Author: VUUREN, Louis van.
Title: Het gouvernement Celebes. Proeve eener monographie. Deel I.
Description: Weltevreden, Encyclopaedisch Bureau, 1920. 2 volumes. Original half calf with decorated boards + Index volume. Wrappers. 44 pp.. With 28 folding maps, many in colours, 51 photographic plates and 99 illustrations. XXV,536 pp. All published. - Book design by P. Ducro. Very important monograph on Celebes, Sulawesi by Louis van Vuuren (1873 - 1951) a Dutch social geographer, director of the Encyclopedisch Bureau in Batavia and one of the founders of social geography at the University of Utrecht. - A fine set.

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