Author: ZEGGELEN, MARIE C. VAN (1870-1957),
Title: Aan de Kruis-wegen. First edn.
Description: Amsterdam, Meulenhoff, [..], 1922. 12°. orig. batikcloth covered boards, title in gilt within a double gilt-barred oval-shape on fromt boards and on spine. Original richly gilt decorated endpapers, publ. imprint on recte of 2nd. leave, printed within a richly decorated border (recte blank) repeated on opposite ti.-p. Hftitle (verso blank). 152pp.(incl. list of contents printed on verso of p. 151), [7]pp. of publ. list at very end. [Meulenhoff's kleine boeken, series]. BUUR, PD, 939. A collection of 7 stories, of which 5 set in Southern-Celebes (mountain-range: Bone, Watampone) and 2 on Java, after author's recollections, with as central theme the controversies between local Rulers and dutch colonial civil servants, both in Sulawesi and in Java. A very fine copy in a beautiful batik binding. One of the rarest titles by author.

Keywords: literature stories sulawesi celebes bone watampone java colonialism indonesia southeastasia buur