J.J. Van Brederode, Publisher
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J.J. Van Brederode, Publisher

J.J. Van Brederode, Publisher

Closed27 September 2007

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J.J. Van Brederode, Publisher
Types Indiens pris au Marché à Sourabaya. Dessinés d'après des figures, qui se trouvent dans le cabinet de Mr D. Scheltema, ancien Agent de la Banque de Java, par E. Dubois, et imprimés en couleurs par Ritsema. Harlem: J.J. van Brederode, [1860].

Oblong 2° (370 x 505mm). 5 hand-coloured lithographic plates by Ritsema after Dubois (margins spotted). Original tan lithographic wrappers, decorative title, vignette of temple below title, within scenic illustrated border. Publisher's printed label laid over original imprint. Provenance: 'Collection de Mme. E. Leonard, Modiste, rue de Ligne, 83, Bruxelles' (ownership stamp on the original wrapper and margin of lithographs).

'In a kind of half-way house between children's books and works on Indonesian ethnography is the interesting and extremely rare Types Indiens pris au Marché à Sourabaya, containing five coloured lithograph plates, after drawings by E. Dubois, of representative Indonesian types based on puppets in the collection of D. Scheltema, former agent of the Bank of Java. The plates were issued in a square shaped folder with a separate title-page, the five coloured plates apparently being by Coenraad Ritsema (1834-1916), son of Jacob Ritsema (1803-1867), a book publisher and art dealer of Haarlem. Though giving the impression of being privately commissioned, the work was, in fact, publised by J.J. van Brederode, Haarlem, in 1860 at f7.50' (Bastin and Brommer, p.37).
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