De Afkomst der Boeren Author: Dr. H.T. Colenbrander (Herman Theodoor Colenbrander)
De Afkomst der Boeren
A Monumental Landmark Work of Southern African Genealogical History
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: De Afkomst der Boeren
- Author: Dr. H.T. Colenbrander (Herman Theodoor Colenbrander)
- Publisher: C. Struik, Cape Town
- Publication Date: 1964 (Limited luxury facsimile edition of the classic 1902 Amsterdam release)
- ISBN: Not Applicable (Struik Historical Reprint Library)
- Edition Details: Limited Edition Facsimile, Standard Release Thus. Issued without dust jacket.
- Binding: Original publisher’s premium full faux-leather cloth boards with ornate gold spine tooling.
- Physical Format: Octavo (8vo), 127 pages. Features exhaustive genealogical lists, nationality percentage charts, and historic source catalogs.
- Language: Dutch / Early Afrikaans research notes.
Official Condition Report
- The Book: Very Good (VG)
- Exterior / Boards: The gold-stamped cloth boards are flat, highly rigid, and structurally sound. Gilt lettering on the spine is clean and highly visible.
- Interior: The text block is robustly tight. Pages exhibit some light, uniform browning and foxing along the extreme outer margins, which is completely standard for the specialized paper stocks used by Struik in the 1960s. Completely free from previous owner signatures or markings.
- The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued)
Synopsis & Historical Value
First published in Amsterdam in 1902 and beautifully reissued by the legendary publisher C. Struik in 1964, De Afkomst der Boeren ("The Origin of the Boers") is a monumental, foundational work of South African genealogy and demographics. Dr. Colenbrander meticulously tracks the biological origins and ancestral bloodlines of the early Cape settlers, calculating exact ancestral percentages of Dutch, French Huguenot, German, and other European extractions. This rare collectible copy is an invaluable, definitive reference guide for academic libraries, serious historians, and genealogists seeking to verify family lineages.
Author Profile: Dr. H.T. Colenbrander
Dr. Herman Theodoor Colenbrander (1871–1945) was a world-renowned Dutch historian, academic, and state archivist. Celebrated for his deep archival research into colonial histories, his scientific breakdowns of South African settlement lineages are highly regarded on international academic networks like AbeBooks for their precision and historical objectivity.
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