(Dordrecht & Amsterdam: Joannes Van Braam & Gerard Onder de Linden, 1726).

“One of the most important and comprehensive works on the East. It deals with the Dutch commerce in the Indies, as well as the natural history and the history of the places described. Sometimes called the Encyclopedia of the Dutch Indies, this volumes deals with Malabar, Japan, Cape of Good Hope and Mauritius. Valentyn visited the cape in 1685, 1695, 1705, and 1714; he was supplied by the government with a great amount of information, including charts and copies of several important documents. Using this as a basis he added to it from personal observation and from communications, oral and written, from many of the principal residents of the colony.” ‘The description of Japan occupies 166 pages in the volume with the very fine large folding map of Japan and two additional engravings while the description of the Cape of Good Hope occupies 170 pages including 7 maps and 11 copper plates, “worked into an admirable description of the country.”’
Plates
Map of Japan (p.3) folding
1/2 page plate Cooies and Sedan Chair p. 98
1/2 page plate Coolies and Sedan Chair p. 136
Folding map of the Cape of Good Hope p. 2
Folding map of Table Bay p. 5
Folding plan of Cape Town and Mountain p. 7
Folding view of Cape Town - Gezich van Kaap p. 10
Folding plan of Companies Garden p. 29
1/2 page plate of Natives with Lion p. 98
Full page plate of Hottentots p. 112
1/2 page plate of Zebra p. 114
2 plates of birds (ostrich and flamingo) p. 115
1/2 page plate River in Madagascar p. 145
Full page map of island Anzuary p. 148
1/2 page plate Natives on Madagascar p. 149
1/2 page plate Houses Settlement p. 150
Folding map of Mauritius p. 151
1/2 page plate fort on Mauritius p. 151
1/2 page plate view of Harbor Maruritius p. 152
1/2 page plate Fort Frederick Hendrik Mauritius p. 153
. Item #22068

Volume 5, Part 2. First Edition. With all plates present and ‘Directions to the Binder’ at end. Illustrated with 7 folding plates, 4 full page plates and 9 plates within text, all very finely engraved. The Cape of Good Hope section occupies 170 pages including 7 maps and 11 copper plates. Folio, contemporary embossed vellum, raised edges, leather lettering label gilt titles on the spine, speckled edges. 116, 160, (36 pages), 2 pages misnumbered. Vellum missing from front cover, backstrip defective, internally very fine, very crisp and clean and bright, nearly pristine, plates in excellent condition, highly unusual thus.