Author: Bernard, François (Author); Barend Jacob Artoys (Translator); Johannes Christiaan de Wet, provenance
Title: Nederlandsch Afrika, of, Historisch En Staatkundig Tafereel Van Den Oorsprongelyken Staat Der Volkplantinge Aan de Kaap de Goede Hoop, Vergeleeken Met Den Tegenwordigen Staat, Dier Volkplantinge, in 't Licht Gegeeven Naar Het Handschrift Van Een Wel Onderricht Opmerker : Uit Het Fransch Vertaald . [Dutch Africa, or, Historical and Political Scene of the Original State of the Settlement at the Cape of Good Hope, Compared with the Present State of That Settlement, Illustrated in the Handwriting of a Well-Educated Observer: Translated from the French] . First Edition in Dutch
Description: Holland: 1783. 8vo. 13.4 x 25.5cm. x, 180pp. Contemporary marbled wraps with lager morocco spine. Light damp-stain in upper margin of a few margins, bookplate of J. De Wet, contemporary marbled wrappers, rebacked [Mendelssohn I, p.117]; OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 122294920.. The author was one of the leaders of the Cape 'Patriot' Movement who agitated in Holland for the rights of Burghers at the Cape, who opposed to English rule there and published this book as a call to the Burghers to establish a popular government at the Cape. His letters addressed to "Friends" are assurance to the Burghers that he continues "to do his duty" to them, testified by the "enclosed book." Bernard's work gives a picture of the East India Co. administration from the point of view of the colonists. Mendelssohn I, 117; II, 204..Johannes Christiaan de Wet (1912–1990) was South Africa's most influential jurist and teacher of law. .

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