Author: ROOS, P(aul) F(rançois).
Title: Surinaamsche mengelpoëzy.
Description: Amsterdam, H. Gartman en P.J. Uylenbroek, 1804.4to. Contemporary scored calf, with black morocco title-label on spine. With engraved title with nice vignette by R. Vinkeles. VIII,318 pp.First edition. - One of the very few poetical descriptions of life in Dutch Guiana. The poems are about slavery, plantations, the land and the people. Including a poem on the death of George Washington. Paul François Roos (1751-1805), the first poet of Suriname, was director of the plantation De jonge Byekorf near the Commewijneriver. - Some blank margins waterstained, otherwise a very good copy on thick paper with wide margins.Muller, America, p.171; Sabin 73101; Van Kempen p.286-289; Suriname- Catalogus U.B. Amsterdam 5786.
Keywords: America Dutch travel Jubileum cat. Suriname slavery
Title: Surinaamsche mengelpoëzy.
Description: Amsterdam, H. Gartman en P.J. Uylenbroek, 1804.4to. Contemporary scored calf, with black morocco title-label on spine. With engraved title with nice vignette by R. Vinkeles. VIII,318 pp.First edition. - One of the very few poetical descriptions of life in Dutch Guiana. The poems are about slavery, plantations, the land and the people. Including a poem on the death of George Washington. Paul François Roos (1751-1805), the first poet of Suriname, was director of the plantation De jonge Byekorf near the Commewijneriver. - Some blank margins waterstained, otherwise a very good copy on thick paper with wide margins.Muller, America, p.171; Sabin 73101; Van Kempen p.286-289; Suriname- Catalogus U.B. Amsterdam 5786.
Keywords: America Dutch travel Jubileum cat. Suriname slavery
Price: EUR 1045.00 = appr. US$ 1135.76 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 15463
- Book number: 15463