Author: VERVOORT, HANS & MAJA INDORF,
Title: Sicco Roorda van Eysinga, zijn eigen vijand. [Eerste druk; First edition].
Description: Amsterdam, De Engelbewaarder, 1979. Small 8°. Original coloured and illustrated wrappers, serial title on front cover. 217pp. Many captioned monochrome illustrations in text of which cartoons, portraitsof contemp. politicians, some facsims. after archivalia, bibliography, concise C.V. on lower outer cover, colophon on verso of front cover. [De Engelbewaarder, 14]. Dutch language biography about S.E.W. Roorda van Eysinga, 1825-1887, a nineteenth century liberal political rebel, famous for his anti-colonial and anti-imperial opinions, who, after his military education at the Royal Dutch Military Academy KMA Breda, left for the Dutch East Indies, where his anti-colonial publications and general attudude caused much uproar. Good copy.

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