viii, (2), 180 pages, half brown calf with marbled paper sides, title page and preliminary pages and end pages have been repaired, contents lightly browned with some occasional foxing and browning of the text, a good copy.
Mendelssohn, South African Bibliography, volume 1, pages 116-117, 'Dutch Africa, or an historical and political view of the former state of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, compared with its present condition. Published from the manuscript of a well-known observer. Mr Theal remarks that "The value of the work consists in the fact that it gives a picture of the administration of the East India Company at the time it was written, from the point of view of a large section of the colonists of South Africa." and he further states that the work "was published at a time when the colonists of South Africa were divided into factions, "of one of which the writer was "a special pleader....therefore anything like an impartial account of the Colony is not to be expected from his pen. His account of the early days of the settlement is almost fabulous in its inaccuracy."'
A South African Bibliography, volume 1, page 179, ascribes the authorship - with references to Francois Bernard and the translation to B.J. Artoys.
- Size: 8vo (210 x130mm)
