Multatuli - Max Havelaar of De koffiveilingen der Nederlandsche Handelmaatschappy. Vyfde druk (Tweede door den auteur herziene uitgaaf)

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Multatuli - Max Havelaar of De koffiveilingen der Nederlandsche Handelmaatschappy. Vyfde druk (Tweede door den auteur herziene uitgaaf) - Rotterdam - Uitgevers-Maatschappy 'Elsevier' - 1881 - 5th edition - [6], 400 pp - Cloth binding - 13 x 19 cm.

Condition:
Fragile - back strip almost loose on one side; with bookstore label from A.v.d. Horst and contemporary ex-libris stamp. Rare.

Antique 19th century edition of the famous book by the Dutch writer / freemason Eduard Douwes Dekker (1820-1887). With notes and clarifications on the 1875 edition (revised, amended and supplemented in 1881). Cf. De Mare 199.

¶ Hardcover edition in red linen binding with a decoration of a coffee plant in black (with the inscription 'Coffea arabica' in gold print) and the title on the front cover and spine in silver. There is also a variant in khaki-colored linen. According to the list of other titles by Multatuli at the front of the book, a 'neat gilt binding' cost Fl. 2.40.

This was the last edition revised by the author himself.

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