76/1078 [Surinam]. Halberstadt, A. Kolonisatie van Europeanen te Suriname. Opheffing van het pauperisme, ontwikkeling van handel en industrie. N.pl. (Leyden), the author, n.d. (1871), (2),XI,(1),130,(2)p., 49 lithogr. plates by J.-B. MADOU and P. LAUTERS after P.J. BENOIT, later plain boards, folio.

- Contents loosening; final few plates sl. waterstained in outer blank margin. Otherwise contents fine. Backstrip loose.

= Van Doorne/ Van Kempen 2487; Rouffaer/ Muller I, p.632; not in Sabin. Rare account by an ex-civil servant who did not agree with the Dutch policy concerning Surinam, which got him into trouble with the authorities. The plates were used earlier for P.J. Benoit, Voyage à Surinam (1839)/ Scènes de la vie Américaine, description de la Guyane Hollandaise (1858). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLV.