Isaac Schapera; Benjamin Farrington — The Early Cape Hottentots

Cape Town, The Van Riebeeck Society, 1933. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition work studying the indigenous people of South Africa by Isaac Schapera and Benjamin Farrington, illustrated throughout. The scarce first edition of this work.A fascinating study into the Khoikhoi people, South African non-Bantu speaking indigenous nomadic pastoralists.The information from this work was extracted from the descriptions in the writings of Olfert Dappeer in 1668, Willem ten Rhyne in 1686, and Johannes Gulielmus de Grevenbroek in 1695.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and six plates.The original texts translated, with an introduction and notes, by Isaac Schapera, and Benjamin Farrington.Published by the Van Riebeeck Society, a South African society founded in 1918, aiming to republish historical primary sources. In a cloth binding. Externally, smart. A few light marks to the boards. Spots to the fore edge. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean with some spots. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .