Souvenirs du Cap de Bonne-Espérance

First edition (cf. Mendelssohn I 696; not recorded by Gay.)

Some foxing.

Contemporary half tawny sheep, spine in five compartments with raised bands, bands tooled with gilt dotted rolls and decorated with gilt fillets and fleurons, blue shagreen title-piece, author"s name in green shagreen, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, top edge red, period binding. 

Auguste Haussmann (Winterzenheim 1815 – Alger-Mustapha 1874), a diplomat, was appointed French consul at the Cape of Good Hope, where he collected traditions still current among the descendants of the French Huguenots who had settled at the Cape after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

Pages 1 to 134 contain an excellent description of the Cape; pages 135 to 343 comprise a substantial body of historical information [1652–1862], together with observations on the products and trade of the colony.