[ A view on the world for early 19th-century children.] 3 vols. 8vo. Contemporary three-quarter red roan. Seven folding plates and six full-page plates. (10), 160; (6), 158; (6), 164 pp. The second edition of this very rare Dutch adaptation for children of the popular German geographical series Die Erde und ihre Bewohner by E.A.W. von Zimmermann. As the popular Dutch author Pieter Gerard Witsen Geysbeek (1774-1833) states in his preface, there is a Buffon for children, a Plutarch and a La Bruyère for children, so there certainly will be a market for a "Zimmermann for children": showing the different nations of the world and their inhabitants. The work was intended for use in the geography lessons at Dutch primary schools or to be read at home by 'cultured children' of around twelve years old. The first volume covers Portugal, Brazil, Poland; Alexandria, the Indians of North America, the island Madeira, Kamchatka, Athens, etc.; the second volume is on Gibraltar, Nova Zemlya, Jerusalem, Marseille, the Spanish bullfights, Switzerland (Bern) and India and the Bramins. The third volume is on the (Dutch) East Indies: esp. Batavia and the island Timor, again the North American Indians and their religion and ceremonies, Syria and its inhabitants (the Clementines), the arsenal in Toulon, the original inhabitants of Holland (the Bataviers), and the inhabitants of South Africa, the Kaffirs. The work is finely illustrated with folding views of the mosque of Alexandria, Athens, the island St. Helena with the city James-town, Bern, the harbour of Marseille, the roadstead of Batavia, and the island Timor in the Dutch East Indies. All engraved by D. Veelwaard, who also made the plates for the Dutch Zimmermann translation for adults. Apart from these views, the present children's edition is also illustrated with six fine costume plates, showing an Indian king of the Seminoles, a Sioux chief of the Nadowessies, two inhabitants of Jerusalem, Drauber Brahmin, Clementines (people of Syria), and Kaffirs, all finely coloured by hand. The first edition was published in 1821-1824. Coloured plates in order: Volume 1. 1. Frontispiece. Konig der Siminolen. 2. Opperhoofd der Nadowessiers. Volume 2. 3. Frontispiece. Inwoners van Jeruzalem. 4. Drauber Bramin. Volume 3. 5. Frontispiece. Clementinen. 6. Kaffers.