WOLFF, Julius. - Der fliegende Holländer. Eine Seemannssage.

Berlin, G. Grothe, 1892. Sm.8vo. Original pictorial cloth. 191 pp. The Flying Dutchman (Dutch: De Vliegende Hollander) is a legendary ghost ship, allegedly never able to make port, but doomed to sail the seven seas forever. The myths and ghost stories are likely to have originated from the 17th-century Golden Age of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The oldest known extant version of the legend dates from the late 18th century. - A nice copy.

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