Schepel - Reisjournaal Van Lodewijk Kerdijk, West-afrika1857-1858. [eerste Druk; First Edition].

Voorurg, A.F. Schepel, Juli, 1975. Tall 8°., original limp wrappers with title-label. Spiralled plastic spine at top margin. [1]p. of preface; [32; 224pp. of cyclostyled text, with marginalia. True FIRST [cyclostyled] dutch language edition, compiled and edited after the diary of Loeewijk Kerdijk, his voyage of discovery in West Africa by command of Rotterdam Traders Kerdrijk & Pincoff, in search of a new market and suppliers, including personal notes on country, population, products and culture. Includes additional meterial derived from Kerdijk's home-correspondence, to be added to introduction and notes on [32]pp. Originally published in a small number of copies. (a second edition was published in 1978). Very good copy. Rare.