Author: RUYS, KEES (1955, TEXT) - MARCEL VAN EEDEN (1965-, DRAWINGS0,
Title: Het Minangkabause Huis. pEerste enige druk; First and only edition].
Description: Den Haag, Valerius Pers, 2002. Small oblong 8°. [220x145mm.]. Original purple wrappers. Large white coloured topographical view illustrating a section of Bezuidenhout district, The Hague, cover title in small white type at tail and top of illustration. 37pp. 10 monochrome plates after drawings by Marcel van Eeden illustrating the topography of Bezuidenhout district, The Hague Municipality, preface inside front cover, colophon. Limited edition of 1000 copies printed, of which 275 numbered. This copy bears nr. 81, signed in ink by author and illustrator. Dutch language inquiry into old and modern architecture, in-and exteriors of houses and public buildings still around the wo-called Indische quarter, Bezuidenhout district, The Hague, which includes recollections about the colonial exhibition of 1932 at Westbroekpark which included of amodel of a Menangkabau house. Very fine copy. Rare.

Keywords: bezuidenhout topography research investigation topography history culture heritage indischebuurt thehague district bezuidenhout topography architecture dutch indonesian