LOUWERSE, PIETER (1840-1908)M
Mannen van Sta-Vast, Of de Oost-Indische Compagnie onder den Gouverneur=generaal Jan Pietersz. Koen. Een verhaal voor 't jonge Nederland. [Eerste druk; First edition].
Amsterdam, Hassels, [..], 1874. small 8°. Original publ. cloth, elaborate decorative blind stamped covers, gilded title in centre of front side, gilded decorative spine. Hftitle (verso blank). 200pp. Captioned chromolithographed frontispiece, 3 other captioned chromolithographed plates, lithographed by Tresling & Co., Amsterdam, author's supplementary notes and corrections to text on 3 unnumbered pp. at rear end. BUUR, I.J., 0057 (erreneously calls for two plates only). Dutch language juvenile story, compiled and edited ater historic sources and archivalia, by which the story is told about the Dutch East India Company, V.O.C. 1617-1629, under Governor-general Jan Pieerszoon Coen. An interesring piece of dutch nationalism and glorification of the past. Good to very good copy in an attractive publishers's cloth binding. (wome very occasional light spotting to margins, contents and plates crisp and clean).
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