Old Cape Colony

Frontispiece of Jan van Riebeeck + 320 pp of text and index, with drawings in the text by the author.

Chapters on the Table Bay Settlement, Simon and Willem van der Stel, Stellenbosch, Drakenstein, Frenchhoek, Paarl, Tulbagh, Ceres, the Tavern of the Indian Ocean + men and Houses.

Although Mrs Trotter, who died in 1961 in her 100th year, spent only the three years of 1896-98 at the Cape (living the rest of her life, when not travelling, in Wiltshire, England), she quickly became the first authority on old Cape houses, visiting and recording them on one of the first bicycles seen at the Cape. Her South African stay coincided with the appointment of her husband, Alexander Trotter, as Cape Government electrical engineer.

White panel with title on cloth spine. Black hard board covers. A very neat copy.