843 - 899 INDONESIA. BOOKS, MAPS, PLANS and VIEWS, PRINTS and DRAWINGS
= Mainly Indonesian subjects: people and landscapes. Haks/ Maris p.26.
- Yellowed; some (vague) horizontal folds and creases.
= Gruesome drawing illustrating the Dutch victory in The Lombok War of 1894, a military conflict between Bali and Lombok in which both powers submitted a military petition to the government of the Dutch East Indies, and where the colonial administration sided with Bali.
- Lacks 2 prints; first free endpaper browned; colophon sl. foxed. Title ticket on frontcover portfolio partly torn off.
= With various Indonesian scenes, mostly from Bali. This copy numbered "hors commerce". With autograph signed dedication in pen and ink on first free endpaper.
- Three postal stamps (Nederlandsch Indië, 1925) mounted on first free endpaper. Binding sl. chafed and w. a few scratches.
= With the loosely inserted errata-leaf. Rouffaer/ Muller Suppl. II, p.88; Ockeloen p.763.
ADDED: L.F. VAN GENT a.o. (ed.), Gedenkboek voor Nederlandsch-Indië ter gelegenheid van het regeeringsjubileum van H.M. de Koningin 1898-1923 (Batavia etc., 1923, (col.) plates, ills., orig. calfbacked gilt boards, folio. A few plates loose(ning)).
- Binding sl. soiled. = Presentation slip loosely inserted. Rouffaer/ Muller Suppl. I, p.63.
- Disbound copy; 2 handcol. plates of birds foxed (1x only slightly). Covers foxed; lower corner of frontcover cracked and sl. dam.
= Bastin/ Brommer N616; Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 419; cat. NHSM I, p.181; Rouffaer/ Muller p.34; Tiele 939.
- Two textleaves and 2 plates loose; lacks the first map; occas. sl. foxed. Bindings plasticized; backstrips worn.
= "Publicaties van Rijks Ethnographisch Museum, Series II, 1." Rouffaer/ Muller Suppl. I, p.228; Hiler p.761; Lipperheide Yb 68; Siegelaub p.283: "A major early and exhaustive study on batik in Indonesia." Scholarly and definitive work on the Netherlands-Indies' batik art. Contains a wealth of creative and partly colourful designs and patterns, a bibliography and numerous photographic plates illustrating the creative process, different materials and techniques, people in traditional batik dress etc. The plates mainly printed by Kleinmann & Co., Haarlem. Very rare standard work on the subject. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XVIII.
- (Sl.) foxed/ stained throughout, otherwise fine.
= Important work on the people of Sumatra and Nias. Rouffaer/ Muller suppl.II, p.17.
- First part wormholed/ small tear in lower margin; occas. (sl.) foxed. Binding w. a few sl. worn spots.
= Important issue of the periodical of the Dutch Geographical Society, containing the scientific travel report of the expedition in Central Sumatra (Plan van een onderzoekingstocht in Midden-Sumatra and Berichten ontleend aan de Rapporten en Correspondentiën ingekomen van de leden der Sumatra-Expeditie).
Arndt, P. Gesellschaftliche Verhältnisse der Ngadha. Studia Instituti Anthropos Vol. 8. Vienna, St. Gabriel, 1954, XII,543,(4)p., 1 fold. map, orig. hcl., 4to.
- Owner's stamp on (h)title; margins of text and binding sl. wormholed; sm. annot. on frontcover.
= Study of the languages and cultures of the Ngadha in Central Flores, Indonesia.
AND 15 others, i.a. J. WARNECK, 50 Jahre Batakmission in Sumatra (Berlin, 1911, 1 fold. map, num. photogr. plates, orig. pict. cl.).
- Contents occas. loose and sl. duststained along margins (plates partly trifle age-toned, otherwise all fine); all vols. libr. stamp(s) on title-p. and htitle. Bindings worn/ dam. (covers partly loose (vol.1 lacks frontcover). Sold w.a.f.
- Some vols. w. owner's entry on htitle. Vol. 15 wr. sl. worn/ stained. Otherwise fine.
= The 'VKI, which started in 1938, is the longest running series of monographs and edited volumes on the humanities and social sciences of Southeast Asia and Indonesia. Topics of these vols. include 19th-cent. Borneo, the recent history of Indonesian criminal law, and the Peasants' Revolt of Banten in 1888.
AND 3 others, i.a. H. SCHÄRER, Die Gottesidee der Ngadju Dajak in Süd-Borneo (Leyden, 1946, 1 fold. map, 26 (col.) plates, textills., orig. wr., large 8vo).
- Occas. trifle foxed. Spine sl. rubbed. = Rouffaer/ Muller Suppl.III, p.28.
- Mounted manuscript dedic. on htitle; occas. sl. foxed. Wr. dam.
Wall, V.I. van de. Indische landhuizen en hun geschiedenis. Deel I (all published). Batavia, Kon. Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, 1932, XII,(4),123p., frontisp. and 45 plates w. ills. and plans, 4 (fold.) tables, orig. hcl., 4to.
- Textp. sl. foxed/ browned; frontisp. loosening. Wr. w. dam. spots repaired w. tape.
Haks, L. and Maris, G. (ed.). Lexicon of Foreign Artists Who Visualized Indonesia (1600-1950). Surveying painters, watercolourists, draughtsmen, sculptors, illustrators, graphic and industrial artists. Utr., G.J. Bestebreurtje, 1995, 528p., num. (col.) ills., orig. boards w. dustwr., 4to (fine).
- Spine discoloured; upper joint splitting at top of spine. = Rouffaer/ Muller Suppl. I, p.3.