Author: DIEDERIK (OOM),
Title: Uit Oost en West. Vertellingen, versjes, geschiedenis, uivindingen rekenkundigen voorstellingen, raadsels, enz. [Eerste druk; First edition].
Description: Schiedam, Roelants, [circa], 1880. Small 8°. Original monochrome lithographed limp wrappers. Front cover with monochrome title and some small monochrome illustrations of which one featuring a whale. (ii), 128pp. Chromolithographed frontispiece feauring a view of Paramaribo (Capital city of the dutch territory of Surinam, Guyanas), announcement by an angel of the abolition of slavery 1863 and aat tail a scenery featuring a whipping of a black female slave, and a festive group of former slaves enjoying the abolition, 3 other chromolithographed plates with illustrations, drawn by G.J. Bos, lithographed by Helmers, The Hague, table of contents. Nice Schoolprize label tipped-in on recte of frontispiece. NOT called-for in holdings Royal Dutch Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology, KITLV. Dutch language collection of rather moralizing stories, of which two of importance, e.g.: the abiolition of slavery in the dutch colony of Surinam (Guyanas) (viz.: frontispiece), and a story about animals of the Oceans which includes the secrets of the Whale (also illustrated); riddles. songs, mathematics, natural history, travels by land and water, inventions. in East and West. Untrimmed copy, printed in double collumns. Good. (spine reinforced with a modern cloth strip, contents and plates fresh and clean, rather unusual for a children's book).

Keywords: diederik stories juvenalia morals manners east west slavery abolition paramaribo surinam guyanas whales oceanlife maths culture heritage dutch history lithography