Author: HEERDT, Jacob Carel Frederik van.
Title: Mijne reis met de landmail van Batavia over Singapore, Ceilon, Aden en Suez tot Alexandrië in Egypte.
Description: 's Gravenhage, K. Fuhri, 1851.Original half cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With folding lithographed map, and 5 lithographed plates by P. Blommers (1 large folding, showing panoramic views of Ceylon and Aden). VIII,(2),106 pp.First edition; with bookplate of Bibl. Doctrina & Amicitia. - Baron van Heerdt (1819-1878) travelled in 1846 from Indonesia to the Netherlands, as route he chose the little known 'landmail' or 'overlandweg'. Fragments of his travel experiences were first published in i.a. De Gids, Warnaserie and Indisch Jaarboekje, after recasting these fragments, this book was published. Heerdt can be considered as one of the predecessors of the just rising Dutch Indonesian literature. - (Age-browned). - Scarce.Cat. NHSM I, p.179; Cat. KITLV p.57; Not in Tiele.

Keywords: Africa Asia Ceylon Sri Lanka Dutch travel Egypt Indonesia Indonesia general