Author: KRAKATAU ERUPTION COMMEMMORATED -
Title: Krakatau! [Eerste druk; First edition].
Description: Weltevreden, Weekblad d'Oriënt, 1928. Small 4°, original coloured wrappers. Bold large coloured covertitle with a coloured artists' impression of the Krakatau eruption 1883. Stapled. 32pp., Many captioned monochrome plates and illustrations after original photographs originally photographed by Fr. Stehn, tinted and captioned illustrations in text, some geological sketch-maps in text, a lengthy poem on the eruption byHan Visser, originally published in De Indische Post. Full-page illustrated advertisment on verso of front wrapper, parly illustrated advertism. at rear end (pp. 30-32 and on recte of lower outer cover. Dutch language special commemmorative issue by the weekly magazine D'Oriënt in which a rather detailed picture is drawn of the Krakatau Eruption 1883, with contributions by A. Zimmerman, Dr. Stehn, Han Visser and publisher's editorial board. Good to very good copy. (some minimal wear to spine ends, some minimal dog-earing).

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