Willem Adriaan Van Der Stel and other Historical Sketches, George McCall Theal, published by Thomas Maskew Miller Publisher, 1913, hardcover, 324 pages, condition: very good.

"Willem Adriaan Van Der Stel, and Other Historical Sketches" is a book of essays covering different events of European history, such as the exploration by the Portuguese of the Western coast of Africa and the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope, the Constitutional war in the Netherlands, first voyages of English and French to India and others.

George McCall Theal (1837  1919), was the most prolific and influential South African historian, archivist and genealogist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.