REINWARDT, CASPAR GEORG CARL.

Reis naar het oostelijk gedeelte van den Indischen Archipel, in het jaar 1821. Uit zijne nagelaten aanteekeningen opgesteld, met een levensberigt en bijlagen vermeerderd; door W.H. de Vriese.

Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 1858.Original blindstamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With 5 lithographed costume plates (1 tinted and 4 coloured, partly finished by hand), and 14 (8 folding) lithographed plates (6 coloured and partly finished by hand, 8 tinted) by G.J. Bos after J.T. Bik and M. Ver Huell. XVI,646,(1) pp.
¶ Original edition. - Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt (1773-1854) left Germany at the age of 14 to join his brother, a chemist at Amsterdam. After his study of natural history he left for Indonesia in 1816 where he was appointed as director of affairs of agriculture, arts and sciences. Apart from being the first director of the Botanical Garden in present-day Bogor, he travelled all over the Dutch East Indies. This book describes his travel from Batavia to the Moluccas, Gorontalo and Menado. At the Moluccas (1821-1822) he visited Banda, Ambon, Haruku, Saparua and Nusa Laut and gives information on villages, houses, population numbers, natural resources and food, as well as data on the cultivation and trade of nutmeg. In 1822 he returned to the Netherlands and became professor at the university of Leiden. The work includes a biography. - (Library stamp on title-page). - Rare.Tiele 905; Cat. NHSM I, p.247; Cat. KITLV p. 4; Landwehr, Coloured Plates, 405; Bastin Brommer N 166, N 296; Ruinen C 146.

-- Antiquariaat Gert Jan Bestebreurtje (NVvA/ILAB)

Book number: 12589

Keywords: Dutch travel Indonesia Indonesia ethnography Indonesia general