Unusually, the book is divided into five "Sketches" with a synoptical index for each:
- Exploration
- Wars
- Truces
- Van der Stel
- Emigration.
Publisher's original maroon cloth-boards, gilt to the upper panel and spine, plain black endpapers, vi + 325 pp of text and indexes. Unillustrated.
CONDITION. Complete and near-fine throughout, Ownership signature to front free endpaper verso, otherwise unmarked. Light foxing to the first and last two leaves and a very few light foxing spots to the top and front page-edges, otherwise undiscoloured.
A rare near-fine copy.
- Binding Condition: Fine
- Overall Condition: Very Good
- Size: 220 x 155
- Sold By: Fontein Books
- Contact Person: Richard Proctor-Sims
- Country: South Africa
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