78/2597 [Ceylon]. Haafner, J. Reize te voet door het eiland Ceilon. Amst., J. Allart, 1810, 1st ed., XII,CIV,467p., engr. title, 2 fold. plates and 1 handcol. plate by R. VINKELES after J. HAAFNER, contemp. gilt hcalf w. col. leather letterpiece.

- Without the leaf "Bericht aan den Binder". Fine copy.

= Tiele 435; Landwehr, VOC 350; Landwehr, Dutch Books Col. Plates 297; De Silva/ Beumer 461/462. Posthumously published, with over 100 pages describing the flora and fauna of Ceylon. "THe importance of Haafner's eyewitness accounts is that they were done during the time of decay of the VOC. (...) Haafner was an anti-colonialist, a man before his time, for his ideas were not to be topical until more than a century had elapsed." (De Silva).