2285 - 2401 INDONESIA. BOOKS, MAPS, PLANS and VIEWS, PRINTS and DRAWINGS
= Fine, uncut copy w. AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION to the publisher on htitle. Very rare.
AND 1 other: DARAH BHARATA. Verzameling van hoofdpersonen uit de Wajang poerwa (Weltevreden, 1919, 2 text vols. (Dutch text and Javanese text) (without wr.) and 37 loose fine lithogr. plates in colours and gold by R. SOELARDI, together loosely inserted in (dam.) orig. col. linocut wr. by P. DUCRO, 4to).
- Frontwr. w. (provisionally) closed horizontal tear. Otherwise fine.
Konrad, U., Sowada, A. and Konrad, G. Asmat, Perception of Life in Art. The Collection of the Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress. Mönchengladbach, Kühlen, 2002, 383p., num. (mostly) col. ills., orig. boards, large 4to. Hoogerbrugge, J. Asmat. Artsm, Crafts and People, A photographic diary, 1969-1974. Introd. R. Corbey and N. Stanley. Leyden, C. Zwartenkot Art Books, 2011, 333,(2)p., lavishly illustrated, bilingual ed. (English and Indonesian), orig. boards, 4to. - AND 4 others, i.a. T. SCHNEEBAUM, Asmat Images from the collection of the Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress (n.pl., 1985, num. ills., orig. wr.) and IDEM, Embodied Spirits. Ritual Carvings of the Asmat (Salem, 1990, richly illustrated, orig. wr., 4to).
- Owner's entry on title-p. and first leaf. Binding sl. scratched.
= With the supplement (ibid., idem, 2004, 28p., (col.) maps, orig. pict. wr.).
= Facs. reprint of the manuscript atlas in the Algemeen Rijksarchief, The Hague. With the accompanying introd. booklet by J. van Bracht incl. the facsimile of an 18th cent. index to the atlas (in rear pocket).
= Standard bibliography on the subject.
Loos-Haaxman, J. de. Verlaat Rapport Indië. Drie eeuwen westerse schilders, tekenaars, grafici, zilversmeden en kunstnijveren in Nederlands-Indië. The Hague, Mouton & Co., 1968, XIV,230p., 4 col. plates, 101 ills., orig. cl. with dustwr., 4to. - AND 3 others, i.a. W.O.J. NIEUWENKAMP, W.O.J.N. Leven & werken, bouwen & zwerven van de kunstenaar W.O.J. Nieuwenkamp (Utr./ Antw., 1979, num. ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to).
- Still shrinkwrapped. = Standard bibliography on the subject.
AND 1 other: F.W. STAPEL (ed.), Geschiedenis van Nederlandsch Indië (Amst., 1938-1940, 5 vols., num. (col.) plates, orig. unif. (sunned/ stained) gilt cl., large 4to).
- Cloth and dustwr. waterst. at foot of spine. = Standard bibliography on the subject.
AND 2 others: L. HAKS and G. MARIS (ed.), Lexicon of Foreign Artists who Visualized Indonesia (1600-1950) (Utr., 1995, num. (col.) ills., orig. boards w. dustwr., 4to) and J. DE LOOS-HAAXMAN, Verlaat Rapport Indië (The Hague, 1968, col. plates, ills., orig. cl. with dustwr., 4to).
- Inner margin waterst. at the end; sm. stamp on first title-p.; a few wormholes (also affecting frontisp. and a few plates). Binding scratched and sl. worn; foot of spine dam.
= Tiele 77; Bastin-Brommer N22; Rouffaer/ Muller I, p.9; Feith 218; Landwehr, VOC 499. Incl. the "Groote Nieuwe platte Grond van Batavia" engr. by A. van Krevelt.
= Contains plans dated from 1619 to 1921.
= Title-p. signed "H.(?) Beck. Merauke Z.N. Guinea" and "L Beck. Weltevreden". The occasion for which this binding was made remains unclear, but many signatories were civil servants in the Netherlands Indies. Names include Johannes Beck and Wilhelmina Beck-van Ameijden van Duijm; Frans Westrik and Johanna Westrik-de Haan; A. van Limborch van der Meersch-Spoelstra; Mr and Mrs Van Gesseler Verschuir; Charlotte Elisabeth Molenaar-Varkevisser and M. Goudriaan-Vorstman. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XL.
- Stamp on title-p. of both vols.; a few plates sl. foxed in blank margin (one plate foxed worse); loosely inserted map w. some splitting on folds; new endpapers. Spines of both vols. restored w. use of orig. backstrips.
= Bastin/ Brommer 580. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLI.
- Contents shaken (hinges weakening); vol.1 lacks 1 fold. plate and 3 text leaves; 2 text leaves dam. w. loss of words; most plates in vol.1 fastened in inner margin; vol.2 lacks 2 plates; (closed) tear in portrait of the author; both vols. occas. sl. foxed in blank margin. Backstrip sl. dam.
= Rouffaer/ Muller 140 and 1e Suppl. 140.
- Occas. sl. fingersoiled. Otherwise a good copy.
= Rare. Buur 0026; Bastin/ Brommer n.555 (idem) and p.35/36. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XL.


























