With a full and comprehensive account of the system of agriculture adopted by the colonists : soil, climate, natural productions, &c, &c, &c.
Interspersed with observations and reflections on the state of slavery in the southern extremity of the African continent
In a series of letters from an English officer, during the period in which that colony was under the protection of the British Government
Illustrated with engravings
xxi, 320, [(i) directions to the binder and publisher's list] pages, folding aquatint frontispiece of the Wreck of the Sceptre iin Table Bay with a view of the Town and Table Mountain in the Background, 9 engraved plates, light foxing, original grey paper covered boards with a later brown cloth spine preserving the paper title label and price (10s.6d. boards), uncut edges, light foxing with two signatures 'O' and 'Q' (16 pages each in this 8vo volume) where the foxing is heavy as usual.
Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography, vol. 1 page 609: A short account of the Cape before the period of the rule of the Batavian Republic. The writer of the series of thirty-nine letters which are comprised in the volume was evidently a strong opponent of slavery, and a large part of the work is devoted to the exposition of his views on the matter, and a sketch of the various forms of slavery that have existed from ancient times. Mr. Theal, in discussing the work, remarks that " It is so full of errors as to be of no value whatever." The frontispiece depicts the wreck of H.M.S. Sceptre, and there are nine other interesting sketches “engraved from drawings made from nature by the author."
- Size: 8vo (220 x140 mm)
