8vo. 172 pp., [4], 12 plates including a frontis, Dutch text, original gilt cloth, lightly rubbed round edges, previous owner’s note on front fly leaf, occasional foxing, weak spine, D. B. Centen, Amsterdam, 1896.

Synopsis

Johannes Theodoor (or Theodore ) Visser (1857-1932) was a prominent member of the Christian Historical Union, politician and Dutch first Minister of Education.
This work is a mystical adventure story of a fifteen-year-old boy who is the king of one of the oasis kingdoms of the Sahara.