Author: LEEMBRUGGEN, C.A. [L. VAN SUCHTELEN-LEEMBRUGGEN],
Title: Van verschillende Stam. First edn.
Description: 's-Gravenhage, Van Hoeve, [..], 1947. Orig. cloth, title in black bold type on front side and spine, dustjacket, designed by L. van Suchtelen-Leembruggen. 198pp. Text-ills. after drawings by Ron Frijling, table of contents, author's note on the macassarese caste of priests at very end. BUUR, I.J., 0849. Dutch language youth story set amongst the macassarese population of S. Sulawesi, with as main character a boy, Batjo, son to a macassarese noble Daëng Manoewa, and his girlfriend Langkati. Langkatir refuses to live according to traditional or adat-law, opposing her marriage to a unscrupulous Arab money-lender. The Arab is unmasked by Daëng Manoewa during a cock-figt as an imposter, and the marriage is off. Incl. i.a. notes on the clan of Macassarese Priests or Bissoe's and their [;olitical] influence. Good to very good copy, WITH dustjacket. (name of previous owner on ti.-p., some light fraying to lower extremity of dustjacket, especially to spine).

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