WILLEM ADRIAAN VAN DER STEL AND OTHER HISTORICAL SKETCHES by George McCall Theal

Hardcover, published in 1913 by Thomas Maskew Miller, Cape Town, with 325 pages. Gilt emblem to front and gilt lettering to spine. Top of front board seem faded. Gift inscription on front end page. Foxing on end and first title pages. Foxing spots, mostly in top margin of a number of pages. Binding visible between pages 32/32, 160/161 and 176/177. Rest tightly bound. Corners ever so slightly bumped. Mostly pages are crisp and white. Sketch 1: Exploration by the Portuguese and discovery of Cape of Good Hope. Sketch 2: First Voyages of the French and English to Eastern Seas. Early History of the Netherlands and establishment of Dutch in India. Sketch 3: Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel. Struggle  of Hollanders and Huguenots against his tyranny and corruption. Sketch 4: Chronicles of two leaders of the Great Emigration - Louis Triegardt and  Pieter Uys. No shipping overseas.