[Java. New Scenes for the Dutch Youth.] Orig. gilt and blind-stamped purple cloth. With a wood-engraved frontispiece and 12 wood-engraved plates of Javanese costumes and professions, all richly and beautifully coloured by hand and 'gommés.' (6), 106 pp. Rebound in a new cloth case, the original spine laid down. A rare original edition of a beautiful children's book of costumes teaching about the way of life, trades and professions, and the customs of the inhabitants of Java, the largest and richest island of the Dutch East-Indies. The fine plates are explained in prose and poetry and show a woman selling sweets, a seller of cigars, Javanese children, traveling musicians, a Dajak fighter, a rifle-man of Java, a Hadji, a Chinese being carried in a hammock, a native body-guard, a woman selling toys, watchmen, a money changer, and a native on his way to a tournament. A fine copy. Binding is discoloured, spine inside loose; canceled library-stamp on the title. *Ron Norman of Hartlepool carried out rebinding and restoration work on this book. (Ronnorm@aol.com)* Coloured plates in order: 1. De Kwee-poetoe Verkoopster. 2. De Cigarenverkooper. 3. Javaansche Kinderen. 4. De Reizende Muzijkanten. 5. Een Dajak in Krijgsdos. 6. De Schutter op Java. 7. De Hadji. 8. Een Chinees in een Tandoe. 9. De Singo-Sekar. 10. De Speelgoed Verkoopster. 11. Een Wachthuis. 12. De Wisselaar. 13. De Seninnan-Ganger.