Riedel, Joh[an] Gerard Fried[rich]. - De sluik- en kroesharige rassen tusschen Selebes en Papua. Uitgegeven door tusschenkomst van het Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap.

's-Grav., Martinus Nijhoff, 1886. X,486 pp. 44 lithogr. plts (some coloured) & some [13] chromolithographed maps (2 folding). Orig. boards, modern brown linen spine with gilt title. - Cover wiith some light staines; corners worn; some very light foxing; stamp on the title-page. Scarce and interesting work on the native people of the Maluku Islands (or Moluccas). - - Johan Gerard Friedrich Riedel (1832-1911) worked for about 30 years as a Dutch administrative official in the so-called Dutch East India, where he developed an unusually intensive travel and research activity, to which we owe much knowledge in botanical , ethnological, and cartographic areas.