Ons Eigen Land, van de Geldersche Heuvelen, Bosschen en Heiden naar Het Land van de Wijde Vlakten; English translation: Our Own Country, From the Gelderland Hills, Woods and Heath to the Land of Wide Plains, with an Introductory Sonnet by Helene Swarth, issued by the General Dutch Cycling Association, Tourist Association for the Netherlands, on the Occasion of its Twenty-Fifth Anniversary

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  • [Netherlands]: Uitgegeven Door den Alegemeenen Nederlandschen Wielrijdersbond, Toeristenbond voor Nederland, ter Gelegenheid van zijn Vijf-en-T, 1910
By MEIJER, Henri
[Netherlands]: Uitgegeven Door den Alegemeenen Nederlandschen Wielrijdersbond, Toeristenbond voor Nederland, ter Gelegenheid van zijn Vijf-en-Twintig-Jarig Bestaan, 1910. Cloth. Very good. Cover title: 1883 - 1908 Ons Eigen Land, Uitgegeven Door Den ANWB Toeristenbond voor Nederland, Th. Moelkenboer

4to oblong (11 1/8" x 14 ¾"); 66pp of text and [68] unpaginated illustrated pages interspersed between pages of text; errata slip bound in; glazed blue cloth over board, design in navy and cream; patterned endpapers; light wear to boards, light damp-staining to bottom edge throughout without infringement on text or illustrations, age toning of paper, no odors; very good. OCLC locates 15 copies in libraries in the Netherlands, none in North America. Wonderful black and white photographic illustrations of the countryside on heavy glazed stock throughout this pictorial book of the Netherlands produced by the General Dutch Cycling Association. "The General Dutch Cyclists' Association was formed in 1883 by the merging of local cycling clubs. The organization changed rapidly around the turn of the 20th century; the demand for the automobile grew slowly but steadily. In 1904 the name was changed to the A.N.W.B. Tourist Board for the Netherlands, and as of 1974 it became the Royal Dutch Touring Club ANWB." "The Memory," National Library of the Netherlands. .

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Title

Ons Eigen Land, van de Geldersche Heuvelen, Bosschen en Heiden naar Het Land van de Wijde Vlakten; English translation: Our Own Country, From the Gelderland Hills, Woods and Heath to the Land of Wide Plains, with an Introductory Sonnet by Helene Swarth, issued by the General Dutch Cycling Association, Tourist Association for the Netherlands, on the Occasion of its Twenty-Fifth Anniversary

Author

MEIJER, Henri

Binding

Cloth

Condition

Very Good

Publisher

Uitgegeven Door den Alegemeenen Nederlandschen Wielrijdersbond, Toeristenbond voor Nederland, ter Gelegenheid van zijn Vijf-en-T: [Netherlands]

Date

1910


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