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A revised and updated version of
Abraham Kuyper: An Annotated Bibliography 1857-2010 by Tjitze Kuipers (2011)

You can buy a printed edition of this book on the site of the publisher.

1907

1907.13
Om de oude wereldzee. I. Het Aziatisch gevaar—Rumenië—Rusland—De Zigeuners–Het Joodsche probleem—Constantinopel—Klein Azië—Syrië—Het Heilige land.
Amsterdam, Van Holkema & Warendorf [1907]. VIII, 548 pp., ills., 30cm.—12 installments, each ƒ0.50; in two unbd. parts ƒ6.-; bd. in one volume ƒ7.25; half leather binding ƒ8.-.
Run: 5,000.
Published: October 1907.
Preface dated: ’s Gravenhage, September 15, 1907.
Also published in twelve installments.
Vol. 2, see: 1908.25.
2nd printing, published in: November 1907.
3rd printing, see: 1908.10.
Reprint of the final section, see: 1925.03.
Translation (French), see: 1910.05.
Translation (English), see: 2017{.02}
Binding: half leather binding: raised bands; gilt top; untrimmed fore-edge and bottom edge; marbled endpapers.
Full cloth: ivory-colored; binding design by the artist C. André Vlaanderen (1881–1955); colored stamping on the spine; decorated front cover with gold tooling and colored motifs of the Middle East; back cover with black stamping, publisher’s device and binder’s name: Elias P. van Bommel; top edge colored; decorated endpapers. Half cloth: the same decorated front cover and spine; plain back cover; the same decorated endpapers. (The paper front covers of the first installments of vol. 1 and 2 were edited with the same decorated and colored front cover with gold tooling.)
RKB 175.
ET: Around the Mediterranean Sea. I. The Asiatic danger—Romania—Russia—The Gypsies—The Jewish question—Constantinople—Asia Minor—Syria—The Holy Land.

This is the first volume of a two-volume work documenting Kuyper’s travels, from August of 1905 through mid-June of 1906, through and around the Balkans, southern Russia, and the Mediterranean Sea. According to the prefaces to both volumes, the chapters were written without scholarly or literary pretensions and were not intended as a travelogue. Rather, the book aims to provide “condensed knowledge” of a world about which many were interested but otherwise “ill informed.” As such, the work is more a report of local research and inquiries than it is a personal travel account.

The volumes not only describe the religious, political, economic, and social life of the countries that Kuyper visited, but also address broader issues such as the Gypsies, the Jewish question, and the enigma of Islam. Kuyper dated every chapter since he was aware that contemporary description can suddenly become obsolete due to unforeseen events. For example, in the preface to the second volume the journalist in Kuyper could not resist adding some comments about the revolt of the Young Turks as a supplement to his study of Turkey and the Balkans in the first volume.

The lavish prospectus for this title included a full-page photograph of Kuyper and nearly the full preface to the first volume—omitting only the first and final paragraphs (in which Kuyper downplays the significance of the book and indicates that he is not altogether happy with the illustrations that the publisher has proposed to include). The size, binding, paper quality, and broad margins of the book make a striking impression. It was published fourteen days before Kuyper’s seventieth birthday (see 1908.11).