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Title: De Aarde en haar volken. Geillustreerd volksboek. volumes 1-8.
Description: Haarlem, A. C. Kruseman, 1865-1872. Eight volumes in eight. 4to (29.6 x 22.5 cm) with numerous woodcuts. Uniform publisher's half cloth over purple marbled boards. Spines with gilt band and title. Edges sprinkled red. = The rare start of a popular anthropology and travel series dealing with the entire planet and its people. Contains mainly publications about countries outside Europe, dealing with ethnography, habits, religions, architecture, archaeology, etc. Well-written and well-illustrated with woodcuts, some page-sized, showing land and city scapes; ruins, events, costumes, exotic animals, etc. Each volume with an index. Some rubbing to board edges; as usual some foxing, otherwise a very good, unmarked set.

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