Beschreibung:

circa 21,3 x 14,8 cm., 185 pp., 1 f.. Contemporary Indonesian decorated cloth binding Rare description of the Sunda Islands in the Malay archipelago by the ethnologist and museum curator Cornelis Marinus Pleyte (1863-1917). After a career in Dutch museums he moved to Batavia in 1902 where he helped to organize the Royal Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences in Jakarta which later became the National Museum of Indonesia. - Text in Dutch.

Bemerkung:

- Title with old owner s inscription, only little light foxing, mostly clean. Interesting binding.