Author: STAVORINUS, J.S., Title: Voyages par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance dans l'Archipel des Molucques, de 1768 à 1771 et de 1774 à 1778. Tome premier: Voyage à Batavia, à Bantam et au Bengale; Observations sur l'Ile de Java, etc., sur le Bengale, sur le Cap de Bonne-Espérence. Traduits du Hollandois par H.J. Jansen.
Description: Paris, Maradan, 1805. Seconde édition. 8vo. VIII+434 pp. + errata page. Complete with plan of Batavia, map of the Ganges river in Bengal, map of the Cape of Good Hope and adjacent bays (all folded). Hardcover. Later simile leather. (Maps taped on inner margins, tear in plan closed, maps sl. waterst; some light browning/foxing and waterst. in text, occas. worm holes in inner margins near spine). Good. ¶ First volume (of a three vol. set), with the account of author's first voyage to the East: from Zeeland to Cape of Good Hope - Batavia - Bantam - Bengal, and back via Batavia, Cape of Good Hope, to Texel in the Netherlands; followed by chapters with description of his observations in Java and Batavia, Bengal, and the Cape. Complete in itself.
Keywords: journals logs Dutch Company VOC colonial South Africa Cape of Good Hope Colony general Indonesia West Bengal East India j.s. 1768 1771
Price: EUR 250.00 = appr. US$ 271.71 Seller: Charbo's Antiquariaat
- Book number: 58682
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