SIMON VAN DER STEL'S JOURNEY TO NAMAQUALAND IN 1685-86

First Edition: 183 pages of letterpress and 43 black & white plates, original green cloth gilt, remnants of the the dust jacket loosely inserted, a very good copy.

Simon van der Stel was appointed Commander at the Cape of Good Hope in 1679. The official record of his great expedition to the Copper Mountains of Namaqualand was removed from the Dutch East India Company's Archives in 1691 or 1692. All trace of the manuscript was lost until, in 1922, it was identified by the present editor in the Catalogue of the Fagel Collection, acquired by Trinity College, Dublin, in 1802.