Author: VEER, H. DE, E. VAN DER VEN ^& CH. ROCHUSSEN(COMPILERS/EDITORS).
Title: Eigen Haard. Geïlusreerd Volkstijdschrift 1878. [Vol. 4; Eerste druk; First edition].
Description: Haarlem, Kruseman & Tjeenkwillink, 1878. 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). 504, [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 4 of this dutch language illustrated popular multidisciplinary nineteenth-century weekly 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: magazine weekly eigenhaard popular information educaion history multidisciplenary travel dutch periodiek periodical nineteenthcentury 19thc geography travel customs relations nineteenthcentury 19thc