Monday, December 05, 2005

Verpoozingen

Verpoozingen

Een Sneeuwman.

Een Oproer te Amsterdam I

Een Oproer te Amsterdam II

Riego de Berenjager.

material
the material of the binding, some linnen like stuff it seems..

Surabaya

i was born in Enschede, in the eastern part of the Netherlands, called Twenthe, close to where my granddaughter and great grandson are still living.
when i was a little boy my parents and i moved to the city of Delft, in the province Zuid Holland, there my brother Jacobus and my sister Margaretha Hendrika were born. in 1883 we moved to Surabya on the (then called) Dutch Indies island of Java. there my two youngest brothers Adriaan Leonard and George Paul were born.

i was a rather good pupil and in 1887 a won a prize: a book called Verpoozingen. with nicely folded and glued inside a document 'oorkonde' that said so..

Prijs

litho's


elephant
lion

Sunday, December 04, 2005

blue

as a boy i loved to read. there were always books around and one of my favorites was "Lolan's Lotgevallen in Leeuwenland" a translation of one of Rider Haggard's books.
it had lovely lithographs as illustrations and a blue cover..

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