THE RECORD; Or, A Series of Official Papers Relative to the Condition and Treatment of the Native Tribes of South Africa

Part I, 1649 – 1720, No. 1, 1649 – 1652, 1 – 446 pages. Part III, 1769 – 1795, No. 2, 1760 – 1774, 1 – 112 pages, Part V. 1808 - 1819, No. 1. 1808 -1819 1 – 60 pages, with, Specimens of the Authentic Records of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, Relative to the Aboriginal Tribes, to which is prefixed An Enquiry into the Justice and Expediency of Publishing the Remaining Portion of Those Records, iv + 28 pages, with, Report of the Committee to the Subscriber’s to the Fund for Printing and Publishing the Documentary Evidence relative to the Intercourse of the Colonists an Cape Government with the Native Tribes, 8 pages, with, Remarks upon some of the Results Developed  by a Publication of a Portion of the Cape Records, Relative to the Condition  and Treatment of the Native Tribes of South Africa, by a Member of the Committee, 48 pages.

Bound in modern quarter red morocco with red cloth sides, some light foxing and staining on a few leaves, overall a very good copy.

A South African Bibliography, volume 3, pages 365. Africana Notes & News, volume 5, pages 44 – 48.

This copy comprises what is now generally accepted to constitute and complete set of the English edition of the Record. A note in the hand of Alfred Gordon Brown states that he assembled this complete copy from two defective copies in January1939.

Donald Moodie, writing in his “History of the Battles” (1888) discusses his attempt to locate a complete copy of his father’s book in Cape Town in 1883, stating, ‘The late Mr Juta, inter alia, was applied to without success, and he surmised that success would be attended by the disbursement of about forty shekkels of gold.’ Copies which contain Part III with pages 65 – 112 are particularly scarce.

Published by A.S. Robertson, 1838 – 1841