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FORBES, Henry O(gg). 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. [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, A.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). - 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 ]