Schetsen het eiland java deszelfs von pfijffer neueck (1 Ergebnisse)

Amsterdam, J. C. van Kesteren, 1838. 8vo (22.0 x 12.4 cm). xxiv, 250, [viii] pp. Later half cloth over marbled boards; spine with gilt title. = Josef Jacob Xaver Pfijffer von Neueck (1796 or 1798-1853) was a Swiss officer who was sent by the Dutch East India Company (V.O.C.) to what is now Indonesia, and wrote and illustrated the famous: Skizzen von der Insel Java (1829). His date of birth is uncertain. one source reports 1802, others give the dates mentioned above. According to Nijhoff, there is French edition too. Half-title and title page chipped at edges; title page with a label and stamp remnant; a few text leaves with a stamp in the lower margin; a marginal damp throughout; otherwise good. The 20th-century binding is neatly done. Rare. No other copies on the internet, no auction records. Marinus Nijhoff, Bibliotheca Neerlando-Indica, 778; Martinus Nijhoff (1893) Catalogue de Livres sur les Possessions Néerlandaises aux Indes Orientales et Occidentales, 851.…