A Trip Through the Dutch East Indies.
Gouda: Koch & Knuttel. 16 black & white plates, large colored folding map. 73pp., untrimmed, tall slim 8vo, tan marbled boards. Gouda: Koch & Knuttel, n.d. ca. 1940. More
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Les Habitants de Suriname.
Paris: A. Quentin, 1884. Numerous plates, some folding; 59 photographic portraits by Roche: phototypes of natives, in full face & profile; 13 vibrant chromolithographs of tribal headdresses, ornaments etc. Folding colored maps with tissue guards. Elephant folio, original green pictorial cloth, uncut edges. Paris: A Quantin, 1884. First edition. Some buckling on spine and wear at end; some waviness on the bottom margins of some pages; inner hinges strengthened, but some pages starting. A very good(+) copy of a scarce..... More
Voyage Autour du Monde, Par la Fregate du Roi la Boudeuse et la Flute L'Etoile, en 1766. 1767, 1768 & 1769
Paris: Saillant & Nyon, 1771. Complete with 20 folding maps and 3 plates. [8], 417, [3]pp. 4to, contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorated spine with red leather spine label, spine rubbed with light wear on spine ends, edges of corners worn and bumped, maps and text slightly wavy throughout, light browning to margins of half-title page, last 3 leaves with some light dampstaining to some margins. Paris: Saillant & Nyon, 1771. First Edition Internally a clean, bright and tight copy. Narrative..... More
Dragon Lizards of Komodo: An Expedition to the Lost World of the Dutch East Indies
New York: Putnam, 1927. With 54 illustrations. 221 pages. Thick 8vo, gilt-lettered red cloth (spine quite faded and ends worn; inner hinge a bit loose). New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. First edition. Overall a good copy of this scarce book, internally clean. More
Island of Bali.
New York: Knopf, 1937. Many illustrations throughout, some in color, and with an album of photographs by Rose Covarrubias; one folding map (creased at edge). Thick 8vo, two-toned yellow cloth with decorative spine and covers (stains on front cover and bottom margins of first several pages; tear on dust wrapper flap, browning on front endpaper with and ownership name on fly-leaf.). New York: Knopf, 1937. A very good(-) copy. More
The People of Alor: A Social Psychological Study of an East Indian Island.
with analyses by Abram Kardiner and Emil Oberholzer. Illustrated. 654pp. Thick 8vo, brown cloth. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, (1944). Very good. More
Java Diary.
New York: Macmillan, 1969. Many photo Illus., some in color. 8vo, green cloth, d.w. (New York): Macmillan, (1969). Very good. More
Decouvertes des Francois, en 1768 & 1769, dans le sud-est de la Nouvelle Guinee et Reconnoissances posterieures des memes Terres par les Navigateurs Anglois; qui leur ont impose de nouveaux noms; precedees de l'Abrege historique des Navigations & des Decouvertes des Espagnols dans les memes Parages.
Paris: L'Imprimerie Royale, 1790. 1 volume, 4to, xvi (title, opinion of the bookbinder, errata, foreword); iv (table of contents); 309 pages of text, wide margins, 12 folding maps and plates numbered I - XII. Original blue wrappers, quite rubbed, lacks spine, deckled edges. Paris: L'Imprimerie Royale, 1790. First Edition. Internally very good. Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu (1738-1810) entered the navy at age fourteen. He was an explorer, hydrographer and French politician, notably Minister of Marine under Louis XVI and..... More
Java; A Garden Continuum.
illus. 8vo, cloth, d.w. Hong Kong: Amerasian, (1974). vg. More
Histoire generale des Voyages, ou nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre, qui ont ete publiees jusqua present dans les differentes Langues des toutes les Nations connues.
Paris: Didot, 1750. Copperplates of Batavia, Ceylan, Indonesia & Reunion, 2 folding. 512 pages. Thick 12mo, full mottled calf, (well-rubbed and with crackled spine), rubricated title and edges. Paris: Didot, 1750. A very good copy, internally clean. More
Authority and Ornament: Art of the Sepik River Papua New Guinea.
Basel: Tribal Art Centre, 1985. Profusely illustrated with black & white photographic images. Tall 4to, glossy black pictorial boards. Basel: Tribal Art Centre, (1985). First Edition. Near Fine. More
Westward the Course! The New World of Oceania.
Illus. 434pp. 8vo, green cloth. N.Y., (1942). More
Journey to Java.
Garden City: 1958. Garden City, 1958. More
Voyage aux Indes Orientales et a la Chine...depuis 1774 jusqu'en 1781.
Paris: l'Auteur, 1782. 140 engraved plates. 2 vols., very thick 4to, original mottled boards; uncut, but lacking spines & disbound; internally clean and crisp. Paris: l'Auteur, Froule Nyon, Barrois, 1782. Very good. A classic of natural history and discoveries in the Far East, including China, Ceylon, Malacca, the Philippines, Burma & the Maldives. The plates, beautifully engraved by Poisson after drawings by the author, are mostly of birds, flora & fauna, but include customs, religion, sciences and arts... More
Raffles of the Eastern Isles
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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