[Children's Books] Java. Schetsen en tafereelen voor de Nederlandsche jeugd

[by H.R. de Breuk]. Leiden, A.W. Sythoff, 1859, 126 p., with 17 hand-coloured wood-engraved prints (within collation), original blindtooled cloth with gilt spine.

Inner hinge broken. The colourful prints of this rare work are scaled down copies of prints from Hardouin and Ritter's Java, which appeared in 1855 (see elsewhere in this auction). With: De Roode Paradijsvogel. Eene handelsreis naar Nederlandsch Nieuw-Guinea, by J. Hendrik van Balen. Rotterdam, J.G. Robbers, z.d. (ca. 1880), (4),166,(2) p., with 12 wood engravings by Ch. Rochussen, original half-linen with colour lithograph on the front cover (rare first edition). Also with: De Van Sons. Een verhaal uit Indië door Annie Foore. Den Haag, H.J. Stemberg, 1881, 2 volumes, 254;245 p., simple contemporary uniform half-linen (very rare). And with 8 others, partly incomplete, among other Het leven en de daden van (...) J. Psz. Koen (..) by G. Engelberts Gerrits (Amsterdam, 1826), engraved portrait and 2 plates, contemporary cardboard (dislodging), small 8vo.