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Title: Eigen Haard. Geïlusreerd Volkstijdschrift 1877. [Vol. 3; Eerste druk; First edition].
Description: Haarlem, Kruseman & Tjeenkwillink, 1877. 4°. Original publ. cloth. Front panel with large gilded device in centre, tooled withing a broad blindstamped decorative border, gildes spine. Hftitle (verso blan k). 414, [2]pp. Many captioned monochrome steel-engraved illustrations in text and full-page of which featuring foreign topography, architecture, portraits, national and local folkdress, some cartoons in text, each issue with a large monochrome illustrated head-piece, [2]pp. of index and table of contents at rear. Text printed in double collumns withing a thin black line-border. Odd volume 3 of this dutch language illustrated popular weekly multidisciplinary nineteenth-century magazine by which information is supplied to readers and subscribers aboutdomestic and foreign affairs, e.g.: Architecture and Art, famous monuments, expeditions undertaken in the dutch East Indies (Central Sumatra expedition), culture of so-called primitive people (Africa, Asia, American Indians, Australia), literature and famous authors, Egypt, dutch foreign trade and settlements, foreign traditional clothing, sea voyages and ships, theatre and performances, science and development, biology, commerce and dutch relations with foreign countries. Very good copy. (spine sunned, contents clean and crisp). The magazine has been published between 1875-1941, discontinued).

Keywords: eigenhaard magazine weekly periodical illustrated information dutch popular knowledge domestic foreign trade maritime history culture heritage legacy

Price: EUR 85.00 = appr. US$ 92.38 Seller: Antiquarian Booksellers Gemilang
- Book number: 55322