78/2511 [Africa]. Bosman, W. Nauwkeurige beschryvinge van de Guinese goud- tand- en slave-kust. Nevems alle desselfs landen, koningryken, en gemenebesten; Van de Zeeden der Inwoonders, hun Godsdienst, Regeering, Regtspleeging, Oorlogen, Trouwen, Begraven, enz. (...). Utr., A. Schouten, 1704, 2 parts in 1 vol., (24),207,(1); 280,(28)p., engr. portr., frontisp. and 29 ills. on 16 (mainly fold.) plates, contemp. vellum, 4to.

- Occas. sl. yellowed. Binding sl. warped. Fine copy..

= Tiele 173; Gay 2808; Henze I, 304 ("zuverlässiger und vollständiger als die früheren Berichte über Ober-Guinea"); cat. NHSM p.204 and cf. Kainbacher I, p.153. The very rare first edition, divided in 22 letters, written from S. George del Mina, the main Dutch trading-station, where the author was chief merchant in the service of the West-India-Company from 1689-1702. Chief source for the knowledge of Dutch slave-trade during the latter half of the 17th century and important for the history of the commercial rivalry with the English, Danes and Brandeburgers.