Author: VISSER, AB (TEXT, 1913-1982) & JOHANNA BOTTEMA (ILLUSTRATIONS, 1918-1974),
Title: Grote Broer. [Eerste druk; First edition].
Description: Meppel, Roelofs van Goor, [..], 1949. Square 8°. Original coloured boards. Frontcover with coloured picture of a Tiger and a black cat, lower outer cover with a coloured illustration of another animal. 9 plates with coloured picures drawn by Johanna Bottema, each representing a big ancestral animal together with its domesticized family like the Tiger and a Cat, a Buffalo with a Cow, Zebra and the donkey, etc., coloured illustrations of animals on endpapers and on ti.-ip., each plate with text in verse on facing page by Ab Visser. yh of text-leaves in verse by Ab Visser with 9 col. ills. on plates facing text, all after drawings by Johanna Bottema, incl. coloured drawings on endpapers. Lavishly illustrated dutch language children's book in which ancestry or fylogenesis is explained in a simple way of exotic wild animals as the Ibex, Zebra, Buffalo, Rendeer, Puma and their big brother the Tiger and the cat. Good copy. (little wear to tail of spine, lower outer boards with some minimal fingering, contents crisp and clean).

Keywords: children information fylogenesis anmcestry exotic animals tigers cats ibex education juvenalia dutch ancestry