SIMON VAN DER STEL’S JOURNEY TO NAMAQUALAND 1685

431 pages, 71 full-page colour plates, colour facsimile reproduction of the original text and a transcription and translation, cream cloth, a very good copy. 

'Simon van der Stel was appointed Commander at the Cape of Good Hope in 1679. The official record of his great expedition to the Copper Mountains of Namaqualand was removed from the Dutch East India Company's Archives in 1691 or 1692. All trace of the manuscript was lost until, in 1922, it was identified by Gilbert Waterhouse in the Catalogue of the Fagel Collection, acquired by Trinity College, Dublin, in 1802.' Editor's note to the 1932 edition. 

Publisher's note: 'This new edition of the journal contains, for the first time, the 71 surviving drawings in full colour as well as facsimile reproductions of the entire manuscript. In addition, the original introduction by Professor Waterhouse, as revised by him before his death in 1977, could be included in this edition. A new transcription and English translation of the Journal, respectively by Dr. de Wet, Chief Archivist, Cape Archives, and Professor R.H. Pheiffer, Professor of Afrikaans en Nederlands, University of Cape Town, are published for the first time in this edition.' 

No. 268 of an edition limited to 750 copies.