DOMESTIC INTERIORS AT THE CAPE AND IN BATAVIA, 1602-1795;

240 pages: illustrations (chiefly colour), frontispiece, portraits, plans. Quarto. Paper covered boards, dust wrapper. Co-published in Holland in the same year. Publishing information regarding an exhibition laid down on a preliminary page.

Published to accompany an exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, 400 years after the establishment of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and 350 years since the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck at the Cape in 1652. The long presence of the Dutch in the Far East and at the Cape led to the production of a "highly distinctive style of furniture-making incorporating many different cultural influences". The work may be regarded as the "standard reference work on furniture from Batavia and the Cape" Eliens, preface. An impressive publication.