Ethnography of the Xhosa people of South Africa in Dutch, with the very rare album
with four attractive hand-coloured aquatints, and an original watercolour of one of the plates



ALBERTI, Lodewyk and Ludwig Gottlieb PORTMAN.
Zuid-Afrikaansche gezichten.
Amsterdam, Maaskamp, [1810]. 3 works in 2 volumes. Oblong 1mo (ca 47 x 62 cm). With a letterpress leaf, a watercolour (ca. 35 x 44 cm), and 4 large aquatint views of the same size, engraved by L. Portman with letterpress captions underneath, all coloured by a contemporary hand.
With: (2) [WATERCOLOUR]. Bijeenkomst van den Hoog. Ed. Gestr. Heer Generaal J. W. Janssens ... met het Opperste Hoofd der Kaffers.
(3) ALBERTI, Lodewyk. De Kaffers aan de zuidkust van Afrika, natuur en geschiedkundig beschreven ... Met platen en kaarten.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1810. 8vo. With engraved title-page, aquatint folding plan, with coastal view, of Algoa Bay, and 2 stipple-engraved plates, all but the title-page coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary gold-tooled calf; rebacked, with new endpapers.The plates are housed in a later box of brown quarter calf, grey cloth sides, and a brown calf title label on the front, lettered in gold. [1] l. text + 4 plates and 1 watercolour; [8], VIII, [4], 260, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 19,500
Amsterdam, Maaskamp, [1810]. 3 works in 2 volumes. Oblong 1mo (ca 47 x 62 cm). With a letterpress leaf, a watercolour (ca. 35 x 44 cm), and 4 large aquatint views of the same size, engraved by L. Portman with letterpress captions underneath, all coloured by a contemporary hand.
With: (2) [WATERCOLOUR]. Bijeenkomst van den Hoog. Ed. Gestr. Heer Generaal J. W. Janssens ... met het Opperste Hoofd der Kaffers.
(3) ALBERTI, Lodewyk. De Kaffers aan de zuidkust van Afrika, natuur en geschiedkundig beschreven ... Met platen en kaarten.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1810. 8vo. With engraved title-page, aquatint folding plan, with coastal view, of Algoa Bay, and 2 stipple-engraved plates, all but the title-page coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary gold-tooled calf; rebacked, with new endpapers.The plates are housed in a later box of brown quarter calf, grey cloth sides, and a brown calf title label on the front, lettered in gold. [1] l. text + 4 plates and 1 watercolour; [8], VIII, [4], 260, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description