Publisher's red cloth bindings.
Edited and with an introduction and footnotes by H.B. Thom, Professor of history, University of Stellenbosch.
Volume I: 1651-1655 (xlvi + 395pp). Illustrated.
Volume II: 1656-1658 (xviii + 406pp). Illustrated.
Volume III: 1659-1662 (xviii + 531pp). Illustrated.
Frontispiece portrait, maps and illustrations in each volume.
"Perhaps the greatest historical treasure a people can possess, is an authentic contemporaneous history of the first settlement of the country, written by the founder of the settlement himself. Such a treasure exists, in the shape of the original journal of Johann Anthony van Riebeeck, in two folio manuscript volumes." - Cape Monthly Magazine
This is the first complete issue of Jan van Riebeeck's Journal. The original Cape manuscript was found in a very neglected state, but when the existence of another copy at the Hague was confirmed the Van Riebeeck Society set to work to publish the journal in its entirety. Volume I came out in time for the 300 year celebration of the country's founding in 1952, but the Van Riebeeck Society had a long struggle with the printer A. A. Balkema, and even threatened legal action, before volumes II & III were eventually released.
3000 sets of the English edition, and half that number for the edition in the original Dutch, were published.
Bindings sound although covers show age-associated wear. Volume I has an abrasion at the spine tail as per image. Contents clean.
- Binding Condition: Fair to Good
- Overall Condition: Fair to Good
- Size: 26 x 18cm
- Sold By: Rare Paper
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