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 contemporary half calf and marbled boards, 2 contrasting gilt morocco lettering-pieces to spine, old small ticket at foot, bit worn at extremities, rubbed and chafed; old military institutional stamps to half-title. Bit foxed in places, few light dampmarks at margin, else a good copy with well preserved interior and folding maps. ~ FIRST EDITION. [Descriptive text Copyright Librarium, The Hague] 005-10 .

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