Author: Rouffaer, Gerret Pieter & Hendrik Herman Juynboll.
Title: De Batik-Kunst in Nederlandsch-Indië en haar geschiedenis. Op grond van materiaal aanwezig in 's Rijks Ethnografisch Museum en andere openbare en particuliere verzamelingen in Nederland. / Die Batik-Kunst in Niederländische-Indien und ihre Geschichte. Bearbeitet auf Grund von dem im Reichsmuseum für Völkerkunde und öffentlichen wie privaten Sammlungen in den Niederlanden befindlichen, reichhaltigen Material. [Aflevvering / Band] I - IV.
Description: Haarlem, H. Kleinmann & Co., 1900 - [Ca. 1904]. Part I - IV (of VI). [Part] I: Two title pages (German & English), 3 (Voorwoord / Vorwort), XXX (Inleiding / Einleitung, Bibliografie), 112, XXV (Bijlage I, II & III) pp.; [Part] II: Plates 1 - 20; [Part] III: Pages 113 - 232; [Part] IV: Plates 21 - 80. All four parts in the orig. printed wrappers. 4to. - The map ('Kaart I) of Java and Madura in part II is missing; all covers loose & dam. along the edges. (Publicaties uit' s Rijks Ethnographisch Museum, Serie II. no 1).Scarce first four parts (of six) in the original wrappers as issued. Cf. Rouffaer/ Muller Suppl. I, p.228; Hiler p.761; Lipperheide Yb 68; Siegelaub p. 213: A major early and exhaustive study on batik in Indonesia. Scholarly and definitive work on the Netherlands-Indies' batik art. Contains a wealth of creative and partly colourful designs and patterns, a bibliography and numerous photographic plates illustrating the creative process, different materials and techniques, people in traditional batik dress etc. - - Scarce set of the first four parts printed and published by H. Kleinmann between ca. 1899 - ca. 1904. Juxtaposed text: text in German (translated by J. C. E. Schmeltz) & Dutch text. - - Between the publication of these first four parts by H. Kleinmann & Co. and the appearance of the last two parts by A. Oosthoek is a period of 15 years. Five years after the first publication date, the publisher H. Kleinmann & Co. stopped with the project. This in response to a discussion between G.P. Rouffaer and the publisher about the slow pace at which the work progressed. This would be caused by Rouffaer's pursuit of perfection. Only considerably later did Rouffaer realize that it might not have been such a bad idea to publish his book after all. - - The last two parts (not present here ) contain the text pages 2331-534, the Appendix-Bibliografie, Bijlage IV, Register & Corrigenda), one map of Voor India (= India & Sri Lanka) and the plates 81 - 100.

Keywords: Asian art Ethnography Indonesia Batik Textile Asia Indonesia Batic Aziatische kunst Etnografie Indonesië Textiel Azië Indonesië Batik