Author: WILDE, A(ndries) de.
Title: De Preanger regentschappen op Java gelegen.
Description: Amsterdam, M. Westerman, 1830. Original printed wrappers. With lithographed title-page and 3 folding lithographed plates of Gunung Gedeh, Gunung Tangkuban Perahu, and the Tjitarum. II,243,(3) pp. First edition. - 'The author, Andries de Wilde (1781-1865), had great experience of the Preanger Regencies of Java, first as Opziener and Assistant Resident at Buitenzorg, and subsequently as owner of the famous estate, Sukabumi, comprising the districts of Gunungparang, Tjimahi, Tjiheulang and Tjitjurug, which had been sold by the British colonial administration in 1813, and which ten years later was expropriated by the Netherlands Indies Government' (Bastin & Brommer p.133). A detailed description of the Preanger regencies, Java.- Copy from the library of Dutch parliament. - (Some foxing). Bastin & Brommer N 185; Tiele 1209.

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