Author: Gerlach, Abraham Jean Arnaud.
Title: Fastes Militaires des Indes-Orientales Néerlandaises.
Description: Zalt-Bommel, Noman & Fils; Paris, Borrani, 1859. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Crown quarto. Pp. (vi), iv, vii, (i), iv, (ii), 720, 40, 20, viii, ii. Half-title, title, dedication, preface, introduction. Extra title-page, illustrated with allegorical motifs and printed in tinted lithograph. Plus 2 handsome plates in tinted lithograph, depicting battle scenes, and 3 fine lithographic portraits, all with facing tissue guards. Plus one full-page lithograph ordnance map with additional colour added by contemporary hand. Plus 6 large folding lithograph maps, one with additional colours added by contemporary hand to represent troop positions, all bound at rear. With 2 engraved maps, printed in letterpress, to the text. Footnotes, appendices, bibliography, index. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's full cloth, richly decorated in gilt. Binding worn, loose from bookblock, but complete. Excellent binding or working copy with fine interior. ~ FIRST EDITION. Rare original cloth binding, richly decorated, but requires restoration. [Descriptive text Copyright Librarium, The Hague] 005-10 .

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