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PERCIVAL, Robert.
Voyage au Cap de Bonne-Espérance, fait pendant les années 1796 et 1801; contenant l'histoire de cette colonie, depuis sa fondation jusqu'en 1795, que les troupes britanniques s'en emparèrent; les différens systêmes d'administration qu'y ont adoptés les hollandais et les anglais; la géographie et la description de toutes les productions naturelles du pays; le tableau des moeurs et coutumes des habitans de toutes les classes et de toutes les couleurs; et enfin le détail des avantages que cet établissement peut procurer, sous le rapport de la politique, et sous celui du commerce. Traduit de l'anglais par P.F. Henry.







Paris, Dentu, 1806. 8vo. Half green morocco, spine gilt in compartments, title lettered in gold. (4), III, 367 pp.

Second edition of the French translation by Pierre Francois Henry (1759-1833) of this report of a stay at Cap de Bonne Esperance, written by Robert Percival (1765-1826). His work was first published in English in 1804 under the title An account of the Cape of Good Hope. The first edition of this French translation appeared in the same year.A third edition was published in 1809. This description is mainly oriented towards the history of the important colony of the Cape. In 1795 taken over from the Dutch by the British, the Cape had to accept another system of organisation, causing interesting commercial activities, described by Percival. He also described the customs of the inhabitants and the characteristics of the nature.
Percival was a captain in the 18th Irish infantry, until he embarked in 1795 in the fleet of Elphinstone, to conquer the Cape of Good Hope, which was in Dutch possesion at that time. Their mission succeeded, and Percival could set foot ashore at the Cape in 1796. A few months later later he went from the Cape of Good Hope to Ceylon, where he stayed until 1800.
The work is dedicated to "Son Altesse Royale, le feld-maréchal, Duc D'York". It affords considerable information respecting the state of the colony at the close of the 18th century. Furthermore Percival gives an account of the capture of the Cape and the Dutch fleet in 1795. Attention is drawn to the value fo the Cape as a British possession and to the weakness of the Dutch government which took over the colony from the British again in 1803.

Very good copy with the ex-libris of the Bibliothèque Impériale and the signature of the publisher, dated 10 December 1805, on verso of first title page.
Gay, Bibliographie de l'Afrique et de l'Arabie, 3146; Chadenat 5106, 6740, 7119; Mendelssohn II, p. 152.

Related Subjects: Africa  Cartography 

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