EARLY FRENCH CALLERS AT THE CAPE BY EDWARD STRANGMAN - N.J. IN SOUTH AFRICA

 First edition published by Juta in 1936. Book and dust jacket in excellent condition. Copy once belonged to Chief Justice of South Africa N.J. de Wet and has his signature at the top of the front end paper. Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet was also Governor-General from 1943 to 1945.  During the  Anglo-Boer War  he was military secretary to General  Louis Botha, commandant-general of the  Transvaal  forces, and acted as an interpreter at the peace conference that ended the war in 1902. Hardcover, 223pp. Pyrard, Mocquet, Beaulieu, Flacourt, Tavernier, Tachard, Choisy, Forbin, Chaumont, Leguat.