Author: WOLFF, Julius.
Title: Der fliegende Holländer. Eine Seemannssage.
Description: 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.
Keywords: Dutch maritime history
Title: Der fliegende Holländer. Eine Seemannssage.
Description: 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.
Keywords: Dutch maritime history
Price: EUR 49.50 = appr. US$ 53.80 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 37205
- Book number: 37205