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VAN BLOKLAND, Gerard Belaerts. Redevoering, uitgesproken in de Algemeene Vergadering der Maatschappy tot nut van't Algemeen aan de Kaap de Goede Hoop, op Vrydag den 13 Augustus 1813... Kaapstad: Gouvernements Drukkery, 1813. 16° (180 x 115mm). Half-title, woodcut tail-piece. Modern half calf and cloth. FIRST EDITION OF AN EARLY CAPE PRINTING. According to Laidler, 1935, the 90th printed at the Cape.

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VAN BLOKLAND, Gerard Belaerts. Redevoering, uitgesproken in de Algemeene Vergadering der Maatschappy tot nut van't Algemeen aan de Kaap de Goede Hoop, op Vrydag den 13 Augustus 1813... Kaapstad: Gouvernements Drukkery, 1813. 16° (180 x 115mm). Half-title, woodcut tail-piece. Modern half calf and cloth. FIRST EDITION OF AN EARLY CAPE PRINTING. According to Laidler, 1935, the 90th printed at the Cape.

Ordonnantie raakende Het Bestier der Buiten-Districhten, in de Nederlandsche Zuid-Africaansche Volkplanting, aan de Kaap de Goede Hoop... op den 23. October 1805. [Cape Town]: Ter Gouvernements Drukkery, 1805. 2° (309 x 188mm). Modern calf, (title and 2 leaves remargined, some staining). FIRST EDITION OF AN EARLY CAPE PRINTING this copy apparently used by a Landdrost or other official of a country village, with his notes in the especially wide margins. Laidler 30.

Baron B.F. von BOUCHENROEDER. Beknopt Berigt nopens de Volkplanting de Kaap de Goede Hoop,... Amsterdam: Mortier Covens en Zoon, 1806. 8vo (223 x 137mm). Uncut in original paper-covered boards, printed paper label, (spine a little chipped). FIRST EDITION account of the colonization of the Cape, by Major Bouchenroeder who arrived in 1803 to organize a settlement for C.S. Van Hogendorp near Plettenberg's Bay. Mendelssohn I, 161.

Harald VALLERIUS. Caput Bonae Spei. Disputatione geographica. Upsala: Johan H. Werner, 1705. 4to (209 x 170mm). Woodcut frontispiece, initials, head and tail-piece. Modern quarter calf and patterned boards. Rare dissertation on the Cape of Good Hope with a fine woodcut view of a ship in Table Bay, depicting Table Mountain, Devils Peak and Lion's Head. (4)
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