Published by HAUM Publishers, Cape Town, Amsterdam, Pretoria, 1952

 Large faux leather covered book with gilt titling. The boards have some slight rubbing. Age toning to endpapers and some mild scattered age spots which do not look like they are on any of the map visuals. Corners are bumped a bit. Fold-out maps are all intact unless shown (I can only see tears in two). Please see pics.

Until the re-discovery of these 18th century maps of South Africa in 1950 it was thought that reliable maps of the country dated only from about 1800 (Barrow). The maps so beautifully reproduced in this book are a credit to the 18th century Dutch cartographers and Governor Van de Graaff who collected and preserved the cartographic material.

The book was published to coincide with the Van Riebeeck Festival of 1952.

40 pages of introductory and background material by Koeman followed by ten large folding, colour maps plus a larger facsimile of the general map of the Cape Colony by Governor van de Graaff (1785), with detailed comparisons of the maps.