THE COLLECTED WORKS

Three volumes comprising the complete collected works of Colin Graham Botha who was the chief archivist of South Africa from 1919 to 1944.

Edition limited to 1000 copies of which this is #158. Black and white frontispiece in each volume.

All three volumes are in very good condition.

Vol. I: General History and Social Life of the Cape of Good Hope

Includes: Early Expeditions and Travels, South Sea Pirates, The Castle of Good Hope, Monumental Inscriptions, Prices in the Eighteenth Century, Louis Michel Thibault, The Flat-Roofed House, Social Customs, Social Life, Huguenots in South Africa, Road Communications, Early Mining History, Shipwrecks in Table Bay, Exiled Princes, Early Punishment, Slavery, the Policing of Town and Village etc.

Vol. II: History of Law, Medicine and Place Names in the Cape of Good Hope

Includes: Sir John Andries Truter (1763-1845), Early Matrimonial Law, Intestate Succession, Early Land Tenure, Criminal Procedure during the 17th & 18th Centuries, The Public Prosecutor of the Cape Colony up to 1828, An 18th Century Law Library, Slavery at the Cape, French Refugees and the Medical Profession, The First Leper Institution, The First Public Hospital in South Africa, Early Inquests and Post-Mortems at the Cape, Instructions for the Surgeons on the Dutch East Indiamen in the 17th Century, Place Names in the Cape District, Early History of the Cape Province as illustrated by Dutch Place Names etc.

Vol. III: Cape Archives & Records

Includes: The Public Archives - their Value to Scientific Research, The Science of Archives in South Africa, Extracts from Register of Deaths at the Cape 1795 - 1815, Extracts from Marriages and Baptisms at the Cape from 1806-1821 etc.