Author: HOëVELL, Wolter Robert van.
Title: Uit het Indische leven. 2e druk.
Description: Amsterdam, wed. J.C. van Kesteren & Zoon, 1865. Original embossed brown cloth, spine richly gilt. With tinted lithographed frontispiece by P.W.M. Trap. (8),215 pp. First edition published in 1860. - Van Hoëvell asked for a voluntary discharge because he had been branded as 'suspect' in the Dutch East Indies. He wrote a pamphlet dealing with these events, but also based one of his novellas on them. It is called 'The Suspects', written in 1858, and was included in his volume About life in the Indies (Uit het Indische leven, 1860). It is one of his best works, and has remained relevant to this day. At once recognizable is the pattern it describes of an authoritarian society (Nieuwenhuys, Mirror of the Indies, p.62). Cat. KITLV p.257; Bastin-Brommer N404; Buur 78; Tiele 490 (note).
Keywords: Indonesia Indonesia belletrie Indonesia general indonesia exploration
Title: Uit het Indische leven. 2e druk.
Description: Amsterdam, wed. J.C. van Kesteren & Zoon, 1865. Original embossed brown cloth, spine richly gilt. With tinted lithographed frontispiece by P.W.M. Trap. (8),215 pp. First edition published in 1860. - Van Hoëvell asked for a voluntary discharge because he had been branded as 'suspect' in the Dutch East Indies. He wrote a pamphlet dealing with these events, but also based one of his novellas on them. It is called 'The Suspects', written in 1858, and was included in his volume About life in the Indies (Uit het Indische leven, 1860). It is one of his best works, and has remained relevant to this day. At once recognizable is the pattern it describes of an authoritarian society (Nieuwenhuys, Mirror of the Indies, p.62). Cat. KITLV p.257; Bastin-Brommer N404; Buur 78; Tiele 490 (note).
Keywords: Indonesia Indonesia belletrie Indonesia general indonesia exploration
Price: EUR 214.50 = appr. US$ 233.13 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 31537
- Book number: 31537