Op wat wyze de Hottentotten de Nieuw geboore Kinderen Handelen.2:de Deel Pag. 4.
I.C. Philips del.
[1727.]
Engraving with very large margins, paper watermarked. Library stamp top left. Plate 291 x 171mm (11½ x 6¾").
Khoikhoi caring for their new-born: two children lie in the foreground on sheep wool. A third baby lying in the grass in the middle ground; a fourth being taking into a cave in the background. From "Naaukeurige beschryving van de kaap de Goede Hoop". Peter Kolbe (1675-1726) was sent to South Africa with a mission to provide information about the country and to do astronomical and surveying research. First published in Germany in 1719 as Caput Bonae Spei Hodiernum, the book 'professes to be a complete account of the Cape Colony and its inhabitants'. This is taken from the Dutch edition, published in Amsterdam in two volumes in 1727.
[Ref: 30867] £120.00
[1727.]
Engraving with very large margins, paper watermarked. Library stamp top left. Plate 291 x 171mm (11½ x 6¾").
Khoikhoi caring for their new-born: two children lie in the foreground on sheep wool. A third baby lying in the grass in the middle ground; a fourth being taking into a cave in the background. From "Naaukeurige beschryving van de kaap de Goede Hoop". Peter Kolbe (1675-1726) was sent to South Africa with a mission to provide information about the country and to do astronomical and surveying research. First published in Germany in 1719 as Caput Bonae Spei Hodiernum, the book 'professes to be a complete account of the Cape Colony and its inhabitants'. This is taken from the Dutch edition, published in Amsterdam in two volumes in 1727.
[Ref: 30867] £120.00