First English edition. 3 vols. 4 folding engraved maps. 8vo. Modern blue morocco, gilt, King’s Inn library stamps on the verso of each title and on the last leaflibrary stamps. viii, 572; 512; 598pp. London, Printed for G.G. & J. Robinson, 1798.
A key work on the Dutch in Africa and in the East, the author was at the time of writing a post captain in the Dutch marine. He made two voyages whence the information contained herein was derived. The work also “affords an accurate and valuable account of the Cape in the last quarter of the eighteenth century” (Mendelssohn). Mendelssohn II, p426.
