New York: Clarkson Potter, 1984. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white. Small folio, handsomely rebound in 3/4 rust morocco with marbled boards, top edge gilt. New York: Clarkson Potter, (1984). First edition. A fine copy. More
New York: Clarkson Potter, 1984. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white. Small folio, purple cloth, slightly faded at edges, d.w. New York: Clarkson Potter, (1984). First edition. A near fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. Inscribed by the author. More
Milan: Electa, 1988. Illustrated in color and in black and white. 170 pages. 4to, black boards, d.w., glossy pictorial slipcase. Milan: Electa, (1988). Several gift inscriptions on the front endpapers, otherwise internally clean and tight. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. More
b/w photo illus., 281pp., 8vo, boards (spine faded, else very good). London, (1958). More
illus. 8vo, cloth, d.w. Hong Kong: Amerasian, (1974). vg. More
New York: Harper, 1853. of California and Australia, the South Sea Islands, Java, &c. 624pp. Small 8vo, original brown cloth, cloth lightly soiled, spine sunned, corners lightly bumped and very lightly worn, many pages with light foxing, some pages with light dampstaining, mostly to margins. New York: Harper, 1853. First American Edition. Author travelled round the world from 1849 to 1852. Internally, a tight bright copy. More
Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1996. Illustrated in color and in black and white. 239 pages. 4to, glossy pictorial wrappers, d.w. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, (1996). Very good(+) in a very good dust wrapper -- intact but somewhat loosely fitting. More
Hurter, Franz, 1829. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Image measures 6" x 8.75". From "Skizzen von der Insel Java und derselben verschiedenen Bewohnern" ("Sketches from the Island of Java and its different inhabitants"). Landscape of the Tangerang River near Jakarta. More
Hurter, Franz, 1829. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Image measures 7" x 10.5". From "Skizzen von der Insel Java und derselben verschiedenen Bewohnern" ("Sketches from the Island of Java and its different inhabitants"). Dramatic encounter between a tiger and a buffalo. More
New York: Greenberg, 1945. Lightly illustrated in b/w throughout. 87 pages. Slim 8vo, blue cloth. New York: Greenberg, (1945). A very good(-) copy--soiling to cloth, sunned spine, partial tear in half-title page. More
New York: Abrams, 1991. Packed with 435 illustrations, including 181 color plates. 319pp. Thick 4to, black cloth, d.w. Washington & New York: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, in association with Harry Abrams, (1991). First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. Scarce. Printed to accompany the first major exhibition of art masterpieces created by the peoples of Indonesia's outer islands. More
Amsterdam: F. Valentijn, 1726. Map. Uncolored engraving. Image measures 11 3/4" x 7" This map depicts the road from Semarang to Kartosuro on the island of Java, Indonesia. Published in Francois Valentijn's "Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien", 1724-1726. Features 29 numbered sites - including rice paddies, fortresses, military positions, and town names - dispersed throughout a lovely pictorial landscape of palm trees and hills. Rivers are only depicted where they transect the road. In very good condition, with some spotting mostly..... More
Leiden: Van der Aa, Pierre, 1730. Map. Engraving. Image measures 10.5" x 6.25". Rare map of the Island of Java. Beautiful dark impression. Oriented to the West. Includes Bali and part of Sumatra. Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733) was a Dutch publisher, editor and bookseller based in Leiden, Netherlands. He started his own publishing and auction house at the age of 21 and went on to produce thousands of maps. Van der Aa is credited to pioneering a separate artwork..... More
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, c. 1747. Original etching. Image measures 8" x 11 1/8". Dramatic rendering of the 1740 Batavia Massacre, in which soldiers of the Dutch East India Company allied with Batavian ethic groups against Chinese residents of the Indonesia city of Batavia. Batavia, which is now current day Jakarta, was the epicenter of Dutch East India Company's business in Asia, and was the capital of the Dutch East Indies. Original fold line as issued. Minimal toning to edges. Overall in..... More
Ithaca: Cornell University, 1982. 197pp., thin 4to, stiff red printed wrappers. Cornell University Dept. of Asian Studies, 1982. Near fine. Linguistic Series VIII, Data Paper: Number 116. More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1954. Edited by Clifford Witting. Frontis portrait plus 20 illustrations and 3 maps. 788pp., 8vo, cloth; lightly worn, some fraying at head of spine and bumping at the corners. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1954. First edition. A very good (-) copy. More
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