Author: HARTOG, JOH. (COMPILER, EDITOR),
Title: Het Verhaal der Maduro's en Foto-album van Curaçao 1837-1962. Uitgegeven ter gelegenheid van het Honderd vijfentwintigjarig bestaan van S.E.L. Maduro & Sons N.V. en opgedragen aan de Bevolking van de Nederlandse Antillen. [Eerste enige druk/first and only edition].
Description: Aruba, D.J. de Witt, 1962. large 8°. orig. cloth, company's dutch and Neth. Antilles flags in colour on front cover. 179pp. full-p. portr. of company's founder S.E.L. Maduro with large coloured family coat-of-arms printed on verso. many other portrs. and text-ills., incl. facsims. after orig. engravings, ills. on 30 plates out-of-text, mainly of topographical interest, after orig. engravings, with extensive bi-lingual captions, dutch/english. Other text also bi-lingual, dutch-english. Dutch language Commemmorative album of the 125th anniversary of one of the foremost Curaçao entrepreneurs S.E.L. Maduro & Sons Ltd., who played an important role in the economic development of Curaçao, dutch territory of the Antilles, West Indis. Good copy. (some foxing to lower part of front cover).

Keywords: caribbean netherlands antilles west indies history commerce maduro entrepreneur history curaçao commemmoration gedenkboek geschiedenis