Captain Robert Percival (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. This as new copy is bound in illustrated card covers as issued. There is an unclipped dustwrapper that is a trifle sunned to the spine. The contents are bright, tight, white and square. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. This interesting book contains descriptions of Ceylon's history, geography, natural history, the manners and customs of its inhabitants. It includes the Journal of an Embassy to the Court of Candy. It is illustrated with a map, charts and engravings of some interesting scenes in the island. Originally published in 1803 this is a reprint of the second edition. Ref TTT 2.

4to (27x19cm), 12+339 pages : facsimile of the famous history including the Dutch settlement, the British capture in 1795, the geography, customs & manners of the natives & the advantages that might be derived from its possession by Great Britain; hardback, as issued without dw vg south africa cape good hope boers dutch african settlement african history table bay wineberg south africa cape town stellenbosch cape town history.

Reprint of 1805 Second Edition (English). 8vo softback, with matching unclipped dust jacket. [xvi] + 315pp., indexed, illustrated in b/w, with folding maps. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Dust jacket a little rubbed and darkened, spine faded, closed tears to top and chip to foot. Overall a VG copy in a Good dust jacket. (Shelf 200 BOX KANGA) PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. xii, 339pp + 4p Baldwin catalogue. Board is rubbed and shaved to rear but sound, contents are clean and tight. 1.4kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First. THE LEVESON-GOWER-QUENTIN KEYNES COPY -- IN BOARDS -- EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH FOUR WATER-COLORS BY (OR AFTER) SAMUEL DANIELL. London: C. and R. Baldwin, 1804. First edition, first issue. Quarto (11 1/8" x 8 3/4", 283mm x 223mm). [Full collation available.] Extra-illustrated with a folding engraved map (the "second, corrected edition" of "The Dutch Colony of the Cape of Good Hope" by William Faden after Louis Stanislas d'Arcy de la Rochette, dated 1795) and four bifolia mounted on bound-in stubs (see below). Bound in the publisher's blue drab boards backed in tape (re-backed, with the original back-strip and spine label ("PERCIVAL'S/ Cape of Good hope/[rule]/ 1804./ Price One Pound, boards.") laid down). Fore and lower edges untrimmed. Re-backed, with the original back-strip and spine label laid down. Some wear to the extremities, with bumps to the fore-corners. Quires b and Xx unopened. A splendidly intact copy. Ownership signature of John (or J.M.?) Leveson-Gower to the title-page. Engraved map (at a1-2) and four bifolia on stubs (at L4-M1, N3-4, N4-O1 and Y3-4) bound in, all extra. Robert Percival (1765-1826) sailed as a captain in the Irish infantry to retake the Cape of Good Hope from the Dutch in 1795. From his triumphal entry into Cape Town in September of 1796 he remained in the region till 1797 before returning to Britain and preparing the present work, which is the first issue of the first edition (the distinguishing point being the typographical error in the head-line of p. 247: "OF GO ODHOPE." for "OF GOOD HOPE."). Unsurprisingly, the work is highly critical of the Dutch. Percival goes into great detail about their rough treatment of the locals. Broadly, the aim of the work is to describe the richness of the place, excoriate the Dutch and encourage the British to reclaim the territory fully -- which, in 1806, after the Napoleonic Wars upset the status quo established by the 1802 Treaty of Amiens, they did. The Leveson-Gower who signed the title-page as owner is likely General John Leveson-Gower (1774-1816), son of the famous Admiral of the same name who died in 1792. General Leveson-Gower served in the West Indies 1793-1796, and then sat as MP for Truro 1796-1802 before setting out in the Navy once more in 1807, where he was second-in-command to Whitelock in his unsuccessful expedition to Buenos Aires. The volume was then sold at Sotheby's London 19 November 1990, lot 246 (£5,200), to Quentin Keynes (1921-2003). Keynes -- great-grandson of Darwin, nephew of John Maynard Keynes -- was an explorer who traveled extensively in Africa. Keynes was also a noted bibliophile and collector, principally of this sort of material: XIXc travellers' accounts. The volume was purchased at his sale, Christie's London 7 April 2004, lot 343. For being an untrimmed example in the publisher's boards the present item is remarkable, but it is all the more so for the five extra illustrations bound in. The map, Faden's unfortunately-named "Dutch Colony of the cape of Good Hope" of 1795, is a good ancilla to the text. The four bifolia, however, are a much richer addition: "A Hottentot," "A Bosjeman in Armour," "A Kaffer Woman," and "Broad tailed Sheep of Southern Africa." The "Bosjeman" and "Kaffer Woman" have text opposite, directing the reader to "Barrows Cape of Good Hope." Each bifolium is a single sheet of wove pot (full sheets roughly 374mm x 232mm) drawing paper water-marked "J. Lloyd/ 1803". The text relates to either the first or second edition of Sir John Barrow's (first edition: An Account of) Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa. . . Two volumes. London: Cadell and Davies; first: 1801 and 1804; second: 1806. For the second edition, Barrow commissioned Samuel Daniell to do the illustrations; the first edition was unillustrated. After extensive analysis (PLEASE INQUIRE) we believe these to be original watercolors by one of the most admired illustrators of Africa, Samuel Daniell (1775-1811). Mendelssohn II p. 152.