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KOLBE, Peter (1675-1726). Caput bonae spei hodiernum, Das ist vollständige Beschreibung des Africanischen Vorgebürges der Guten Hofnung, worinnen in dreyen Theilen abgehandelt wird, wie es heut zu Tage nach seiner Situation und Eigenschaft aussiehet ... und ... was die eigenen Einwohner die Hottentotten, vor seltsame Sitten und Gebräche haben. Nuremberg: Peter Conrad Monath, 1719.
2o (326 x 207 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved folding map and 23 engraved plates (map with short clean tear, repaired). Contemporary vellum, spine gilt lettered, edges stained black. Provenance: Gottfried Friedrich Freiherr von Richthofen (purchase information dated 1772 on front free endpaper); Archidiaconus Schoenwalder (inscription dated 1888); A.W. Hoermle (name and date 1922); H. Bradley Martin (bookplate; his sale, Sotheby's New York, 12 December 1989, lot 1658).
FIRST EDITION. Kolbe lived and worked at the Cape from 1705 till 1713, and decribes in his Caput bonae spei hodiernum South Africa, and the Cape of Good Hope including its geography, climate, flora and fauna, followed by an interesting and accurate account of the Hottentots based on the author's first hand experience, recording their language, religion, education and customs. This edition was followed by the French edition Description du Cap de Bonne-Esperance.... Amsterdam, 1742. Mendelssohn II:414; Nissen ZBI 2281. RARE.
2o (326 x 207 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved folding map and 23 engraved plates (map with short clean tear, repaired). Contemporary vellum, spine gilt lettered, edges stained black. Provenance: Gottfried Friedrich Freiherr von Richthofen (purchase information dated 1772 on front free endpaper); Archidiaconus Schoenwalder (inscription dated 1888); A.W. Hoermle (name and date 1922); H. Bradley Martin (bookplate; his sale, Sotheby's New York, 12 December 1989, lot 1658).
FIRST EDITION. Kolbe lived and worked at the Cape from 1705 till 1713, and decribes in his Caput bonae spei hodiernum South Africa, and the Cape of Good Hope including its geography, climate, flora and fauna, followed by an interesting and accurate account of the Hottentots based on the author's first hand experience, recording their language, religion, education and customs. This edition was followed by the French edition Description du Cap de Bonne-Esperance.... Amsterdam, 1742. Mendelssohn II:414; Nissen ZBI 2281. RARE.
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