CAPE [of] GOOD HOPE, 1652-1702:

2 volumes (xv, 527 pages): illustrations, colour frontispieces (laid down), maps. Quarto. Quarter-leather and marbled paper covered boards with gilding. Slightly rubbed on edges. Set 32 of an edition limited to 200 copies.          

Raven-Hart's scholarly compilation reflects the views of early visitors to the Cape. Their detailed and often unflattering reports provide an interesting counter balance to the official accounts as conveyed by Jan van Riebeeck and later governors in their reports to the VOC. Every traveller's account is transcribed, and Raven-Hart provides background to each of the 104 entries.

An important guide to understanding the early years of colonisation at the Cape.