The Journals of Wikar, Coetse [Jansz] and W van Reenen (1935)

This, the 15th of the first Van Riebeeck Society series, was one of its best productions, and the copy offered in this lot is excellent and collectable.

The title of the book in full reads: "The Journal of Hendrik Jacob Wikar (1779), with an English translation by A W van der Horst, and the Journals of Jacobus Coetse Jansz (1760) and Willem van Reenen (1791), with an English translation by Dr E E Mossop. Edited, with an introduction and footnotes, by Dr E E Mossop"

The grey buckram boards, black to the front and spine, are fine and unmarked. The binding is tight but a little stiff. There is the same signature on the plain endpapers and the half-title. The xi + 327 pp of parallel Dutch and English text, appendixes, notes and index + 3 folding maps are all in better than very good condition, and the only shortcoming is that one of the maps is folded a few mm proud of the front edge.