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Pieter Van Den Broeck's Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola.
La Fleur (J.D.) Translator & Editor.
Description:
La Fleur (J.D.) Translator & Editor. Pieter Van Den Broeck's Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola.. London: The Hakluyt Society, 2000.
First Edition. Tall 8vo., xv,139pp., with portrait frontispiece, one other illustration and seven maps; blue cloth gilt, printed dust-wrapper. Fine
“The present edition offers for he first time an English translaton of thoe parts of Van den Broecke’s original manuscript which describes four trading voyages he made to Africa in the early seventeenth century. His manuscript is an important historical source because he was among the earliest of Europeans to describe in detail the communities he encountered in West Africa and Central Africa, and the sophisticated commercial strategies of Dutch merchants then trading on the Atlantic Coast of Africa”. Dust Wrapper.
Details:
- Publisher: Hakluyt Society
- Publisher Place: London
- Date of Publication: 2000
- Edition: First
- Overall Condition: Fine
- Size: Tall 8vo.
- Lot No: 410
- Hammer Price: $35
- Bids: 5
- Visits: 46
- Estimate: $35/45
- Reserve: $25
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