Nauwkeurige beschryving van de Guinese Goud- Tand- en Slave-kust : nevens alle desselfs landen, koningryken, en gemenebesten, van de zeeden der inwoonders, hun godsdienst, regeering, regtspleeging, oorlogen, trouwen, begraven, enz. : mitsgaders de gesteldheid des lands, veld- en boomgewassen, alderhande dieren, zo wilde als tamme, viervoetige en kruipende, als ook 't pluim-gedierte, vissen en andere zeldzaamheden meer, tot nog toe de Europeërs onbekend

Title Variants

Alternative: Beschrijving van de Guinese Goud-Kust

Alternative: Beschryving van de Guinese Goudcust, slavenhandel etc.a

Alternative: Beschryving van Rio Formosa, anders gesegt, de Benin

Alternative: Nauwkeurige beschryving van de Guinese Goud-Tand-en Slave-kust

By

Bosman, Willem, 1672-

Nyendael, David van.
Snoek, Jan, fl 1701-1702
Schouten, Anthony.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

t'Utrecht, By Anthony Schouten, 1704

Notes

Signatures, pt. 1: *-*(-*1.4) 2*-3* 4*² A-2C; pt. 2: A-2P 2Q².

Errata: p. [28] at end.

Text divided into three parts, but bibliographically work divided into two sections, the first comprising part 1 (not designated as such, p. [1]-207, first count), the second comprising parts 2-3 (p.

Added engraved title-page and engraved frontispiece portrait of Willem Bosman.

Woodcut title ornament; decorative initials.

Part 1 includes 11 leaves of plates, 10 folded. They bear 21 numbered plates, two on each folded leaf, plate 3 on a single leaf. Part 2 includes 8 leaves, each with a single plate.

Twenty-two letters by merchants of the Dutch West India Company; the first twenty are by Willem Bosman, and the last two by David van Nyendaeland Jan Snoek.

Landis, D.C. European Americana, | vol. 5, 704/19

Subjects

Africa, West , Description and travel , Early works to 1800 , Natural history , Pre-Linnean works , Slave-trade , West-Indische Compagnie (Netherlands)

Language

Dutch

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.60174