précédé d'un Discours sur la Vie de l'Auteur, suivi de remarques & de reflexions sur les Coutumes des Hottentots & des Habitants du Cap.
New edition: xxxvi + 380 + (iv) pages, folding map, 3 small sketches in the text, quarter bound in early 20th century dark blue morocco with elaborate gilt decoration on the spine in panels, light blue cloth sides, marbled endpapers, light staining in the margin of the title page, otherwise the contents are good.
Kennedy: Africana Repository (19645), page 68. ‘The Abbé Nicolas Louis de la Caille (1713-62) arrived at the Cape on 20 April 1751 to establish an observatory for cataloguing the southern stars and measuring the arc of the meridian. He stayed for just on two years and did an astonishing amount of accurate astronomical work in that time. In one year he determined the position of no fewer than 9,766 stars.’
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