Nauwkeurige beschryving van de Guinese Goud- Tand- en Slave-kust
Subtitle: nevens alle desselfs landen, koningryken, en gemenebesten, van de zeeden der inwoonders, hun godsdienst, regeering, regtspleeging, oorlogen, trouwen, begraven, enz. : mitsgaders de gesteldheid des lands, veld- en boomgewassen, alderhande dieren, zo wilde als tamme, viervoetige en kruipende, als ook 't pluim-gedierte, vissen en andere zeldzaamheden meer, tot nog toe de Europeërs onbekend
By: door Willem Bosman ...
Contributors: Nyendael, David van; Snoek, Jan, fl. 1701-1702; Schouten, Anthony
Publisher: By Anthony Schouten ...
Published: 1704
Place of publication: t'Utrecht
Language: dut
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Slave-trade; Description and travel; West-Indische Compagnie (Netherlands); Pre-Linnean works; Early works to 1800; Natural history
Other titles: Nauwkeurige beschryving van de Guinese Goud-Tand-en Slave-kust; Beschrijving van de Guinese Goud-Kust; Beschryving van Rio Formosa, anders gesegt, de Benin; Beschryving van de Guinese Goudcust, slavenhandel etc.a.
Notes: Signatures, pt. 1: *-*⁴(-*1.4) 2*-3*⁴ 4*² A-2C⁴; pt. 2: A-2P⁴ 2Q².

Errata: p. [28] at end.

Text divided into three parts, but bibliographically work divided into two sections, the first comprising part 1 (not designated as such, p. [1]-207, first count), the second comprising parts 2-3 (p. [1]-280, 2nd count).

Added engraved title-page and engraved frontispiece portrait of Willem Bosman.

Woodcut title ornament; decorative initials.

Part 1 includes 11 leaves of plates, 10 folded. They bear 21 numbered plates, two on each folded leaf, plate 3 on a single leaf. Part 2 includes 8 leaves, each with a single plate.

Twenty-two letters by merchants of the Dutch West India Company; the first twenty are by Willem Bosman, and the last two by David van Nyendaeland Jan Snoek.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Landis, D.C.  European Americana, vol. 5, 704/19

Bound in vellum; edges sprinkled red; ink inscription on second front free endpaper.