Senior official of the Dutch East India Company

'Dagelijckse aantekening van mij Joannes van Steelant vertreckende van Batavia uijt India ...'
Journal in Dutch kept by J. van Steelant on the voyage from Batavia via the Cape of Good Hope to the Netherlands on the ship 'Sandenburg'. Van Steelant was returning with his family after a stay in Batavia of over 30 years during which he served as Governor and Director and Member of the Extraordinary Council of the Dutch East Indies.

Senior official of the Dutch East India Company

'Dagelijckse aantekening van mij Joannes van Steelant vertreckende van Batavia uijt India ...'
Journal in Dutch kept by J. van Steelant on the voyage from Batavia via the Cape of Good Hope to the Netherlands on the ship 'Sandenburg'. Van Steelant was returning with his family after a stay in Batavia of over 30 years during which he served as Governor and Director and Member of the Extraordinary Council of the Dutch East Indies.

List of officers, non-commissioned officers and privates tried by General Courtsmartial from the date of the capture of the colony to the 30th October 1798'. 6p. Document signed by R. McNab, D.I.A. (3p.).

Supplies information of rank, name, regiment and result of the trial including such sentences as 1500 lashes, death and transportation to Botany Bay.

Water colour. Wreck of the Howard. July 1839

Table Mountain ascent dated 1839. Initialed T.W.B.

Water colour inscribed " Beach near Cape Town 1839".

Loose Water Colour, inscribed "Kloof Cape Town". Initialed T.W.B. & dated 1840.

Water colour sketch, unfinished & uninscribed. "Kloof" 1840.

Table Valley 1840. [View of Cape Town across to Blaauwbergstrand].

Water colour sketch. Unfinished, uninscribed. Camps Bay 1840. With pencil note of colours to be used for completion.