T G G Valette - Baren En Oudgasten. Indische Schetsen. Orig. Edn.

's-Gravenhage, Henri J. Stemberg, 1880. Contemp. originalhand-batiked cloth, with an unusual geometrical pattern, trectangular title-label tooled in gilt on front boards, gilt tooled title-label on spine, orig. printed blue front wrapper bound-up (rebacked). Hftitle (verso blank). 218pp. incl. author's preface and list of contents. BUUR, PD, 219. A collection of 8 stories, more or less based upon author's (a so-called Oudgast, i.e. an european who stayed for a long period in dutch colonial Indonesia) own experiences, supplying a good insight into european [dutch], indigenous and eurasian society in late 19th colonial Indonesian Society. Each story is preceded by a hftitle(verso blank). Stories deal a.o. with (:) the impressions of a baar (=a newcomer or greenhorn), a marriage by proxy, a story from Aceh or Atjeh, the resident Koker..A good to very good and clean, uncut copy, in nice designed contemporary original batik private binding. Extremely rare.