Author: HOFDIJK, W.J., (1818-1888),
Title: Lauwerbladen uit Neêrlands Gloriekrans. [Eerste druk; First edition].
Description: 's-Gravenhage, Joh. IJkema, [..], 1878. Large 8°., original abundant embossed gilded cloth, gilded covertitle,arge coloured and gilded circular centre-piecesurrounded by gilded leaves, gilded allegoric figures at top, the whole whithin a broad gilded border with large gilded dots,lavishly gilded spine. blind embossed border to lower outer cover. Hftitle (verso blank). 320pp. Chromolithographed captioned frontispiece, 14 other fine chromolithographed captioned plates, lithographed by Tresling & Co., of which three describing events in the dutch East Indies and one of Deshima compound, Nagasaki Bay, Japan, decorative black initials, footnotes. Dutch language compilation of 20 patriotic events and stories, glorifying dutch explorations and deeds from bygones, which include personal eroism and patriotism in the western world and Asia, also including some rather bombastic poems, of which three stories relating to events in the Dutch East Indies and one about the dutch trading settlement of Nagasaki, Japan. Sories about Batavia, pp. 60-69; Governor-General Van Imhoff and Paku Buwono III, challenged by Pangeran Mangku Nagoro, pp. 131-142; British attempt to take-over the dutch trading post at Deshima, Nagasaki Bay, Japan, July 1813 successfully obstructed by Hendrik Doeff, chromolithograph features a bird's eye view of the trading post and bay, pp. pp. 167-181; scenery of the Java-war, 1825-1830 by Diponegoro pp. 212-235. Contents illustrates author's pre-occupation with the Dutch East Indies in later life, published a long poem in 1884 on Java with as topic Diëng Mountain range. Very good crisp and clean copy in original and stunning publ. cloth, lithographs fresh and clean. Rare in such condition.

Keywords: patriotism nationalism laureates history bygones nationalism florification events exploration culture heritage dutch colonialism nagasaki settlement batavia colonialism indonesia souheastasia nineteen