Beschrijving
Leiden, 1862, [privately published because all publishers refused to publish the book] viii,241 pages, half linnen binding with marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine, lithograph titlepage (loose) with vignet: statue of Van den Bosch (‘Hulde van de weezen, erfgenamen van den O.I. boedel Eckenholm aan den Graaf van den Bosch’), donated by the author to Profssor Veth, Leiden, 31 december 1861, Graaf van den Bosch was thefounder of the ‘pauperkolonien’ in the Netherlands and was subsequently active in the Dutch East Indies (Nederlandsch Indie), this book is a biography of the author and very critical to the conduct of the Dutch government in the Dutch East Indies.