Author: REES, W(illem) A(driaan) van.
Title: De Bandjermasinsche krijg van 1859-1863. & De Bandjermasinsche Krijg van 1859-1863 nader toegelicht.
Description: Arnhem, D.A. Thieme, 1865-1867. 3 volumes in 1. Original half cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With 2 tinted lithographed frontispiece portraits, large folding map, and 14 plates (10 chromolithographed plates of which 3 double page, 2 tinted and 2 folding), after C.C.A. Last by H.L. Smits. XII,346; VIII,417; 139 pp. First edition, complete set with the rare additional volume; with the bookplate of the Dutch diplomat and bookcollector Jean Charles Pabst (1873-1942). - In 1700 the Dutch East India Company established a factory in Banjermasin, but the place was found to be unhealthy. The Company's servants were finally attacked by the natives and the settlement was abandoned. The English seized Banjermasin in 1811, but restored it in 1817. The district was incorporated by the Dutch in consequence of the war of 1860. Banjermasin became the chief town in the Dutch part of the island of Borneo. A near contemporary account of the destruction of the Banjarmasin empire and imposition of Dutch colonial rule in Southern Borneo, now Kalimantan. - A fine copy with coloured plates. Tiele 902; Cat. NHSM I, p.515; Cat. KITLV p.44; Bastin-Brommer N 610; Landwehr, Coloured plates., 399.
Keywords: Borneo Dutch travel Indonesia Indonesia general indonesia exploration
Title: De Bandjermasinsche krijg van 1859-1863. & De Bandjermasinsche Krijg van 1859-1863 nader toegelicht.
Description: Arnhem, D.A. Thieme, 1865-1867. 3 volumes in 1. Original half cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With 2 tinted lithographed frontispiece portraits, large folding map, and 14 plates (10 chromolithographed plates of which 3 double page, 2 tinted and 2 folding), after C.C.A. Last by H.L. Smits. XII,346; VIII,417; 139 pp. First edition, complete set with the rare additional volume; with the bookplate of the Dutch diplomat and bookcollector Jean Charles Pabst (1873-1942). - In 1700 the Dutch East India Company established a factory in Banjermasin, but the place was found to be unhealthy. The Company's servants were finally attacked by the natives and the settlement was abandoned. The English seized Banjermasin in 1811, but restored it in 1817. The district was incorporated by the Dutch in consequence of the war of 1860. Banjermasin became the chief town in the Dutch part of the island of Borneo. A near contemporary account of the destruction of the Banjarmasin empire and imposition of Dutch colonial rule in Southern Borneo, now Kalimantan. - A fine copy with coloured plates. Tiele 902; Cat. NHSM I, p.515; Cat. KITLV p.44; Bastin-Brommer N 610; Landwehr, Coloured plates., 399.
Keywords: Borneo Dutch travel Indonesia Indonesia general indonesia exploration
Price: EUR 874.50 = appr. US$ 950.45 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 1922
- Book number: 1922