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Auction #127 begins on 06 Nov 2025

Cape of Good Hope.

APPEAL TO THE KING IN COUNCIL

From the Cape of Good Hope in 1797 against the conviction in Cape Town the previous year of the appellants William Brown, Master and Andrew Spooner, Super cargo of the American vessel ‘Five Brothers’. And the respondent Willem Stephanus van Ryneveld ex ratione officii Attorney General

Published: Frogatt and Robson, London, 1797

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $100

Approximately:

Estimate: $150/200

Bidding opens: 6 Nov 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 13 Nov 16:30 GMT

Ships from: South Africa

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A The respondents case 3 pages
B Appendix to the respondents case 33 pages

Housed in a specially made green card folder which has now faded along the edges, titled gilt on the upper cover, a very good copy.

In November 1796 this American ship bound from the East Indies to London applied for permission to land at Cape Town for the purpose of repairing the ship. They were fined 32,650 rix dollars for smuggling American cotton good ashore at the Cape on a permit for British goods.

Not listed in A South African Bibliography

  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: Folio (460 x 300 mm)


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