HEDENDAAGSCHE HISTORIE OF TEGENWOORDIGE STAAT VAN AFRIKA

(vi), 810, (xvii bladwyzer) pages, engraved title page as frontispiece, 4 folding maps and 1 folding plate of Algiers (as called for in the Bericht voor den Binder), old half calf with a red title label on the spine, sprinkled paper sides, the leather and paper are worn and the hinges are splitting along the back, pages edges dyed red, light foxing throughout.

Mendelssohn (Sydney) South African Bibliography, volume 2, page 502: ‘Contemporary History, or the present state of Africa, giving in particular an account of Barbary, Senegal, Guinea, the Cape of Good Hope, the Canaries, the Azores, St. Helena, &c. From the reports of Shaw, Adanson, De la Caille, and other modem travellers. Embellished with new plates.

‘This compilation, according to Theal ("History of South Africa, 1691- 1795"), "is one of a collection of works upon contemporary history published by Isaak Tirion of Amsterdam." One hundred and eighteen pages are devoted to the Cape Colony, but " the historical references are less correct than one could wish to see them, and in all parts inaccuracies may be found,"which follow the errors of the authors from which the information was drawn. Mr. Theal states that the general map of South Africa "is very erroneous."’