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Title: Onder de Maori's. Een verhaal uit Nieuw Zeeland. [freely edited after the english The web of the Spider]. [First dutch edn.].
Description: Amsterdam, D.B. Centen, [..], 1893. Small 8°. Orig. red coloured publ. cloth, title in bold gilt type and a large black decoration on front boards, within a triple-barred black line-border. Hftitle (verso blank), (vi) (author's preface), [1] (table of contents, verso blank), 240pp. Frontispiece, 3 other black/white plates, all after drawings by Joh. Braakensiek, publ. list on last 2 unnumbered lvs. Dutch language boy's adventures amongst the Maori of New Zealand, incl. i.a. notes on daily life, customs and religion, war and piece of the Maori population of New Zealand. Nice copy in orig. publ. cloth. (spine sunned, small spot and some discolouring near tail of spine of lower outer boards, private dedication in Ms. in ink on f.e.p., dated 1894).

Keywords: juvenile literature adventure travel history maori new zealand oceania pacific nineteenth century 19thc buur

Price: EUR 95.00 = appr. US$ 103.25 Seller: Antiquarian Booksellers Gemilang
- Book number: 46588