Author: KOETSVELD, C.E. VAN,
Title: Op de Wandeling. Vertellingen aan mijne jeugdige Vrienden. [Eerste druk; First edition].
Description: Schoonhoven, S.E. van Nooten & Zoon, [..], 1861. Small 8°. Original richly blindstamped and gilded cront cover and spine with gilded title in centre. Hftitle (verso with printer's imprint). 164pp. Captioned chromolithographed frontispiece, 3 other captioned chromolithographed plates, lithographed by Emrik & Binger, haarlem, table of contents. BUUR, I.J., 0089. Collection of 16 strongly moralizing dutch stories told to dutch children of which one supplies information on nineteenth Century Dutch East indies. Very good copy in mice decorative publ. cloth. (some very occasional tiny marginal spots).

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