Author: BORRIAS, W.G.
Title: De bonte Koe. [eerste druk; first edition].
Description: Arnhem, J. Minkman, [,,,,]m, 1893. Small 8°. Original cloth. Hftitle (verso blank). [3], 136pp. Over 30 captioned monochrome illustrations of which 6 full-page after engravings by J.C. Leich, table of contents. Dutch language moralizing story in which a picture is painted of the troublesome life and behaviour of a boy coming to agefailing all forms of education which includes a good part of his apprentic life on an estate at Port Natal, Southafrican Republic, his meetings with local population (so-called Kaffers). (binding heavily spotted, original gilding partly gone, contents, apart from some unobtrusive rustmarking by removed staples, very fresch and clean).

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