Author: KIEVIET, C. JOH. [1858-1931],
Title: Benito de jonge Zwerver, Deel III. [Eerste druk; First edition].
Description: Rotterdam, Paul C. Kaiser, Biskwie, Koek-en Beschuitfabrieken, [..], 1933. Large 8°. Original clothbacked coloured and illustrated boards designed and drawn by Piet van der Hem [1885-1961]. Covertitle in bold black type, large coloured company logo in centre of lower outer cover. 93pp. Captioned monochrome large portrait tipped-in, In Memoriam C. Joh. Kieviet, 62 fine coloured illustrations pasted-in of which 7 full-page drawn by Pieter van der Hem, table of contents. [Vol. III of the series of 3]. BUUR, I.J., 0551. Duitch language youth story about a roundtrip acrosws Java by an orphaned boy named Benito, his stepfather, the javanese driver Sidin and an african slaveboy Samba. after a stay in Hotel Des Indes, Batavia, visits and journeys are described: visit to Bogor Botanical gardens, a visit to Borobudur, a stay on a Sugar plantation with a meeting with a crocodile, forther to Yogyakarta, East Java, incl. a meeting with a tiger. (verso of front cover and ti.-p. foxed, foxing to margins throughout, a dull copy buet complete with all illustrations pasted-in).

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