Author: AFRICA.
Title: Gleanings in Africa; exhibiting a faithful and correct view of the manners and customs of the inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope, and surrounding country. With a full and comprehensive account of the system of agriculture adopted by the colonies: soil, climate, natural productions, &c. Interspersed with observations and reflections on the state of slavery in the southern extremity of the African continent. In a series of letters from an English officer during the period in which that colony was under protection of the British government.
Description: London, James Cundee, 1806. Later half calf, spine gilt with red morocco title label. With folding aquatint plate of the shipwreck of the H.M.S. Sceptre and 9 other aquatint plates including views of Cape Town and the surrounding area, whale fishing and hunting scenes. XXI,320 pp. First edition. - An anonymous work on the state of the Cape of Good Hope under the first phase of British rule (1795 - 1803) in letters describing the diverse population of slaves in the Cape Colony. 'A short account of the Cape before the period of the rule of the Batavian Republic. The writter of the series of thirty-nine letters which are comprised in the volume was evidently a strong opponent of slavery, and a large part of the work is devoted to the exposition of his views on the matter, and a sketch of the various forms of slavery that have existed from ancient times'' (Mendelssohn I, p.609). The large folding frontispiece depicts the wreck of H.M.S. Sceptre. On November 4, 1799, the Sceptre was lying in Table Bay with about a dozen other ships, when a very severe storm struck from the only quarter for which this bay provides no protection. The anchor cables parted in succession, and the ship drove on a reef just off shore. The Sceptre broke up completely, and only 51 reached shore of the approximately 450 people on board. Nine of the ships in the bay drove on the shore in the same storm, and were lost' (Huntress p.50). - (Foxed, several pages more strongly). - Scarce.
Keywords: Africa South Africa shipwrecks slavery whaling
Title: Gleanings in Africa; exhibiting a faithful and correct view of the manners and customs of the inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope, and surrounding country. With a full and comprehensive account of the system of agriculture adopted by the colonies: soil, climate, natural productions, &c. Interspersed with observations and reflections on the state of slavery in the southern extremity of the African continent. In a series of letters from an English officer during the period in which that colony was under protection of the British government.
Description: London, James Cundee, 1806. Later half calf, spine gilt with red morocco title label. With folding aquatint plate of the shipwreck of the H.M.S. Sceptre and 9 other aquatint plates including views of Cape Town and the surrounding area, whale fishing and hunting scenes. XXI,320 pp. First edition. - An anonymous work on the state of the Cape of Good Hope under the first phase of British rule (1795 - 1803) in letters describing the diverse population of slaves in the Cape Colony. 'A short account of the Cape before the period of the rule of the Batavian Republic. The writter of the series of thirty-nine letters which are comprised in the volume was evidently a strong opponent of slavery, and a large part of the work is devoted to the exposition of his views on the matter, and a sketch of the various forms of slavery that have existed from ancient times'' (Mendelssohn I, p.609). The large folding frontispiece depicts the wreck of H.M.S. Sceptre. On November 4, 1799, the Sceptre was lying in Table Bay with about a dozen other ships, when a very severe storm struck from the only quarter for which this bay provides no protection. The anchor cables parted in succession, and the ship drove on a reef just off shore. The Sceptre broke up completely, and only 51 reached shore of the approximately 450 people on board. Nine of the ships in the bay drove on the shore in the same storm, and were lost' (Huntress p.50). - (Foxed, several pages more strongly). - Scarce.
Keywords: Africa South Africa shipwrecks slavery whaling
Price: EUR 742.50 = appr. US$ 806.98 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 37802
- Book number: 37802