Author: WITSEN, NICOLAES. Wilson, Michael Lewis, Th. Toussaint van Hove-Exalto & W.J.J. van Rijsen. (eds).
Title: Codex Witsenii. Annotated watercolours of landscapes, flora and fauna observed on the expedition to the Copper Mountains in the country of the Namaqua undertaken in 1685-6 by Simon van der Stel, Commander at the Cape of Good Hope. Copied at the Cape in 1692 for Nicolaas Witsen, Mayor of Amsterdan, Member of the Amsterdam Chamber of the Dutch East India Company, Ambassador to Great Britain, & c, &c.
Description: [Cape Town], Iziko Museums of Cape Town & [Amsterdam], Davidii Media, [2002]. VIII,190 pp. Frontispiece, 2 col. maps & [79] col. plts. Orig. hardcover (boards with parchment look) , d./j. 4to. - As new.Facsimile of the manuscript made in 1692 for Nicolaas Witsen, mayor of Amsterdam, member of the chamber of the Dutch East India Company, ambassador to Great Britain, etc. - Introduction etc. in English. Descriptions of plates in also in Dutch.

Keywords: Botany Africa Africa South-Africa V.O.C. Dutch East India Company Amsterdam Botanie Afrika Afrika Zuid-Afrika Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie