Mijn verblijf aan de Kaap de Goede Hoop. Schetsen. Naar het Engelsch. ["The Cape and the Kafirs"].

Cole, Alfred W. (Whaley).

Verlag: Amsterdam, Gebroeders Kraay, 1854

Beschreibung

Tall crown quarto. Pp. (iv), 232. Lithograph title-page, foxed, displaying large charming illustration by G. J. Bos, printed separately on heavy paper by the lithographers' firm of P. Trap. Bound in the original publisher's printed boards, spine neatly reinforced with paper, floral shelf label, old institutional stamp to first free endpaper and to title. In a very good condition. Untrimmed, clean copy. ~ First and only Dutch edition. Very rare. Translated from the English "The Cape and the Kafirs; or, Notes of five years' Residence in South Africa", published in 1852. Alfred Whaley Cole (1823-1896) spent five years in the Cape Colony after the ship he sailed in 1841 to New Zealand wrecked off coast of Cape Town. In 1856 he left England again and returned to Cape Town, becoming a lawyer and a judge. He wrote extensively. His "Three Idylls of a Prince", written on occasion of Prince Alfred's first visit to the Cape, said to have "heartily amused" Queen Victoria and the Princess Royal. - Cat. NHSM p.211; Mendelssohn I, p.352 (English edition); Kainbacher I, p.36 (German translation, 1852). G-4 IN. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 5452

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Mijn verblijf aan de Kaap de Goede Hoop. ...

Verlag: Amsterdam, Gebroeders Kraay

Erscheinungsdatum: 1854

Einband: Hardcover

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