I. Kool - Warnasarie 1850. Indisch Jaarboekje

. Batavia, Lange & Co. 1850. With a lithographed titlep. a lithographed plate (frontispiece) and an illustratiion depicting the town crest of Macassar. XVI, 288 pp. Orig. cloth with printed title lable on spine. Sm. 8vo. (binding slightly worn, 2 quires bound in wrong order, but itherwise a good copy). The third of the 'Warnasarie's', the rare series of literary yearbooks published in Batavia between 1848 and 1858 (11 volumes in total). This volume has contributions by most members of small group of people with an interest in literary affairs in the Indies at that time, with contributions by 'Benjamin' ('Twee dagen van mijn verblijf op het eiland Celebes'), L.J.A. Tollens ('Bij den dood mijner geliefde'), G.G. Kool ("De slavin'), S. van Deventer ('Djogo Taroep Anom, Tengersche legende'), P. Knuttel Dzn. ('Aan een Inlandsch knaapje'), etc. On 'Warnasarie' see also Nieuwenhuis, Oost-Indische spiegel, pp. 124-25; Bastin & Brommer N. 399 et passim. Lacks one lithographed plate (portrait of a female slave), but this is substituted by a modern colour copy (hardly distinguishable from the orifinal)..