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4 volumes folio (410 x 302 mm). –Batavia : lithographed and tinted frontispiece, 2 nn.ll., 202 pp., 3 nn.ll. (last blank), 28 plates in chromo-lithography and mounted; –Buitenzorg : lithographed and tinted frontispiece, 2 nn.ll., 206 pp., 3 nn.ll. (last blank), 25 plates in chromo-lithography and mounted; – Java : lithographed and tinted frontispiece, 2 nn.ll., 200 pp., 2 nn.ll., 25 plates in plates in chromo-lithography and mounted; –De Buitenbezittingen : lithographed and tinted frontispiece, 2 nn.ll., 200 pp., 2 nn.ll., 25 plates in chromo-lithography and mounted. Original publisher’s red morocco backed decorative buckram, upper cover richly decorated in silver within multiple gilt and black frames, central medallion with gilt title, spine gilt.
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Bastin & Brommer p.46 ; Haks & Maris p. 219.
First edition of this exquisitely illustrated book.
The four titles, Batavia, Buitenzorg, De Buitenbezittingen and Java, form a complete set of works on the Dutch East Indies. The text for Batavia was written by van Rees, a Dutch officer, politician and journalist, while the remaining three were by Perelaer, also a Dutch officer and writer, stationed in in the Dutch West-Indies. Van Rees and Perelaer were the most popular Dutch writers on Indonesia at that period. It was Josia Cornelis Rappard’s (1824-1898) artwork that captured the topography and people of the East Indies that made the series a success. Rappard was an Army officer living in the Dutch colonies from 1842 to 1872.
Very fine copy, complete with the four lithographed and tinted frontispieces (repeated) and 103 plates plates in chromo-lithography after Rappard lavishly illustrating the life, habits, countryside, etc. of the Dutch Colony.
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