CANTER CREMERS-VAN DER DOES, E.,
Het Bad. [Eerste druk; first edition].
Bussum, van Dishoeck, [..], 1965. Small 8°. Original coloured and illustrated limp glossy wrappers. 120pp. Captioned monochrome illoustrations on 8 photo-plates, numerous captioned monochrome illustrations of which facsims. after engravings and paintings, figures in textbibliography, table of contents. Clean and decent, dutch language inquiry into cultural heritage and history of the bath, bathing, personal hygiene, social appreciation, public bathingphouses, puritanism, denial of body odours through the ages, incl. Greese, Roma and ancient Egypt. Very good copy. (signature on fly leaf).
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