"OLD TOWNS AND VILLAGES OF THE CAPE" BY HANS FRANSEN IN EXCELLENT CONDITION

HANS FRANSEN "OLD TOWNS AND VILLAGES OF THE CAPE", HARDCOVER, 2006 FIRST EDITION, 368 PAGES, NO NAMES, INSCRIPTIONS ETC. IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. 

A survey of the origin and development of towns, villages and hamlets at the Cape of Good Hope: with particular reference to their physical planning and historical townscape. Many towns included: Paarl, Wellington, Malmesbury, Graaff-Reinet, Genadendal, Mamre, Elim, Wupperthal, Suurbraak, Haarlem, Pacaltsdorp, Clarkson, Zoar, Amalienstein, Clanwilliam, Malmesbury, Cradock, Worcester, Piquetberg, Ceres, Heidelberg, Riebeeck-Kasteel, Bredasdorp, Napier, Darling, Aberdeen, Hanover, Fraserburg, Montagu, McGregor, Greyton, Knysna, Calitzdorp, Uniondale, Bathurst, Malgas, Robben Island, Kouga, Vermaaklikheid, Puntjie, Arniston, Hotagterklip, Matjesfontein and many more......

This book is a large and lavishly illustrated and produced book sponsored by the Rupert Family Foundation, concentrates on about one hundred towns established before the end of the nineteenth century, is dedicated to the land surveyors of a bygone era. It includes more than 700 illustrations, including early watercolours, pioneer photographs and aerial photographs, some of the last of which are from the 1930s "before the character of many of the towns changed irrevocably".