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FORBES, Henry Ogg. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago. A narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1885.Original pictorial cloth gilt (extremities of spine damaged). With coloured frontispiece, 6 maps (3 folding), and many wood-engraved plates and illustrations. XIX,536 pp. First American edition. - The Scottish zoologist H.O. Forbes (1851-1932) travelled from the Keeling Islands through Indonesia between 1878-1883 visiting The Cocos Islands, West Java, South-Sumatra, Timor, Ambon, Larat (one of the Tanimbar Islandst), and Buru. Giving in addition to a general travel-account, special ethnographic information of the little known inhabitants of the Timor and the Tanimbar Islands. - Inside fine.Cat. KITLV I, p.6; Nissen ZBI 1408; Haks & Maris p.92; Ruinen C 229. [Boeknr.: 31527 ]

€ 275,00

GEVERS DEYNOOT, Willem Theodore. Herinneringen eener reis naar Nederlandsch Indië in 1862. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1864.Original decorated gilt embossed cloth. With tinted lithographed title. (8),234 pp. First edition. - The author, a member of parliament, visited Java, Sumatra, Celebes, the Moluccas and Timor. Singapore, Calcutta, Madras and Ceylon were also visited. - A fine copy.Cat. KITLV p.57; Buur, Persoonlijke documenten, 100; Tiele 381; Cat. NHSM I, p.181. [Boeknr.: 4618 ]

€ 245,00

ROEVER, Arend G. de. De jacht op sandelhout. De VOC en de tweedeling van Timor in de zeventiende eeuw. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2002. Wrappers. With many illustrations (several in colours). 384 pp. Thesis. - The precious sandalwood trees, which grew almost exclusively on Timor, were part of a trade cycle. Iron from Japan was forged into knives. These knives were then traded on Timor for sandalwood, which was then traded for Chinese silk in Batavia. The silk was then exported to Japan, where it was paid for in silver. - With summary in English. [Boeknr.: 25814 ]

€ 25,00

VROKLAGE, B.A.G. Ethnographie der Belu in Zentral-Timor. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1952.2 volumes. Original printed wrappers, uncut. XI,688; 228 pp. Elaborate study of the Belu tribes of Middle Timor. - (Without the atlas volume). [Boeknr.: 36552 ]