Red cloth-covered boards. Gilt titles on spine. Front and back endpapers discoloured. Some foxing on prelim. pages. Previous owner's neat signature at top of title page. Small crack in the linen at the base of the spine. Corners slightly bumped.
Map of Stellenbosch district as frontispiece. Map of Western Cape at back of the book.
Pages [i-xv]xvi-xlvii pp 1-367
Dutch and English text on opposite pages. An account of the political crisis that ensued in the early 18th century at the Cape 1705-1706.
The introduction includes fifteen pages on the background of Adam Tas and sixteen pages on the authenticity of the diary.
The Diary itself is printed in Dutch and English in 155 pages.
The appendix consists of six chapters in which the conflict between Van der Stel and the Burghers is historically analysed.
- Size: 233 x 147 x 38 mm
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