Louis Michel Thibault, 1750-1815: His official life at the Cape of Good Hope by Puyfontaine, Huguette Roy De
Louis Michel Thibault, 1750-1815: His official life at the Cape of Good Hope by Puyfontaine, Huguette Roy De
Hardcover, ISBN 9780624000105
Publisher: Tafelberg, 1972 1 st Edition.
Used - Very Good + . The DJ has some slight edge wear. Now protected with a Cellophane cover.
His official life at the Cape of Good Hope
Life and work of this famous 18th century architect and his work at the Cape.
Careful research of original letters and document from the Cape, Paris, the Hague, & Delft Archives puts life into a famous personality of the Cape who previously existed in the shadow of his own work. In the Cape from 1783 to 1815, he emerges as a man of many talents, a soldier, architect, surveyor, mathematician, teacher and artist.
A comprehensive portrait and record of Louis Thibault at the Cape of Good Hope in the turbulent years between 1783 and 1815. Numerous colour and black and white illustrations of town plans; land-surveys, buildings, fortifications, bridges etc. drawn by Thibault. Mild discolouration on the front paste-down. 143 Pages.
