Journal of Jan van Riebeeck (3 vols.)

Vol. 1: xlviii, 395 pp. plus map; vol. 2: xviii, 406 pp.; vol. 3: xviii, 531 pp. Hardcover volumes, no dust jackets. Condition: Near fine. Slight fading of red covers; slight discolouring of initial pages. Pencilled annotation on front endpaper of vol. 1. Otherwise clean copies free from markings or annotations. These were the translated editions of the early records of the Dutch settlement at the Cape, beginning in 1652, not personal journals composed by Jan van Riebeeck, and were published to mark the tercentenary of the settlement in 1952 (although not completed until 1958).