REIZEN NAAR DE KAAP DE GOEDE HOOP, IERLAND EN NOORWEGEN IN DE JAREN 1791 TOT 1797

Original full-calf binding with modern cloth spines.

Vol.I: xxii + 274pp. Fold-out plate of fleet approaching the bay of the Cape of Good Hope.

Vol.II: x + 348pp. Four plates of which three are fold-out, namely: 1.) Cape Town with surrounding Mountains and Dutch Warships in the Bay 2.) Simon's Bay with Warships sailing out 3.) Arms-Practise in the Norwegian Mountains. Three tables.

Vol.III: xx + 232pp + [iv]. Contains the folding table but lacks the four colour costume plates.

Contents generally clean with vol.2 lacking endpapers. Age-associated edge wear. 

'The author made two voyages to the Cape, and on the first occasion remained there over a year. He gives some account of his hunting experiences in South Africa, together with a description of Cape Town, and there are illustrations of the Port and of Table Bay, and notes respecting the Kaffirs and Bushmen. The voyage from the Cape to Cove, in Ireland, took about three months, and De Jong was back at the Cape again in November 1794, and remained about six months. In his "History of South Africa, 1691-1795," Theal remarks of De Jong that "his official position, combined with his being an intimate friend of the Commissioner, Sluysken, gave him a thorough knowledge of events then taking place in the Colony, and his marriage with a Cape lady must have added to the interest which he took in the Colony . . . in point of value to a student of Cape history this work ranks high." ' - Mendelssohn Vol.I, page 432