Indonesia] - VAN DE VELDE, Charles William Meredith - Gezigten uit Neêrlands Indië, naar de natuur geteekend en beschreven. Amsterdam, Frans Buffa and sons, c. 1848, lge folio, cont. brown quarter shagreen (corners rubbed), gilt spine on 7 raised bands (rubbed, def. at head and tail, joints rubbed, front joint starting to split, paper label pasted on), brown leather title label, [10]-87 pp. (marg. spotting, waterstain in upper and fore edge margin at beginning and end of vol., sm. tear in lower blank marg. pl. 13). Good copy.
Original edition , ill. with 50 numb. b/w lithogr. plates on chine collé (exc. pl. 35 on normal paper, in 2 tones), with Dutch and French captions underneath. The large, often animated beautiful pl. represent landscapes, views or scenes, i.a. Anjer, "Gezigt van de straat Sunda", Batavia (the harbour, "Woonhuizen van Europeanen"), Serang, "Javaanse tempel nabij Bantam", Dano Valley, waterfalls, natives, Banda, "Eene straat te Amboina", a visit to the sultan of Ternate, "De Maleise kampong te Makasser", 2 portraits of indigenous nobles, etc. The masterpiece of the Belgian artist Paul Lauters (1806-1875): he executed the pls after drawings by the Dutch Lieutenant-at-sea and painter Ch.W.M. Van de Velde (1818-1898). Ref. Tiele 1136. Landwehr (Dutch colour plates) 459. Van der Marck, p. 169.
Indonesia] - VAN DE VELDE, Charles William Meredith - Gezigten uit Neêrlands Indië, naar de natuur geteekend en beschreven. Amsterdam, Frans Buffa and sons, c. 1848, lge folio, cont. brown quarter shagreen (corners rubbed), gilt spine on 7 raised bands (rubbed, def. at head and tail, joints rubbed, front joint starting to split, paper label pasted on), brown leather title label, [10]-87 pp. (marg. spotting, waterstain in upper and fore edge margin at beginning and end of vol., sm. tear in lower blank marg. pl. 13). Good copy.
Original edition , ill. with 50 numb. b/w lithogr. plates on chine collé (exc. pl. 35 on normal paper, in 2 tones), with Dutch and French captions underneath. The large, often animated beautiful pl. represent landscapes, views or scenes, i.a. Anjer, "Gezigt van de straat Sunda", Batavia (the harbour, "Woonhuizen van Europeanen"), Serang, "Javaanse tempel nabij Bantam", Dano Valley, waterfalls, natives, Banda, "Eene straat te Amboina", a visit to the sultan of Ternate, "De Maleise kampong te Makasser", 2 portraits of indigenous nobles, etc. The masterpiece of the Belgian artist Paul Lauters (1806-1875): he executed the pls after drawings by the Dutch Lieutenant-at-sea and painter Ch.W.M. Van de Velde (1818-1898). Ref. Tiele 1136. Landwehr (Dutch colour plates) 459. Van der Marck, p. 169.
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