Author: HILDEBRAND (NICOLAAS BEETS, 1814-1903),
Title: Camera Obscura. veertigste druk. Geïllustreerd door Jo Spier [40th. edition, illustrated by Jo Spier].
Description: Haarlem, F. Bohn, 1939. large stout 4°. Original publ. cloth. Large gilded device on front cover, repeated in black on ti.-p., covertitle in bold gilded type, repeated on spine, dustjacket. [9], 462pp. Numerous monochrome illustrations in text and full-page after drawings by Jo Spier, notes to text, table of contents, notes to various editions published. Famous dutch literary work, portraying the dutch as they really were in mid 19th century, by which a portrait is painted of the dutch social stratification, public and family life. First edition was published in 1839. The intrinsick value of this work lies in the fact that every dutch who could read was able to recognize his own oddities and quirckness and those of his fellow dutch. Very good copy, WITH DUSTJACKET. (front edge of bookblock a bit foxed, contents clean and crisp; Spine ends of dustjacket worn).

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