Author: WIT, Augusta de. Title: Java. Feiten en fantasiën. In het Nederlandsch vertaald onder toezicht van de schrijfster door Cornelie van Oosterzee.
Description: 's Gravenhage, W.P. van Stockum & Zoon, 1907. 4to. Original decorated red cloth gilt (rebacked), a.e.g. With 160 photographic illustrations. 300 pp. First published in English in Singapore in 1898. - Augusta de Wit (1864 - 1939) was a Dutch writer, born in the Dutch East Indies. She published a collection of her articles, first published in the Singapore Straits Times, as an illustrated book, Facts and Fancies about Java noting that 'Hollanders do not understand the Javanese, nor do the Javanese understand the Hollanders, in any true sense of the word'. Buur 656.
Keywords: Batavia Dutch travel Indonesia Indonesia belletrie Java
Price: EUR 71.50 = appr. US$ 77.71 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 37003