verheide and others, 1737. 2 parts in one volume, 4° (197 x 150mm). Engraved portrait and frontispiece, 27 engraved plates, 10 folding, and 2 folding engraved maps, woodcut initials. (Some browning, light waterstaining mainly affecting text, one leaf with corner lacking, maps slightly trimmed on fore-edges). Contemporary vellum (somewhat rubbed, extremities lightly worn).
[and:]
W. BOSMAN. A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea, Divided into the Gold, the Slave, and the Ivory Coasts. London: James Knapton and others, 1705. 2 parts in one volume, 8° (194 x 110mm). Half-title. Engraved folding map, 7 engraved plates. (Small marginal repairs to map and one plate, some browning and spotting). Contemporary Cambridge-style English speckled calf, panelled in blind (rebacked, minor chipping). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. This edition includes the 'New and Exact Map of Guinea' by Herman Moll, not included in the original Dutch edition of 1704. Goldsmiths' 4153; Graesse I, 500; Kress 2449.
Willem Bosman spent 14 years in Africa, in the employ of the Dutch Company of the West Indies and as factor of the Fort São Jorge da Mina, the most important Dutch trading post on the Gold Coast. His observations of local places, animals and birds, together with other European-built forts, were published in this work on his return to Europe, forming an important early account of West Africa. (2)
Nauwkeurige beschryving van de Guinese Goud-Tand en Slavekust... Amsterdam: J. Verheide and others, 1737. 2 parts in one volume, 4° (197 x 150mm). Engraved portrait and frontispiece, 27 engraved plates, 10 folding, and 2 folding engraved maps, woodcut initials. (Some browning, light waterstaining mainly affecting text, one leaf with corner lacking, maps slightly trimmed on fore-edges). Contemporary vellum (somewhat rubbed, extremities lightly worn).
[and:]
W. BOSMAN. A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea, Divided into the Gold, the Slave, and the Ivory Coasts. London: James Knapton and others, 1705. 2 parts in one volume, 8° (194 x 110mm). Half-title. Engraved folding map, 7 engraved plates. (Small marginal repairs to map and one plate, some browning and spotting). Contemporary Cambridge-style English speckled calf, panelled in blind (rebacked, minor chipping). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. This edition includes the 'New and Exact Map of Guinea' by Herman Moll, not included in the original Dutch edition of 1704. Goldsmiths' 4153; Graesse I, 500; Kress 2449.
Willem Bosman spent 14 years in Africa, in the employ of the Dutch Company of the West Indies and as factor of the Fort São Jorge da Mina, the most important Dutch trading post on the Gold Coast. His observations of local places, animals and birds, together with other European-built forts, were published in this work on his return to Europe, forming an important early account of West Africa. (2)
Provenance
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. Y-23).
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