Author: KOSTER CHZ., PAUL .J. ,
Title: Uit de nagelaten papieren van een Indischen Nurks. [eERSTE ENIGE DRUK; fIRST AND ONLY EDITION].
Description: Amsterdam, Buys Dz., 1904. Stout 8°. Later private clothbacked marbled boards. 411pp. BUUR, PD, 618. Dutch language fictuous (?) 'Correspondence' between two Gentlemen by the name of Mr. Van Tresmar and Mr. Van Wameren (characterized as a Nurks [ a Grumper] from Holland to the Dutch East Indies at the very beginning of the twentieth century, v.v., by which Bas Veth's Het Leven in Nederlandsch-Indië is strongly opposed and criticized, although there is a lot of criticism on european, e.g. Dutch Society in the Dutch East Indies of the time. Rare. ( ORIGINAL TITLE GONE, replaced in manuscript, covers shaved, contents clean).

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