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Original decorated boards. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. With b/w & coloured plates & illustrations after Freek van Arkel. Slight wear & slight soiling to spine, covers & corners.; A substantial harbour photography monograph presenting 25 years of work in the Port of Rotterdam, with sequences ranging from early black-and-white reportage (launches, strikes, pollution incidents) to later large-format and panoramic colour studies of terminals, ships and industrial landscapes. Essays and short texts by Van Weelden reflect on the port as a separate world governed by trade and technology rather than everyday urban rhythms, while a foreword by former mayor Bram Peper underlines the portâs significance for the city and the Netherlands.; 4to Oblong; 365 pages.…