CHRONICLES OF THE CAPE COMMANDERS:

Also four short papers upon subjects connected with the East India Company's government at a later period, reprinted from Colonial periodicals and notes on English, Dutch and French books published before 1796, containing references to South Africa.  With four charts

428 pages, 8vo (240 x 155 mm), 4 folding maps - 2 torn at the folds, half black leather with a red leather title label and gilt decoration on the spine - the leather is rubbed at the edges and corners, green cloth sides, marbled edges and endpapers, light foxing, a very good copy.

Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography, vol. 2 page 475, The first chapter serves as an introduction to the history of the Cape Colony, and is followed by a narrative of the rise and progress of the settlements under Van Riebeek, Wagenaar, Goske, Bax, Crudorp, and Simon Van Der Stel, together with instructive chapters on the exploration and discoveries in South Africa during this period, and details respecting the arrival and settlement of the Huguenots, and other interesting information. Nearly the whole of the volume is devoted to the history of the Cape in the seventeenth century, but at the end of the work will be found four papers dealing with matters concerning the eighteenth century, which include  "A few leaves in the Stellenbosch Records," "A glance at the Old Records of Swellendam,"  “Ryk Tulbagh, a brief sketch of the life of a good and great man," and  "A hundred years ago. A sketch of events in South Africa in the year 1781."